Let's do a post that's guaranteed to somehow offend everyone.
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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[Y]ou may fool people for a time; you can fool a part of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all the people all the time.
One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a poltiical party.
"Cards Against Humanity” Game Creator To Send Wyomingites’ Money To Pro-Abortion Group
No kidding. An inventor of something "against humanity" is for killing infants.
Makes sense.
Recently, the news has been just thick with irony, and ironic headlines, including additional ones in this area.
The violent complaining about violence.
An abortion clinic, which was not yet in operation, was hit by a while back by a female arsonist in Casper recently.
Now, I don't condone arson, but I don't condone being dense either. Here's the headline that appeared after the clinic was burned.
Abortion clinic founder after fire: This world seems to be encased in violence
Really?
Abortion is the epitome of violence. You can't cite the world getting violent as a defense to your own violence. It'd be like the Germans complaining about a concentration camp being bombed on the basis that bombing is violent.
"My goodness, Fritz, the Americans dropped a bomb inside the camp wire. . . the world sure is getting violent".
Men: Shut up, speak up, now shut up.
Abortion Rights Advocates Say They Need More Men's Voices
For decades men have been told that abortion is none of their business and that indeed, once they withdraw, so to speak, nothing that happens is their business. Indeed, men who are opposed to abortion are told to butt out.
You can't have it both ways.
If men have a say in the issue of abortion, they also have a say, indeed a coequal one, in whether a baby is to be aborted. That is, the mother ought to inform the father, and he ought to get a veto over the abortion.
That would actual recognize that this is at least a two person affair, or rather three.
That probably isn't the male voice they're seeking to elicit.
Some things never change.
The character of war is changing. We won’t have the luxury of operating under the same conditions as yesterday.
A statement that's true about every single war fought since the first war was fought.
D'uh.
We love the high price of petroleum, but hate the high price of gas. . . They aren't connected, are they?
And speaking of trying to have things both ways, a local politician was posting stuff like this nearly every day on Twitter:
Americans woke up today to a double whammy of record inflation and record gas prices. Gas tanks and wallets are running on empty.
@POTUSowns this record inflation, and American families can’t afford his spin.
I've noted this before, but in Wyoming, high prices mean lots of oil field jobs. Low prices mean no oilfield jobs. If we want oilfield jobs, we need high prices.
With the price dropping, by the way, the same fellow hasn't congratulated President Biden on dropping the price.
Weird.
Speaking of politics. . .
Politicians need fun
Under-fire Finnish PM Sanna Marin says even politicians need fun
I'm sure that's true.
She probably actually said:
Jopa poliitikot tarvitsevat hauskaa
Marin is 36 years old, and surely at that age even politicians deserve to have fun.
And, we would note, unlike less youthful politicians in the US she isn't spouting slop form Twitter or Twitter alternatives all the time.
Well, this year, why not?
Sure, in a year in which a slight majority of Wyoming Republicans think an out of stater who has been in the state for only a decade, and who seems to have never really had to struggle independently for his place in the world would make a good Secretary of State, why not Big Foot?
On this:
Over the last 50 years or so, there have been 28 reported sightings in Wyoming of a tall, muscular creature, covered in dark hair, with long arms, leaving behind huge footprints.
That would not be our presumptive Secretary of State. He's only been in the state about a decade , as noted, and does not appear to be hirsute.
I've already noted an effort by the outgoing legislature to remove election responsibilities from the incoming election questioner. It won't happen.
Elected officials, by the way, in Wyoming take this oath:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support, obey and defend the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Wyoming; that I have not knowingly violated any law related to my election or appointment, or caused it to be done by others; and that I will discharge the duties of my office with fidelity.
This would require said incoming individual not to be screwing around with elections, however, as a former legislature that was already his duty.
Which raises the amusing question of whether the Chief Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court can refuse to swear in an oath breaker. I.e, if we know that somebody is facially breaking the oath, thereby breaking that fidelity they've sworn to uphold, can the office be denied.
That won't happen, but it's an interesting thought.
"Am I blue. . "
Lady Gaga says she hopes 'purple' Texas turns blue at Arlington concert
M'eh, who cares what she thinks?
Gaga, one Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, is just another yapping voice following the Madonna route of getting a good Catholic education and then forgetting what it taught so that she can get a career based on her presentation of her image, and then asking to be taken seriously.
Serious people are to be taken seriously. You can't build up a career on silly fluff and then demand to be taken seriously, even if you are by that time actually serious.
Speaking of the serious. . .
As she really is.
Melisa Raouf became the first woman to advance to the finals of the Miss England contest to abstain during the pageant from wearing makeup.
Good for her. Makeup is stupid. Women should eschew it.
Poor Karen's
I think I've known two women named Karen. One was the wife of a former partner of mine. The couple divorced. I don't know why, but I never knew her that well.
The other is a young Mexican American woman whose family owns a restaurant. She's not superficial or entitled. She's probably too serious to be insulted by the current misuse of the name Karen, an example of which is presented below.
Lauren Boebert: “Joe Biden is robbing hard working Americans to pay for Karen’s daughter’s degree in lesbian dance theory.”
What?
Boebert somehow manages to reduce serious issues to absolute nonsense.
Why do people vote for her?
So here we have the issues of societal debt, student debt, and its impact on American society and education, a set of issues that are complicated and serious. We also have the issue of, I guess, homosexuality, maybe, which is an issue that's never really been sorted out at the existential level And what is Boebert saying about these heavy issues?
Who knows, but it sounds dim.
Slacker Baristas?
If you are that slacker barista who wasted seven years in college studying completely useless things, now has loans, and can’t get a job, Joe Biden just gave you 20 grand . . . Maybe you weren’t gonna vote in November and suddenly you just got 20 grand,. . . if you can get off the bong for a minute … it could drive up turnout.
So stated Ted Cruz on a videoblog of his own.
Frankly Ted tends to be an asshole.
Being a barista is a job that strikes me as being hard. All jobs like that, waitresses, bar maids, bar tenders, servers, are hard jobs. Usually insulting one or making life difficult for one is a sign that you've never had to do a job like that.
Indeed, people who have done jobs like that are usually very polite to others who have done jobs of that type. My father, who hardly drank at all, had been a bar tender in college and was just such an example. In contrast, I once worked with somebody who gave wait staff a terrible time quite frequently. He'd never done such a job.
I wonder if Cruz has?
Anyhow, Cruz's comment is insulting to working people.
It also displays a blistering lack of knowledge on the current state of education in the U.S. A few years ago, I read of a recent law school grad working as a barista. That was during a period in which new law school grads were having a hard time finding work, which has since changed. People taking those jobs aren't slackers, they need a job.
Cruz also went after the FBI recently.
Ted Cruz says FBI needs 'complete housecleaning' due to its 'horrific' abuse of power
We'll quote again Cicero, "Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? Quem ad fīnem sesw effrenata iactabit audacia?"
One person whose patience with Cruz has apparently reached its limit is Liz Cheney, or at least she is now liberated from any restraints by the results of the primary election. She tweeted:
Understanding isn’t difficult. He lacks principle and has always been a chameleon who will say anything, anytime. He thinks he’s so smart no one can see through him. Ted, we can. All of us can.
I've never liked Cruz and when he ran for President in 2016 I was disgusted by his comments about the Federal land going to the states, "like Texas".
This isn't Texas, and we don't want it to be.
Regarding Cruz, how is it that Barrack Obama's right to run for President was questioned on the myth he was born in Kenya, while nobody seems to be ready to suggest that Cruz, who was born in Canada, isn't qualified? Granted, I think he is, legally, but given the wacky interpretation things have been getting recently by people who seem prepared to question a normal readying of the Constitution, why not?Anyhow, he's really not qualified to run as a he's a robot.
I bet that is rare.
In Rare Move, Duke Law Professor Leaves Academia to Return to Big Law
Having said that, one of my really good law school professors did the same thing. And one of my not so good ones did as well, although I understand he was very successful in private practice.
Headline Typo
A headline in the Tribune reads:
AG Opposes holding penitentiary hearing in abortion ban case.
I don't know who they are, and I don't care.
My Twitter feed constantly suggest that I check on the latest doings of certain celebrities.
One of them is Megan Thee Stallion. I guess she's a singer. I'm sure her last name isn't "Stallion"
Up until recently, as I don't know who she really is and my mind was just filling in the blanks, I thought that last name was "Three Stallions". I only noticed very recently that I was wrong. Perhaps that shows a mindset inclined towards Native American names.
Another one is Harry Styles. I don't know who Harry Styles is or why anyone cares what he's doing. I could probably look that up, but I'm not going to.
Another link noted that Billie Eilish is wearing baggy shorts, having experimented briefly with appearing as an actual adult woman, her having returned to appearing like a toddler.
I don't have a really appropriate song for this topic, so this'll have to do.
Footnotes:
*The opening lines of Cicero's first speech against Cataline. Translated, they state:
When, Catiline, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now?
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The thing surpassing irony is how one-time fierce opponents of Trump are now his whipped lapdogs–Cruz, Graham, Huckleberry (not a typo). Only guy with any hair seems to be Bill Barr.
On the other hand, offending everyone–
"And he was photographed in a joking fashion as if he was going to grope the boobs of the boob model famous for her boobs…" And the notion that sophmorically pretending to grope–and thinking that having a photo of it is OK–a sleeping woman is her fault because she is a prostitute–really? Ever hear of Magdalene? Bitch needed stoning, right?
On the last item, no, certainly not okay, and I noted that in the text. Indeed, the truncation of the quote is unfair as in full context it made it plain that it was not okay, in any sense, and that his actions were, however, certainly crass and crude. What it further implied, however, is that this preservation of women on display in this antiquated role, which was never okay, should not cause us surprise when an act like the photograph occurs. It has the "shocked, shocked, gambling is going on here" aspect to it.
Indeed, in a wider context, publications like Playboy aren't okay, as they encourage stuff just like this.
Which makes me think that you largely missed the point.
Who was "stoned" here. It certainly wasn't the individual who built a career on asking for the public to examine her as window dressing to the detriment of women who have achieved success through other means. Indeed, in this context, and this day and age, the entire thing was demeaning not only to women, but to female soldiers, who surely were in the audience. While it shouldn't have occurred then, this after all wasn't to a group of troops in 1969 who could be calculated on to be nearly 100% male. Nobody has condemned her for appearing there, we'd note, and nobody suggested she shouldn't, and nobody said she deserved what she got from Franken.
Nobody.
Including me.
And as for suing the term "bitch", we never suggested she was anything of the like in any fashion.
Nor, again, did we suggest she should be "stoned". Indeed, we noted that Franken's actions were improper.
But it was Franken here who got stoned, wasn't it. And by many of the same class that turned a blind eye to similar conduct later on.
Having said all of that, I don't wish to suggest in any fashion that we're condemning her specifically, or saying that she deserved it, so we've taken the text out. Nobody deserves to be treated as an object, as you are pointing out. And nobody deserves to be objectified. Including in that, women don't deserve to be objectified as toys, which is unfortunately what Playboy did, with the assistance, probably largely unwitting, of its photographed subjects.
Regarding the other thing you note, how former Trump opponents, to include Cruz, Graham, "Huckleberry" (I should note who that reference is to but I'm missing it, sorry), to which we could add Lummis and Hageman, it's bizaare. I literally wouldn't have thought it possible.
How, indeed, can this be explained?
Huckleberry/Huckabee. Me being sophomoric I am afraid.
We are in agreement about much. Hefner's claim to feminism and sexual liberation was always a cover for a total perv and near-to human trafficker.
I simply have sympathy for the women he exploited. I have no idea what led them into the clutches of that horrific letch; and as they are, one assumes, rational adults capable of consent, they are not entirely blameless for their exploitation. But the power dynamic, as my Liberal acquaintances are wont to say, was so out of whack as to make the woman a step or two away from hostages and hardly outright accessories. I think there is a case for their acting under some form of duress, even if not physical threat.
The stoning, by the way, was in reference to the woman taken in adultery and brought before the Christ. The scene in the Gospel of His writing in the dirt is one of the most enigmatic and literary in the New Testment. It's practically cinematic. Many assume the woman to have been the Magdalene. After saying that the one without sin should cast the first stone, Jesus then shamed with His silence the scribes and Pharisees into dispersing. After a while, He told the woman that he (a sinless person) would not condemn her, either. Good enough for me.
As for Franken, my reference was that he seemed oblivious to the implication of such a photo, and was entitled to his burlesque. Franken can be witty and funny, though his humor can fall utterly flat on the altar of politics. I would feel more sympathy for him if he were not among the authors, if only by association, of the cancel culture the Left has brought to a level of perfection. Also in the New Testament, …for all that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
Tom
Sheridan, WY
I understood the Mary Magdelene reference, although I don't think that much of the current thinking supports that the nameless woman in the gospels is the same individual.
I couldn't recall Huckabee's name for some reason. He was so in the news at one time, and then faded.
I agree with sympathy for those in the clutches of the pornographers. If you haven't seen the recent documentary, The Secrets of Playboy, you should, as it goes into the horrors in depth. Added to that, however, is the fact that there are objectification of women in that fashion is damaging not only to the individual, which it certainly is, but to the audience, which it certainly is, but also to all women in general, and that's where I'm less sympathetic. Women at large are betrayed by women in the specific who license their portrayal in that fashion, although there's certainly a difference between a desperate 19-year-old and somebody who makes an early career out of it.
I don't disagree regarding your comments on Franken. But the glaring magnitude of the lack of a standard that's developed since his resignation (and a double standard applicable to female politicians, who are still destroyed due to personal scandal) has really developed since that time. It's amazing to think that only a few short years ago a politician would be compelled to resign, whereas such stories, in the case of male politicians, have no impact at all now.
Unfortunately, the systemic problem (probably too mild a word) has always been that the consumers and the suppliers (the management) of pornography and prostitution are almost exclusively male. Women are nearly entirely contractors, in the literal meaning of sex workers, if not indentured. An old Jesuit friend from Santa Fe would quote Lincoln, in a somewhat different context, "until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword." Somehow, an almost evolutionary imperative of men would have to be changed for all of this to change.
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