I don’t know if anyone else has pointed this out, but I find it very amusing that the Usual Suspects are getting their knickers in a twist about Superman being bisexual (this is a *fictional comic book character* mind you), but back in the day when Superman was an incel nerd who pined for Lois Lane at a distance and never got laid, they were just fine with that and considered it “normal.”
Telling on themselves, I think.
And what is it with conservatives and their obsession with the sex lives of children’s show puppets, comic book protagonists, and superheroes?
I pretty much hate all internet traditions - I find the" I am naming my Folktronica Pirate Metal band etc." thing particularly unfunny. That being said- "Twisted Knickers" is really a pretty good band name.
Erm, I'm pretty sure it's not Superman who's come out of the closet but his son. (Said son being the product of Clark and Lois doing the horizontal bop.)
That was my comment on a comment that commented on your commentary, said comment on the commentary apparently mistaking the Man of Steel for his, um, offspring of steel.
When a conservative figure turns out to be a hideous human being who violate every precept conservatives claim to hold dear, well, that's just the way those manly men go about being men in a manly way. So it's just cancel culture to demand Sundown ride off into the sunset.
On the other hand, when we learned that Elliot Spitzer fucked a hooker with his socks on, we knew that such abject moral degeneracy could not be permitted in any public office. So forcing Spitzer to resign was just what upstanding moral people would have wanted.
You could make a fuck ton of money I bet as a conservative commentator. Your soul would be forever marred with foul ink black stain - you could afford an Audi though. That A8 is a nice -ass car.
I found this post very, very persuasive oh wait it's a parody?? Y'all know I occasionally fail to realize that because dotard.
But this Gruden thing, I don't get it. It seems he quit over shit he said years ago, so why quit now exactly? I don't especially care but it's nibbling way at me. Need answers unless the whole thing slips out of the mind first.
Gruden's emails were discovered during the NFL's investigation of the sexually abusive culture at The Team That Calls Itself After a City Were It Plays Football. They confirmed what many staff and team members of The Team That Plays Now In a City With a Lot of Casinos had said about Gruden during both his tenures as head coach there. He's unquestionable a piece of shit. However, Dan Snyder, owner of The Team Also Named After the First American President, was not removed from his position and his actions were hardly addressed by the NFL, so Gruden was collateral damage. Supposedly there are many more emails to and from Men Who Work for Teams Named After Various Entities that may or may not come out and result in more collateral damage while Dan Snyder walks among us, unscathed.
Again, my confusion. Find it hard to presume Gruden’s an outlier. And Snyder’s a capitalist so he gets a pass. He’s entitled.
I should ad, because I guess it slipped by our Maestro, that real men tough it out till it all blows over, or so Tricky Dick Nixon said before he wussed out.
I dunno. Didn’t see conservatives’ most beloved unhinged substance abuser (Junior Mint) redefine manliness there.
Even if I missed it (because dotard), I dunno, there’s something about the classics and, TBH, I try to never pass on the opportunity to type out Tricky Dick Nixon so there’s that.
My high school football coach was a Baptist bible-thumper who, while never cursing, demanded we play injured (including me, after a concussion) and was also our US history teacher who told us in all earnest that the Indigenous Americans were a dirty and savage people.
I just read an article by Sally Jenkins at WaPo, and here's a section of it:
"...Gruden is not some bygone relic. He is the current NFL, and as the Las Vegas Raiders head coach he was at the very top of its pay hierarchy. He wrote those things between the ages of 47 and 54, some of them as recently as 2017, and it matters not at all that they are private expressions. In fact, that only makes them worse — there’s an unnerving divergence from his chatty charm-boy act for cameras that won him such rich contracts. He has spent his life culling rewards in a public-facing business, in which 70 percent of player-colleagues are Black and nearly half the audience is women, in which he had every opportunity to grow a respectful heart. His facile, favored-son abuse of position strikes at the heart of the league’s public meaning. He made a farce of it..."
This is where I get confused. Again, with old smoking guns as well as the assumption that Gruden’s any sort of outlier. Now, if energy went into mitigating the effects of racism instead of taking offense, I dunno, maybe that would be more productive. Harder, sure, but better in the long term.
Well, yeah, certainly getting rid of Gruden didn't fix anything except that he was gotten rid of. I'm not thinking that it solved America's psychotic racism, but it seems like it's still a necessary step.
It's like one of those zombie video games, they keep making more zombies no matter how many you kill, but you're still obliged to decapitate the ones right in front of you.
It would be nice if we could have one of these National Conversations About Race that wasn't "Prominent White Person Said Bad Thing." Something, you know, a little deeper than that. I thought we were making progress in this regard, with our new willingness to put the word "systemic" in front of "racism" but fuck this guy anyway, I'll take whatever we can get.
Certainly not the mainstream media nor the ruling class. The former, were they to care, doesn’t do depth as a rule — not even context, for that matter — and the latter care. And the rest of the “we” have no power to speak of.
But, of course, maybe I’m missing something? Odds are!
Of course the asshole-of-the-moment was LOLing at Traumatic Brain Injury. When people are being hurt, you exercise those powerful shoulder muscles to just shrug it off, it's the Manly thing to do.
Just part of the male-conservative tendency to equate sickness with weakness that explains so much of the right-wing response to Covid. Openly expressing fear is also weakness, so to express fear - or even concern - about sickness and then taking precautions and encouraging others to do the same is weakness squared.
But threatening and attacking unarmed civilians is strong and manly. When you lose a fight against an armed opponent, the way Ashli Babbitt did, it makes you a martyr. Whatever they do, they're the good guys because their cause justifies everything.
Despite my problems with Hollyweird and the Jewy queers who work there, I applaud them for only showing graphic, intense violence to elementary school children and not something offensive, like a breast or a penis, the physical manifestations of sin. In Jesus name, amen.
Very strongly hilarious, as our next president would say. But brilliant as it is, what's with all this "c-word, s-word, n-word" nonsense? Haven't great innovators in vulgarity such as Ben Shapiro demonstrated the strategic use of asterisks? The beauty of this technique is that one can appear to be virtuous while leaving no doubt about the obscenity or offense intended. Using his own method, I can call Mr. Shapiro a f*cking a**hole sh*thead and all will recognize exactly what I'm talking about. Yet writer and reader alike can remain pure, while protecting innocent children from blatant profanity. This method works no matter how many asterisks are employed. "Erick Erickson is a pig-faced m***********g piece of s**t." See?
LMAO, hit the bullseye, Roy.
I don’t know if anyone else has pointed this out, but I find it very amusing that the Usual Suspects are getting their knickers in a twist about Superman being bisexual (this is a *fictional comic book character* mind you), but back in the day when Superman was an incel nerd who pined for Lois Lane at a distance and never got laid, they were just fine with that and considered it “normal.”
Telling on themselves, I think.
And what is it with conservatives and their obsession with the sex lives of children’s show puppets, comic book protagonists, and superheroes?
I pretty much hate all internet traditions - I find the" I am naming my Folktronica Pirate Metal band etc." thing particularly unfunny. That being said- "Twisted Knickers" is really a pretty good band name.
Their debut album, “We’re Knot Gonna Take It” is vastly underrated.
The contributions of the English working class to the language are still underrated imho.
Haven't heard "all internet traditions" in a long time. Running off to twitter to use it right away!
Then there's the fact "all internet traditions" is in fact an internet tradition.
That's some Alanis rai- e-ain on your wedding day level Irony right there.
I'm aware of all of them.
I worry about what happens when said traditions become self-aware.
Probably best not to go there.
Conservatives tell themselves they're "enforcing norms" by following children into bathrooms to look at their genitals.
Don't forget the yelling at parents as they walk their kids to school, the normiest of the norms.
Along with yelling at masked people not cosplaying The Lone Ranger
I still remember Grandpa and Dad goin' down to the hospital to beat up nurses, a sacred tradition that must be protected from the Woke Mob.
Well those norms won't enforce themselves..
It takes an village of normies coming down as hard as possible on would be gender traitors..
Tbh, these dudes have been known to do so for a while, I guess it would normal for them...
Erm, I'm pretty sure it's not Superman who's come out of the closet but his son. (Said son being the product of Clark and Lois doing the horizontal bop.)
Confirmed
"Superman Jr. or Son of Superman or whatever he's called."
That was my comment on a comment that commented on your commentary, said comment on the commentary apparently mistaking the Man of Steel for his, um, offspring of steel.
Well you wouldn't want your spring made of anything less that a good tough steel, manly or not.
Alternate response: onfall, offspring...tho it does not really explain that weird thing we do to the clocks twice a year.
In Iceland, he'd be Supermansson
He didn’t spring fully formed from the forehead of Zeus?
This is now canon
Or at the very least canon fodder.
Would that make Lois Lane . . .
. . . canon modder?
As heard in Allen Sherman's hit, "Hello Modder, Hello Fodder".
When a conservative figure turns out to be a hideous human being who violate every precept conservatives claim to hold dear, well, that's just the way those manly men go about being men in a manly way. So it's just cancel culture to demand Sundown ride off into the sunset.
On the other hand, when we learned that Elliot Spitzer fucked a hooker with his socks on, we knew that such abject moral degeneracy could not be permitted in any public office. So forcing Spitzer to resign was just what upstanding moral people would have wanted.
"When the Dems send one of yours to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the morgue! That's the MAGA way."
You have that backwards. I think it goes this way:
"When the Dems get one of their people vaccinated, we send ten of ours to the ICU and 1 to the morgue. And, boy, are those libs owned!"
IIRC, wasn’t he forced from office for being a Democrat? I might be misremembering…
You do that really well.
You could make a fuck ton of money I bet as a conservative commentator. Your soul would be forever marred with foul ink black stain - you could afford an Audi though. That A8 is a nice -ass car.
I love these chuff-muffins whole "butter wouldn't melt in my mouth" routine. Who can afford real butter in this economy?
I found this post very, very persuasive oh wait it's a parody?? Y'all know I occasionally fail to realize that because dotard.
But this Gruden thing, I don't get it. It seems he quit over shit he said years ago, so why quit now exactly? I don't especially care but it's nibbling way at me. Need answers unless the whole thing slips out of the mind first.
Gruden's emails were discovered during the NFL's investigation of the sexually abusive culture at The Team That Calls Itself After a City Were It Plays Football. They confirmed what many staff and team members of The Team That Plays Now In a City With a Lot of Casinos had said about Gruden during both his tenures as head coach there. He's unquestionable a piece of shit. However, Dan Snyder, owner of The Team Also Named After the First American President, was not removed from his position and his actions were hardly addressed by the NFL, so Gruden was collateral damage. Supposedly there are many more emails to and from Men Who Work for Teams Named After Various Entities that may or may not come out and result in more collateral damage while Dan Snyder walks among us, unscathed.
Again, my confusion. Find it hard to presume Gruden’s an outlier. And Snyder’s a capitalist so he gets a pass. He’s entitled.
I should ad, because I guess it slipped by our Maestro, that real men tough it out till it all blows over, or so Tricky Dick Nixon said before he wussed out.
The definition of "real men" has changed in recent years to accommodate endless whining, at least on behalf of other real men -- see Trump Jr.: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-jr-raiders-jon-gruden-b1937354.html
I dunno. Didn’t see conservatives’ most beloved unhinged substance abuser (Junior Mint) redefine manliness there.
Even if I missed it (because dotard), I dunno, there’s something about the classics and, TBH, I try to never pass on the opportunity to type out Tricky Dick Nixon so there’s that.
My high school football coach was a Baptist bible-thumper who, while never cursing, demanded we play injured (including me, after a concussion) and was also our US history teacher who told us in all earnest that the Indigenous Americans were a dirty and savage people.
I just read an article by Sally Jenkins at WaPo, and here's a section of it:
"...Gruden is not some bygone relic. He is the current NFL, and as the Las Vegas Raiders head coach he was at the very top of its pay hierarchy. He wrote those things between the ages of 47 and 54, some of them as recently as 2017, and it matters not at all that they are private expressions. In fact, that only makes them worse — there’s an unnerving divergence from his chatty charm-boy act for cameras that won him such rich contracts. He has spent his life culling rewards in a public-facing business, in which 70 percent of player-colleagues are Black and nearly half the audience is women, in which he had every opportunity to grow a respectful heart. His facile, favored-son abuse of position strikes at the heart of the league’s public meaning. He made a farce of it..."
This is where I get confused. Again, with old smoking guns as well as the assumption that Gruden’s any sort of outlier. Now, if energy went into mitigating the effects of racism instead of taking offense, I dunno, maybe that would be more productive. Harder, sure, but better in the long term.
Well, yeah, certainly getting rid of Gruden didn't fix anything except that he was gotten rid of. I'm not thinking that it solved America's psychotic racism, but it seems like it's still a necessary step.
It's like one of those zombie video games, they keep making more zombies no matter how many you kill, but you're still obliged to decapitate the ones right in front of you.
It would be nice if we could have one of these National Conversations About Race that wasn't "Prominent White Person Said Bad Thing." Something, you know, a little deeper than that. I thought we were making progress in this regard, with our new willingness to put the word "systemic" in front of "racism" but fuck this guy anyway, I'll take whatever we can get.
Who’s “we”?
Certainly not the mainstream media nor the ruling class. The former, were they to care, doesn’t do depth as a rule — not even context, for that matter — and the latter care. And the rest of the “we” have no power to speak of.
But, of course, maybe I’m missing something? Odds are!
Of course the asshole-of-the-moment was LOLing at Traumatic Brain Injury. When people are being hurt, you exercise those powerful shoulder muscles to just shrug it off, it's the Manly thing to do.
Just part of the male-conservative tendency to equate sickness with weakness that explains so much of the right-wing response to Covid. Openly expressing fear is also weakness, so to express fear - or even concern - about sickness and then taking precautions and encouraging others to do the same is weakness squared.
But threatening and attacking unarmed civilians is strong and manly. When you lose a fight against an armed opponent, the way Ashli Babbitt did, it makes you a martyr. Whatever they do, they're the good guys because their cause justifies everything.
Well, it depends on who (or what?) said unarmed civilians are. Kyle Rittenhouse can explain, I’m sure.
Another Edroso masterpiece. This is why I subscribe
Same
Thank you kindly.
I always thought Betty and Veronica had a thing going on and used Archie as a beard.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/nude-betty-veronica-in-shower-dan-decarlo
Beat me to it. Interesting that this is a “canonical” image, so to say, albeit off the books. Here’s a higher-resolution image:
http://www.erosblog.com/2015/12/30/betty-and-veronica-take-a-shower/
Thanks for the link to that. It looks like a site worth... um... researching...
logging off now
Dear me…I didn’t even look at the rest of the site.
Butter doesn't melt in this one's mouth either, apparement...
https://www.reddit.com/r/riverdale/comments/7pow8j/bv_in_the_tunnel_of_love/
I always wanted to bang Betty. She was hot!
this fantasy led right into the great ginger/mary ann debate in later years.
Hehe, that's funny as f-word!
(though insofar as these describe sex acts, and not acts of violence, I must as a Christian deplore them).
That is so true. Jesus was coming with a sword and not a d (word)
Despite my problems with Hollyweird and the Jewy queers who work there, I applaud them for only showing graphic, intense violence to elementary school children and not something offensive, like a breast or a penis, the physical manifestations of sin. In Jesus name, amen.
Very strongly hilarious, as our next president would say. But brilliant as it is, what's with all this "c-word, s-word, n-word" nonsense? Haven't great innovators in vulgarity such as Ben Shapiro demonstrated the strategic use of asterisks? The beauty of this technique is that one can appear to be virtuous while leaving no doubt about the obscenity or offense intended. Using his own method, I can call Mr. Shapiro a f*cking a**hole sh*thead and all will recognize exactly what I'm talking about. Yet writer and reader alike can remain pure, while protecting innocent children from blatant profanity. This method works no matter how many asterisks are employed. "Erick Erickson is a pig-faced m***********g piece of s**t." See?
Ben Shapiro, the Clever Little Boy, in "Kiss My Asterisk!"
And I have to disagree with you regarding Erick Erickson: he's a "*moon*-faced, bigoted m***********g piece of s**t."
Monkeyfucking? I don't doubt it for a second.
Yes, but that loss of ambiguity would cancel Our Host's opportunity to pull all those 'c-word' jokes.
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1985/06/13