“Open to me,” Pie whispered. “Open to me and I will show you such things that will make a penis waggled in your face will seem like dew settling on poisoned wildflowers.”
In the closest thing she’s had to a press briefing in nearly a month, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders sat down with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos to discuss the sexual assault allegations against President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. The White House, Sanders said, would be open to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing testimony from Deborah Ramirez, the second woman to come forward about Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual misconduct.
“I’ll have the Secret Service pick you the new issue of Richie Rich the next time they go on a McDonald’s run,” the hair said, dangling from a faucet over the roiling stew of self-tanner, Diet Coke drool, greasy McNugget farts, back skin, moisturizer, prostatic fluid, sweet Sildenafil sweat, and the rainbow remains of a glitter bath bomb.
“I like that kid. He’s got class,” Donald said. He groped around the side of the tub until he found the remote control and turned on E!.
Drawn and written by Aminder Dhaliwal, the book asks the question of what happens when all men go extinct. Unlike Y: The Last Man and other similar works, Woman World doesn’t focus on wide conflict or the outbreak of violence; riots and panic did ensue, but readers join the story after all that and jump into a world where women just exist without prior constraints. Characters are shown in small, welcoming communities that are more focused on figuring out what this new version of the world looks like rather than trying to conquer anything or fight for resources. Very few of the characters remember a time when men existed, and as they’ve been going extinct for some time, none of them remember a world dominated by them. This lack of conflict allows the book to focus on humor and characterization instead of overplayed tropes about what happens when the world is made up entirely of women.
This isn’t to say that the book is simple or even easy. Much of the humor is rooted in asking questions about the world as it is today within this new context of a women-only existence. By taking these sometimes deeply troubling things and robbing them of context, it makes them either extraordinarily existential or deeply comical, sometimes both. One character’s annoyance at being unable to find any historical texts that feature female artists, scientists, or great thinkers is funny not because it’s not upsetting, but because in Woman World there are no men to repeat that crime. It’s a perfect demonstration of the tragedy plus time equals comedy equation.
“‘One character’s annoyance at being unable to find any historical texts that feature female artists, scientists, or great thinkers’” What is this shit?” the hat asked. “No books about chicks doing shit? Yeah, right. This is real thing. There’s not a one.”
“Go find me something to tweet about!” Donald roared, clustering his rubber duckies around himself defensively.
“No gang rape? Well, shit, I was finally warming up to little old Brettly Squeakyshoes,” the hat said.
As Washington braces for Thursday’s media frenzy, an even more ominous prospect hangs over the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court: a sinister allegation teased by Michael Avenatti that could explode Kavanaugh’s confirmation—or be another dud. Avenatti, after all, has developed something of a dubious reputation in the six months since he first entered (and quickly dominated) the national scene. His bare-knuckle defense of adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, relentless takedown of Michael Cohen, and undeniable talent for media, social and otherwise, have transformed him into a formidable opponent of Donald Trump and an unlikely Democratic presidential hopeful. It was Avenatti who first predicted that Cohen would be indicted, and Avenatti who later dumped records of Cohen’s suspicious bank activity online. But the ubiquitous “porn lawyer,” as Republicans have dubbed him, has also struck out on occasion. A mysterious CD or DVD containing visual evidence related to Trump’s relationship with Daniels was never released. His “three additional female clients” who he said were “paid hush money prior to the 2016 election” have yet to come forward. So it is with some hesitancy that Democrats are tiptoeing around Avenatti’s latest would-be bombshell: that he is representing another woman with “credible information regarding Judge Kavanaugh” and what he described as “gang rape.”
“Don’t worry. Once they are finally done decoding his yearbooks, I’m sure they’ll find something you can get off on,” the hair said soothingly.
One of the 65 women who signed a letter in defense of Judge Brett Kavanaugh right after he was accused of sexual assault was the butt of a cruel joke on his 1983 yearbook page, where he used her name and implied she was promiscuous.
The New York Times reports that the name of Renate Schroeder Dolphin, then a student at a Catholic girls’ school, appeared more than a dozen times in the yearbook, including a group photo of football players, including Kavanaugh, under the description “Renate Alumni.” Two classmates of Kavanaugh told the Times that the Renate mentions in the yearbook were part of the athletes’ “unsubstantiated boasting about their conquests.”
Kavanaugh’s lawyer said he and Dolphin shared a kiss while in high school. Dolphin denies it happened, but said she was hurt by the insinuation that she was promiscuous in high school.
“A generation of ugly girls getting their revenge on the boys that wouldn’t date them in high school,” the hat sniffed. “Group therapy thinly disguised as journalism. It would be hilarious if it just wasn’t so fucking pathetic.”
For what it’s worth, and absent evidence or allegations to the contrary, I believe Brett Kavanaugh’s claim that he was a virgin through his teens. I believe it in part because it squares with some of the oddities I’ve had a hard time understanding about his alleged behavior: namely, that both allegations are strikingly different from other high-profile stories the past year, most of which feature a man and a woman alone. And yet both the Kavanaugh accusations share certain features: There is no penetrative sex, there are always male onlookers, and, most importantly, there’s laughter. In each case the other men—not the woman—seem to be Kavanaugh’s true intended audience. In each story, the cruel and bizarre act the woman describes—restraining Christine Blasey Ford and attempting to remove her clothes in her allegation, and in Deborah Ramirez’s, putting his penis in front of her face—seems to have been done in the clumsy and even manic pursuit of male approval. Even Kavanaugh’s now-notorious yearbook page, with its references to the “100 kegs or bust” and the like, seems less like an honest reflection of a fun guy than a representation of a try-hard willing to say or do anything as long as his bros think he’s cool. In other words: The awful things Kavanaugh allegedly did only imperfectly correlate to the familiar frame of sexual desire run amok; they appear to more easily fit into a different category—a toxic homosociality—that involves males wooing other males over the comedy of being cruel to women.
“”Toxic homosociality?”” the hat asked. “This word salad needs better dressing.”
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340 responses to “Tuesday Afternoon Links, If, You Know, You Are Into That, Like, Whole Tuesday Thing, Man.”
first to come and the last to go
“The White House, Sanders said, would be open to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing testimony from Deborah Ramirez”
I’m absolutely open to it too. Talk for as long as you want, please.
Christ, no. Vote on the fucking nominee. Don’t play the “oh, we must treat every spurious allegation with utmost seriousness” game.
I’ve said this all along: just vote.
The wheels of the greater world can’t wait for one second for an accusation that has no corroboration or supporting evidence. Even though I sympathize with the problems of reporting sexual assault, it still remains that he said / she said belongs in the round file in the corner.
Corollary: if you shouldn’t be in a one-on-one he said / she said situation with someone, then don’t be in one.
Corollary: getting to know men is probably scary AF.
So Pie is fucking Kavanaugh? Or Ramirez? Or both?
What dreams may come when Pie ponders news,
Are for her alone, try as you might to pry them open.
The White House has many divans on which to dream
And linger.
Now I’m envisioning Pie quim oozing onto White House sofas.
Yuck.
Then my work here is done.
That boy’s a genius !
Are you there God? It’s me PBRStreetgang. if you’re listening, please let this be true:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/09/25/oh-my-god-did-porn-lawyer-avenatti-get-pranked-by-internet-trolls-on-kavanaugh-gangrape-ring-allegation-n2522495
It seems too good to be true.
Plus, the timestamp might be off.
Given that this is 4chan greentext, the chances of this being true are about equivalent to the chances of me voting for Hillary Clinton when she decides to run again in 2020.
But if it were true it would be the greatest thing in the history of the internet.
4chan.
Stripper girlfriend.
Yeah, does not compute.
I’ve been to some really shitty strip clubs in my life, and I can absolutely believe a 4chan loser might have a girlfriend from one of those joints.
You need to meet more strippers.
RC is a lawyer; he only goes for the high class, coke off her tits, kinda stripper.
Not Chipwooder’s no class, Coca Cola poured thru her ass crack, kinda stripper.
Should we send him to Booger’s?
Houston spoiled me wrt strip clubs. I’ve heard Montreal is even better, but I haven’t been there solo yet.
From what I can tell 4chan has an economically diverse user base.
By “stripper” he means a girl that strips copper pipe and wiring from abandoned houses to sell on the street for heroin money
I want to believe!!
doo doo doo doo doo doooooo
wow-wow-wow-wow
thunk *fermata*
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If someone produces audio of these alleged phone calls, I will be absolutely overjoyed. I wouldn’t bet on it though.
James Hinchcliffe want the Indycar drivers to have a Union, you know since Indycar’s other socialist tendencies have made it so popular
https://racer.com/2018/09/25/hinchcliffe-indycar-drivers-need-a-stronger-voice/
I want I want! You go first……….
The Indy series still exists?
I never pass up a chance at some self promotion.
There’s a whole lot of goodwill that Hinch just flushed down the toilet. Generally likable guy, but he has mostly steered clear of politics so far.
Haven’t watched IndyCar since they went back to the spec aero.
This isn’t to say that the book is simple or even easy.
It’s not easy, but it could be had, right?
This is a book that wants you to throw it open, thumb its pages, take it all the way to the end, and then discard it on a shelf like a trophy.
With the pages stuck together?
You shouldn’t have to risk your life for free. There should be league minimums, like there are in the NFL.
Fuck off, Hinchcliffe.
Agreed. And since no one has to drive in Indycar if they don’t want to, problem solved.
There was a guy by the name of Mike Conway who felt that way. He wasn’t comfortable on ovals… for good reason.
You know what he did? He went to a different series that didn’t race ovals.
“The awful things Kavanaugh allegedly did”
Drunken boob grab + goofy penis wagging != awful things
For real awful things, go check in with your BFFs Ellison, Clinton and Weinstein (ERMERGERD WHERTERBURTISUM!)
The spin on this is amazing. Making your bros laugh in high school or (allegedly) college???? SO MUCH WORSE THAN FORCIBLY RAPING A SUBORDINATE IN A HOTEL ROOM!!!!!
That’s different, because. And I’ll tell you why. The left doesn’t give a flying fuck about Kavanaugh’s sexual transgressions. If the #metoo crowd had come up with this they would have laughed it off and said, “Good ol’ Weinstein.” They only thing they care about is delaying this confirmation until after the mid-term, and they’ll grasp at any excuse to delay. You can point out their hypocrisy over the excuse all day long and no one will care, because the delay is what they’re after.
Fine; one hopes the GOP picks up seats, and with Flake gone, no more fucking mild moderate SCOTUS candidates: go for a hardcore originalist, and ram him through.
Here we go again, taking politically correct positions and applying them retroactively. High school 1983 =/= corporate America 2018.
You know what is funny? If you read more into Ellison’s supposed video, you would find out that he told his lazy girlfriend who was living with him to take out the garbage. Then he comes back and sees her on the phone and flips out. Allegedly the video just shows him dragging her off the bed.
I hate to say it, but if I was on that jury, I’d vote to acquit. If the guy paying the bills tells you to take out the trash, take the trash out. And if you don’t and he finds you fucking around on your phone? Well you had it coming.
His problem is that if he said something commonsense like that, he’d lose a good weapon to use against the GOP. He still thinks he can weather this out and then turn it all back on the GOP later.
I don’t think using force against anyone other than self defense is ever moral, but damn can I empathize if you ask someone who is living off your largesse for a little help and they give you the middle finger, handing out a beating.
Chris Rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8TqhBIEbWA
“I’m not saying he should have killed her, but I understand”
Lol
‘everybody needs a pre-nup. You making 30 grand a year and she wants 15 of it, bitch gotta die.’
*lol and sigh
Comedians used to be funny. RIP Chris Rock.
Allegedly the video just shows him dragging her off the bed.
I hate to say it, but if I was on that jury, I’d vote to acquit. If the guy paying the bills tells you to take out the trash, take the trash out. And if you don’t and he finds you fucking around on your phone? Well you had it coming.
You sure you want to keep going with that take?
Um…. no?
*slinks off after having his intenet tuff gai bluff called by CPA*
It would be much more enjoyable anyway to pack up all of her stuff while she plays on the phone and set it by the curb. Wait for her to notice. “Why is all my stuff by the curb?” ‘I took the trash out myself, now get the fuck out’
How Clintonian a proclamation.
“And yet both the Kavanaugh accusations share certain features: There is no penetrative sex, there are always male onlookers, and, most importantly, there’s laughter”
Sophomore is sophomoric.
“Always”?
And it’s also to help organize things like group insurance: a lot of guys on the grid don’t have insurance.
Um, wut? Unless things have changed radically, you’re covered by the series if you get hurt in an event or test.
If you break your back on your dirt bike, you’re stupid.
“And yet both the Kavanaugh accusations share certain features: There is no penetrative sex”
STEVE SMITH LOSE HOPE IN NOMINEE
“No penetration. No sodomy.”
-some English captain at court-martial during the Napoleonic Wars
It’s not gay if you’re pitching.
-some Greek philosopher.
Was it Roger Clemens?
I read that as LOSE HOLE the first time through and was very disappointed. Since when does STEVE SMITH need a hole. He makes his own HOLE. Hope is an entirely different matter. No way SS makes HOPE.
So not rape-rape
“The awful things Kavanaugh allegedly did”
Like “profiteering” on foreclosures?
Who besides anyone on the far left believes this anymore? Bush was literally Hitler, Romney was literally Hitler, Kavanaugh is a gang rapist.
Wolf! Wolf! Wolf!
A world without men…so a world without indoor plumbing, electricity or automobiles. That’s going to make for a lot of unhappy women.
*thumbs up*
A world overrun with spiders…
No deep dicking.
Also, who is going to squish that spider that is camping out right in front of the toilet?
someone in steel-toed Wolverine boots with a spiky do ?
With no masculinity (and therefore no femininity) why would you think that performative gender display would exist?
Worn-out muu-muus #FTW!
great question which I’m sure I’m unqualified to answer
is your caveat correct: won’t there always be a butch (masculine) sect ?
do all organisms compete ? I mean: on a planet of lipstick lesbians, wouldn’t they still be trying to out-doll each other? If the masculine performance is about power, what feminine performance would there be: a race to most luxurious, indifferent pose?
I just don’t know these things. When I was four I understood peacocks; things have slipped a bit for me since the Beatles broke up.
Just remember, not all women have vaginas.
It depends on which side of the RadFem wars you think is right.
If you believe in gender essentialism, then there is very little basis to believe that your all-female world which works as well or better than the current one could actually exist. But butch would still be a thing.
If femininity is just a patriarchical construct explicitly imposed by (the now non-existent) men, then gender (and thus gender displays of any kind) cease to exist. Class, race, tribal, national, etc. displays would not necessarily vanish. But scenarios in which the unisex world works just fine are more plausible.
Not me, I stay the fuck away from Lucifer’s minions. My wife knows the drill – I handle snakes, she handles spiders.
In the paradigm, I’m guessing it will be someone more along the lines of Rachel Maddow.
Wait, whaddya saying about my wife, Don!
oopsies….that does come across wrong, doesn’t it?
She wears the pantsuit in the family?
No, she just kills the spiders.
You could use the snakes to take care of the spiders.
All I know is the trash would never get taken to the curb.
Ellison disagrees.
*Bitch better take out my garbage*
In economic terms, think of that unhappy situation only as “friction.” It will pass when other solutions that are chick-friendly emerge.
Think of those old technical solutions as social monopolies: when the men propping them up disappear, others (chicks) will exact their agency on those problems.
I’m as pro-guy as anyone, but the notion that things are the only way that they could ever be rings hollow. I’ve argued here that women do very little substantial engineering work, so products tend to follow some (stupid/sub-optimal) traditions, but if ever there was a paradigm that would dispense with that notion, it’s a world without men. If ever there were a faction that should embrace lots of novel solutions delivered by independent players, it’s libertarians.
Who knows: maybe a world without spud wrenches and slipped discs would be better ?
Friction.
Reprise
Better than the original, but Television deserves some attention.
That album has some excellent covers.
This is so stupid. I would never want to live in a world without women. Does a significant amount of women really want a male free world?
No. Only political lesbians and SJW feminazis.
Only the stupid, angry ones.
Women hate each other. It would be an inner circle of hell.
Some think it would be Utopia. But it would really be “Real Housewives of the Thunderdome”.
The ones who can’t keep a man, yeah.
I guess it’s just bitterness. Even if I was single, I enjoy female actors, vocalist, I enjoy talking with women, they’re just different from men. A world full of dudes wouldn’t be as interesting.
I can’t believe I’m the first to link to this. Am I the only one who remembers Duckman: Private Dick?
Orifice Depot FTW
Cum one, cum all to Kavanaugh’s Clearing House of Cooch!
http://archive.is/xuBIC
17 has a Grand Canyon of cleavage and 8 has the ass that could launch 1000 ships, but 24 still wins.
Has anyone noticed the new tactic employed by the left whenever they’re asked how they’re gonna pay for free stuff?
It goes something like: Think of it. Of course we can pay for everything. There’s so much waste and inefficiencies in government and corporations we can easily take that money and pat for free education. We waste so much on the military alone!
They’re exhausting.
So there’s billions of dollars wasted in government programs, but the new government programs won’t have any waste. Got it.
The one I see alot is,” let’s agree to do it, and then figure out how to pay”
“Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out my ass!”
Pure magical thinking.
So show me the reductions in waste, and maybe we can talk.
You know on this yearbook thing with the Dolphin chick. If the story was actually provided solely by democratic operatives who were students at the school at the time but not part of Kavanaugh’s circle of friends then it would seem to me that every single person in that image has pretty good grounds for a defamation of character suit
Not to mention the even bigger case Renate has
someone else interviewed put forth the notion that it was in reference to several of them going to her school’s dances with her or her going to their dances with different dates. not that they all banged her.
Dolphin Chick, sorta like Lobster Girl?
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/103/300668985_fb38ae14d6_o.jpg
What image?
The picture of the football team labled Renate Alumnus.
according to some right wing media sources (so you do gotta take it with a grain of salt) the “translation” of what the secret phrases means comes from a couple of committed Dem Partisans including a failed Maryland Gubernatorial candidate who while he was a classmate of Kavanaugh’s was not really part of their friend group and would not have had any real way of knowing exactly what was meant by the phrase
Not only a Dem politician, but one of the ones whose entire political platform is screaming about Trump. No, no way could that guy have manufactured this out of thin air because #RESIST
For reference this is what I am referring to…
http://thefederalist.com/2018/09/25/new-york-times-hid-multiple-key-facts-in-kavanaugh-yearbook-hit/#.W6op_avzpso.twitter
If that Federalist story is accurate then the Times has exposed themselves to several significant defamation suits because none of these people are famous and the times article makes unsupportable negative claims about them
That’s pretty bad.
Do these people know he doesn’t give a shit about who’s kissing dudes?
No, they don’t. They are really that stupid. There’s plenty to criticize him about, but they pick the stupidest things.
No. They have no clue.
It kind of gives you pause, doesn’t it? You want to know how Germans came to believe that Jews were an existential threat that had to be exterminated despite an utter lack of any evidence? Because they were just as gullible as our countrymen. :/
If that is true, I hope they all take the Times to court and sue them into bankruptcy. Enough of this shit. Those assholes have no shame and or decency and lawsuits are the only way to put them in their place. In the process through discovery they can get all the emails between the Times, DNC leadership, #resistance groups and maybe even the good Doctor Ford and this latest twit from Boulder will show up.
Probably was a case of mistaken identity. They were really talking about another gal known as “The Blowhole” and reporters just assumed it was Dolphin.
**Flipper clap***
Uffda. Are you saying that “The Blowhole” that Kavanaugh and his frat buddies used to bang was a thalidomide victim? That is disgusting! No way he should be confirmed if true.
Wait, does every species lose its male members, or just humans?
I think it has precedent in other species. I’ve heard the Y chromosome in humans is shrinking over time.
Precedent, eh? Well, the Repubs need to vote in Kavanaugh, quick, so he can overturn it and bring the men back.
It was really cold that day!
That science is outdated. This belief is based on a single study involving chimpanzees. It was recently shown that this isn’t the case, though I don’t have a link handy
So the Y chromosome isn’t shrinking? That’s a relief.
The pool wasn’t heated!
I think I should get to see you naked now. It’s only fair.
Careful what you wish for!
Just the Bobbitt’s
And to pile on the bad news, dogs have evolved to hate peanut butter!
They still have the Ponies
Out of curiosity I went through my old high school year book and came across a comment
“Don’t hate
Lose weight
Feel great
Masturbate”
Does that disqualify me from the Supreme Court nomination I’ve so dearly wanted?
Did you write the comment?
Does he have an R or D by his name? That’s really all that matters.
I do not recall, I’ll have to check my calendars I kept and never threw away.
Were you ever in the general vicinity of the person who wrote the comment?
Did you sign the yearbook of anyone who turned out to be a Dem operative? If so, you are screwed.
I’m safe.
I was the only person in our AFJROTC unit who got his Yearbook picture taken in Uniform, I think the only other picture of me in the whole damn thing is me in the Color Guard at Homecoming game (also in Uniform) and my graduating class/school was so messed up they didn’t even get out yearbooks published until something like March of the year after we graduated. They held a yearbook signing day for us to come back and write stupid comments in each others yearbooks but I was in Basic Training at the time and so there are no personalized notes to me or from me in any copies of it.
So if they dig up my yearbook I look like a friggin boy scout.
Bonus points, the only girl I ever hooked up with in school is to this day one of my closest friends so they ain’t gonna find any jilted ex’es from back then either.
Course when they get a hold of my ex wife, well that is an entirely different matter
Pretty much anyone with an ex-wife is screwed.
Or not, as the case may be.
me in the Color Guard
Sounds like a racist organization…
You’re out.
Well you know it was a paramilitary organization, run by retired Airforce Personnel and everything so yeah. White male in uniform, could I be any more a member of the Imperial white supremacist cis het patriarchy?
I think I might see where you went awry.
lol yeah my friend and I lived more than 1000 miles apart for the bulk of my first marriage which was an open marriage anyway so there is no way the ex was threatened by a girl I had been friends with since High School and that is really all we ever were, we never dated or anything, we were just friends who had sex a few times when we were between relationships. We used to joke about being each others backup plans, that if neither of us had found anyone else by the time we turned 40 we’d just get married to each other. This was about 20 years before the J-Lo movie based on that concept came out too.
Mine is just a bunch of people telling me to “Stay cool.”
If, You Know, You Are Into That, Like, Whole Tuesday Thing, Man.
Tipsy Tuesday?
I am. Off today and took a nice country side drive after beer store run this am and now working on a new recipe. uuurp….
Has anyone noticed the new tactic employed by the left whenever they’re asked how they’re gonna pay for free stuff?
For health care, they like saying, “We’ll take all that money you’re wasting on insurance premiums, and pay the doctors ($15/hr)!”
Single-payer legal care, because there’s not one lawyer in this country who does anything worth more than minimum wage.
If they proposed this, I might be able to get behind some dem actions.
They don’t seem to get that switching the amount people pay towards health insurance to universal coverage won’t cover the cost. Math is hard.
Wrong! Math is racist and sexist, you shitlord.
Old, but seems highly relevant right about now.
http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/19/the-divorce-revolution-has-bred-an-army-of-woman-haters/
NB: “Woman haters” could just as easily be replaced with “men making rational choices”.
Get thee to a nunnery, go. Farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go, and quickly too
I have a club.
trade up, move on, don’t look back
* starts writing a country song *
And an army of man-haters.
Amazing what a few women in the Infantry can achieve.
Women marry the state, and men fuck as many women as possible without commitment.
The only logical outcome of women’s liberation.
This is accurate.
I wouldn’t call myself a woman-hater, but that sentence hits *really* close to home.
It’s forced charity. Just like higher taxes and more “government charity” makes people less likely to donate money, unrequited or forced sacrifice devalues it as well. It’s simply a bad bet.
Something that resonates with this is TFM’s statement at the end. Paraphrasing: feminism and traditionalism are two sides of the same coin of gynocentrism; feminism expects men to sacrifice for women’s benefit, traditionalism expects men to sacrifice for society’s benefit. The subtext here is, who benefits most from a prosperous society? Women.
I will say this much: when people marry with even a hint of a thought in the back of their mind that this may not be the person they spend the rest of their lives with, they are already setting themselves up for a divorce. Either mean it 100% or don’t get married.
Of course, given the current state of family law, “setting myself up for a divorce” may not be a bad business plan for a woman.
Especially in Florida, with their bullshit alimony for life laws. I’m sure I’ve told this story before, but my uncle left his wife because she chose to become a pathetic, useless drug addict. He therefore has to pay her an absurd amount of money every month to support her worthless ass for the rest of her life despite the fact that she was a licensed professional (a CPA) whose income potential was greater than his (deli manager at a supermarket, no education beyond high school). In the ensuing ten or so years, he’s had to mostly empty his retirement savings to allow her to sit around and do absolutely nothing all day. Evil, useless cunt.
I’d be tempted to cut a little fentanyl into her stash.
Or a lot.
what happens when the world is made up entirely of women
They all “sync up”?
Life … uh… finds a way?
Are you saying a society of all females will breed?
/hawt
I think he was saying a society of all females will bleed…
The new Chrome browser was written entirely by women?
I see this idea get floated from time to time, and the speculative response that never fails to crack me the fuck up is the claim that there would be no more conflict.
Nobody who has ever experienced middle or high school can credibly make that claim.
Or a nursing school.
Or snuck into a sorority house after hours to have sex with your girlfriend and listened to the unremitting bitching and fighting going on.
Wife vs teen-aged daughter. All the strife any man could ask for.
^^THIS!!^^ I keep telling the girls I’m gonna get an apartment…
And then rent a room in your house to me?
Generalization Alert:
I’ve noticed that (based on a pretty small sample) adult women rarely have good relationships with their mothers, but adult men generally have good relationships with their fathers.
I think men and women differ in two ways (nature or nurture, I don’t have a clue):
(1) Men compartmentalize. This is play. This is work. This is my personal life. And they don’t take work or play personally. Its why men love to insult each other; in fact, the more brutal the insult, the more respect you are showing for the guy you just scoreboarded.
(2) Men have sharp conflicts that resolve, and then they move on. They rarely take work conflicts very personally. Women’s conflicts tend to fester and be engaged on a petty passive/aggressive level, and they take them more personally.
That’s called Toxic Masculinity.
R C Dean is obviously a misogynist.
So much for the supreme court.
I have noticed that men tend to focus on one thing at a time while most women are all over the map. It drives me nuts. I am not saying they are scatterbrained but….they are scatterbrained.
Yeah, if I’m standing there folding laundry, I can multi-task enough to have a conversation. No problem. But if I’m sitting at my desk working on code, it completely destroys my concentration to have my wife flutter in and tell me about her day, or send me a text to inquire if we have enough eggs in the fridge, or ask me to grab something out of the washing machine she forgot. We’ve had many arguments about how I need her to leave me the hell alone when I’m working. She now does so, but I don’t believe she understands how badly it distracts me. In contrast, I’ve seen her sitting in bed doing accounting for one of her clients on her laptop while talking on the phone and petting the cat like it ain’t no thing.
My wife belongs to an all-women roller derby league. Trust me, there would be plenty of conflict.
claim that there would be no more conflict.
This too. Women hate each other.
And I seem to hate closing my ’em’ tag.
Yep. Ask ten women if they prefer working for another woman or a man, and I’ll bet at least 70% of them say a man.
My wife has told me she would never actively choose to work for a woman again.
My mother was ranting this weekend about how no man in his right mind would ever want to hire a woman or mentor one because of the fear that she could ruin him.
My mom was an OG Feminist who fought back in the ’60s to be allowed to go into any profession that she wanted. So it is making her nuts that this generation is throwing all those gains down the crapper.
yup
My bet is this breaks down along the lines of the professions involved.
No female boss tolerable: the talking jobs like sales/marketing, teaching, law
Female boss is fine: the doing/figuring jobs like finance/accounting, engineering, nursing
I know several nurses, and they would strongly disagree with you. There are even classes in nursing school about how to deal with a bitch for a boss.
Hot Lips Houlihan!
I probably get this wrong because I was married to a nurse for 20 years who could get along with anybody. Hope this is just fun, silly, competing anecdotes that no one confuses for data.
Detail: FirstWife was Trauma ICU, so not a lot of time for spoon-feeding and shared feelings on her unit. Old Texas: she could sew your head back on while returning fire and rode better than any man I’ve known. The first 20 years with her were the easiest. If anyone here got involved with a certain redheaded nurse with a PhD, I would wish them tons of luck. Our son, of course, is a total bad-ass.
Yeah, she seems like an outlier. 🙂
My ex is a nurse, and has spent most of her career in nursing homes/assisted living. It’s a very different story.
No female boss tolerable: the talking jobs like sales/marketing
Good luck with that. Tits and teeth positions are, surprise surprise surprise, filled with women.
Yup: my generalization is that women tend to accrue to the chattering industries. Nothing wrong with that.
Brettly Squeakyshoes
Goes right in the list of nicknames, next to Donny Two-Scoops.
Kavanaugh’s lawyer said he and Dolphin shared a kiss while in high school. Dolphin denies it happened
We’ve gone from Kav denying he had sexy-times with chicks in high school, to chicks in high school denying they had sexy-times with Brett. Please, Allah, make it stop.
Like the Hat n Hair/ Linkses crossover.
‘It’s so bad we’re appealing to Allah because Yahweh and God aren’t listening!’
I, uh, did not have asexual relations with that woman.
…..prostatic fluid, sweet Sildenafil sweat, and the rainbow remains of a glitter bath bomb.
Sweet geezus krist. Second link and I have to look up three things.
Is it soup, yet?
“credible information regarding Judge Kavanaugh” and what he described as “gang rape.”
So what you are saying is that the info came from RollingStone.
Related:
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1044217601943982083
Jeebus, partway down that string is a picture that I think is supposed to be the woman that Booker beat up. Is that really her? Because if so, he beat the shit out of her.
Apparently she didn’t listen the first time
Pretty sure its Ellison not Booker….
google says that’s from the movie “A Cry for Help”
She has the medical records.
Crickets from the MSM and the DNC.
Wait… I thought that was a typo from RC.
Booker beat the shit out of a woman?
Ellison. not sure about “beat the shit out of”. her accusation was that he was abusive and pulled her off the bed by her feet.
There is also another woman who called 911 when Ellison was over at her house screaming at her about their relationship. He tore the screen door off as he fled before the cops showed up.
Holy shit. I mean, really, WTF is that about?
How is forbidding her speech remotely legal?
It’s Ellison.
My bad – I was thinking Ellison. Sounds like the pic isn’t her.
I think Booker admitted (boasted about?) doing what Kav is accused of. I can’t keep all these sexual assaulters separate.
Booker groped.
Ellison beat the shit out of and I think that is the picture of her.
Fake news.
Ellison honored his wife as Allah commanded.
And Allah knows best.
Allah believed in the rule of thumb?
Don’t hit her with anything thicker than your thumb?
Andrew Wyatt, a spokesperson for Cosby just made a statement outside the courthouse calling the trial the most racist and sexist trial in the history of the United States.
Maybe get a new spokesperson.
He should have called it a high-tech lynching.
I see somebody’d been eating the pudding
Your wish is my command:
http://www.tmz.com/2018/09/25/bill-cosby-first-meal-montgomery-county-jail-pudding-dessert/
But….
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/57c460c4a3f37194f8ca352b66b70e9d73b9b5bafea38e5d418c72e68b8f584b.jpg
Who’s that fine philly? Is she single?
Ford’ lawyer Deborah Katz
How does the left continue to produce such fine specimens? It boggles the mind. That woman looks like she’d be first in line for the interrogator position when the Social Justice GULAG is finally established.
BTW that lawyer is one of our first fully fabricated skin-suits. She is not even a body double of any existing mammal. We designed the suit to elicit a deep-seated rage reflex from the males of your species.
This would have all made sense if it had happened AFTER the loss to the Bills.
I hope he gets help. It has to be scary when a big guy like that has mental issues that can cause him to get violent.
In the early ’00s I used to lift at a gym where it would usually be me and an odd guy named Greg. Greg was a very massive power lifter. Warmups on the bench at 315 were normal for him. He’d always be talking or singing. No big deal. One day, he started talking to me. He told me he hoped his monologue didn’t bother me but it helped him keep the “demons at bay”. He told me all about how he was manic/depressive and all the trouble he had gotten into when he went off his meds. The year or so I worked out there, never had a problem with Greg, but I was always a bit nervous about him getting off his meds and going ape.
Did he ever get to tend the rabbits?
And now for something different: Every instance of the game ‘Narrate’ on Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Trump: ‘Make their country great again!’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQfLtE0fkFw
Some never were great but we appreciate the sentiment.
I’ll settle for Make Canada Great For Once.
MCGFO!
Canada has been great more than a few times
https://twitter.com/16BitEric/status/872141635978539008
I know. We’ve had our bad ass moments.
Hello???
Summit Series ring any bells?!?
Phil!
Find me a greater speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFKvB3Wnzgk
Now you got me going down memory lane:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7zPZNjGjGc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruloAuFazcg
The Canada Cup (now the World Cup) is in of itself a bad ass tournament. It was created because Canada wanted to play the Soviets with their best players. They couldn’t send their pros to the Olympics (even the Soviets were pros) while the World Championships took place during the NHL playoffs so Hockey Canada never really tried. The Canada Cup was the solution and Canada won in ’76, ’84’, ’87 and ’91 losing only in ’81.
Herb Brooks would like a word
Never gets old. I love that movie.
As any decent American does!
And Minnesotan too, I imagine.
I know nothing about hockey, I only watch probably 5 periods a year, but boy do I love everything about the Miracle On Ice.
Greatest upset ever. No doubt.
Huffpo Last Week:
Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong
For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to wage a cruel and futile war on fat people, poisoning public perception and ruining millions of lives.
TLDR, doctors are wrong for telling patients to lose weight for health reasons.
This week from the UK: Obesity to become leading cause of cancer in women
Huh. I lost my weight strictly with diet changes. I guess my liver experiences don’t count.
Lived not liver. My liver has had some experiences too.
I heard that you’re a quitter.
True. I cut way back on my ETOH consumption.
Obesity causes myriad health problems. It is incredibly irresponsible for them to say that it’s actually healthy.
You might want to try actually reading the article because it makes no such claim.
While it is a bit long on the whining at times the reality is there is a lot of truth in it. Weight does not axiomatically equal health, yes it tends that way but they are not exactly the same thing, fat shaming is at best counterproductive if not outright harmful, and the medical establishment is utterly fucking useless when it comes to actually helping fat people become healthy.
Like a year ago was the last time I went in to see my GP, and I distinctly remember him looking at my weight on the chart and telling me, quote, that I’d “gained a hell of a lot of weight”. I was around 22% body fat, around 235, and was lifting weights every day. Defined quads, defined lats, the works. But, this portly sonofabitch had the nerve to tell me I needed to lose weight. I had gone to get a referral to a surgeon for a hernia, who, later that same day, said, and again I quote, “You’re in really good shape so there shouldn’t be any issues with surgery.”
It seems like most doctors are about as good at diagnosing weight issues as they are at diagnosing engine problems. I think you’re way, way better off going to see a nutritionist for weight issues. Really, it comes down to eating right (which isn’t as easy or as hard as it sounds) and staying active. Also, setting appropriate expectations for what “healthy” looks like as opposed to “skinny” or “shredded”.
Wait a minute, The author of that first article, was he a big fat girl?
*make a good skin suit*
Perhaps the lesson here is to not let kids get fat in the first place.
And if you drop your caloric intake significantly below your expenditures, you lose weight, ask any Auschwitz survivor.
Keeping weight off means fighting your body’s energy-regulation system and battling hunger all day, every day, for the rest of your life.
Yeah, except that isnt’ what I remember being taught. I remember being taught that those effects happen but are temporary. If you can stay at the lower weight for awhile, your body adjusts to that lower weight as its new normal.
That’s a frustrating quote and it’s a theme I see in a lot of these articles. No, fat-shaming isn’t helpful or a good thing. Yes, there are a whole range of body shapes that are within the range of “healthy”. But it is a fact that being significantly overweight is a health risk, and it is also a fact that your body stores fat when you consume more calories than you use, and you lose fat when you consume fewer calories than you expend. It’s really very, very simple from that perspective. The trick of course is finding a way to incorporate that into your life sustainably, which is a whole other kettle of fish. But ultimately it comes down to either establishing good habits early in life or developing them later in life.
“Donald roared, clustering his rubber duckies around himself defensively.”
Mmmmmm. That’s good readin’ that is!
Great. Now I have an earworm.
If you ever wanted to hear me ramble for an hour and half about movies and comic books, I had a little livestream with No1MarmadukeFan last night (he invited me). I had a lot of fun and hope to do some more things like this in the future. Kinda froze up on a few things like “top 5 movies” – a little hard to narrow things down in the heat of the moment.
Oh yeahhhh, this is a great channel to follow – he has some great discussions on art/comics/feminism/etc.
Dolphins are rapists. Just sayin’.
Dan Marino would like to have a word
LACES OUT, DAN
Your gun is sticking in to my hip.
That’s not his gun. Or your hip.
I don’t think we’re allowed to laugh at Finkle/Einhorn anymore, are we?
Derek Hunter interviewed about liberal newspeak, MSM, Hollywood ~ the culture war and politics.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?448560-1/after-words-derek-hunter
His points are obvious to us, but they might be a good introduction to skepticism if you know someone who needs one.
I DVR tons of C-SPAN.
Autumn BIF (Beer It Forward) update, so far we’ve got 12 participants. If you’re interested in joining, e-mail me at my handle at Google’s mail. Expect to be sending around 72-90 ounces of beer (and optional swag), and receiving approximately the same. I’m hoping to plan for shipping around mid-October, with packages due by Election Day.
What kind of swag? Like stickers, keychains from brewers, that kind of stuff?
You got it. Swag is optional, but will almost always be appreciated. I can guarantee that whoever I’m shipping to will get at least a pint glass in their box from me (but I also have piles of glassware I got for free). Especially as Cleveland Beer Week is almost here, which means I’ll probably wind up with another 4-10 free glasses.
Cool.
Dianne Feinstein: ‘I Have No Way of Knowing’ if Ford Will Testify Thursday
This is a shit-test Republicans. If Kavanaugh isn’t confirmed by Thursday evening, you have failed.
We have left ridiculous in the rear-view mirror. If Ford doesn’t testify Thursday before Congress, call a vote on Kavanaugh and then issue a subpoena for Ford to explain to Congress just what the fuck she thinks she’s been doing for the past week.
⬆⬆⬆ It’ll never happen, but I’d love to see it.
I mean, fuck it. Why not? This is already being cast as Republicans and Trump being rape apologists, anti-women, anti-victims, whatever. You’re payin’ the bill, you may as well eat the dinner.
Ditto. And subpoena everyone around her pushing this farce, including the Senile Senator from California.
Given Grassley’s letters to Feinstein around this farce, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if he moved to have her censured by the Senate. He is pissed, and willing to put it in writing.
Gee, why is this woman seemingly so reluctant to testify under oath?
Because the whole point is delay?
Of course. The longer it drags out, the better the chance that they can manufacture another supposed outrage.
I don’t understand why she isn’t already in D.C. She can “negotiate” just as well from a hotel room there as she can anywhere else in the nation.
Call the goddamned vote. And if the Left goes nuts and riots, split some wigs. A little bit of Civil War 2.0 might not be such a bad thing.
Yeah, I’m drinking. Fight me.
I am drinking too. I will fight you if you want me to, but I agree 100%
It has nothing to do with testifying. She/the Democrats probably never had any intention of testifying. They are delaying, that is all. The dumbass republicans keep falling for it. Call the goddamned vote today. Right now. Call the fucking vote. And fuck Flake. Get it out of committee and in front of the full senate. Stop fucking around already.
Because she will have to perjure herself.
Dr Chrissy is a Looney Toon. If she gets it front of a competent female lawyer who’ll politely but surely dismantle her story she’ll end up like Capt Queege in the Caine Mutiny. The Dems know this.
Dr Chrissy is a Looney Toon
Other than the letter she sent Feinstein, has she made any public statements? I purposely don’t follow this shit but it’s all you hear about and I haven’t heard or seen anything from this woman except the initial accusation. I don’t think I’ve even seen a clip of her talking, walking, doing the no comment thing, nothing… and yet I keep seeing these claims about her.
Hyperbole? Sure. But I doubt she’s mentally very solid. The “memory” is “recovered” which does not speak well of her mental health. The event, if it happened, while traumatic at the time is not something that would cause life-time trauma in a normally resilient person. The fear of flying I get (I’ve got it too), but given the stakes a reasonably strong person would suck it up. The Dems would surely buy a the whole row in first class on a non-stop flight.
I have the believe the Dems are rightfully lacking in confidence in her performance under some velvet pressure.
And of course, there’s the stereotype which says “psych majors are mentally broken who major in psych in order to try and fix themselves.”
The “memory” is “recovered”
Where does that come from? Does she say that in the letter? Which is the only “word” of hers we have. I haven’t heard of this “recovered memory angle until today.
I’ve heard it all along, but nothing to substantiate it. Even if it’s not, it’s a memory she kept entirely to herself until couples therapy after three decades… and she only chose to give a name to her assailant at a politically opportune moment six years later.
It’s complete horseshit either way.
No she has made no public statements. We don’t even know if she made the initial accusation, as in wrote the letter. She has talked to no one in the media, she has talked to nobody but “her lawyers” and all statements go through them. If she “testifies” I will be surprised. I am convinced this whole thing has been coordinated behind the scenes and she just happens to be a person that had a tie in to Kavenaugh because they went to different schools in the same area.
That sounds about right. I am confident the whole thing is a fabrication.
It is really starting to piss me off.
I mean I like to make jokes at it all and laugh it off, but now we are at defcon idiotic supremo once the Boulder dimwit showed up. Seriously? Woman who admits to being drunk off her ass swears, after six days of consultation with her lawyers, that Kavenaugh wagged his dick in her face. FUK OFF!
The fact she lives in Boulder means she should not be taken seriously. Just ask Doom.
Someone suggested yesterday that she may not even exist. I am not really buying that but at the same time nothing in this circus would surprise me.
Vote scheduled for Friday 9:30 a.m.
Will that be too late if they say “yea”?
God Fucking Damn It.
How fucking pussy are these weak-kneed, spaghetti-spined dipshits. They pushed it off another day.
NO. NO. NO. You had a hearing scheduled for Thursday. Vote then. If Ford’s ass isn’t parked in the witness chair, vote immediately.
I cant decide which of the two sides is more absurd – the transparent farce the D’s are putting on or the play-along pretend republicans.
Grassley needs a trip to the woodshed.
Flake needs a trip to the (metaphorical, fuck you Preet) wood chipper.
My guess is Murkowsky and Collins are pulling his strings.
The riot police need more time to set up barricades.
And Grassley has already gone wobbly.
Feinstein is OUTRAGED!
Good.
I bet the vote doesn’t happen.
“Lil Xan hospitalised after eating too many flamin’ hot Cheetos”
https://www.nme.com/news/music/lil-xan-hospitalised-too-many-hot-cheetos-2383323-2383323
Musical genius.
He’s going to be feeling that the next day.
Did anybody else get the email from Lyft saying they’re giving free rides to underserved communities to vote? Am I cynical in reading this as “we are giving people that live in strong blue areas a free ride to vote D”?
Cite fucking needed.
Hmpph the blockquote for “underserved communities” disappeared.
https://blog.lyft.com/posts/2018/8/22/get-out-the-vote
They’re helping blind people vote? fuck that. If you can’t look a candidate in the eye how can you assess his worth?
Yeah I was trying to say that “underserved communities” is bullshit. In the “minority” areas they’re obviously targeting, there is a voting place like every other block. If they’re not voting, it’s not because they can’t walk two blocks.
And if they’re talking about rural people I equally call bullshit because there is no way “over 15 million” of them are living there without a car.
The question is, should I stop using lyft now? I was an uber user but their quality fell way off.
You know good bar in the slums of Portland Gus? I will hail a Lyft and you can buy me a beer on election day. I might need to leave the day before though. That and I have to finagel a voter registration for a district I don’t live in. Anyone know a Democrat who can help with that?
Creosote is your friend for the guidebook of Portland. I only visit 2-5 times a year, and it’s more of get in and get out. As far as I can tell now, Portland either doesn’t have much in the way of slums or large swathes of place is a slum. Often at the same time.
I just got a voicemail on my cell claiming that the cops are coming to get me because serious allegations have been made against me so I should call this number immediately to discuss the situation.
Do it. Troll the shit out of them, and report back.
Not a chance. They record your voice and can then splice it to say anything they want. I heard one of the tech gurus on the radio talking about it the other day. Just saying ‘Hello’ is a serious risk. The ways they can fuck with you these days is incredible.
Good point. Carry on.
I got that one before.
Block the number.
But it is coming from inside the house!!
Uh oh. The only other person in the house is my wife!
I got that today too!
They’re after us glibs.
I searched the #, and it’s a popular irs scam.
“A Supreme Court Case Could Liberate Trump to Pardon His Associates
Gamble v. United States isn’t related to the Russia investigation. But the outcome—which one senior Republican senator has tried to influence—could still have consequences for the probe.
A key Republican senator has quietly weighed in on an upcoming Supreme Court case that could have important consequences for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
The Utah lawmaker Orrin Hatch, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, filed a 44-page amicus brief earlier this month in Gamble v. United States, a case that will consider whether the dual-sovereignty doctrine should be put to rest. The 150-year-old exception to the Fifth Amendment’s double-jeopardy clause allows state and federal courts to prosecute the same person for the same criminal offense. According to the brief he filed on September 11, Hatch believes the doctrine should be overturned. “The extensive federalization of criminal law has rendered ineffective the federalist underpinnings of the dual sovereignty doctrine,” his brief reads. “And its persistence impairs full realization of the Double Jeopardy Clause’s liberty protections.”
Within the context of the Mueller probe, legal observers have seen the dual-sovereignty doctrine as a check on President Donald Trump’s power: It could discourage him from trying to shut down the Mueller investigation or pardon anyone caught up in the probe, because the pardon wouldn’t be applied to state charges.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/trump-pardon-orrin-hatch-supreme-court/571285/
IANAL, so I have no idea how it might apply to Residential pardons. I also have no idea how the longest-serving Republican Senator in the United States, submitting a public document to its highest court, is somehow “quiet”.
LOL at how they’re portraying amicus briefs as some sort of nefarious scheme.
So now the proggies are doubling down on the “due process is for chumps” thing.
You’re wearing a vest. Would the ruling apply to pardons, or only prosecutions?
Only to prosecutions. So a pardon for conviction of a federal crime would preclude charging for a state crime. Now, would a pre-emptive pardon, before conviction, preclude state prosecution? Couldn’t say.
I’m a resident, can I pardon these people?
How much has this witch hunt cost?
—a toxic homosociality— Historians to fight over whether this should be called The Doofus Affair or The Gayfuss Affair.
The Crucible?
“Joe Biden in 1991 on using an FBI report to clear SCOTUS nominee Clarence Thomas: “The next person who refers to an FBI report as being worth anything obviously doesn’t understand anything. FBI explicitly does not, in this or any other case, reach a conclusion, period! Period.”
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1044720096164294656
Sounds a bit much.
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/teacher-fired-for-refusing-to-give-students-credit-for-homework-not-turned-in/1473439237
It hurts their school rating which hurts their paychecks. Everybody gets an A now.
“The last thing I will point out, the next person who refers to an FBI report as being worth anything, obviously doesn’t understand anything. FBI explicitly does not, in this or any other case, reach a conclusion, period. Period,” [redacted] said. “The reason why we cannot rely on the FBI report [is] you would not like it if we did because it is inconclusive. They say, ‘He said, she said, and they said. Period.”
Neither is anything that comes out of touchy-feely Uncle Joe’s mouth.
Deja Vu. My wife just came in and started cussing about what she heard on the news and used the name ‘Stormy Weather’. I replied ‘No, her name is Smokey Daniels’. Then I realized we had this exact same exchange a couple of months ago. Honestly, I cant take that woman serious enough to remember her name and neither can my wife.
Midway is a shit hole of an airport… That is all.