During the month long training leading up to my first deployment I learned something interesting: the Iraqi insurgents were well-versed in American holidays. The tactic was to lob mortars into the FOB (Forward Operating Base) during days off, when they assumed American personnel would not be expecting it. Great approach from a tactical standpoint, but the element of surprise wears off once you do it on every holiday for nearly a decade.
Which brings me to the relevant story.
My second deployment I arrived in June 2009. The Air Force had rotations overlap for continuity that usually lasted about a week. Looking around the CE yard, we could tell the previous rotation had an interesting time.
Electrician 1: “Yeah, they hit us last month over by the cable reels. Didn’t damage anything.”
Me: “Really? I was at this FOB last summer, it was super quiet.”
Electrician 2: “Yeah it was on the 5th. They tried Presidents Day, MLK, New Years, Christmas—“
Me: “Wait, the 5th? They hit you on Cinco de Drinko?”
This is my review of Dos Equis. Cue the most interesting marketing campaign in the world.
I just want to get this out of the way: as I am certain a number if you are well-aware, Cinco de Mayo is NOT Mexican Independence Day. That is Diez y Seis de Septiembre (9/16/1810).
So what is Cinco de Mayo, then? First a bit of background. The Mexican President at the time was Benito Juarez. That’s the guy on the 20. He’s actually somewhat interesting, but not in the same way as Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. I actually learned about both in 7th grade history. By the time Juarez was elected Mexico was under substantial war debts. First there was the War of Independence from Spain (ended 1810), following that was the Texas Revolution (1835-1836), the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and Mexico had its own civil war (1858-1861). Juarez didn’t have much choice, given their economy at the time, but to default on foreign debt.
In 1862 Britain, Spain and France demanded payment, and all sent troops to Mexico with the intent of collecting. Evidently, leg breaking was an acceptable foreign policy at the time.
Juarez was able to make a deal with Britain and Spain. France, then under Napoleon III (not the short guy), had other plans. The empire building type of plans…Which brings us to the Battle of Puebla.
The French stormed Veracruz with 6000 soldiers and assumed a quick end to the war. They marched north where the Mexican government exiled themselves, towards La Puebla de Los Angeles. Under General Ignacio Zaragoza, a force of 2000 Mexicans attacked from the north side of the town. The French, seeing early losses of 5 to 1, decided this was not the hill to die on, and retreated.
While it wasn’t a strategic victory in any sense, it did become a rallying cry for the Mexican resistance. The war itself did not take long and the ensuing occupation lasted six years. Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, the puppet ruler picked by Napoleon III to rule Mexico, was not widely recognized as a legitimate ruler by anybody in North America. Following the American Civil War, the US officially recognized the Mexican Government under Juarez, which was the beginning of the end for the self-declared King of Mexico. He was captured and executed by firing squad.
His bullet riddled shirt was put on display in full view of the public.
Other than that, it’s really an excuse to drink Mexican beer and make tacos. Here’s a good recipe.
This is not my favorite Mexican beer, that is Negra Modelo, but there is nothing wrong with this: Dos Equis 2.5/5.
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It was obvious that the Dems were going to give up on the prospect of Middle-America outreach once and for all, even after its brief late-Bush-Administration resurgence, when a politically mobilized King of the Hill fandom proved itself ultimately incapable of getting Santa Ana’s wooden leg returned to the Mexican people.
I found this on my back porch when I got home from work last night
I think the birds are trying to send a message.
Your screws are too long.
Just barely. It’s alright though. That’s up high enough no one will bumb their head against it.
I like Modelo and Negra Modelo, Pacifico.
In the ‘80s I learned a bit of Mexican ingenuity. Tecate came in bottles too. There was an indentation on the bottom of each one shaped like a bottle cap. You used your empty bottle to remove the top of the next full one. Sheer genius.
There used to be a Mexican beer called Simpatico. A truly delightful lager.
Most vehicles come equipped with a bottle opener. If you open the door, the bracket for your door latch is perfectly shaped for opening a bottle. It works best when parked.
It can be done while traveling down the highway, but its considerably more difficult.
LOL!!!
Pro tip. Thanks!
Another pro tip-
A plastic cigarette lighter. Make a fast. Put the bottom edge of the lighter under the lip of the bottle top and lay the lighter across your fist with the top joint of the index finger being the fulcrum. Use your thumb to apply downward pressure on the business end of the lighter while firmly holding the bottle with your other hand. It pops the top right off and you don’t have to worry about putting your vehicle in park.
I thought everyone knew that one. Also thought most people don’t carry lighters anymore. (I do.) They hold up their cellies at concerts now. I remember the first time I saw it, during a concert late in college, by this time most people had a cellie and a few without lighters around me giggled and held up their cellies (I think they were past green screens into the blue at the time) instead, and it spread a bit around the seats. Now of course people do it without any trace of irony.
Maybe you have a pro tip on how to open a beer bottle with your vape.
Yeah. Been doing that one since high school.
If you’re sans lighter a key works as well, same setup, put the bow under the cap and press down on the shank.
I wonder if Nader found the irony in his invention of the Nader Pin.
I always thought it was hilarious that Nixon’s daughter married a guy named Cox.
German immigrants= Mexican Beer
If you need Salt and Lime to drink a Beer, you’re doing it wrong
/Xocoveza!
It’s not necessary and I usually don’t do it, but a lime in the neck of a Mexican beer is a real treat.
They didn’t really immigrate en masse (or really at all) the way they did to Mexico, but if Germans are supposed to be good global beer tutors, they sure did a shitty job at Tsingtao.
How long until the bottle-opening bottle is banned for encouraging binge drinking?
Never seen one in the US. My guess is México in more concerned about people losing their heads over a kilo of coke than binge drinking.
I notice a difference between the Modelo Especial sold in Mexico & the US. Mexico one is superior in taste.
Since 5 de mayo is a small low-key regional holiday imported to the U.S. and growing and spreading out from California in stages by ever-more-fratty Americans, you’d have thought there would be some reimportation into the mother country in the manner of St. Patrick’s Day as mentioned in the last thread. Such is the cultural gravitational power of the USA. And we’re right next door! But that doesn’t seem to have happened for some reason that I hope someone will enlighten me about.
Meanwhile 5 de mayo is one of the few days of the year I wish I were white, because there’s nothing like a principled middle finger to the SJW movement; but as one of its sainted savages, my options are here as ever typically limited. A Puerto Rican wearing a giant Mexican hat just doesn’t have the same kind of visual impact.
Protest the Puerto Rican Day Parade for holding up traffic.
Speaking of cultural appropriation. Remember the chick who wore the Chinese-style dress to the prom and created a twitter shitstorm of indignation. She refused to back down.
A group that was not offended were actual Chinese.
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2144207/qipao-us-prom-wins-support-china-after-internet-backlash
What’s next, actual Indians liking the Simpsons?
Asians do not do political correctness. Seems wrong to stereotype such an enormous and diverse continent, Asians are not all alike, blah blah blah–but no, the whole fucking continent, on which most people live, does not have time for that shit.
A minority of Americans of Asian descent, they experience an identity crisis and they want in on all the grievance Olympics of other minority groups. I don’t know if one of the stereotypes that this crowd is oppressed by is the “intelligence” stereotype; I don’t know if this group tends to be dumber than the average Asian Americans but I certainly wouldn’t be surprised.
“What’s next, actual Indians liking the Simpsons?”
I worked with an Indian guy who thought Apu was hilarious.
I’m a bad person. My mind immediately translated “I suggest the Chinese government, state television or fashion company invite her to China to display her cheongsam!”
as “chong-gasm”. Back to mulching flowerbeds as my penance.
HEY YUFUS!
Sup Tres
I like how they embed the tweet, but when they quote it immediately below the embedding, they remove the word “goddamn”.
She rocks that dress. Would.
Cultural appropriation is the most retarded concept since the labor theory of value.
Fuck anyone who believes in that shit.
SJW North Americans trying to protect their ancestral heritage are the worst because it usually doesn’t align with the mother country.
Negra Modelo is my wife and I’s fav Mexican beer as well. In fact, it’s one of my wife’s favorite beers period.
Racist!
–How I initially read this. She does sound hot.
She is:)
#MeToo
#resistió
Dear Canadians:
Make this happen
Thank you,
America
I don’t know how anyone thinks anyone here would be offended by that?
I would travel to Canada every year to participate.
I would help promote wildly-distorted views of Americia by dressing like 1990s Garth Brooks, driving a Monster Truck, talking in a bizarre yokel-pidgin language, occasionally screeching, “ITS THE RUSSIANS!” for no apparent reason, and acting like their beer was far too-potent, insisting it needed to be watered down to be potable.
Your link didn’t work right.
Or maybe get a dueling stereotypes thing going. Mounty suits, or plaid shirts and beaver hats. Oh, don’t forget the multi-coloured socks.
LOL. I am puzzled.
On the one hand, no one but an American (or “-American”) could have written this, because no one outside of here and Europe pays the slightest mind to any of this SJW nonsense. On the other hand, absolutely no one who has even spent a weekend in America could ever suppose that Americans would not think this proposed holiday would be the most awesome thing in the history of Canada.
Exactly:)
How could anything they do be more offensive than electing Trudeau?
This sounds like a fantastic way to ward off the July 4th hangover.
Easy.
“I think this would be cool. People I hate think everything opposite of what I do. Hence, these people will hate it.”
To sadden everyone, Cinqo de Mayo (US Variant) is encroaching up here, too. So far limited to bars, because hey, any excuse to get the butts in seats, right?
Every day is July Fifth here. Does he even Mackenzie Brother?
That would be awsome – do it, Canukistanis
This is a fantastic idea, but they need to call it something else. Everyday is “America Day.”
I have a New Belgium Lips of Faith “Le Terroir” ready to open. It’s been a sweaty morning doing yardwork.
What? Mexican theme? Sharpshooter sent it to me, therefore it’s Mexican and in theme. His opinion is that it’s a beer that will appeal to a wine drinker (i.e., me).
OMWC,
Lips of Faith comes in a Clutch version. One of my favorite hard rock bluesy bands. The brewery is a fan of the band Clutch.
Sample below.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbqv5dBgB7Q
Excellent!!! I like what they do with the timing.
They have a large catalog. The further back it goes the more punk influenced it becomes. Each album is progression however. Great live act with a very loyal following.
Also another great beer for a wine drinker.
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/omnipollo-nautilus/388757/
Fun fact: Google’s bizarre content code states it will run ads on a wine website but no other kind of alcoholic beverage, even beer.
The timing makes it stand out! That tune could have been pedestrian “Blueshammer” shit but the off kilter makes it stand out. I’m not a musician but is that 5/7 tempo? I know Zappa and Beefheart used to play with tempo and I’ve always enjoyed that slightly bent-beat stuff (explains my dance moves).
They also have an alter ego Jazz/jam band called the Bakerton group.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HIedGNtuL9c
That’s right up my alley (not in the filthy way)! Thanks, Timeloose!
Cannot possibly think of a more appropriate day to share this.
Chad has quite the bulge
He always does. It’s part of the Virgin vs. Chad meme, which I now realize most of you are not cool enough to be familiar with, and in the context of which it must be fully appreciated.
So the soyboy cholo is incel?
Remarkable as it may seem to look at him, yes. This general meme began among the incels (self-identified and otherwise) of 4chan as a way of teasing one of their own about his earnest MSPaint contribution and is by far the greatest meme I have ever seen. There have since been other “-American versus mother country” variants, but most remarkably lame and none nearly as good as this one.
I know a Chad.
Negra Modelo is indeed a worthy beer, and weirdly enough, it’s much easier to find in Calgary and Edmonton than here in the wilds of B.C. (AKA The Lower Rainland™). But I know a guy.
Dark lagers are one of my favorite kinds of beer.
Blackened Voodoo (dixie brewing) is one of my faves. Its not “OMG fantastic” by itself, but goes perfectly with certain N.O. foods.
Lots of great German schwarzbiers out there. They have great flavor without being super heavy.
If you google “cinco de mayo” right now you will find that (in the reverent annual ritual of the gringo press known as “What is Cinco de Mayo?”) even Fox News has jumped on the “white people shouldn’t wear Mexican hats” bandwagon. Since that is a white nationalist channel I presume it is to maintain the cultural purity of the master race.
It’s harder to deport Messicans if you can’t tell them on sight!
Just a reminder; if you like old time rock n roll, r&b, surf, and schlock on 45rpm, Rex is spreading the grease on WFMU. Get the WFMU app and thank me later.
HELL YEAH! Thanks for the heads up. Related – Clay Pigeon is on vacation and I did not realize until today just how much I need his soothing voice during my morning drive.
Clay Pigeon is great. I live in Cali, so I usually only catch the last hour of his show sometimes.
He really is fantastic; his upbeat cheer really helps set me up for the morning. He begins as I am leaving work and carries on through the getting the kids off to school/doing chores part of my day.
Which is why I would like to thank Al Gore for inventing the internet. I live inLong Beach, CA but am a daily listener (and monthly donor) to a Jersey City radio station.
Speaking of donations, I have to donate to Glibertarians right now.
I like Tecate.
Judge me all you want, I don’t care.
just because the name kinda sounds like titty.
http://i3.irishmirror.ie/incoming/article5619699.ece/ALTERNATES/s1227b/Dessie-Mitcheson.jpg
I love you, man.
/drunken slobber
May as well pour me a drink. Bourbon rocks Perrier. Cheers, y’all!!
This “incel” hysteria is really turned up to 11. I read (part of) and will not link, a long screechy diatribe in Harper’s Bazaar which postulates that incels are LITERALLY! terrorists; hundreds of thousands of them are at this very moment plotting to viciously rape and murder the sort of lovely intelligent gracious white feminists who read Harper’s Bazaar.
Talk about your moral panics… yeesh.
Googling “harper’s bazaar incels” yields four different articles over the past month, going back to well before the latest normie pogrom. I think these ladies are obsessed with the mysterious and dangerous “incels.” If our boys were smart enough to pick up on the signs they’d take some action.
I’ve known a few “incels” and they were just painfully awkward around women and alcohol made it worse. I remember being at a bar with my buddy and he was amazed that I was able to just approach random girls and start dancing with them. I told him in no uncertain terms “No Dance? No Chance!”
Yeah I really wish I could dance to up my game but I can’t. Dance music is my favorite genre, and my favorite atmosphere, but I have to decline like a lameass whenever a woman wants to dance with me and I miss a lot of opportunities that way.
I don’t dance either. But when I was young and single I’d down my drink and hit that dancefloor. Chicks don’t care if you can dance well. They just want you to make that effort to be with them and get out of your comfort zone.
Also, the ladies are testing you. If you dance well, you’re probably gay.
They are checking for “thrust vectors”. Truth.
Look to China for a for-reals up-and-coming “incel” hysteria.
Is that new look being tested in beta or is that just some sort of weird glitch? Answer the people, dammit! We’re all thinking it!
Dos Equis makes a Dark version that I can’t seem to find up here in NYC but was rather ubiquitous in my South Florida youth; it was quite good. I’m getting reacquainted with that 101 proof Wild Turkey right now. It mixes very well and might become a regular bottle in the cupboard.
The Amber? Its pretty good but they don’t sell it in 24oz cans.
No, not the amber, it was a Dos Equis Dark and I’ve never seen it outside of Florida or Texas.
Hmmmmm. I will have to look for it.
They had it all over NY for a while. I think FEMSA changed US distributors a few years ago and i saw less of it.
(possibly related to the the shake up where ABI had to give Corona in the US to Constellation brands, which probably resulted in a juggling of ‘who got to have what in their network-distributor portfolios’; anyone who had both Modelo and FEMSA brands would have to divest one)
Meanwhile, over on the epidemic beat…
All told, an Associated Press review of news reports collected by the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive revealed more than 30 publicly reported mishaps since 2014 involving firearms brought onto school grounds by law enforcement officers or educators. Guns went off by mistake, were fired by curious or unruly students, and were left unattended in bathrooms and other locations.
“If this can happen with a highly trained police officer, why would we give teachers guns?” interim superintendent Lois Berlin of the Alexandria, Virginia, school system asked after the incident involving the officer whose accidental discharge put a bullet through a wall at George Washington Middle School. He was placed on leave and is under investigation.
Let’s say, just for fun, that’s ten incidents per year out of how many classroom days?
“Highly trained police officers.” That’s funny.
“Listen up trainee, this is a dangerous tool. Every time you pull the trigger you suffer no consequences and get paid time off. Let that sink in, use it wisely.
/Police Academy small arms instructor
If the right side of this issue weren’t dominated by cop boot lickers, then maybe we could promote some awareness of the big picture on this.
Every time a LEO fucks up, which one would think would bolster the point that we cannot rely on them, the grabbers turn it around and say, “See, even the police cannot achieve competence. Imagine how impossible it would be for the rest of us humble folk. Clearly the danger would be enormous.” And there is no one to push back on the presuppositions behind this slight of hand because the “pro-freedom” side is too busy defending the honor of our brave heroes in blue. The greatest misstep of the grabbers wasn’t not muzzling David Hogg; it was not muzzling Scott Israel. If he had kept his mouth shut the facial attack on his competence as a LEO would have been off-limits as a tool for our side.
Like I always say, libertarianism will only score the smallest-bore victories against the tide of statism unless we can get people starting to think differently about things in a broader way. In this particular case we are actively handicapped by the specific outlook of the “conservatism” millstone.
*his and his officers’ competence as LEOs
^This. I cannot, for the life of me, get my conservative family members and friends to view cops through anything other than rose colored glasses. They love to talk about how the gub’mint will never take their guns but absolutely fail to see that ‘the gubmint’ will undoubtedly be their own hero’s in blue. Any time you point out the egregious violations of an individuals constitutional rights at the hands of the police it’s always deflected or chalked up to ‘one bad apple.’
*Clearly, the danger would be enormous. That is why we must rely on the police to keep us safe, and not take things into our own hands.”
Obviously these brave men and women should be armed with chainsaws. Set it down, pump the bulb three times, pull the ripcord twice and have enough time to think about what you are about to do.
In the military, we had an ex-cop in the unit as opposed to most guys who are just looking to become cops after. When you lose your weapon, the entire unit goes on lock down. You are supposed to have 100% accountability of it all times. A discharge while clearing your weapon in a clearing barrel is called negligent. You don’t have muzzle awareness? Prepare to get slapped upside the head.
Well, it was funny to hear the ex-cop say that there were basically no consequences as a cop for losing his weapon. There was some paperwork and they gave you a new one.
The films 48 Hours and Stray Dog are now ruined for me
Roooooooooooxane!
The National Association of School Resource Officers has raised concerns about allowing teachers to be armed, saying they may not have the training to use guns effectively during a high-stress situation or to keep them secure. The group is pushing for an officer in every public school instead.
I never saw that coming.
“That’s some good doubling-down there Lou.” /Chief Wigum
I don’t like the term “school resource officer”. It sounds to me like one of those titles specifically designed to muddy understanding of what the person does.
My mother was a teachers’ aide for special needs (retarded, but we can’t use that) students. That’s easy to understand, but her official title was “paraprofessional”. I was never able to get anybody to explain to me the difference between a paraprofessional and a para-amateur. Worse, the union propaganda liked to use the term “school-related personnel”.
Mom had been doing the job for a good ten years before somebody got the brilliant idea to require people doing the job to be credentialed through a program run at the local community college. In addition to raising barriers to entry and being a money-spinner for the community colleges, I can’t help but think it was also designed to point out that the teachers’ aides had advanced certificates, which proved they needed higher pay the way getting a Master’s or PhD “proves” you should be paid more than somebody with just a Bachelor’s.
Same here. Used to work in the “social services” and starting in the late 80s they began demanding course work and credentials. It was all B.F. Skinner gobbledeegook but if you didn’t have the paper, you didn’t have your job. There were people that had been working with their clients for twenty years that were forced out. How much education does one need to help someone out of bed and wipe their ass?
Everything written below that quote in the article really backs up why (eye roll)…….what an absolute clown show.
The group is pushing for an officer in every public school that will quiver in fear outside until the shooting stops.
ugh! Trying to start my yard work because all the snow finally melted this week and my lawn mower is burning oil. Now I need to take care of that. Sad.
Discovered yesterday that my mower was rode hard and put away wet last fall. Carb cleaner, here we come…
CNN discovers Constitutional Carry laws, consults the experts.
Opponents offered a variety of arguments, including that the measure would hinder law enforcement officials’ ability to contain criminal suspects, that it would deny the state a critical revenue source and that its vetting process was rushed, KFOR reported.
“Permitless carry is an incredibly dangerous policy that will make it easier for people with violent histories to be armed in public,” said Alyson King, a volunteer with the Oklahoma chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
At least they’re honest about one thing; wanting that sweet stream of revenue.
“Permitless carry is an incredibly dangerous policy that will make it easier for people with violent histories
I assume she’s talking about the cops?
Yes. The streets of Phoenix are perpetually stained red.
LOLOLOL. Aren’t they supposed to be a national channel, not the local news for New York or DC? I do love it when they don’t even try.
My state passed constitutional carry last year. It’s been an absolute blood bath. I now roam the wasteland evading cannibal gangs and exploring burned out cars and buildings searching for canned goods.
You should have heeded the warnings of Our Lord.
Government… is there nothing they can’t fuck up?
Yeah I was trying to figure that shit out. Is Canada putting us under a whey milk embargo or something?
More sense, actually, would be that this is a Canadian food company, and the “shipping restricted” territory is actually us, putting shipping restrictions on their maple syrup.
In VA at least, it’s supposed to be revenue neutral, they can only charge cost by law for processing concealed carry permits.
VA was about to pass constitutional concealed carry but the senate finance committee struck it down because the state police complained it would impact their budget. Defining the CCP costs as revenue gave the unfriendly Finance committee power to kill it instead going to another more friendly committee. The VCDL was livid, but I’m unable to figure what they can do about it.
Ultimately it wouldn’t have mattered because the Gov would have vetoed in a heartbeat, but it was still extremely shady of the establishment Republicans who masterminded that.
It’s remarkable how much the public lets politicians get away with treating “revenue” like an abracadabra word, in particular at the state level, to openly justify things that you’d think they wouldn’t. Like, you’d think they wouldn’t have the stones to declare it a cash grab, that people would be appalled at cases like this in particular. But they’re not.
I think it’s because deep down, we know we’re guilty and we’re being dishonest. We figure the state is just going to spend the amount of money it’s going to spend, so if someone other than me can pitch in for some of it so much the better. And we know the state is going to spend that amount because it’s us, the citizens, crying bloody murder if the budget is cut for this or that near to our hearts. In state politics we hate budget cuts almost as much as we say we hate taxes.
Since it is a “Murican drinking excuse today. I will have Pacifico while sailing, make the recommended Morning Links Margaritas and finish the evening by binge watching Season 4 of Arrested Development and celebrate “Quatro de Cinco”.
Mt sister and bil are in town. So I had to find a place with hoppy ipas and vegatarian (not salads food for them. And tasteless crappy food (think applebees) and bud light for my parents. They also wanted it to be a mexican but I refused to do that today with the rest of the city. Also, my parents are going to have to suffer through eating good food.
We got invited to play at a Margarita Party at 3 PM, Should be fun,
I got one Lobotomy Bock, and a Sixer of these, Light Lime beers,They are only 4.2% nice for a 95 degree Day, humidity at 14%
https://photos.app.goo.gl/3aBT84Eao3n4oLAs9
That’s awesome! My S.A.D. has me in a stranglehold, baby. Supposed to be at my daughter’s birthday BBQ but instead I dusted off the miter saw and am making planter boxes. And drinking bad local beer.
I enjoy Wood working, and the Lime Beer tastes like Lime Water
London doctor doesn’t understand concept of self-defense.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-44017054
The Times (London) had a similar story today. Apparently, Royal London Hospital saw repeat knife attacks in 45% of “young” knife-victims.
7/11 doesn’t want me microwaving my urine there now. Well, fuck you. I’ll go to Circle K.
132-pound tumor removed from woman’s ovary
“I thought that Kid would never move out”
God bless her and those surgeons.
Unique in the annals of history
Parkland shooting survivor and student activist Cameron Kasky called President Donald Trump a “professional liar” following the President’s speech at the National Rifle Association convention in Dallas on Friday.
“He’s a professional liar who will say anything to appease whatever crowd he’s at,” Kasky, a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, said about Trump on CNN Saturday morning.
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Kasky told CNN on Saturday he doesn’t expect what he called common sense reform from the President, who has supported training teachers to carry firearms and signed legislation that includes more than $2 billion for school safety, mental health and policing efforts and would make changes to reporting to the background check system — measures that had the NRA’s support.
“President Trump, he follows the money. And as long as he’s getting money from the NRA who, in turn, is getting money from the gun manufacturers, I wouldn’t expect anything common sense anytime soon from him,” Kasky said.
Kasky said he’s in “full support” of the Second Amendment, but “there are certain weapons that do not belong in the hands of citizens, and there are certain weapons that need to be regulated.”
He 6ells people what they want to hear? Totally shocking. No President ever did that before.
“Full support” doesn’t mean what you seem to think it means, sonny.
Seeing as how I’ve got the chop saw all set up i may as well put my cheek against the arbor and pull down, hard and fast.
Lying liar lies.
Shorter-
High school student discovers public choice theory, only applies it to one politician.
what he called common sense reform
“Common-sense reform” is so obviously a focus-group phrase.
You left out the heroic attempt by Harry Flashman to save Maximilian!
LOL.
Just heard some dumb feminist twat asked CEOs on Twitter what they planned to do about incels working in their companies. So… you fire admitted sexual losers from their jobs because they might become disaffected and threatening.
I love a good moral panic.
“”Just heard some dumb feminist twat asked CEOs on Twitter “”
You mean Ellen Pao’s thing? or is someone else pumping this now?
Yep. I’d heard about it on the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Friends podcast, but it’s just as dumb as advertised.
Wasn’t this Chairman Pao?
I think Ellen Pao was volunteering.
This is great.
https://twitter.com/Me2S3M/status/992083369960853504
They apparently made shitty guns, but I love their sense of irony.
The “Ladies Home Companion,” a revolver chambered in .45-70
I am amazed i’ve never seen that in any movies before. Its utterly ludicrous
https://www.magnumresearch.com/bfr-big-frame-revolver/
From the same company that makes the .50 cal Desert Eagle.
They say “biggest finest revolver” but we all know what BFR actually stands for.
Gotta be careful with overpowered revolvers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ6T5FxgIwk
I like the Cobray Terminator review underneath. World’s best, worst shotgun.
That would be very painful to shoot. I have a buddy with a Marlin .45-70 lever gun. It’s cool as hell, but a few rounds is all I care to put through it.
What time is that stupid horse race on?
I wish they’d show it on TV if they have to put any of the horses down.
Democratic congressman proposes a forced buyback of assault weapons and going after resistors:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/05/03/ban-assault-weapons-buy-them-back-prosecute-offenders-column/570590002/
We aren’t coming for your guns though you redneck child murdering gun fetishists.
Alternative headline:
“Democrat congressman lobbies for civil unrest”
Democrat Congressman masturbates furiously whilst watching the world burn. I’ve seen this guy on Tucker and he is a cunt. A full-blown, progged out lying sack of shit. He makes Eddie Haskell look reasonably honest for fuck’s sake.
I will remain silent for now but you will pry my capacitors from my cold dead hands!
And I would have got away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids
Now that was a mighty fine imgur sidebar link.
Those inflatable Banana rafts reminded me of something…
Bah. Regarding Q’s comment:
That feeling when you see a cool meme…
…and then realize it’s an alt-right one.
Hey, it happens to the President, which by definition means it happens to the best of us. And I was already an alt-righter by virtue of commenting on an alt-right website. (A Zionist-run alt-right website, the worst kind.) Being nonwhite myself is no excuse; just look at George Zimmerman. Or Kanye.
I don’t know if they originate in the alternative right or not, but the sesame Street memes are hilarious to me. And I work with a black Nigerian who is pretty alt-righty/edgelordish who has some of the best memes on the net.
Say what you will about the alt-right, they know how to humor.
They are excellent at it. Edgelords come in many colors–they are majority apolitical and there are even some who happen to be progs (though they typically do not incorporate that)–but they clearly own Internet humor. It’s painful to see others try to compete on their turf. Reminds me of back at conservative talk radio’s peak when progs decided that they would develop a counterpart and they nearly all sucked balls because they got into it as a bunch of crusaders whereas e.g. Limbaugh was an experienced drive-time DJ who was in it, first and last, to produce good radio entertainment.
To the extent “alt-right” has a definition at all, I think at this point it’s best not to use the one Milo etc. used to introduce it to the world, which I think was essentially an umbrella term for everyone arising out of “rightist” traditions who felt alienated from the mainstream Rightist politics of their country and who were not doing it in the direction of traditional libertarian/classical liberal civic nationalism, etc. but adding a more reactionary tinge. Thus, antiglobalists, “Old Right”ers, the weird tech-based paleolibertarian offshoot “neo-reactionaries,” and so forth.
Now I think it’s best to use Vox Day (who was indeed one of the first to use the term)’s concept. An alt-righter is a person who believes that the white biological race and its future has the central, irreplaceable, noncontingent role to play in the survival of Western civilization (political and artistic culture, etc.). One can believe this without necessarily being white yourself. (For instance, Vox Day identifies as multiracial, despite opposing race mixing.)
Also, they are nearly all (Jared Taylor is the one exception I have found) utterly obsessed with the Jews. This is a red flag I tend to use, as here. “Cultural Marxism” is a popular trope, but only raised eyebrows. Incongruously including the Jews: alt-right confirmed.
Don’t know how your Nigerian friend fits in with this. But I bet he is great at Internetting. Probably has a lot of sweet email-scam cash saved up for fleshspace LaBeouf trolling too!
Bummer. I’ll just take the feminist one and forget the other ones exist.
Ah yes, the harried soccer-mom ahead of you in line that keeps swiping and swiping and swiping. Fuck that shit! I just stopped in for some Gatorade and Gravol, Bitch! I’ve gotta double shift and I drank waaaay too much yesterday.
Now that’s privilege!
Privlege, courtesy of my Nigerian friend
http://imgur.com/gtA6SSb
I like him! I love how the Internet has brought the world together!
Of course, Bert and Ernie are gay lovers, so they don’t have that cishet privilege.
Also neither one is white.
Love it.
5 swipes is pretty good for a retard.
Beautiful day to torch off the burn pile. Getting rid of winter debris.
Wanted to do that but it’s too windy. Can’t set the neighborhood on fire (or could I?)
One of the very best reasons to not live in a neighbor hood is having the freedom to light shit on fire any day you want and only having to worry about your own shit catching fire.
My burn pit has become encroached by trees. I dug it two decades ago but now I need to take care.
I know a good way to take care of encroaching trees that doesn’t stop you from building a fire. just saying.
But I like my trees…
Still can’t do that here. There’s a burn ban until May 15, and I live next to 1000+ acres of state forest anyway. Wouldn’t want to start a forest fire.
You might end up like the Bundys.
We had a forest fire on part of our woodlot three years ago. You can how far the fire reached.
The secret, imo, is build the initial fire and flame up to just enough where it will keep going, then add stuff to it, rather than torching a single large pile. Unless you have a huge dirt field surrounding the pile.
Always a little disconcerting when the kerosene ignites and you get that first whumph and it sounds like a jet taking off.
Between dragging more crap onto the fire, get to drink beer and sit on my ass. And my wife asks if she can bring me more because I’m working hard.
Risk and reward! I like your style, Gus!
Tell her to put it on the fire. And them make you a sandwich.
That doesn’t work for me. My wife knows I enjoy burning stuff.
Shhhsssss, not so loud, dude! You’ll give up the jig!
Never drunkenly try to navigate a OTB machine when drunk, trying to place your bets.
Then again, there’s not much wisdom in getting drunk before three in the afternoon.
Everyone remembers that time that they drunkenly gambled and made off like a bandit but its akin to your first feel of boob. Fleeting and never to be experienced again.
Jesus. DO ANY OF YOU WORK!?
I see Modelo at the grocery store all the time but never picked it up. If you guys say it’s worth it, I’ll do it!
RUFUS. Do you ever go to Impact games?
Used to.
I spend the majority of my day here running new wire to some transducers. Why come you no work?
Mexican beer is a great way to stay hydrated.
Me after five days in Mexico – beer, Pepto, Beer, Pepto. I was in my prime and I couldn’t keep up with meself.
You’re not supposed to drink the water Festus.
Water?
No one even told me that water was an option or even available in Mexico.
Word.
It’s not an option in Mexico. Unless you’re trying to fit into your wedding dress.
RE: Gun grabbing morons
Got back a bit ago from the range shooting my CMP M1 Garand. Looked up the serial number and it saw action in Korea. Thing is 70 years old and the only honest-to-goodness “weapon of war” I have. But we should take policy advice from people who have absolutely no knowledge and/or understanding of what the fuck they want to regulate.
“This isn’t the first time this rifle’s killed a commie”
???
http://imgur.com/ZSs6pF0
Mines a 1944 model, refurbished in 1964. The barrel is new, but the reciever likely saw either ww2 or Korea action.
Oh there are plenty WEAPONS of WAR out there for civilian sale but the overwhelming majority are sidearms, or rifles like this that look nothing like an “AR-15.” Grabbers don’t want to say this either because (1) the rank and file, they don’t actually have any knowledge of the issue; or (2) the leadership, they know they have suffered enormous setbacks since their peak in 1994; and going after these weapons is a long way down the master plan, that rhetoric will indeed eventually be turned against those other weapons but America is not nearly ready for it yet.
I also have a 1941 mosin. it is a weapon of war. My AR-15 is not.
*overwhelming majority are sidearms; the rest are rifles that look nothing like an “AR-15”
Hey all! A feel good story!
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/former-beauty-queen-regains-smile-thanks-sister-surgeon-stroke-paralyzed-half-face-121757767.html
Kentucky Derby = drunk sluts in ridiculous hats.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Would be a great name for a “concept” album.
A Prince concept album: De. S. I. Re
So, what is this? 5th of May, that’s a holiday? I’ll take it. Anyway, just got back from the local tap house.
Dark Stout Organic Fair Trade no Puppies Died, I be Woke
Anyway, it was extra loud in there tonight. Maybe it was them Messicans? I don’t know. No one was wearing any ponchos and they don’t even have burritos there. And everyone was white. And there’s no white folk in Messico, right? So yeah… Ok, there’s the one black lady who works there, the one with the bootay. Come to think… every woman who works there has a great body, including the new one I never seen before. No one is doing that on purpose, right? Because you know, this isn’t Alabama and everyone here be woke.
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Fuck horses.
Thats all.
When I was a kid, one of them threw me off, for no reason I know, into a barn wall. I was 10 years old, I think. I picked up a big rock and smashed it in the head and when it ran off, I chased if with another big rock meaning to kill it dead. I have not liked horses since then.
Jesus. No offense, but whoever it was that trusted you alone around animals shouldn’t have, if you didn’t have the maturity to react safely and coolly to the possibility of unpredictable aggression.
Dude, I had been riding horses since I was 4 years old. Those were not the snowflake days. So no one would have felt the need to supervise my visit to my friend’s place to ride horses early in the morning. Back then, kids were kids, not snowflakes.
Precisely. I stand by my intuition. The whole reason the pre-snowflake protocol was ever possible (in addition to necessity) was that, for nearly all kids, it’s completely reasonable to presume that introducing them to dangerous things at an early age–such as weapons, tools, animals, etc.–means that, by early adolescence, they are going to be able to use these tools on their own with maturity, and be ready to handle emergencies like an adult. Most kids who have been riding horses since 4 are not going to freak out at 10 if they get bucked off in a way that shocks them, and go chasing the poor creature trying to bash his skull in with a rock. They’d handle it more safely. These are the assumptions, the trusts, that the pre-snowflake protocol was based upon; cases like yours were those that the coddling generation has overreacted to.
I hope I’m not being too much of a dick by ragging on 10 year old you. I only know the present you, and what you’ve just told me. People grow at different rates and Lord knows people with much more serious problems than yours that they happen to have at 10 grow out of them to become some of the most productive, admirable adults out there. You can never tell what someone was like as a kid!
This probably still is way too harsh. Again, I don’t know anything about what you were like back then, only this particular incident you told me when you indeed did freak the fuck out. You may well have been an incredibly mature kid in all other respects, at all other moments. But on that particular day certainly you were not quite acting very responsibly! It happens to everyone, of course.
Some of use grow up to become glibertarians instead. 😐
I’m reminded of the scene in Marnie where Tippi Hedren is going fox hunting and goes nuts because she sees the color red, thus failing to navigate a jump and breaking her horse’s leg. Hearing her scream hysterically for somebody to shoot the horse is hilarious
You know someone has written a play that is right up your alley.
I was wondering if you’d link to this, but it wasn’t a play.
Maybe you just needed to butter them up a little.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumclaw_horse_sex_case
-1 Mr. Hands
Oh, more like caveat emPENETRATORor
amirite?
Opposing bestiality laws is not a very high priority for me. But I do have to say, it is quite illustrative of how our collective political culture and mentality works that this led to political action as it did. An entire state looked at this guy’s death in this incident, and they said, “Hmm. This was a bad thing that occurred. You know what would be a smart way to address this, to learn from this incident and change public policy in a way that would make a difference for this particular social problem? This state needs an anti-bestiality law. Yes, that is the way to address this; that will help prevent such incidents as this in the future.”
*Pours fifth of Hellmann’s on the ground*
For my Mexican Homies.
So Japan doesn’t count as west of the Rockies.
+5 Mayo (nnaise)
I went to an open house today. I really liked the place, and it was priced aggressively.
And then I found the colonics room. There’s really no recovering from that.
How did they show it? “And this is the colonics room…” Also, what the fuck does one look like.
Actually showing a colonics room is probably an excellent move. Unconsciously, it makes you associate the place with luxury. Oh, this is the sort of house lived in by people who can reserve an entire room for one of their their idle-rich eccentricities. Peggy Hill would have probably hatched a scheme to set up fake colonics rooms in the houses she showed if they’d gotten another season.
https://tvline.com/2017/08/08/king-of-the-hill-revival-fox/#!
They tried to hide it. That’s what made it weird.
I am culturally appropriating my ass off. Modelo in one hand, mezcal in the other.
Skirt steak marinating in Mexican spices and lime juice. Homemade Mexican coleslaw, salsa and guacamole in the fridge. The grill is smoking hot and I’m ready for tacos…and more beer, and mezcal…
I’m marinating skirt steak…. for the rest of the family.
I landed a 2.5 lb hangar steak yesterday, purely by chance. It’s all for me.
I’m working on the pan sauce right now. Shallots, thyme, and powdered butter reconstituted with cabernet instead of water. It’s not much to look at, but tastes great.
I wish I could find hanger steak here. But I do live in the land of the flat iron, so I’ve got that going for me.
This was pure chance. First one I’ve had in years.
I was at Whole Foods yesterday on a beer run, and they wheeled in a side of beef. I went straight up to the counter and asked for the hangar.
Nooice! https://i.giphy.com/media/EaSH6bwyEQVkA/giphy.gif
Powdered butter? Wtf? Googling…
Once again the Lord will provide.
You can spray dry lots of things.
I have powdered eggs for smoothies (it’s an Orange Julius knockoff)
Happy sinken de maya bro !
Back atcha bruddah! Seriously, I think I have a Oaxacan in the woodpile.
FWIW (and it ain’t worth much), saw your response about Malone.
Ellen is the worst Pao since the Black Eyed Peas’ “Boom-Boom.” Neither can hold a candle to Kung.
Roaming Millenial had a vid about the Chinese prom dress. Of course, she’s half Asian, so she’s only 50% deplorable
Goddammit. It starts at 7:50
I got my instructions from Gilmore, apparently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtEwuitiH44