Only reluctant because slight concern re: shooting yer whole wad in one intergalactically overthetoppo post. I mean, you coulda spread this over a week or more...
Respectfully, I think you misinterpret the Master’s writing style. It’s all about the story build-up, which, in this case, is really about the hilariously pathetic, mystico-fascist Rod Dreher, one of Roy’s perennially funny punching bags.
Fascism is now & always been about mysticism -- the lost ancestral homeland, the spectral [Jew/satanic/whoever] enemy, the fascination with "purity," the gleeful usage of "pagan" fossilized practices (but being cool w/ Xtnty when it is serviceable), the cults of personality, the triumphal myths of victory & domination.
Well sure, but don't never forget the theater...imagine how much mirror time all the authoritarians need to ensure their 'look' is spot on. The concomitant assumption that their intended audience swoons over (rather than pukes in their own mouths in horror of) that look...
Henry Olsen, one of the Post's House Conservatives, has a column about how CPAC ain't the forum for high-toned intemalectual debatin' like it used to be. It was pretty funny.
A satirist looks at today's Republican Party like the first White settler, axe in hand, looked at the Great North American Forest. The supply seems limitless.
Yeah, and we keep choppin' down the same dozen or so White Pines, yet they seem to regenerate alarmingly. They are seemingly impervious to our gay blades...
Chicago has a Chicken Planet, in the Loop, not far from the Harold Washington Library. I assumed it was a chain, but when I checked there's just the one. Just a couple of tables and a counter, but it's a great place if you want to scarf down half a grilled chicken and not much else.
I see the headline and I think maybe Roy was inspired to write today's piece by my comment on the free site yesterday.
But then I read the piece and it pretty much could have been written any year. I was expecting a lot more throwing Ukraine under the bus and love of Putin, maybe even with an appearance by the insanely hot Tulsi Gabbard but no.
I should make clear that I have something short of a fetish for crazy women and I have to say, except for her political positions, Tulsi pushes all the right buttons. Sad, TMI, sorry.
<sigh>...Give 'em a proper fetchin's up, send 'em to school, set 'em up with the right patron, marry 'em off to the best-connected spouse, but do we get any thanks?...<extended sigh>...
Brilliant. Like National Lampoon and Mad Magazine in their prime. (A name like Rhett Fenschmeck is right out of that tradition, and can you picture these illustrated by Mort Drucker? Just imagine the cover of Davenning for Health or the Incel Hymnal, or any of the others!)
First, the silent movie (?) still is fantastic. This is the content I am here for.
The entire post is Aces, but as usual Patriarch Rod steals the show with his flamboyant display of, er, *faith.* Patriarch Rod lovingly carrying his crozier was a master stroke. Spare the crozier, spoil the Rod!
"De-Nazification" is a pretty amazing phrase, especially when you consider that Zelensky is not only Jewish, but his great-grandfather died in the camps.
2 reluctant marks.
Only reluctant because slight concern re: shooting yer whole wad in one intergalactically overthetoppo post. I mean, you coulda spread this over a week or more...
Also, too:
Condo Corners Homeless Disposal Squad
Scurvy, Louisiana
Rhett Fenschmeck
God Wants Me All To Himself: An Incel’s Hymnal
the unfortunate Ukrainian Reclamation
Respectfully, I think you misinterpret the Master’s writing style. It’s all about the story build-up, which, in this case, is really about the hilariously pathetic, mystico-fascist Rod Dreher, one of Roy’s perennially funny punching bags.
“Mystico-Fascist” is awesome. Maybe Rod will found the Gnow-Gnothing Gnostic Party.
Thinking that, as you need more than one for a party, should be titled Mystico Fascistiki Party (and don't forget to bring the torches).
Poor Gore Vidal, his once-brilliant "Crypto-Fascist" has gone down-market, and now merely means "Republican Bitcoin Enthusiast."
Fascism is now & always been about mysticism -- the lost ancestral homeland, the spectral [Jew/satanic/whoever] enemy, the fascination with "purity," the gleeful usage of "pagan" fossilized practices (but being cool w/ Xtnty when it is serviceable), the cults of personality, the triumphal myths of victory & domination.
Well sure, but don't never forget the theater...imagine how much mirror time all the authoritarians need to ensure their 'look' is spot on. The concomitant assumption that their intended audience swoons over (rather than pukes in their own mouths in horror of) that look...
That's part of the mysticism as well -- making oneself a literal ikon for the cult of personality
And if the trains run on time, just a bonus (even if they only run on time that one day when the foreign journalists show up)...
I'm pretty CPAC will provide yards of fun all week, as the brethren tumble themselves into musty folds between Vlad-philia & pro-US militarism.
Henry Olsen, one of the Post's House Conservatives, has a column about how CPAC ain't the forum for high-toned intemalectual debatin' like it used to be. It was pretty funny.
I'm just going to headcanon this, because the actuality can't be as good as what I'm imagining.
Thanks you gave me today's Word To Google.
A satirist looks at today's Republican Party like the first White settler, axe in hand, looked at the Great North American Forest. The supply seems limitless.
Yeah, and we keep choppin' down the same dozen or so White Pines, yet they seem to regenerate alarmingly. They are seemingly impervious to our gay blades...
Those White Pines need to be burned to the ground, mothballed, and salt-petered!
"Dr. Rev. McKinley Coolidge Cleveland" I am deceased, LMAO.
It’s “Scurvy, Louisiana” that had me gasping.
"Bull Connor of Pepsi Junction."
Four stars!
Chicken Magnet. I am awed.
Chicago has a Chicken Planet, in the Loop, not far from the Harold Washington Library. I assumed it was a chain, but when I checked there's just the one. Just a couple of tables and a counter, but it's a great place if you want to scarf down half a grilled chicken and not much else.
This is Hilarious.So much win- MC Pull-Ya-Draws-Up , Schiff or Swalwell.
Funny shit Boss. Much needed!
Helps to get me through the Great American Experiment of putting the least qualified person possible in charge.
This gave me a funny feeling in my tummy.
What happened to Commander Spud’s big rig driving class?
It's been pre-empted by "Ukraine: You couldn't find it on a map before, and now it won't be on the map anymore!"
The staff at Replogle Globes will be taking the week off until things settle down a bit.
Yer post led me to this: "Gently Used Replogle Globes Up to 60% off"...
Sadly, our globe is used a little less gently right about now.
I had a globe and threw a dart at it. When I pulled the dart out, crude came gushing through the hole!
Got stuck in traffic, gave up, and went home.
"Look, I was down for the revolution, but they didn't tell me there'd be TRAFFIC."
Very mixed here.
I see the headline and I think maybe Roy was inspired to write today's piece by my comment on the free site yesterday.
But then I read the piece and it pretty much could have been written any year. I was expecting a lot more throwing Ukraine under the bus and love of Putin, maybe even with an appearance by the insanely hot Tulsi Gabbard but no.
😭
Give 'em time...
I should make clear that I have something short of a fetish for crazy women and I have to say, except for her political positions, Tulsi pushes all the right buttons. Sad, TMI, sorry.
You coulda posted a warning first...
<sigh>...Give 'em a proper fetchin's up, send 'em to school, set 'em up with the right patron, marry 'em off to the best-connected spouse, but do we get any thanks?...<extended sigh>...
Too busy swooning over Tulsi to remember a trigger warning, sorry.
Mighta been ballooning over Chelsea
Or perhaps just mooning over Hull, see
But he didn't warn me
He's triggered and torn me
He's too busy swooning over Tulsi
Where's Tulsi?
Not sure what else I could do with her after this https://edroso.substack.com/p/the-party-left-me?utm_source=url
Oklahomi.
Brilliant. Like National Lampoon and Mad Magazine in their prime. (A name like Rhett Fenschmeck is right out of that tradition, and can you picture these illustrated by Mort Drucker? Just imagine the cover of Davenning for Health or the Incel Hymnal, or any of the others!)
Just want to say that "Incel Hymnal" is NOT a great name for a band, so don't even think about it.
First, the silent movie (?) still is fantastic. This is the content I am here for.
The entire post is Aces, but as usual Patriarch Rod steals the show with his flamboyant display of, er, *faith.* Patriarch Rod lovingly carrying his crozier was a master stroke. Spare the crozier, spoil the Rod!
You mean Les Vampires? I love it! Only saw five of them, mean to finish soon
I didn’t recognize it, but I love the period style.
It is the reason I signed up for Kanopy two years ago and I still haven't watched it. Okay, I'll get on that...
Down with Cancel Culture, up with Crozier Culture!
Does your crozier come with creme filling?
"Cronuts instead of croziers" said Satan, as he tried to tempt me from the One True Faith.
Yeah, Faith was true to me too...oh, you didn't know?
“removed from the curriculum” instead of “banned” was one of Mary Kate’s innovations!
Look for "removed from the living", the latest Putin-approved euphemism for "Murdered by the Russian Army."
"De-Nazification" is a pretty amazing phrase, especially when you consider that Zelensky is not only Jewish, but his great-grandfather died in the camps.
"....shakes his crozier at those...."
EWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
There's just a couple of drops on the end he needs to get off before he puts it away.
You disappoint me, Edroso. These things are supposed to be satires, not verbatim transcripts.
“Look, A Black Guy Agrees With Us!”
I’m going to cancel my subscription now.
Fair.
(Including a message of greeting from the former President, Dimitry Medvedev.)
Greetings to former President Medvedev from former President Donald Fredovich!