Ah, but is Candace Owens a man? More likely she is than Mme. Marcon is.
As for why the increase of cray-cray, less the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease of which plenty of the RWNJs surely suffer already than the old situation of addicts needing ever stronger hits.
My stalker, it sucks to be living in an imploding society where everything you were taught and/or grew up learning is being obsoleted. Wait they realize their complicity…
That said, my sympathy is limited to the level of insignificant.
That's it, isn't it -- they have to keep upping the dose, and making it stranger. Every time I think "where can they go from here?" BOOM! Cannibalism. But seriously, where can they go from here? I guess I'll find out in a few days.
For some reason, this question reminds me of a Zappa quote: "I don't know what the next musical trend will be, but whatever it is you'll be able to dress up to it". But with these whackaloons, whatever it is it will be about dehumanizing the Other. They've checked off Satan, pedophilia, murder, daemons, Jews, child sex trafficking, andochrome harvesting (whatever that is), treason, vast left-wing conspiracy, the Trans Menace, and now cannibalism. I'm forgetting a couple. Next, Brother Rod, like John the Baptist, will point the way. Voodoo maybe? Mind control via voodoo? Weather control via voodoo and space lasers? Voodoo has gotta be in there somewhere.
Why, I remember this one time when the goddamn Emperor of Rome was stabbed in broad daylight right out there in front of the Senate BY HIS OWN FRIENDS and THIS is a MUCH bigger scandal than that ever was!
You better be careful, Owens got fired from The Daily Caller today (Friday) probably for this video. They might fire you too. I mean, if you worked there
Jeez, Bill, you have to know by now that I have no applicable fucks for Owens every other promoter of RWNJ insanity and old fashioned fascism and all the other shit she spewed for fame and fortune.
Just a side note, apparently The European Conservative is not an independent publication as the name implies, but – surprise, surprise – is funded by Orban’s political party. Which means it’s likely the only respectable-sounding rag that would give Dreher a byline these days.
With Rod it isn’t a case of how the mighty have fallen, it’s a case of how the truly awful and ridiculous have managed to become more so. Even the liberals who publicly disagreed with him in print as recently as the late 2010s now turn their faces away in embarrassment. And yet, the rightwing gravy train is so lucrative that between his sinecure at Orban’s think tank, his Substack, and his book deals he’s still earning at least a quarter of a million a year. Pretty nice coin for a guy who spends his time ranting about demons and worrying about the genitals of every high school girl who is good at soccer.
Oooh, it's the *European* Conservative [adjusts beret, takes a sip of Campari, lights a Galois and inhales deeply, trips over untied shoelace, fall headfirst into fountain, emerges with head stuck in a bucket]
I don't know why imagining the fusion of Dreher with Inspector Clouseau tickles me so much, but it does. Now I'm envisioning Rod leaving a fascist meeting, turning to give a jaunty salute, then tumbling down a flight of stairs, lol.
What's Rod's problem? He's absolutely into the exotic artisanal meats, so munching on a human leg slow-roasted over a low fire should be right up his alley!
We laugh at all the Rightwing meltdown clickbait nonsense, but there are way too many people who really believe this shit. I had someone tell me last week that 10 million kids get kidnapped every year. I pointed out that if that were true, one-in-three kids would go missing every year and we'd run out of children in under four years. Which, you know, is something people might notice. Nope--the liberal media is covering all this up because it's Democrats who are trafficking these children into White slavery.
In sum, these people are nuts, and their lunacy is just one giant ball of self-propelling fallacies.
I mean, haven't you noticed the millions of people dying EVERY DAY IN AMERICA from the poison jab? I mean, we just had a guy floating in the local reservoir (Claire can back me up on this) and hadda boil our water and I'M SURE they fell in after dying of the 5G DEATH VAXX.
In the early 1980s I worked for a lawyer who did not practice law, but ran his own company producing continuing education seminars, mostly in employment law, for other lawyers. His wife shared the office. They had humble beginnings but were on the make and loved hobnobbing with clients, most of whom were highly placed, wealthy attorneys.
His wife tried to convince me, based on her superior insider knowledge, that these lawyers hated Justice Rose Bird because they knew Bird was involved in satanic rituals, so Bird had to be removed. I thought that was ridiculous but I was curious, so I pressed her: which lawyers? Some of our attendees? ALL OF THEM, she intoned solemnly. I still don’t know how much she believed it, but I’m certain that she intended to convince me to believe it completely. I understood then that she didn’t have a high opinion of either my intelligence or my social worth and figured I would take her word for it. And no, she was not simply trolling me.
This was way back in time, but I was always impressed that she offered a version of the big lie so confidently. And I still don’t know the extent of her belief back then, but it sure seems that the ridiculous and absurd have only been more mainstreamed now.
“Can’t have culture without cult.” Can’t have dumbfuck without dumb OR fuck, either, but neither of these are cause and effect. But one of them does describe RDre.
It's a cliché to say Freud would have payed him, but I really believe whatever is going on inside Rod Dreher's head would make most of us recoil in shock and horror.
I searched "Ernst Kleiber Von Schlessing" and got back "Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist" for no apparent reason. Ah well, one famous dude after another – eventually they just run together on the AI.
Oh yeah. Sometimes I get "Who'll Stop The Rain" that goes with a bizarre Nick Nolte movie, music is blaring, lights are strobing, automatic weapons in free and abundant use. Adding Rod to that scenario is......delightful!
I wonder what is more likely to be the cause of Haiti's problems, voodoo and demons or centuries of French and American policies suppressing economic growth? Did France demand billions for "lost property" (slaves)? Did Jefferson obstruct Haitian trade because he was afraid of a strong black country on our border? Hard to say.
Consider myself gobsmacked (but pronounce it Godsmack and then start mumbling "I'm not the one who's so far away when I feel the snake bite enter my vay-eee-eins..."
Naw, must be demons. They were saying this forty years ago on the 700 Club and NOBODY LISTENED. Now they're coming here to sacrifice us to demons and eat our legs and there's nobody to save us!
“I would stake my entire professional reputation" [lol — ed.]
Am I the only one who envisioned Ed lol-ing right there? Or do y'all think the all-powerful editor was putting responses in Ed's mouth? Also, what if Owens were to stake just the tip of that professional-ish reputation, or maybe simply offer up her amateur rep instead? Seems like it might be a little safer in the long run.
But she's an young charger, eager for combat and ready to rumble!
Wait till Dreher finds out about the movie, “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?” Not to mention the oldie, “One-eyed One-horned Flying Purple People Eater.” The truth is out there, people!
(Said what needed to be said about Dreher yesterday, but tangentially I've never forgiven Fox News for yucking it up about a dozen or so years ago when famine was so prevalent in Haiti people were allegedly eating *dirt*.)`
Candace's close examination of childhood photos shows how the REAL pros do it. Don't leave the house, never call anyone on the phone, the internet will provide, you just have to look REALLY close.
Ah, but is Candace Owens a man? More likely she is than Mme. Marcon is.
As for why the increase of cray-cray, less the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease of which plenty of the RWNJs surely suffer already than the old situation of addicts needing ever stronger hits.
Not that either way I give a shit.
Hearted for your hard pass on excrement distribution.
My stalker, it sucks to be living in an imploding society where everything you were taught and/or grew up learning is being obsoleted. Wait they realize their complicity…
That said, my sympathy is limited to the level of insignificant.
That's it, isn't it -- they have to keep upping the dose, and making it stranger. Every time I think "where can they go from here?" BOOM! Cannibalism. But seriously, where can they go from here? I guess I'll find out in a few days.
"One neat trick to overthrow democracy" might be invoked somewhere along the line...
Aliens?
They crossed into our space-time continuum without a proper visa!
According to Alex Jones, demons ARE aliens from another dimension! 😱
BUILD THE WALL AROUND OUR DIMENSION (the third?)
I'm voting for the fifth dimension, because then we can just float up, up and away.
According to string theory there are like 11 dimensions although several are small and curled up
Cannibals who will only eat aliens! The truth is out there!
Next stop is being completely unhinged in all areas of their (sad to say) imploding lives.
But one keeps electing the party of extraction…
For some reason, this question reminds me of a Zappa quote: "I don't know what the next musical trend will be, but whatever it is you'll be able to dress up to it". But with these whackaloons, whatever it is it will be about dehumanizing the Other. They've checked off Satan, pedophilia, murder, daemons, Jews, child sex trafficking, andochrome harvesting (whatever that is), treason, vast left-wing conspiracy, the Trans Menace, and now cannibalism. I'm forgetting a couple. Next, Brother Rod, like John the Baptist, will point the way. Voodoo maybe? Mind control via voodoo? Weather control via voodoo and space lasers? Voodoo has gotta be in there somewhere.
Wait Adrenochrome is not longer a thing? What do I do with all these livers I harvested from small children?
Food bank, obvs.
I understand Nick "The Slug" Fuentes has recently praised Owens for her work in fighting the (((you know))), so there's that.
(And "greatest political scandal in human history"? The FUCK?)
Why, I remember this one time when the goddamn Emperor of Rome was stabbed in broad daylight right out there in front of the Senate BY HIS OWN FRIENDS and THIS is a MUCH bigger scandal than that ever was!
As I just told Bill, no fucks for Owens sorry not sorry.
Also distracted by Princess Kate’s admission that the Firm was spewing bullshit about her.
Should teach the Firm that commoners can’t be as infused with commitment to the necessary bullshit as those born to it.
Now to watch how much denial the establishment press exercises in their coverage going forward.
You better be careful, Owens got fired from The Daily Caller today (Friday) probably for this video. They might fire you too. I mean, if you worked there
Jeez, Bill, you have to know by now that I have no applicable fucks for Owens every other promoter of RWNJ insanity and old fashioned fascism and all the other shit she spewed for fame and fortune.
Cockroaches all (no offense to roaches.)
Oh Jesus Christ on a pogo stick.
A pogo stick with a crossbar.
Just a side note, apparently The European Conservative is not an independent publication as the name implies, but – surprise, surprise – is funded by Orban’s political party. Which means it’s likely the only respectable-sounding rag that would give Dreher a byline these days.
With Rod it isn’t a case of how the mighty have fallen, it’s a case of how the truly awful and ridiculous have managed to become more so. Even the liberals who publicly disagreed with him in print as recently as the late 2010s now turn their faces away in embarrassment. And yet, the rightwing gravy train is so lucrative that between his sinecure at Orban’s think tank, his Substack, and his book deals he’s still earning at least a quarter of a million a year. Pretty nice coin for a guy who spends his time ranting about demons and worrying about the genitals of every high school girl who is good at soccer.
"Orban’s stink stank"
Fixed.
I like it, and all those S's will look elegant on the letterhead.
Oh yeah – angular and lightning strike-y.
Oooh, it's the *European* Conservative [adjusts beret, takes a sip of Campari, lights a Galois and inhales deeply, trips over untied shoelace, fall headfirst into fountain, emerges with head stuck in a bucket]
LMAO, yeah pretty much. "The European Conservative: we're the O.G. fascists, who is this johnny-come-lately Donald Trump?"
He can't even putsch.
Rod screwed the putsch.
Sorry I couldn't work the overturning of a fruit cart into that.
I don't know why imagining the fusion of Dreher with Inspector Clouseau tickles me so much, but it does. Now I'm envisioning Rod leaving a fascist meeting, turning to give a jaunty salute, then tumbling down a flight of stairs, lol.
"These Haitians are MINKEES"
"What?"
"MINKEES!"
I am late too here, and to other pressing matters (that flatiron won't upgrade to full auto!) but that illustration?
2 well-earned marks!
It's the latest chia pet!
What's Rod's problem? He's absolutely into the exotic artisanal meats, so munching on a human leg slow-roasted over a low fire should be right up his alley!
We laugh at all the Rightwing meltdown clickbait nonsense, but there are way too many people who really believe this shit. I had someone tell me last week that 10 million kids get kidnapped every year. I pointed out that if that were true, one-in-three kids would go missing every year and we'd run out of children in under four years. Which, you know, is something people might notice. Nope--the liberal media is covering all this up because it's Democrats who are trafficking these children into White slavery.
In sum, these people are nuts, and their lunacy is just one giant ball of self-propelling fallacies.
Hearted, but I gotta say I'm oofed about the giant balls with self-propelling phalluses...
You SAY you'd notice, but every anti-vaxxer out there is missing, like, 100 friends, and you seem to be tight-lipped about that situation!
LoL ed.
Lips so tight that spit builds up behind 'em til the fusion reaction...
"You SAY you'd notice, but every anti-vaxxer out there is missing, like, 100 friends, and you seem to be tight-lipped about that situation!"
They need to take that up with L. Ron Musth; he's the one who decided to break Twitter's Trust and Safety And All The Rest Of It.
It was just yesterday I learned I'm a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pfizer, Inc. Did wonders for my self-esteem.
I mean, haven't you noticed the millions of people dying EVERY DAY IN AMERICA from the poison jab? I mean, we just had a guy floating in the local reservoir (Claire can back me up on this) and hadda boil our water and I'M SURE they fell in after dying of the 5G DEATH VAXX.
I live about two blocks from the reservoir, walked my dogs by early in the morning, saw a dozen cop cars, the SCUBA team, the medical examiner, etc.
I know, right? And if you ask 'em, they call it 'training'.
Don't ask me how I know.
Speaking of Voodoo, away with you and your EEVIL ARITHMETIC
In the early 1980s I worked for a lawyer who did not practice law, but ran his own company producing continuing education seminars, mostly in employment law, for other lawyers. His wife shared the office. They had humble beginnings but were on the make and loved hobnobbing with clients, most of whom were highly placed, wealthy attorneys.
His wife tried to convince me, based on her superior insider knowledge, that these lawyers hated Justice Rose Bird because they knew Bird was involved in satanic rituals, so Bird had to be removed. I thought that was ridiculous but I was curious, so I pressed her: which lawyers? Some of our attendees? ALL OF THEM, she intoned solemnly. I still don’t know how much she believed it, but I’m certain that she intended to convince me to believe it completely. I understood then that she didn’t have a high opinion of either my intelligence or my social worth and figured I would take her word for it. And no, she was not simply trolling me.
This was way back in time, but I was always impressed that she offered a version of the big lie so confidently. And I still don’t know the extent of her belief back then, but it sure seems that the ridiculous and absurd have only been more mainstreamed now.
Late to this but still YOICKS!
“Can’t have culture without cult.” Can’t have dumbfuck without dumb OR fuck, either, but neither of these are cause and effect. But one of them does describe RDre.
It's a cliché to say Freud would have payed him, but I really believe whatever is going on inside Rod Dreher's head would make most of us recoil in shock and horror.
As the world-renowned raconteur and jocularist Max Weber used to say...
"Max Weber famously..." is a bit of perfection. No need to know who he is, or even bother to Google. It just sounds learned.
Dreher does this schtick all the time, it's like a tic. "to paraphrase that famous saying by Ernst Kleiber Von Schlessing..."
Lol, my guy, we get it, you like to read books. You're still a maniac.
I searched "Ernst Kleiber Von Schlessing" and got back "Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist" for no apparent reason. Ah well, one famous dude after another – eventually they just run together on the AI.
That's the great thing about made-up Germanic names, there's always a real-life dude who sounds close enough.
Yup. He could have said Max von Sydow and they still wouldn't know who he was talking about.
Max Headroom
In my world of diminished expectations, I'll settle for Adequate Headroom...
Max Kopfzimmer?
Well, I do know an actual Max Volume. The man with 10,000 scales.
Ol' Max really used to have them rolling in the aisles. Europe's answer to Mark Twain, Max was.
Just be sure you say it Mox VAYber, that's how we spot a real sophisticate.
But the V needs to be a little soft, more like an F, really. Keep practicing, you'll get into the club.
That's where I lost it too. Oh Jesus, seriously?
I think maybe Rod's real concern with this is guy's like him always get eaten first in the zombie movies.
I just want to watch the part where they track him through the jungle.
Anyone else hear "Run Thru the Jungle"? "Cause I had that happy moment hearing the first sharp notes from Fogarty's guitar...
Oh yeah. Sometimes I get "Who'll Stop The Rain" that goes with a bizarre Nick Nolte movie, music is blaring, lights are strobing, automatic weapons in free and abundant use. Adding Rod to that scenario is......delightful!
Would be, yeah. He'd take it up a notch. Otherwise saymo saymo.
I'm betting the clip Rod saw was from a zomfie film and he's too gullible to question it.
I'm reminded of The Banana Man's kit. Could pull anything out from under that voluminous coat...and did!
Just wait til Rod has a coat like that – the whole demised cast of Sweeney Todd, FrankenSTEEN's monster's OTHER brain, Cthulhu...
Cannibals'll hafta stand in line to git in there!
I wonder what is more likely to be the cause of Haiti's problems, voodoo and demons or centuries of French and American policies suppressing economic growth? Did France demand billions for "lost property" (slaves)? Did Jefferson obstruct Haitian trade because he was afraid of a strong black country on our border? Hard to say.
Consider myself gobsmacked (but pronounce it Godsmack and then start mumbling "I'm not the one who's so far away when I feel the snake bite enter my vay-eee-eins..."
An argument could be made that the Haitian Revolution led directly to the Louisiana Purchase.
There goes the neighborhood! Better sell now, Edith, before our property values fall even farther, there's a pair of 'em moved in down at the corner!
Jefferson was concerned about potential competition in the nail trade...
OK, maybe I made up some small part of that, but I'd stake my entire professional repu –
Aw, never mind...
Naw, must be demons. They were saying this forty years ago on the 700 Club and NOBODY LISTENED. Now they're coming here to sacrifice us to demons and eat our legs and there's nobody to save us!
you never saw pat Robertson's legs, didja? checkmate, lib.
Ya got me there, pal...
Racist paternalism...paternalist racism...who can keep track anymore?
Dreher clearly needs a scorecard.
Can I get a "Soft bigotry of low expectations"?
Wholesale!
Bingo!
"This Is The BIGGEST Political Scandal In Human History" said someone who reallytruly ought to get out more...
"I AM big, it's the scandals that got small!" says Teapot Dome.
Ha!
Damn that's good. Like these rubes know from scandals.
How does he keep getting weirder? Seriously, I'm impressed.
It's a competitive market out there. You should see what he's up against.
“I would stake my entire professional reputation" [lol — ed.]
Am I the only one who envisioned Ed lol-ing right there? Or do y'all think the all-powerful editor was putting responses in Ed's mouth? Also, what if Owens were to stake just the tip of that professional-ish reputation, or maybe simply offer up her amateur rep instead? Seems like it might be a little safer in the long run.
But she's an young charger, eager for combat and ready to rumble!
I think it's short for Ed-roso.
lower case, like ee cummings.
That's what SHE said.
She said "EEE! Cummings!!" ?
Wait till Dreher finds out about the movie, “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?” Not to mention the oldie, “One-eyed One-horned Flying Purple People Eater.” The truth is out there, people!
A question I've been asking since I was 5 years old is "Who the fuck eats Goober Grape?" That shit's disgusting.
What a sight to see!
Sure looked strange to me!
Eating Raoul
(Said what needed to be said about Dreher yesterday, but tangentially I've never forgiven Fox News for yucking it up about a dozen or so years ago when famine was so prevalent in Haiti people were allegedly eating *dirt*.)`
YOICKS and OOF.
Candace's close examination of childhood photos shows how the REAL pros do it. Don't leave the house, never call anyone on the phone, the internet will provide, you just have to look REALLY close.
Candace's sharp vision tells us one sure fact: Mme Macron and her brother LOOK ALIKE.
What're the odds, right?
Oh, I dunno...The French, they are/A funny race, and all that.
[insert Michael Palin Frenchy voice]
"Honh honh honh!"
"Next week: Why are there so few Boers in newsrooms?" Often wondered this myself.
[Insert obligatory joke about David Brooks here]
Perhaps they should recruit from The Boering Company.
The CEO of Ben Shapiro's media company is named Jeremy Boreing:
https://youtu.be/ICqdduW8JbY
Keep On Voortrekking
How appropriate, since Squeaky Ben's output is so boring.