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Jul 26, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

I do like that young Mr Hogg. Also, I am pleased to know you will nope out if the bullshit gets too thick in there. I worry about your sanity.

I'm gonna go to bed soon and dream of grandparents attempting to figure out crypto after the guy they know on Facebook told them it was the only way to avoid the mark of the beast.

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Jul 26, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

"Rickards goes on to tell us that, with the help of “AOC,” the Dems will now be able to punish social media comments they don’t like..."

Wait, doesn't he mean "AOL"? Isn't that where Gramps is posting his online comments?

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Jul 26, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Just once I wish one of Carlson's guests would ask him on TV if he's heard the crack about him always looking like he just walked in on his prom date going down on his best friend and then mimic that stupid look of open mouthed, frowning incomprehension that idiot does all the time. Since they're almost exclusively fellow travelers, this is highly unlikely to happen, but a guy can dream.

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I wake up confused: Crypto is not (at least potentially) a "trackable 'Spyware' Version" form of currency? I love my hardcore!

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Jul 26, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

“Tucker Carlson is critical of Joe Biden” isn’t even a dog bites man story, it’s more like Breaking News: the sun rises in the east.

Also, one thing these Hardcore trashcan items highlight is how the “do your own research” crowd is only interested in “research” when they’ve ALREADY decided they disagree with or don’t like the issue in question. But when an issue aligns with their worldview they’ll swallow literally anything and ask for more.

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Jul 26, 2022·edited Jul 26, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

This is great -Thanks again !

"Biden is senile and also an iron-fisted dictator" in much the same way as Obama was an effete pansexual with his iron studded jackboot on the necks of hardworking Americans.

Simoleons - the three dollar word that's actually only worth a dollar.

I am certain we will get to see a massive bailout worth billions of some RedState teachers retirement fund when the Q-addled State Treasurer invests it all in Crypto with predictable results.

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In the Oxford Digby Manuscript containing le Chanson de Roland, the earliest & most complete version of the Old French epic, most of the stanzas are followed by capital letters in the right margin that spell "AOI". No one is sure what it means exactly, but may be pronounced something like "oui" and may be a imitated war cry for the audience to repeat as affirmation of the story (something like a "Fuck yeah!).

Anyhooz, when I sees "AOC" I think of that cryptic little syllable...

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Jul 26, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Given the “historic” “crash” in gasoline prices this week, I suggest everyone move their investments from oil companies to my new virtual currency, Gypto, backed by the full faith and credit of some guys with a lot of consonants in their names. Some of you failed to get in on the ground floor of Cryocurrency, the Finnish reindeer-backed alternative money that’s been in the news recently (none of the arrests involved any top executives), so you won’t want to sleep on this latest offering. Act now!

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Jul 26, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

"But my apologies, I didn’t listen all the way to the end"

I was thinking of withholding a penny from this month's stipend for your lack of fortitude, then I saw you offered up a link for us to read the whole fecal tumescence (2 marks!) and decided I'll withhold TWO pennies 'cause I did not sign up for that level of personal sacrifice...

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Shout out for " fecal tumescence".

Wait- that's no good . How about -

Shout out for the phrase " fecal tumescence"

Ok.Just forget it.

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Jul 26, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

When they told Gramps the news about crypto

He thought he’d been secretly hipped, so

He did something rash

And converted his cash

He was well and truly gypto

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Jul 26, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

"...fecal tumescence..."

What a turn of a phrase. Or maybe it's just the kind of phrase that hits *my* buttons.

As for crypto, it's one of those moral perversions that pushes the cranky old fart buttons: Something that's a tool for scammers and money launderers is something that's wrong to be the target of any state policing or supervision. Sort of like the comrades and, at the other end of the spectrum, RWNJ and Republicans support Putin's wholly unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine. By definition, unjustifiable is indefensible, or so one would think.

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Jul 26, 2022·edited Jul 26, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

“Federal Reserve Act of 1934”

Ah yes, the elder days when Sauron—I mean FDR—ruled with an iron fist and imposed martial law, which something something something, ergo “Sovereign Citizens” movement, and that’s why I don’t have to pay taxes (or my legally-incurred debts).

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Jul 26, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

After years of hysterical alarm, you'd think the consumers of this shite might one day notice that they have not been denuded of their guns, their cash, or their freedom, and they are reading or watching the very thing that was supposed to be BANNED under the communist Obama/Biden regime. Of course, the easy answer is that it was only the shrill warnings from the enlightened grifters coming to the rescue that prevented the terrible predictions from actually happening. Must be some rollercoaster ride to go from "OHMIGOD OHMIGOD" to "Whew! That was close" over and over.

PS "fecal tumescence" is just swell.

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Jul 26, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Can we have a semi-regular Hardcore: Special Grammar Unit? I am especially interested in a deep dive into random word capitalization, its origin and purpose.

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Jul 26, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

The best way to protect ourselves from “legal government surveillance of all U.S. citizens" is by sounding the alarm -- along with posting about your every thought and feeling, your family milestones, as well as your daily mundanities, your preferences and purchases, your photos and videos -- on Facebook.

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