madamski cafone
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We mentioned satire earlier.
Wow. Try listening with Closed Captions on. The bots have no clue either:
“Mixing metaphors now, the ripples each human life sends out are so numerous they cannot be counted, and they go out whether we see them or not, whether we intend them to or not. The ‘uptake’ is there, whether good or bad. During the life review, which arrives immediately after our transition, we will be shown every influence our life has produced, including its second and third order effects: how just one act of kindness cheered a man, who decided to say something nice to his wife, who found the courage to give up smoking, which made the children so happy that they pet the dog whose tail then wagged in delight.”
Selah.
When I first learned there were such things as ‘voluntary incels’, and that they bragged about it albeit via self-pity, I “knew” that things were hopeless.
For once, I’d say this was either Russian work or someone trying to make it look like Russian work. I say Russian. Trying to do all it can to keep the idjut men and women, wearing USA FLAG Depends and pretending to run the country like kids wearing towel-capes to be superheroes, from trying to start a real shooting war. Putin has no interest in wiping out 100 million people, but will if forced to.
“He might have answered your question in that long bit he added to the previous comment-thread just now. Not always easy to parse out what he’s trying to say.”
Poor form. It’s like how TPTB hide the truth: they cover it with a swarm of reportage. Oh well. He owes me nothing.
“The incel says “We must inject’em”
“They hesitate, we don’t respect’em”
He teases his fetish
Projects his unmet wish
A plectrum jabbed up his sweet rectum”I hopefully anticipate a rousing sea chantey next.
“While quite a few perhaps could blab a bit less.”
Could you be a bit more passive-aggressive? asked madamski, passive-aggressively.
“Pretty sure a big number are getting saline. Unf, it seems a big number are getting all variety of random things. No data to confirm or pattern it.”
Makes sense. So long as the checks cash, Big Pharma’s happy.
“I’m not naturally funny, though working on a quip along the lines of “The people who brought you Iraqi WMDs want you to trust the people who brought you the opioid epidemic.” Any thoughts on that ‘joke’ or any others in a similar spirit you have?”
Great premise/punchline. Sterling, imo.
“Didn’t have a problem posting on TAE until today so … ??”
Berfore indluging paranoia, I recommend comsidering that the internet in general is now heavily overworked by general traffic while being tasked to do increasing surveillance while trying to sell 1000 ads per website visit while running on increasingly slim profit margins while being made of Swiss cheese in terms of security from hackers and crackers.
“His comment today was in response to a comment I made yesterday in response to his comment yesterday criticizing everyone for doing nothing to stop any of this. Just to clarify.”
I know. And he did paint with a wide brush… but he did so on a very broad canvas. I felt it was apt. He’s tired, discouraged, and earned the right to gripe.
^&*
I’m not feeling the tense depression y’alls describe, maybe because my relatonship with normative culture has been like this since age 18. I’ve felt like a dog without a leash loose in downtown keeping an eye out fopr the dog-catcher since I realized that sanity is highly illegal in our culture. Oh, it’s a drag, and I’m reveling in the maskless freeedom, and don’t have to report to a job, but I think it’s also because I have no belief, not one iota, that I can do anything to stop the tide.
When the river rises, you don’t try to stop the river. You try to behave as lovingly and wisely as possible because for all you know you may be underwater in a few hours. It may be easy for me to say that as someone with few years left, but I have kids albeit grown, one with kids of his own… and I’ve been watching this tsunami cross the ocean from afar since I was young but moreso since 1999 when I climbed aboard the internet, used its amazing research abilities and soon learned that our basic paradigm was beyond help, that we’d dop nothing about fossil fuel depletion or climate disruption or Darwinian creation of super-micropbes and super-insects and on and on and on and on and on….
It is what it is, and the first thing people want from me is what is so olften hard to find: a real live burning smile and a display of joie de vrie. As John said, a “Tet offensive” will happen. The dominoes already stacked to tumble over and just need the right catalyst, which will surely arrive: “you can’t fool all the people all of the time”. (BTW, speaking of Abe the Tyrant, I think he deserves some benefit of doubt: the man got murdered. He had one helluva bully pulpit at the time of his assassination, and might well have handled Reconstruction with sufficient aplomb for us to not live in such an ambiguously, therefore irresolvable, apartheid state.)
I was out this AM for a car factory recall service.
The tech laughed when I said he looked funny without a mask and said I did too. The coffee machine served coffee again. The hand sanitizer was blissfully out of hand sanitizer, praise Zeusquali and the heavenly mafia. Walking outside to kill time and keep my bones from seizing up, some youngblood walked around with a mask on… but with dicknose. As if he liked wearing a mask so long as he could breathe.
Very few masks, period.
Tet offensive systempunkt? Professionals like John and his wife saying, NO. Das Kovid kulturkampf is mostly employed and pressured through the traditional means: access to money. (Remember when pee tests for drug use weren’t mandatory? Forcing many happy potheads with depression issues to switch to alcohol, the worst drug on the plaenet outside tobacco?) It takes teachers and nurses and anyone hard to replace telling their workplace they will no longer comply. Labor Unionism 101. Saul Lewinsky can tell you how it’s done.
I sold things on the phone ages ago. The trick to it all was attitude more than technique. The trick was what a mentor/employer called the ‘courage of conviction’. Display your courage of conviction, firmly, not angrily (let THEM get angry and then ask them to calm down and be civil; let THEM embarrass themselves and act like the shrieking unreasonable person they are being); and watch them start nodding in acquiescence. People with no firm opinion of their own fold when confronted with the real thing.
Face to face is still orders of magnitude more powerful than media… but everyonbe’s terrified to use it.
Stand up on your hind legs and bark like a real dog, ok? There is no substitute for adamant determination — ask the Buddha if you don’t believe me.
But it requires risk, that thing forbidden in today’s off-the-shelf lifestyle-by-indoctrination. You might get fired. Probably not. But if so, you’ll probably get hired back with compensatory bonus once your attorney is through with them 6 months from now.
Lead, don’t follow. Don’t waste time “opposing”, that gets you judoed over society’s shoulder. TPTB LOVE opposition per that famous Gandhi dictum: “then they fight you, then they win.”
Defiance is not opposition. It’s just doing what you intend to do, period. You may get in trouble, you may win and become a hero. You won’t know until you try. No guts, no glory. Same old, yadi ya, ho hum.
I think veracious poet was being fair and reasonable. He used terms like “general public” and similar, and one assumes he is expressing earnestly the results of his efforts and his feelings about them. Plus, he provided this awesome summation of what was wrong/right about the Civil War:
“My last ancestor came to America right before ol’ Abe the Tyrant made us all slaves to free the African slaves. I have 4 families in the Sons of the Revolution charter, so I think I’m gonna stay until the end 😉”
Perfectly expressed insight. Think of abolitionism being coopted a la wokesterism today coopting numerous valid social complaints.
I agree: too many DemocRATs and too many GOPhers. SIde vs side, divide and conquer, no sense of genuine unity aka AMERICANS. Man’s got an extremely valid point, imo.
I ask again, this time directly of Dr. D: what does it take to get you to answer a simple question? Must I sacrifice a rubber chicken at midnight?
I doubt it, upstate. I’m obviously hyper-verbose and I never have that problem. Just don’t upload a buncha pre-written stuff one after another lickety-split.
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Regarding the tiktok vakzinazi satire video:
It could be a deliberate sting. Have it make the rounds of anti-vakzers, then spread the word that it’s a satire, and let the mainstream news pick it up and use it make us look like qanon idjuts.
Just seeing his face made me want to punch it, and I’m not nearly as feisty as I once was. I despise everythng about that video, including that it is supposed to be satire. I see severe passive-aggressivity, possibly employed as the PR strategy I described in the previous paragraph.
Up his rectum with an iron plectrum.
“How does that possibly make any sense?”
‘We’re working on it, said the poor sot who recieved the unlucky job of replacing Fauci. ‘We’re working on it.’
“A replier on the Tweet about the TikTok idiot checked out the idiot’s other TikTok vids and is convinced it’s just satire.”
Too bad it comes across as being serious. Coulda fooled me, but then, we all have our blind spots. The dude may be clever but he’s foolish and dangerous. One needs to provide context with satire, especially if you’re young and internet-hip and have seen how the likes of the Bee/Onion are passed around as fact if they’re not blatantly labeled.
I deem him a self-indulgent dipshit more concerned with his personal “ironic” hepitude than the issues he addresses.
Won’t he be surprised if someone takes him seriously, knows where he lives, and hammers him. Modern Western people tend to have little idea of how reality works when the media buffers come off.
“Madamski said: “There will be blood”
Well, there is blood, and there will be blood.
Would you like to elaborate?
I’m sorta’ intrigued.”More and more in more and more directly confrontatioonal ways. The traditional kind:
Chains, brass knuckles, half-a-bricks
Anomie.
” I was being facetious about the “getting behind Bernie or Donald, at least they’re not Hillary or Jeb”.”
Ah. Glad to hear it.
“Have you considered starting you own site?”
Not in many years. The internet is soggy toast any more. The blogosphere is more mummified than not. I have no interest in ‘spreading the word’, except among real life associates; to me the benefit of that is mostly illusion. Y’all here aren’t real-life associates, but the place is kind of homey, and it’s nice, in a retro-post-modern kind of way, to have a place to send money to feed the poor and actually feel confident it’s happening in an honest and efficient manner.
Which reminds me to ask the ex-Mrs. Colonel Sherburn if it’s safe to throw some money Raul’s way today. The check should’ve cleared the bank by now: it entered the premises with no mask and no vakz passport. Run for your lives!
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from Mister Roboto’s Defector article:
“One of the most important things to know about Trump is that he never has a plan. He barely has an itinerary. He simply moves from one flubby gilded hustle to the next, dedicating each moment to whatever feels good or whatever he thinks looks strongest.”
That’s our loose cannon right there.
Now we have Biden, who is bolted down tight… except the mountings are made of mental Jell-O.
I have seen many places but nothing quite like the Finger Lakes region. Very fave stretch of USA scenery.
I used TDS loosely, Mister Roboto. Yes, Don-Don messes up EVERYthing he touches… including the well-laid plans of the Duopoly. Like I said, he was useful as a loose cannon for awhile. I would’ve preferred a real leader, but those seem to come along maybe once a century. I didn’t vote for him, fwiw. I held my nose and voted for Jill Stein, a quixotic waste that has the one benefit of allowing me to tell people that I voted.
Trump and Fauci were a helluva tag-team for making sure covid became chaos.
“I meant that sarcastically, Your prodigious posts are giving me carpal tunnel as I scroll through them.”
I gathered that, Archie. I was kneecapping your idea that “great” means squat, sarcastically or otherwise, regarding a buncha hominids squawking about their fate.
Don’t read my posts if you don’t like ’em. It’s a free country, the expression goes. Also: use the up&down keys. 🙂
TAE SUmmary plugged in earlier on this morning’s omnibus:
* Covid Daily
– Australia has kablooied the curve
– FDA presentation showed the vaxx kills and maims but luckily the data is subject to change
– Delta is more transmissible
– Don’t talk to people; CDC now classifies Covid as an STD (Speechually Transmitted Disease); When you talk with someone it’s like talking with everyone they ever talked with
– J&J less effective against Delta in Holland
– US causus belli: Vaccination without representation* Bits and Pieces
– Media is unfaithful; We’ve been had; The galoots have one
– Gates funds lies
– Big Pharma Patents Genocide, sues US Military for infringement
– Voters will elect Republicans in 2022 and Trump will be elected Ranter of the House
– Taco Bell ingredient shortage results in Naked Chicken Chalupa
– All power is solar power
– WW 3 is coming but future historian will find that World Wars were like Star Trek movies: The even numbered ones were great but the odd numbered ones sucked* Mathematical proof that Covid is almost over : Let f(u) be a gain-of-function. Then the limit of f(u) equals zero if for every epsilon variant there is some delta variant such that if u < delta, then f(u) < epsilon
* The Venn of Covid Vaccines
– BE DE-AD, BC, DE ADE* Embarrassing Presidential votes you might have cast:
– Goldwater or Johnson in 1964
– Nixon or Humphrey in 1968
– Nixon of McGovern in 1972
– Ford or Carter in 1976
– Reagan or Carter in 1980
– Reagan or Mondale in 1984
– Bush or Dukakis in 1988
– Bush or Clinton in 1992
– Clinton or Dole in 1996
– Bush or Gore in 2000
– Bush or Kerry in 2004
– Obama or McCain in 2008
– Obama or Romney in 2012
– Clinton or Trump in 2016
– Trump or Biden in 2020* When I use a word, Fauci said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.
– The question is, said Senator Paul, whether you can make words mean so many different things.
– The question is, said Fauci, which is to be master, that’s all.Sure, Upchurch is pandering big time to a certain demographic. But that’s part of building a base whether it’s music subscribers or underground resistance. Here, we see both, which is excellent marketing, I feel.
“@Madamski: I’ve never been in a bar fight, but I saw some on TV. I kinda like those 1 liter heavy-glass mugs in Munich. Those look like they could really deliver a good wallop.”
Bar fight over some stupid pool game. Big dude smacks a big beer mug into wicked glass stalactites with a stabbing handle, starts going after the other dude. Gonna get blood all over the nice clean floor of my favorite dump and maybe ruin a few people’s lives.
Amazing what grabbing someone from behind in a good arm-lock (I don’t now what it was; my friends said it was some kind of “voodo chokehold” can do. I’m scrawny not short, so I could get traction and run his ass from behind straight out the front door, deciding at the last minute I didn’t want responsibility for slamming his head into a heavy metal streetlamp post, so I just let him fly free.
He didn’t come back in.
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“Sorry I can’t necessarily do more. Look at everybody be divided. Next we’ll be conquered. We need to all get together and support Bernie, or Donald. At least they’re not Hillary or Jeb. Upstate NYer and I are sympatico.”
Me, I think we need to stop supporting anyone and start organizing ad hoc governance locally, like, yesterday. We need to stop supporting heroes, I believe, and begin supporting each other locally. There is no safe way out of this. This is not something we can vote into successful resolution. Begin forming underground resistance now while it’s not extremely dangerous.
“You are correct. Let me restate. If you believe the acknowledged side effects are the only side effects you need to spend some time in the VAER system. Is that better?”
Much!
“Seems we’re getting down to the technical level of wording required by governmental agencies to ensure we acquiesce to their ridiculous, mandated minutiae.”
Just practicing rhetorical hygiene. (We wouldn’t wanna talk dirty.;) )
“Ok, y’all, you blamers, so step right on up … tell us exactly what it is that YOU did, you personally, to change the trajectory of what’s going on.”
I ran away from home and joined a gypsy circus.
My butt is fine. My ego is out of this. I just call bullshit when I see it. This isn’t high school.
What’s great about me? What’s great about anybody? We’re here discussing major life/death/personal autonomy vs political coercion issues, and we’re discussing individual egos?
I know: let’s elect a class president and name that person Overlord of the Cool Kids. C’mon, it’ll be fun.
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“Nobody was willing to take on the biker dude so he just kept drinking.”
People generally avoid dealing with genuine reality. Anyone remember Kitty?
But the woman who got punched was asking for it. Not for getting in his face, but for wasting more than a second to say, “Eat shit, pervert.”
Still, the biker had it coming and no one, of course, did shit, although a bar stool will put a big man down with ease.
We deserve the shit we put up with.
Methinks Putin knew something we don’t:
Sudden surge in Covid cases in Russia delays Sputnik’s commercial rollout in India
” Again, i’m not doing any of this to anyone, i’m just the messenger”
Oh take responsibility for your actions for once. I’m in a fine mood. Narcisstic negative projection of self onto others grows old if not up.
“Masks identify that you care about the health of others in your community. Opening up the nation and ending masking and social distancing without exterminating the virus first is criminal malfeasance.”
I disagree in this case. Masks, per gubmint mis/dis-information, have become symbols of political division. If someone tells me to wear a mask again, I’ll tell them they need to put a sock in their mouth first.
Masks and lockdowns are only useful in the very early stages. We went over this ad nauseum on the early covid phase with excellent tutelage by Raul. After that, they are a hindrance and bad for physical and mental health.
I’m old enough to remember polio too.
Yeah, I’m a bitch.
““Acknowledged side effects of the J & J vaccine is blood clotting with low platelet count in young women and also both Moderna and Pfizer vaccines cause heart inflammation in young men and adolescent boys.”
If you believe those are the only side effects you need to spend some time in the VAER system.”
*sigh* He said “acknowledged, which obviously refers to mainstream acknowledgement. He in no way excluded other possible side effects. Do we read others’ words here or substitute our own?
I think democracy was invented as a way to absorb slave revolts.
“OK, you can vote,” they say. Then watch as all the slaves split hairs until they’re balder than Borges’ comb.
“Are you actually adults? Have we raised generations of giant children?”
Well, speaking as an adult to an obviously small child: fuck you and the whore you rode in on. YOu want civility, be civil.
“True but i don’t live inside the automatic earth and to Dr. D’s credit if you live in a city they all think Trump killed everyone because the news told them.”
We do try to distinguish this virtual conviviance, TAE, from external. reality. I recommend you do too.
“So they lie, but they aren’t lying about masks and lockdowns, no sir. How many lies until you stop believing Vietnam Vet?”
In the very early stages, masks and lockdowns would’ve been very beneficial: if they’d been enacted swiftly (they weren’t), universally (weren’t), with clear accurate instructions (not provided) about what the techniques are about, what they can and can’t do.
Magritte’s art is mostly visual metaphors for philosphical/existential dilemmae or other mysterious or confusing or vexing situations. This one seems to commenting on individual perspective, maybe with a joke relating to how the moon seems to follow us through the trees: each man his own indivudal moon.
In terms of visual aesthetics, he’s rather dry.
The counter vitamin-D, per a VERY quick skim, seems to say that vitamin-D can be counterproductive if you don’t take otherwise adequate care of yourself. Therefore the question is taking care of oneself: decent food, reasonable exercise, mucho agua, feeding your mind/heart with good input not media trash, somebody to love you if available…
…further scanning suggests that one is wise to balance vit D intake with other factors. Huh. Waddya know, Vit D isn’t a magic pill. I am SO surprised.
“Rather than taking hormone and vitamin supplements, it is more effective to stimulate your body to strengthen its own defense and detoxification systems. I’m not against all supplementation — for example, I believe that ingestion of phytochemical-rich vegetables and herbs is useful as a hormetic stimulus. But I think we have to overcome the simplistic notion that if X is a good thing, we should consume more of X.”
Is reasonable. It’s the headline that’s so awful. Almost like standard old school mainstream journalistic story distortion: lead with the “bled” (sensational headline), then bury the body in the fine print near the end.
He mentions rich in phytochemicals. Same principle he posits tregarding D applies here. Broccoli, for example is rich in phytochemicals and considered a major health food:
8 Health Foods That Are Harmful If You Eat Too Much
“ruciferous vegetables are a family of greens that include broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kale, cabbage and collard greens.
These veggies have been linked with many health benefits, such as a reduced risk of cancer and heart disease (38Trusted Source, 39Trusted Source, 40Trusted Source).
Cruciferous vegetables make up a large part of people’s daily vegetable intake. They have also become very popular as ingredients in various green smoothies and fresh vegetable juices.However, compounds in these vegetables called thiocyanates can interfere with the body’s ability to absorb iodine. This may contribute to a condition called hypothyroidism (41Trusted Source, 42Trusted Source).
Hypothyroidism is characterized by an underactive thyroid gland. Symptoms include an enlarged thyroid gland, weight gain, constipation, dry skin and reduced energy levels (43Trusted Source, 44Trusted Source).
Although cruciferous vegetables like broccoli are very healthy, adding high amounts to smoothies or green juices can contribute to a massive intake of these compounds.
People who are sensitive to thyroid problems should avoid consuming these veggies in very large amounts.”
This happened to someone I know who is otherwise in very good shape.
Nonetheless, the headline warns against taking vitamin D. JOurnalism is Sanskrit for irresponsible or malicious gossip. 😉
