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Tell me Kamala... Is there significance to the passage of time? Haha... this will definitely end up on "Gutfeld!" tonight.

Dear god. I never liked her...but... for a while I thought she had some talent. I really wanted to like her. Damn. She is so disappointing. What a nit wit.
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I'm easily the least eloquent here, and I still could do way better than that.
Pictures are easily worth a thousand words apiece ... ;-)
Gumby wrote: Kamala is basically the way people describe her in Fox News comment sections.
Seems like "out of her depth in a puddle" would probably fit her to a T. At least as a VP.

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John D wrote: Haha Steers… I really did enjoy your clip… “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore!”
:-) Glad to hear it. Surprised you apparently hadn't run across the movie and clip before though it's rather old, but a classic in both cases:
Network is a 1976 American satirical black comedy-drama film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, about a fictional television network, UBS, and its struggle with poor ratings. ....

In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[3][4] In 2002, it was inducted into the Producers Guild of America Hall of Fame as a film that has "set an enduring standard for American entertainment".[5] In 2005, the two Writers Guilds of America voted Chayefsky's script one of the 10 greatest screenplays in the history of cinema. ....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(1976_film)
John D wrote: You made me laugh tonight and I almost opened my window and screamed this… but my wife is in bed… so yeah. I will save it for the right time.
Sounds wise ... ;-)

But you might enjoy another classic passage, though maybe not as arresting, from the movie about how "the world is a corporation", and that even the "power behind the throne" in Moscow [who should be doing something about Putin ...] have pretty much the same motivations and models as people on Wall Street:


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John D wrote: We talked about the chip shortage and how it is getting worse. The war making things even worse. And he just changes the topic to transgender stuff. We have chatted before on various topics so I think he trusts that he can be open with me. It is interesting that he piles the trans topics in with all the other chaos he sees in his life. A pile of problems. Interesting times.
I think that very often it looks like there are a pile of problems, but really it's a very big problem that, if faced, would have an obvious solution that we don't want to deal with.

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Carlson is questioning the sanctity of St Volodymyr again. Really agree with him. The media hive who claim to be so invested in Ukrainian democracy and freedom don't seem to care very much about Zelenskyy's authoritarian anti-democratic bent.

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The eternal question is answered...


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John D wrote: Haha Steers… I really did enjoy your clip… “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore!”

You made me laugh tonight and I almost opened my window and screamed this… but my wife is in bed… so yeah. I will save it for the right time.
That movie is eerily prescient regarding the situation, but missed how Homerized the US population would become.

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ThreeFlangedJavis wrote: The media hive who claim to be so invested in Ukrainian democracy and freedom don't seem to care very much about Zelenskyy's authoritarian anti-democratic bent.
Continued an ongoing conversation just last night with a friend about how Americans have a Marvel Comics, superhero vs. super villain, Weltanschauung.

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Babylon Bee scooped by reality once again. Senator Mazie Hirono on judge Jumanji Jackson Brown:
They have implied you were solely nominated due to your race...Your nomination is not about filling a quota... It is about time that we have a highly qualified, highly accomplished Black woman serving on the Supreme Court.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
ThreeFlangedJavis wrote: The media hive who claim to be so invested in Ukrainian democracy and freedom don't seem to care very much about Zelenskyy's authoritarian anti-democratic bent.
Continued an ongoing conversation just last night with a friend about how Americans have a Marvel Comics, superhero vs. super villain, Weltanschauung.
From an outside perspective it has never been anywhere near this extreme, at least in my lifetime. I think 9/11 was the catalyst, or at least the excuse, for the phenomenon. Bush used it to stoke a permanent state of threat to justify an erosion of civil liberties and expansion of the surveillance state. Obama and Obiden accelerated the process using state power to designate internal opponents to it's agenda as enemies of the people. Media and big tech of course aligned with this for reasons we can speculate about so now you have a circumstance where the powerful align against anyone challenging the narrative. It's all wrapped in a blanket of virtue which facilitates self-congratulatory compliance.

I'm hoping that history does not have to repeat itself and that Western liberalism is not on it's way out, but the American circumstance looks very much like an end of empire one. The critics are probably right in that liberalism contains the seeds of it's own destruction and it needs some illiberal and un-Kirbmarcy pragmatic form of self-protection to prevail. MMT is accelerating the death of the dollar and Biden is behaving in ways that presume the un-assailability of American power.

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ThreeFlangedJavis wrote: From an outside perspective it has never been anywhere near this extreme, at least in my lifetime. I think 9/11 was the catalyst, or at least the excuse, for the phenomenon. Bush used it to stoke a permanent state of threat to justify an erosion of civil liberties and expansion of the surveillance state.
But how long had they gone without the state of threat? The Berlin Wall fell on 9th November 1989. The Twin Towers fell on 11th September 2001. 11 years, 10 months and 2 days. Barely a decade. Since Pearl Harbour, the US has been without a state of threat for 11 years, 10 months and 2 days.
ThreeFlangedJavis wrote: I'm hoping that history does not have to repeat itself and that Western liberalism is not on it's way out
Maybe try reading some anti-liberal authors? Liberalism is the justifying ideology of the regime, of course we who have grown up in it think it is natural and good.... but it isn't everything.

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This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.


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More proof of SDNY integrity, adherence to the law and the DoJ's absolute political impartiality. Take that Trumpist conspiracy theorists!

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It's official, or semi-official, Russia needs De-Nazifying.

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ThreeFlangedJavis wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
ThreeFlangedJavis wrote: The media hive who claim to be so invested in Ukrainian democracy and freedom don't seem to care very much about Zelenskyy's authoritarian anti-democratic bent.
Continued an ongoing conversation just last night with a friend about how Americans have a Marvel Comics, superhero vs. super villain, Weltanschauung.
From an outside perspective it has never been anywhere near this extreme, at least in my lifetime. I think 9/11 was the catalyst, or at least the excuse, for the phenomenon. Bush used it to stoke a permanent state of threat to justify an erosion of civil liberties and expansion of the surveillance state. Obama and Obiden accelerated the process using state power to designate internal opponents to it's agenda as enemies of the people. Media and big tech of course aligned with this for reasons we can speculate about so now you have a circumstance where the powerful align against anyone challenging the narrative. It's all wrapped in a blanket of virtue which facilitates self-congratulatory compliance.

I'm hoping that history does not have to repeat itself and that Western liberalism is not on it's way out, but the American circumstance looks very much like an end of empire one. The critics are probably right in that liberalism contains the seeds of it's own destruction and it needs some illiberal and un-Kirbmarcy pragmatic form of self-protection to prevail. MMT is accelerating the death of the dollar and Biden is behaving in ways that presume the un-assailability of American power.
I am 60 years old and I read this argument 50 years ago. So... yeah. 50 years of being wrong. Last time I checked that was half a century. The only topic with a worse track record is fusion power.

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I am 60 years old and I read this argument 50 years ago. So... yeah. 50 years of being wrong. Last time I checked that was half a century. The only topic with a worse track record is fusion power.
There was no credible competition 50 years ago. The explosion of the money supply is unprecedented. The West is filled with self-doubt and is being sold out by elites. The collapse of empire is the null hypothesis here and the signs are present.

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Service Dog wrote:
Brive1987 wrote: truly nationalistic countries who simply want to exist as a unique ethnic construct
Fur woke-volk und Fuhrer ... woke ethnonationalism...

That was a painful waste of my time. It did make me think though that “ethno-nationalism” is a tautological construct.

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ThreeFlangedJavis wrote:
John D wrote:
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I am 60 years old and I read this argument 50 years ago. So... yeah. 50 years of being wrong. Last time I checked that was half a century. The only topic with a worse track record is fusion power.
There was no credible competition 50 years ago. The explosion of the money supply is unprecedented. The West is filled with self-doubt and is being sold out by elites. The collapse of empire is the null hypothesis here and the signs are present.
Someone is forgetting about the Soviet Union and China. but... I am just saying... there are racks of books from the 1970s describing the collapse of the US in a decade. Same in the 1980s... and 90s... all of these describing specific little reasons why "This time it will happen!" I am just not seeing it. Trouble is ahead... no doubt... but the video you posted has many of the same points written about a half century ago. Not very convincing.

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ThreeFlangedJavis wrote: It's official, or semi-official, Russia needs De-Nazifying.
I can agree with most of what he says here.
Some of it is cautioning against oversimplifying things such as Putin has things in common with Hitler but isn't exactly like Hitler (paraphrase), which is more a critique of what is being said of Putin than what Putin is and has done. I think he could have done a better job of defining Putin.

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John D wrote:
Tue Mar 22, 2022 1:07 pm
ThreeFlangedJavis wrote:
John D wrote:
Tue Mar 22, 2022 12:38 pm
I am 60 years old and I read this argument 50 years ago. So... yeah. 50 years of being wrong. Last time I checked that was half a century. The only topic with a worse track record is fusion power.
There was no credible competition 50 years ago. The explosion of the money supply is unprecedented. The West is filled with self-doubt and is being sold out by elites. The collapse of empire is the null hypothesis here and the signs are present.
Someone is forgetting about the Soviet Union and China. but... I am just saying... there are racks of books from the 1970s describing the collapse of the US in a decade. Same in the 1980s... and 90s... all of these describing specific little reasons why "This time it will happen!" I am just not seeing it. Trouble is ahead... no doubt... but the video you posted has many of the same points written about a half century ago. Not very convincing.
The Soviets and Chinese were not economic threats.

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Hey-- ftp-- can you explain what you think that post means? why you posted it? where you found it?

It's clearly a screenshot from Patriots.win (formerly the r/TheDonald subreddit, before they were banished from that platform.)

And so-- in my view-- it's a meme created by & for Trump supporters... dismissing-as-foolish any wild-eyed hopes that justice will be served & the Bidens will --at long last-- face justice for their crimes.

Similar "Hopium" memes were prevalent to warn-against 1. Pence intervening against the certification of electors on January 6, 2. The Supreme Court actually giving Trump's election complaints a fair hearing, 3. Sydney Powell's 'The Kraken', 4. QAnon mumbo-jumbo. 5. the Durham report busting & locking-up Hillary's cronies.

In other words-- the Hopium memes are evidence that the Trump supporters are firmly grounded in reality/ unlike the drooling QAnon flat-earthers which free_thoughtpolice & the Lincoln Project (sex criminals) prefer to believe.

But maybe this meme means something-else to you, ftp? We're you under the impression that was created by anti-Trump people... successfully dunking-on the "Trumptards"?

If so... then what are you gloating about? That Hunter Biden gets-away-with child pornography crimes?... and Joe Biden's soft on kiddie-porn supreme court nominee will probably be be confirmed to the Supreme Court?

A big win for pedophiles everywhere?

Or whut?

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote: Continued an ongoing conversation just last night with a friend about how Americans have a Marvel Comics Marvel Cinematic Universe, superhero vs. super villain, Weltanschauung.
Act-kutchu-ally...
Marvel Comics had nuance, morality in shades of grey, a variety of ideological POVs. And it was built by poor immigrant jews who experienced many facets of American life... poverty, fatcat sophistication, academia, WW2 combat, suburbia, union organizing, leftism, ayn rand, beatniks, the anti-war movement, black power, women's lib, cold war.

The "MCU" is more manichean.

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ThreeFlangedJavis wrote: Carlson is questioning the sanctity of St Volodymyr again. Really agree with him. The media hive who claim to be so invested in Ukrainian democracy and freedom don't seem to care very much about Zelenskyy's authoritarian anti-democratic bent.
Was that the same episode with Maajid Nawaz as a guest? I thought Maajid went overboard... upgrading Stephen Bandera to "a nazi", rather than mere 'nazi collaborator' (who joined forces with the nazis to kick the CCCP out of Ukraine/ then was sent to a Concentration Camp by the Nazis-- for attempting to maneuver Ukraine into independence-from-Hitler.

Maajid also deemed the swastika-brandishing contingent of the Ukrainian military & politics... to be "actual nazis" and "not neo-nazis"... which is strange and silly. Like... have they been in-hiding since WW2? No way. Maajid said those Ukrainian swastika-lovers are "as if" the US military had a batallion comprised of the KKK. 1. this is more true than Maajid intended-- since the KKK has been a wiped-out shell of a thing... for decades. And so a sudden KKK unit would NOT be a bunch of sheet-wearing recruits being sworn-in en masse. It would be... something else.

AND 2. It's pretty fucking weird for Maajid Nawad to be loosely calling people "KKK" and "Nazi" like he's the fucking SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER?!!!

(given his successful defamation lawsuit against the SPLC)


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ThreeFlangedJavis wrote:
John D wrote:
Tue Mar 22, 2022 1:07 pm
ThreeFlangedJavis wrote:
John D wrote:
Tue Mar 22, 2022 12:38 pm
I am 60 years old and I read this argument 50 years ago. So... yeah. 50 years of being wrong. Last time I checked that was half a century. The only topic with a worse track record is fusion power.
There was no credible competition 50 years ago. The explosion of the money supply is unprecedented. The West is filled with self-doubt and is being sold out by elites. The collapse of empire is the null hypothesis here and the signs are present.
Someone is forgetting about the Soviet Union and China. but... I am just saying... there are racks of books from the 1970s describing the collapse of the US in a decade. Same in the 1980s... and 90s... all of these describing specific little reasons why "This time it will happen!" I am just not seeing it. Trouble is ahead... no doubt... but the video you posted has many of the same points written about a half century ago. Not very convincing.
The Soviets and Chinese were not economic threats.
Haha... yeah... you proved my point.... you say "This time it is different!". Haha.

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John D wrote: Haha
Watch out - those things can be dangerous.

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Service Dog wrote:
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ThreeFlangedJavis wrote: Carlson is questioning the sanctity of St Volodymyr again. Really agree with him. The media hive who claim to be so invested in Ukrainian democracy and freedom don't seem to care very much about Zelenskyy's authoritarian anti-democratic bent.
Was that the same episode with Maajid Nawaz as a guest? I thought Maajid went overboard... upgrading Stephen Bandera to "a nazi", rather than mere 'nazi collaborator' (who joined forces with the nazis to kick the CCCP out of Ukraine/ then was sent to a Concentration Camp by the Nazis-- for attempting to maneuver Ukraine into independence-from-Hitler.

Maajid also deemed the swastika-brandishing contingent of the Ukrainian military & politics... to be "actual nazis" and "not neo-nazis"... which is strange and silly. Like... have they been in-hiding since WW2? No way. Maajid said those Ukrainian swastika-lovers are "as if" the US military had a batallion comprised of the KKK. 1. this is more true than Maajid intended-- since the KKK has been a wiped-out shell of a thing... for decades. And so a sudden KKK unit would NOT be a bunch of sheet-wearing recruits being sworn-in en masse. It would be... something else.

AND 2. It's pretty fucking weird for Maajid Nawad to be loosely calling people "KKK" and "Nazi" like he's the fucking SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER?!!!

(given his successful defamation lawsuit against the SPLC)
No. I haven't seen the Nawaz episode. It's Carlson talking about the narrative spoiling habit Zelenskyy has of abusing his office to silence opposition.

Like all things Ukrainian it is difficult to get to the truth of the neo-nazi story. I've seen so much credible evidence presented for and against a significant neo-nazi influence that I don't know what the truth is. The far right parties don't pull in many voters yet far right extremists appear to be somewhat protected by authority. It is said that Zelenskyy once pleaded with the Azov leadership to behave less provocatively and was ignored. At one stage the more "nationalist" units of the army threatened to turn on the govt. All I can deduce right now is that Zelenskyy is a courageous patriot with an authoritarian bent who is almost certainly corrupt and influenced by the oligarch Kolomoisky. He is running a country the population of which is fairly liberal by regional standards but has far right influences in govt. Some of this mess is perhaps due to the destabilising effect of Ukrainain territory and citizens over which the govt has been denied control by a foreign power.

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John D wrote:
ThreeFlangedJavis wrote:
John D wrote:
Tue Mar 22, 2022 1:07 pm
ThreeFlangedJavis wrote:
John D wrote:
Tue Mar 22, 2022 12:38 pm
I am 60 years old and I read this argument 50 years ago. So... yeah. 50 years of being wrong. Last time I checked that was half a century. The only topic with a worse track record is fusion power.
There was no credible competition 50 years ago. The explosion of the money supply is unprecedented. The West is filled with self-doubt and is being sold out by elites. The collapse of empire is the null hypothesis here and the signs are present.
Someone is forgetting about the Soviet Union and China. but... I am just saying... there are racks of books from the 1970s describing the collapse of the US in a decade. Same in the 1980s... and 90s... all of these describing specific little reasons why "This time it will happen!" I am just not seeing it. Trouble is ahead... no doubt... but the video you posted has many of the same points written about a half century ago. Not very convincing.
The Soviets and Chinese were not economic threats.
Haha... yeah... you proved my point.... you say "This time it is different!". Haha.
I'm not sure how that proves a point. I would argue that since cyclical empires are the norm it is you that is saying "this time it is different". I do not know if this is the end of the road but there are definite signs. For one thing there is a rising challenge from China which is not something the American Empire has ever seen before and it coincides with other pointers which are the usual indicators of an empire on it's way out. I do not want to be right but I fear that those in power are increasing the likelihood by projecting weakness, compromising the value of the currency and undermining values.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote: Babylon Bee scooped by reality once again. Senator Mazie Hirono on judge Jumanji Jackson Brown:
They have implied you were solely nominated due to your race...Your nomination is not about filling a quota... It is about time that we have a highly qualified, highly accomplished Black woman serving on the Supreme Court.
It's not about filling a quota, it's about filling a quota. There's a huge difference.

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MarcusAu wrote:
John D wrote: Haha
Watch out - those things can be dangerous.
Read Riotous Assembly by Rom Sharpe...

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Lsuoma wrote:
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John D wrote: Haha
Watch out - those things can be dangerous.
Read Riotous Assembly by Rom Sharpe...
Bit of local history. The Detroit zoo is pretty old. One of the main features of the park (first started in its current location in 1928) is the use of "invisible" barriers. The animals were kept in their enclosures by moats and walls. No fences where needed so you could view the animals without obstruction. This is a very common practice today, but it was not common in the 1930s. So... you can say to the lion...haha!

Another odd experience. I figured out how a lion makes a challenge noise. Just from watching TV and observing at the zoo. It is a low grunting sound... a kind of "braw braw" in a very low register. By making this noise I can get any male lion to come toward me and growl or roar. I don't do it very often because I think they may not like it. On the other hand... maybe it is an event that makes their boring day more interesting. I don't know. Maybe I do them a bit of a service by getting them angry at me. Ultimately... they always successfully chase me off.

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John D wrote: Another odd experience. I figured out how a lion makes a challenge noise. Just from watching TV and observing at the zoo. It is a low grunting sound... a kind of "braw braw" in a very low register. By making this noise I can get any male lion to come toward me and growl or roar. I don't do it very often because I think they may not like it. On the other hand... maybe it is an event that makes their boring day more interesting. I don't know. Maybe I do them a bit of a service by getting them angry at me. Ultimately... they always successfully chase me off.
If you really cared at all you'd get in there and rough them up a bit every once in a while so that when they chase you off it feels like it means something.

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Gumby wrote: I'm easily the least eloquent here, and I still could do way better than that.
Pictures are easily worth a thousand words apiece ... ;-)
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John D wrote:
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The Soviets and Chinese were not economic threats.
Haha... yeah... you proved my point.... you say "This time it is different!". Haha.
And sometimes all of those differences add up until a tipping point is reached. Chaos theory and all that - as Jeff Goldblum suggested in Jurrasic Park ...

Not saying that's the case with the US right now - certainly hope that's not the case. But kind of think the writing is on the wall - in more ways than one, and in many venues.

I've often quoted Lincoln who suggested that the US is humanity's last best hope. But there's clearly a great deal of rot in the whole system that may make that hope too much of a long shot.

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Gumby wrote:
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Gumby wrote: I'm easily the least eloquent here, and I still could do way better than that.
Pictures are easily worth a thousand words apiece ... ;-)
Just for you.

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🙂👍 But sad that I don't have enough words to do justice to that work of art ... 😉

But nice touch the background to Harris in the bottom panel - kind of "The Matrix" flavour to it 🙂

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Gumby wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote: Babylon Bee scooped by reality once again. Senator Mazie Hirono on judge Jumanji Jackson Brown:
They have implied you were solely nominated due to your race...Your nomination is not about filling a quota... It is about time that we have a highly qualified, highly accomplished Black woman serving on the Supreme Court.
It's not about filling a quota, it's about filling a quota. There's a huge difference.
Mazie Hirano is a reminder that, even for asians, there's a left tail on the IQ distribution curve.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Gumby wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote: Babylon Bee scooped by reality once again. Senator Mazie Hirono on judge Jumanji Jackson Brown:
They have implied you were solely nominated due to your race...Your nomination is not about filling a quota... It is about time that we have a highly qualified, highly accomplished Black woman serving on the Supreme Court.
It's not about filling a quota, it's about filling a quota. There's a huge difference.
Mazie Hirano is a reminder that, even for asians, there's a left tail on the IQ distribution curve.
"Shirley" you're not endorsing the concept of normal distributions? And in the context of IQs? 😲

Tsk, tsk. Expect Fafnir and John D. to be on your case any time now ... 😉

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Tuesday was not a great day for Judge Jumanji Jackson Brown. She:

- Was unable to provide a definition of "a woman", saying "I don't know -- I'm not a biologist";
- After claiming that CRT was not a factor in her rulings, was reminded of her 2015 speech in which she name CRT as one factor she considers in her rulings;
- After claiming CRT was not taught in K-12 schools, was presented with evidence that the private grade school on whose board she serves of openly teaches CRT. To which she blurted out, "I meant public schools";
- Was unable to explain why she told a hardened drug "kingpin" convicted of possession of 2 kilo of heroin/fent, and running a meth lab in his kids' bedroom, "I share your frustration" that she had to give him the 20 year mandatory sentence because "I believe in second chances";
- Had no explanation for why every time a convicted pedo came before her, she gave the lightest sentence possible;
- Was mute when confronted with her public statements that most pedos aren't really pedos, just 'collectors';
- Had to pretend she'd never heard of judge Janice Rogers Brown, who was on the fast-track to becoming the first black female SC justice, until none other than Joe Biden filibustered for two years her nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Wed Mar 23, 2022 10:03 am
Tuesday was not a great day for Judge Jumanji Jackson Brown. She:

- Was unable to provide a definition of "a woman", saying "I don't know -- I'm not a biologist";
- After claiming that CRT was not a factor in her rulings, was reminded of her 2015 speech in which she name CRT as one factor she considers in her rulings;
- After claiming CRT was not taught in K-12 schools, was presented with evidence that the private grade school on whose board she serves of openly teaches CRT. To which she blurted out, "I meant public schools";
- Was unable to explain why she told a hardened drug "kingpin" convicted of possession of 2 kilo of heroin/fent, and running a meth lab in his kids' bedroom, "I share your frustration" that she had to give him the 20 year mandatory sentence because "I believe in second chances";
- Had no explanation for why every time a convicted pedo came before her, she gave the lightest sentence possible;
- Was mute when confronted with her public statements that most pedos aren't really pedos, just 'collectors';
- Had to pretend she'd never heard of judge Janice Rogers Brown, who was on the fast-track to becoming the first black female SC justice, until none other than Joe Biden filibustered for two years her nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals.
Racist! Senator Booker is very saddened and disappointed by your white supremacist bigotry. It's because of people like you that America can't have nice progressive things. Hearings are not the appropriate venue to be asking disrespectful questions of the rightful next black female SC justice. What a shameful circus!

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free thoughtpolice wrote:
Wed Mar 23, 2022 9:28 am
WTF was that? Is Nick Fuentes part of the GOP? Seeing as he got kicked out when he crashed CPAC, I think not. Do you think maybe they're deliberately inverting the gist of Trump's Putin comment? Are you just trolling now or do you think there's some point to posting Lincoln Project style slime?

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I just like to see the Slymepit as fair and balanced as possible. A little MAGA bashing to counter the lefty bashing.
Plus you asked me to show examples of the alt-right types ragging on Ukraine and supporting Putin.
Don't blame the messenger.

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free thoughtpolice wrote: I just like to see the Slymepit as fair and balanced as possible. A little MAGA bashing to counter the lefty bashing.
Plus you asked me to show examples of the alt-right types ragging on Ukraine and supporting Putin.
Don't blame the messenger.
👍🙂 Even-handed - slapping both sides of an opponent's face ... 😉

For my obligatory touting of Wikipedia, see Sinclair Lewis' amusing comments about boosters and knockers ...

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

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free thoughtpolice wrote:
Wed Mar 23, 2022 10:43 am
I just like to see the Slymepit as fair and balanced as possible. A little MAGA bashing to counter the lefty bashing.
Plus you asked me to show examples of the alt-right types ragging on Ukraine and supporting Putin.
Don't blame the messenger.
No I wasn't asking you to do that, I was questioning why you posted a Candace Owen tweet of her not doing that when that was your stated aim. How do you define "MAGA". Is MAGA a general term for associating all conservatives with the far right? That seems to be the way you are using it.

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Is MAGA a general term for associating all conservatives with the far right? That seems to be the way you are using it.
No. MAGA or MAGAt is a follower of the populist screwball Trump. Real conservatives don't like Trump and are called Never Trumpers if they speak their mind about Trump or they are cowards that placating the Trump crowd for now and just hope they will fade away.
Real conservatives are like The Lincoln Project types that you call slime.
Why do you hate real conservatives?

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Gumby wrote:
Steersman wrote:
Gumby wrote: I'm easily the least eloquent here, and I still could do way better than that.
Pictures are easily worth a thousand words apiece ... ;-)
Just for you.

kamala steers.jpg

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Lsuoma wrote:
Gumby wrote:
Steersman wrote:
Gumby wrote: I'm easily the least eloquent here, and I still could do way better than that.
Pictures are easily worth a thousand words apiece ... ;-)
Just for you.

kamala steers.jpg
*sigh*

Simpsons did it.

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free thoughtpolice wrote:
Wed Mar 23, 2022 11:22 am
Is MAGA a general term for associating all conservatives with the far right? That seems to be the way you are using it.
No. MAGA or MAGAt is a follower of the populist screwball Trump. Real conservatives don't like Trump and are called Never Trumpers if they speak their mind about Trump or they are cowards that placating the Trump crowd for now and just hope they will fade away.
Real conservatives are like The Lincoln Project types that you call slime.
Why do you hate real conservatives?
Am I supposed to take that seriously?

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ThreeFlangedJavis wrote: Am I supposed to take that seriously?
True conservatives don't stand in the way of the progressive-capitalism total state.

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Enough psychoanalysing of Putin. Been tying myself up in knots trying to get a handle on him and trying to figure out how he might react to any given action. This guy cuts through all the BS with a simple message. Putin does what he can get away with and when somebody punches back he stops. No nukes, nothing. I didn't realise that Turkey had closed the Bosphorous straits, effectively cutting of a significant Russian naval force from Ukraine and Russia has said or done nothing in response. When Turkey shot down a Russian plane Putin did nothing. When Trump killed Russians in response to a chemical attack in Syria Putin did nothing and backed off. In his opinion if NATO declares a no fly zone then Russia will not retaliate. As for a nuclear attack, will a guy who is so concerned about his personal safety want nukes flying around? One thing he said is quite controversial, which is that Putin and Biden are playing a good cop/bad cop game at Ukraine's expense. Putin is making threats which he won't carry out and Biden is pretending to be scared of calling his bluff.

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Took the day off today. Worked on my posse for the table top game I am plying. Good fun just messing around with a totally useless pastime. Friends came by at 1:00 and we chatted and watched videos..etc. Went to P F Changs for dinner. All is well.

We all talked about going to the Stratford Festival in Ontario. We looked at the plays for the season. The Stratford Festival is known for performing older plays in the original style... Shakespeare, Gilbert and Sullivan, etc. Well... every show this season looks woke. As we chatted I got more and more discouraged. I was like.... I don't think I want to see any of these shows. My wife got upset at me... claiming I am just a grumpy old man.... and I am like... I don't want to see a reinterpretation of Othello or Hamlet. They are masterpieces and these woke people just fuck them up. Maybe I will go... maybe not. I will not go see a show titled "Othello 911". WTF.

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Frankly, this exchange is disturbing. The Left obviously coddles criminals, but going the easy on pedos is a new low.


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Another $100 Uber ride today-- home from working in a NJ warehouse.

The driver was a hindu woman-- about 70 years old. She heard me take a business phonecall & talk shop with GF-- and she interceded to tell us that-- when she's not driving Uber-- she is also an event producer. She puts-on a Ganesha festival with a 14 foot golden idol. Circus tent, thousands of attendees.

And she just got back from Capitol HIll... where she was just one of 20 honorees of an International Women's Day? Month? Award... she fumbled with her phone & showed us her acceptance speech in traditional dress with a gold medal on a Red, White & Blue ribbon.

Also, tomorrow, at some International Women's Month thing-- she's announcing that she's founding a Women's Cricket League... with no running required, so anyone can play. Because she was a big cricketer until a bicycle accident in 1977 in India. She showed us the logos she designed for the league... they were the logos of other women's cricket leagues & teams. She confidently declared that she was a Self-Taught Computer Graphic Designer... and she would design the logo herself/ by replacing the original team/league name... with the name of her league!

She flashed the incorporation papers for her cricket league-- on her phone-- mentioning some low-rent website which aids in incorporation applications.

And she took a speakerphone call in the car-- shouting-- about the spelling of the name of the Bollywood star she's bringing to her Ganesha event... all the way from.... Boston! And I don't speak Urdu or whatever... but I could figure-out that language's phonetic sounds for the english alphabet... and I could tell she was spelling-out the celebrity's name... differently every time! The person on the other end hung-up on her.

She crowed about her Nissan Rogue SUV (which was pretty nice, and she sold it very well), but also about her Other Luxury SUV (I can't remember which one) which "feels like you're in an airplane".

Her business card says she's also a Wedding Planner, and Film and TV Celebrity Coordinator... which, in fairness, does kinda overlap with organizing a golden hindu god in a circus tent spectacle. And could describe my work, too, actually.

She said she designs all her own websites. And... she showed us a real eyesore. So I searched for her name & I know for-sure she's indeed involved in a realty website with her unique hideous HTML skillz. This beauty is hers, too: https://ganeshutsavnewyork.org/shreenath.php

She was the highpoint of my day and also fucking exhausting.

I wanted to tell her to save a little energy-- for her next incarnation.

thank you, come again.

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Weird. For a basic shitty PHP website... it was kind of slow to load.

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Some interesting topics covered here.

https://youtube.com/c/Taskandpurpose

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Service Dog wrote: <snip> thank you, come again.

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wife: "You called me disgusting and you said you don't want to have sex with me anymore."
me: "I was angry with you. I don't remember calling you disgusting, but if I did I am sorry. I do not think you are disgusting. I apologize if I said this."
wife: "yes... you called me disgusting."
me: "I am sorry. I do not think you are disgusting. I was angry and I apologize."
wife: "I think that you believe I am disgusting. I think we should divorce."
me: "Okay. Let's just divorce."
wife: "I didn't say I wanted a divorce. I just think that you drink too much."
me: "Okay. So let's just divorce."
wife: "I didn't say I wanted a divorce."
me: (I wander off to bed)

WTF

Then I go to bed and have a nice 7 hour sleep. No bad dreams. No restlessness. Don't care about what happened.

Oh man. Hard to manage this. My wife claims she wants to kill herself every day. I am becoming numb to this. Every day it is the same. Yesterday we had friends over. We had fun. We went to dinner. Then she goes off on me at the end of the day about what a shit person I am. Fine bitch. Your depression is not my fault. I can't fix you.... and you cannot drag me into your collapse.

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This looks like it might cause a shit-storm...


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You want real shitstorm fodder?

https://www.jeremysrazors.com

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Female photojournalist displeased that NBC news softened & blurred her photos of the tranny swimmer.


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