I suppose watching a close game where the defense falters — and the opponent seems to emerge as a marginal playoff probability — gets us …
Wait. The airspace was invaded by a drone! That’s the most exciting non playing sporting happening in a Seattle sports game since… an explosive device went off in a game in 1979.
Back to the game: Wow. Defense stinks. We have to turn back next week to see how they do against the preseason viewed as up and coming Lions team. Check out the ads on this sports ball site. Hm.
Are you horny and depressed? Well then! Got a psychographic down, I guess. Um. Exactly how does this depression treatment work?
OK. Check in on the Srahawks and Lions. Defense wins championships and things and all that! Hhow Did they do? Geno Smith has tremendous stats and looks like an all pro! But then again, so does Jared Goff. Wow. That was… Offense! Like, the 31st and 32nd best defenses in the league, I gather. And now everybody is claiming that Smith is better than Wilson, which…
… Wait. What the Heck just happened in that Broncos – Colts Thursday night classic?
Gavin Newsom has announced he is not running for president in 2024, in a statement parsed about to see if he is indeed running for president. Theoretically the logic of announcing no bid while keeping it open would be so his weird advertising in Florida, Texas, and stunting over Abortion might have more impact — more altruistic than political, the thinking be.
I give him the benefit of the doubt and suggest he has taken the pulse of the country and arrived at the obvious: not going to happen. He doesn’t really have a “California Story” to sell the nation — apart from claiming a national mantle on Abortion access and transgendered sports-ball allowances. The political moment and array of elected officials depresses me.
There are two things that interest me with Newsom’s latest statements. The first, the reason cited for staying out of a presidential exploration exploration — the recall election chastised him. That seems completely insane, given how utterly torpedoed that thing was. But, I guess, it may be a place to cite that makes him look good — the humble brag. The second statement concerns Biden — it was a shibboleth of liberal Democratic posturing, offering that the problem with Biden is he still believes in some noble period of bipartisan goodwill. It was a statement that comes across as a shuttle through the old rolodex — it will get unhappy unsatisfied liberals nodding, even as it has not a lick of sense to it and does not match up to anything in Biden’s presidency. There were times you could apply it to Obama and Clinton, if so desirous — and so positioned to judge fall outs. It is another manner of carping “we can’t get all we want and f everything” — or, I guess, instant memory robotics, sounding the speech in tone deafness.
Let’s see now. Nothing he said has anything to do with communism or the dictatorship of the proletariat. … being a “maga communist” is like trying to be healthy by eating massive amounts of sugar and exercising. the one thing kind of overrides all the benefits of the latter … He’s even modeling his vocal inflections after Tucker Carlson … What does he mean by “do away with” John Bolton (who already resigned under Trump)? (In theory, keep him out of the next Republican administration?) … “Yeah, I’m a libertarian communist conservative, because I’ve decided words don’t mean anything.” … i’m a Siddhartha Gautama Communist. I’m a Sadie Hawkins Communist. I’m a Flintstone’s Cocoa Pebbles Communist. I’m a Julius Caesar Communist. I’m a Mastodon Communist. I’m a Tuesday Communist. I’m a Realm-Between-Dimensions Communist. I’m a Pike’s Peak Communist. I’m a megalomani …
Geoff Young Point: We Dems are better re 2 issues: abortion rights & protecting the environment. Counterpoint from spacemegalarouche: Oh you mean the two biggest projects in global eugenics and imperialism today? Wow Geoff, the democrats are so awesome!
More friction between Larouchies and Geoff Young: Get this, the GeoffYoung4KY campaign field director… Is attacking us for organizing in NYC? How is it a bad thing for us to organize in the most populous city in our state? Geoff, get yah minions in your campaign under control! Shameful! Theoretically, isn’t Geoff Young trying to win an election within the state of Kentucky? Like, I saw here in Portland a yard sign for McGrath a couple years’ back. It didn’t do her any good.
The War Commences
“The Queen is worse than Hitler” … (At the long list of diatribes against Charles Manson — evil and not British –, Bertrand Russell, The Beatles, and … One Direction? That’s a new one!
Dear German citizens, I am grateful for your country’s help to Ukrainians in this war, but this video is what many Ukrainians who fled to your country because of the war are facing. I have a big request for you: help identify the people in the video. Such behavior is unacceptable. In my opinion, their employers should be aware of these views. They should be held accountable for their harassment of Ukrainian refugees and their xenophobic stance in denying Russia’s crimes, which have been documented by numerous organizations
@avaritiaprima if I am not confusing anything, you seem to deal with such cases, can you help here?
Madam, you are beautiful. Special respect for not switching to dog language with Muscovites. What kind of city is that?
The author of the video is very patient. I would not have the patience to speak to those people.
It is so unfair and painful that Ukrainians flee from Russian bombs from Ukraine and are forced to go through the moral torture of Russians already in other countries.I don’t even know which international organization I can tag, they are all morally bankrupt
BüSo, I’m not surprised. Political sect, one is more degenerate than the other.
I am very sorry about that! I am ashamed of the behavior of these people, they are only a minority, but that doesn’t make it any better
Is it possible? just stop talking to a woman who lost family members to a russian bomb?! The Russian in the vid just needs to keep her cheeks shut and show that she has a SPARK of empathy and decency!
The blond Russian woman says that the Ukrainian woman should go away because she lives on her tax payments and gets 1000€ a month
What an ignorant & shameless person. She herself takes huge advantage of the opportunity to stay & work in the EU, and her home country is not attacked & beeing destroyed. Thanks!
The leader of BüSo party according to wikipedia says this: Zepp-LaRouche wrote an article describing climate change as a “Satanic Oswindle”… she suggested the origin of the “swindle” is the British monarchy. I have a feeling *arguments* won’t work.
Oh god. What a bunch of absolute freaks. Ideally just avoid at all costs. If you know German WTF is this ?? Look at this video from the BüSo party. Why is the guy not in a mental asylum ???
Side note. The poster at the beginning of the video is by organisation that promotes “bridges” with Russia and China, obv where propaganda is reiterated on autopilot. So surprised but not surprised
büso is the german part of the larouche movement. they probably don’t even have jobs they only live for their cult. better to stay away from them they are brain washed and psychologically broken
When I worked in the Texas Legislature they were still around, and would drop off conspiracy fliers claiming LBJ killed JFK. So many odd conspiracy theories about water policy, too?
Not to sound too much like Jack Ryan, but I actually met LaRouche and his wife once (not at a party). Then, had one of his minions as a colleague for a while. Strange times.
I remember the LaRouche supporters, they’d try to sell you magazines like the Jehovah Witness Watchtower. Two difference: the Jehovah Witnesses hand their stuff out for free, and kept the leftovers for later attempts. The Larouchies handed their stuff out freely too, but then barked out a demand for payment — and also in the end left their merch in bulk at the nearest public garbage can to their card table location.
The Michigan GOP and “voter protection“. Haven’t seen LaRoucheniks in quite a while. At least not since a concentration camp survivor lost it and the old guy beat up the LaRouchenik behind the Obama as Hitler sign. These “Putin is our Friend” folks were Trumping before Trump.
Response: That they are now trying to deflect and force me into a debate about land bridge is hilarious. What is there to debate about LaRouche’s utopian hypothesizing about building a land bridge? What does it have to do with LaRouche’s fascist theory and practice? A debate about land bridge: “Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if we built a land bridge?” “Yeah, sure, I don’t know, maybe”
Dateline Boston: A roving UHub correspondent reports a gaggle of LaRouchies were out in front of the Park Street T station this morning alerting the public to the perfidy of evil old England. Kind of impressive considering ol’ Lyndon finally kicked the bucket in 2019.
Comments: Lyndon Larouche was a good example of what the supervillains and ultravillains of comics and movies would be like in the real world. Evil, megalomaniacal, exerting a terrifying degree of mind control over widespread minions, but also stupid, incompetent, and absurdly paranoid. This news sent me to nostalgically perusing his Wikipedia article, where I learned that he once shared a cell with Jim Bakker, who said of him, “to say LaRouche was a little paranoid would be like saying that the Titanic had a little leak.” I also learned that, according to Lyndon, the Beatles were “a product shaped according to British Psychological Warfare Division specifications.” Now I never would have thought of that.
It’s unfortunate that he never hooked up with David Icke, who could have told him that Elizabeth II is not just a drug dealer and international criminal, but a reptilian being from another dimension. Get with the program, Lyndon!
I haven’t seen the current crop, but in the recent past, whenever I have seen the LaRouchies I am always surprised at how young and fresh-faced they are, and how such youth could go for the ancient, outdated ideas of such a dried up, out of touch (and now deceased) ) fossil. Something keeps that machine chugging along. Because in my observation I see that, despite what the media tells you, most culties (not to mention drug addicts) are now generally middle aged. If you don’t believe me, go take a look at the North Station area or the Methadone Mile. Not a lot of “youth” or “kids” there.
let`s hope soon we will talk about that gaggle of trumpies at park st. The same way we admire the larouchy crazies now.
Standing in the way: It’s messed up because I tick most all the marks for being some infra LaRouchie weirdo (YIMBY who loves nuclear and hates degrowth) but I’m just like nah, civil rights are good, so the transformation remains incomplete. I mean A Lot of the LaRouche losers seem like their beliefs logically line up with YIMBYism but when it comes to housing they are, by far, some of the most insufferable online NIMBYs.
Lorg-er throws it down at LPAC: That roaring sound you hear is LaRouche spinning in his grave, watching you sell out while still fraudulently displaying his name.
Point: Trying to create a LaRouche map and losing my mind at how many different connections he has to the Hoffas He’s somehow on both sides of the murder Counterpoint: REMINDER: Your ideation of “Larouche Political- Mapping” is an overlay for another person’s shower curtain, and the longer you’re on Twitter, the more likely they’re gonna meet.
Canada’s Larouche Team trips up, Burke pounces: Steve Bannon is the enemy of #MAGACommunism. He has done everything is his power to steer Trump and the Trump constituency in the direction of hatred and fear of China. He is a leading political opponent of he World Land-Bridge. TPUSA serves the Great Reset. I am reasonably certain in all interviews with Bannon, — friendly or adversarial — the world land bridge does not come up.
Who the hell did that “flyer” because my 10 yr old could design a better one. The all lower case text in red? The typewriter font? The burning whatever? There isn’t a chance I’d trust these people with a credit card.
Right? With all this jerking off to Soviet aesthetics and whatnot, you’d think someone could put together a proper poster
I find it kind of hilarious that to them “gyms” are a top concern in the country and deserve its own bullet point.
He’s more like dollar store Limonov.
Not as entertaining and you can’t get into shouting matches with Hinklers while waiting for your Orange Julius and pizza dog.
At this point, I think he is doing an Andy Kaufman type bit. And I am glad. No one will even dare take red-brown alliance seriously ever again.
At least the original article had nunchucks
What’s your opinion on how organic this “movement” is? I’m not one to accuse others of being OPs but a whole network of these weirdos materialized basically overnight, some with massive followings, and Hinkle has been on OAN and Tucker recently. Seems real suspicious to me
LaRouche without the intellectual firepower (but, thus far, with fewer murders)
TBH I agree with 80% of the points. When I see “antifa street terrorism” and “patriotic education, end woke academia” I realise none of the good stuff is really on the menu.
Finally, a political leader who is willing to remove the red tape!
Mike Tracy — cautionary tale for contrarians, if you compulsively disagree with liberals whatever they say and are incapable of admitting error, then sooner or later you’ll wind up doing Hitler apologia. …. Every generation gets the Lyndon LaRouche it deserves
Burke during a thingy: Does a point produce circular action, or does circular action produce a point? Reply: Dec.17/78 (New York)* Dobbs: Lyn, have you ever noticed that the central feature of all machines is rotation? LaRouche: Now that’s a mouthful, Bob! I’ll have to think about such a sweeping generalization, but my first impression is it has the ring of fact. *may not have occurred
Mr. Train’s other oddball preoccupations that led to books included “remarkable words with astonishing origins,” “mots justes and indispensable terms” and “remarkable occurrences” (in 1895, for instance, only two cars existed in Ohio, and, Mr. Train claimed, they collided).
He treated his political interests less jokingly. A committed cold warrior, he wrote for The Wall Street Journal about military affairs. He became concerned that the conspiracy-monger Lyndon LaRouche was a “possible Soviet agent,” Mr. Train’s longtime assistant Sara Perkins said in a phone interview, and he convened meetings at his home for journalists, law enforcement agents and others in government to raise awareness about research he had done into Mr. LaRouche.
Mr. Train’s activism provoked a ferocious reaction from Mr. LaRouche’s followers, who accused him in 1991 of serving as “chief propagandist in the ‘Get LaRouche’ drive.” In 2007, Washington Monthly wrote that Mr. LaRouche had encouraged his followers to believe that “they were the victims of mass conspiracies” that were “usually perpetrated” by Mr. Train.
This guy’s commentary pops up on my YouTube algorithm. And to be sure, that’s because I occasionally watch it. A basic habit he has is to say “Now, I don’t really pay attention to Hollywood celebrities, but –“, as a preface for ranting on for ten minutes about the latest celebrity / political brohauhau feeding A lot of Twitter feeds..
I am not watching this one, and maybe he clarifies this and offers an opinion different from that which conservatives and Republicans did have with Jon Stewart, but Trevor Noah “destroy” ing The Daily Show does imply Stewart ran a fantastic ship. Did Trevor Noah make this show political? Or (gasp) is there some recognition on the nuances of Stewart’s political positioning — who get did burned a couple times in trying to be reasonable to his conservative entities and assuming good faith. (The Acorn sting video comes to mind.)
I have zero opinion on Trevor Noah, but his show looked successful enough, considering the glut Jon Stewart created. Maybe Comedy Central should look for a Craig Kilborn and let Colbert and Kimmel battle this liberal political fight.
LaRouche from hell: (Walter White saying “I won” at the end of Season 4 of Breaking Bad). (I would want to add the quote for Better Call Saul, “and after all that, A happy ending.”)
In case you were wondering, the only time Q ever directly mentioned Queen Elizabeth was Drop #100, where Q hints that she is corrupt, evil, worships Satan, and had both Princess Di and a bunch of MI6 agents killed. Also known as any David Icke book.Or any Lyndon LaRouche essay.
Holy shit, the Queen might die on LaRouche’s birthday. larouchites are going to print at least 6 articles about this coincidence. Webster Griffin Tarpley right now. (jack nickelson clip). the LaRouche Movement and Infrared have grown too powerful, they are now going to summon a land bridge that will bankrupt all the nations of the world.
LaRouche can’t stop winning. He’s managed to wrest control of the crank left back and kill the queen from beyond the grave. It’s his world and we’re just living in it now. truly, has there ever been a time in which the world land bridge is closer to reality
Yeah sure, the Queen is only just now dying and has been alive up to this point, whatever buddy. my exact thoughts lmao. Great bit to wait until larouche’s 100th birthday to admit it though. Reunited in the afterlife
Point: This has to be the best day in a LaRouche guy’s life. Your particular thing is all anyone can talk about. Enjoy it while it lasts brother. Counterpoint: LaRouche did not actually do anything today and he’s achieved in a day what Leftists have never been able to achieve all their lives. Try harder.
Trying to reach Schumer. Senator, isn’t it an amazing coincidence that Queen Elizabeth passed away today, on the same day as Lyndon LaRouche’s 100th birthday anniversary? She is gone but the disease is still around! I am talking about the Ukrainian Hit List! Shut it down now!
What do you think Lyndon LaRouche is going to say to the Queen if they meet in hell? In order to make a quality joke here I would have to know far more about Antisemitism or American Trotskyism than I currently have command of. I famously hate Philadelphia. One of the reasons is I bought a LaRouche newspaper by accident because I saw Obama as Hitler on the cover and thought “Oh, Commie-zene, let me check this out.”
Good God every time I think it couldn’t get worse it does. — this must the first time you’ve met Larouchies —– It is, I don’t know anything about her and I don’t wish her ill, but these remarks… — Then you were also unaware that the Beatles were a psychological-warfare operation by British intelligence services to destroy the USA —- Sorry about that, it seemed like a good idea at the time. We did not expect you to hit back with the Monkees
There is this weird controversy out of Wheel of Fortune. It is where the “rhyme time” clue came to the old nursery rhyme of “Eenie meenie miney moe”. And the headlines come out — ” Twitter explodes”.
Twitter is always exploding. You can always run a story by just collating a bunch of tweets.
B!untly, I myself did not know the historical origins of this bit before maybe a decade ago, always having skipped willy nilly between “tiger” and “tigger” — never once dipping into the word that rhymes with a non adore “tigger”. The racist connotation makes historical sense, though on first hearing does have the result of needing to double – check: I still cannot say for sure that ” pocketful of posies” comes out of the Black Death, but can say that the now common understanding of wife beating of “Rule of thumb” is a modern invention that is inaccurate.
What bothers me — and I am basically indifferent to the controversy on use (use, don’t use, ark about “no debate! political correctness run amok!”, bark on ” no debate! Comes out of horrors of slavery!”) — is in looking at the comments section, the absolute certainty people have about other people’s experiences in hearing or not hearing the original, using or not using it. Everyone seems to know for a fact, based on their experience, that everyone else was saying or not saying it in times’ past — “as a sixth five year old from the South, sadly yes” — “as a sixty drive year old from the midwest, no.” It is a weird need of personal conjecture — to hold your point down, solidly — and thus not believe the other person here.
Yeah, watching a Seahawks team splunker off, the thought occurs that you can switch to that great moving into the playoffs Mariners team. And there you watch injuries and sudden woes all over tear the ninety nine point six percent chance downward. Still in that place where the team and its fans would not change want to change places with the Baltimore Orioles — a three game lead is a three game lead, and there can not be any trip ups for the Orioles while there has to be for the Mariners. But all this makes moot fan clamoring on whether we would rather have that third wi!scard spot over that second — the answer appears to be yes, bring on the Cleveland Indian, er — let’s call them the Ians, — though from a bit of psychological thought that means the team can only make it in over two decades in the most generous “let em in” playoff expansion. But the further answer is … The choice slides to last one in or out, fools!
So. The Seahawks. Week 2. Watch and enjoy as they hold up defensively if nowhere else. Then Trey Lance goes down to injury and you know it is over — you can turn the tv off. For the Seahawks’s chances hinged on Lance sucking. And mind you, I have no idea if Trey Lance sucks — no one does — or if he sucks now but won’t later — the hope the 49ers franchise holds for him if he does. What we know is that gone, Garrapolo is primed not to suck against a bad team.
Comically enough the next two games see the Seahawks up against lousy competition. Improbably enough I easily see them 3-1. Next comes that six game losing streak or something. Of course, the other two lousy teams see the Seahawks and think — there’s a win, so 1-3 is possible. I see a win against the Falcon and loss against the Lions, 2-2. Then enjoy that losing cluster!
Geno Smith wants to trademark his expression after that week 1. “They wrote me off — I don’t write back”, or thereabouts. This, I imagine, will lock up all that Geno Smith merchandise that will sell like wild cakes for the coming decades for the Legend of Geno Smith. Or maybe require whoever the he’ll wants to use the expression after an actual comeback to pay him, or more likely think of a different expression.
“For a guy who claims to be a big ‘states’ rights guy –” (mimic a southern drawl) “I stand by states’ rights” — back to regular outraged voice “and Lindsey Graham dare propose that national 15 week Abortion ban!”
No Republican has used the term “state’s rights” since the early or mid 1970s. No Democrat has used it since the early 1980s (as they let the last segregationist retire into the night). Maybe I am wrong about this in specifics, and you can quote Storm Thurmond from some point, but if wrong in specifics I am right in general theme.
On the broader theme of ‘Federalism’, everybody is one until they are not, situationally. Politics is kind of frustrating. One actually wants to hold onto some limiting values, but the laws of “what is once voluntary becomes mandatory” take hold as norms are established, and look and sed that partisan allies had other ideas with limited proposals. Never take in localities, or at times aim to drag the provincals forward.
I suppose with Lindsey Graham and federalism — heard by opponents as the anachronistic “states’ rights” phrase, he may land in a “hypocrisy” claim they — who never argue “localities decide” points or order, or not as much. I suppose, if I wished to grant them credit on this one.
Hillary Clinton, standing next to her husband Bill, on the morning after the election that she just lost giving a conciliatory if in places barely coded barbed speech conceding defeat in the presidential election that she just lost.
Things I am sick of seeing, but know I always will in the comments section of different opinion websites:
Claims of equivalence between her response to the 2016 election and Donald Trump’s response to the election he lost in 2020.
I am a little puzzled by how anyone should be expected to have any clear answer to “would you rather be black”, but good luck to the documentary… I guess?
Ronny Elliott "Mr. Edison's Electric Chair"
Bobby Short "Don't Bring Lulu"
TV On the Radio "Dreams"
Archers of Loaf "White Trash Heroes"
Murray Attaway "Fear of God"
Fountains of Wayne "I Want an Alien for Christmas"
The Divorce "Yes"
The Bluetones "Mudslide"
Black Box Recorder "Brutality"
Meat Puppets "Leaves"
Gorillaz "Clint Eastwood"
Neil Young "Keep on Rocking in the Free World"
The Louvin Brothers "The Great Atomic Power"