Progressives, part 3...

posted by QuakerOats

If only it were that.

 

True, if you're an overly triggered l'il bitch, you can read all sorts of shit into things!

I had to share this comment I found from the ad.  It brought the lulz:

"I hear Tampax is coming out with a similar ad  The message is 'ladies, let's not be cunts.' It's a very positive message."  

Gillette has attempted a Pearl Harbor style attack.  Like Japan being cut off from natural resources in the pre WW2 days, Gillette has been blocked by the Hipster Beard.  As Hipsters have fallen in love and formed commitments with the Hipster Beard, their reliance on razors has gone the way of the dodo.  The scales have been lifted from their eyes.  Gillette and their blades look like a former drug supplier to a recovering addict - sad and pathetic.  What Gillette has clearly missed is that the Hipster's bond with his beard is stronger than any corporate entity.  It's stronger than hate, stronger than war, stronger than poverty, stronger than injustice.  The Hipster-beard bond is unyielding, uncompromising, principled and proud.  It is deeper than marriage's "'til death do us part."  Gillette has awakened the sleeping tiger.  God help P&G if the Hipster and his beard seek revenge for a blatant attempt to take from the Hipster that which he holds so dear.  

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

Gillette has attempted a Pearl Harbor style attack.  Like Japan being cut off from natural resources in the pre WW2 days, Gillette has been blocked by the Hipster Beard.  As Hipsters have fallen in love and formed commitments with the Hipster Beard, their reliance on razors has gone the way of the dodo.  The scales have been lifted from their eyes.  Gillette and their blades look like a former drug supplier to a recovering addict - sad and pathetic.  What Gillette has clearly missed is that the Hipster's bond with his beard is stronger than any corporate entity.  It's stronger than hate, stronger than war, stronger than poverty, stronger than injustice.  The Hipster-beard bond is unyielding, uncompromising, principled and proud.  It is deeper than marriage's "'til death do us part."  Gillette has awoken the sleeping tiger.  God help P&G if the Hipster and his beard seek revenge for a blatant attempt to take from the Hipster that which he holds so dear.  

I lol'd.

Also, is it "awoken" or "awakened?"  Or does either work?

posted by O-Trap

I lol'd.

Also, is it "awoken" or "awakened?"  Or does either work?

Awakened it should be - you are correct.  Hipster Beard is honored by your commitment to accuracy.  

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

Awakened it should be - you are correct.  Hipster Beard is honored by your commitment to accuracy.  

Well hell, I am flattered by Hipster Beard.

Are you sure it isn't "awoken"? After all, that word has "woke" inside it and if there's anything Hipster Beards take pride in, it's being woke.

I just saw the Gillette commercial for the first time. Well done.

https://www.hoover.org/research/license-hate-0

bingo

Ocasio-Cortez joining Maxine Waters on House financial services committee.

What could possibly go wrong.

I like how AOC said "be prepared to be exhausted as we run train on progressive agenda" in an interview for WaPo. Every time she opens her mouth I can only think that she's the female version of Trump.

posted by CenterBHSFan

I like how AOC said "be prepared to be exhausted as we run train on progressive agenda" in an interview for WaPo. Every time she opens her mouth I can only think that she's the female version of Trump.

If she actually said "run train," I can see why.  Good lord.  That's about as bad as "grab 'em by the pussy."

posted by CenterBHSFan

I like how AOC said "be prepared to be exhausted as we run train on progressive agenda" in an interview for WaPo. Every time she opens her mouth I can only think that she's the female version of Trump.

 

Well, judging by how a couple of this site's conservatives react to virtually everything she says, she's already off to a good start in gaining her own "AOC Derangement Syndrome" fan club!

posted by Heretic

Well, judging by how a couple of this site's conservatives react to virtually everything she says, she's already off to a good start in gaining her own "AOC Derangement Syndrome" fan club!

Yeah, they really do fall for her trap every time. They give her too much attention, just like leftists/liberals and the media give Trump too much attention (especially during the election).  They have fallen for her shit so much, that a fake controversy was created that apparently all conservatives where offended by her dance video. 

She is a moron.  Just let her implode by herself, because it will eventually happen. 

posted by like_that

Yeah, they really do fall for her trap every time. They give her too much attention, just like leftists/liberals and the media give Trump too much attention (especially during the election).  They have fallen for her shit so much, that a fake controversy was created that apparently all conservatives where offended by her dance video. 

She is a moron.  Just let her implode by herself, because it will eventually happen. 

Right now, to my amusement at least, both sides have fallen so far in the "manufacture faux-outrage over everything" rabbit hole that every single thing that happens or is said gets turned into pure fucking comedy.

Take the Clemson football visit. Got mocked a lot by the left because the presidential meal for the team was fast food and pizza and because Trump apparently misspelled hamburgers in a tweet.

Proper response: How about, "Lol, if you little bitches are reaching that far to bash Trump, you're a bunch of fucking nuts who never should be taken seriously on any matter of actual importance ever again."

Instead, some dipshit memester (who knows, maybe the same person who thought ACO's dancing was something worth mocking) manufactured a hilariously false quote attributed to Trevor Lawrence where "he" started by saying it was all of their favorite foods and then segued into how the "coastal elite media" was being pissy because they weren't eating organic vegan food and how they're football players, not bloggers. And I can only stand in awe at how one dedicated person turned something completely stupid into something even more stupid.

posted by O-Trap

If she actually said "run train," I can see why.  Good lord.  That's about as bad as "grab 'em by the pussy."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/transcript-ocasio-cortez-says-the-conservative-right-is-losing-the-war/2019/01/15/31ddb0b6-1912-11e9-8813-cb9dec761e73_story.html?utm_term=.a960d392a403

posted by CenterBHSFan

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/transcript-ocasio-cortez-says-the-conservative-right-is-losing-the-war/2019/01/15/31ddb0b6-1912-11e9-8813-cb9dec761e73_story.html?utm_term=.a960d392a403

"The Republican Party is now the party of Trump. That is who they are. No one rebukes him."

Erm ... what?

In my lifetime, I don't think I've seen a Republican presidential candidate and president who has drawn so much criticism from his own party base.  Not even Bush, with his "read my lips" shenanigans or Bush, Jr. with his ridiculous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  And this is magnified by the fact that we appear to be more polarized now than we were during the Bush administration.

Hell, we have a subset of Republicans referred to as "Never Trump."  I don't recall a subset referred to as "Never Bush" or "Never Reagan."  Then again, I was pretty young during Reagan.  Maybe I recall incorrectly.

posted by O-Trap

"The Republican Party is now the party of Trump. That is who they are. No one rebukes him."

Erm ... what?

In my lifetime, I don't think I've seen a Republican presidential candidate and president who has drawn so much criticism from his own party base.  Not even Bush, with his "read my lips" shenanigans or Bush, Jr. with his ridiculous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  And this is magnified by the fact that we appear to be more polarized now than we were during the Bush administration.

Hell, we have a subset of Republicans referred to as "Never Trump."  I don't recall a subset referred to as "Never Bush" or "Never Reagan."  Then again, I was pretty young during Reagan.  Maybe I recall incorrectly.

I'll push back on this a tad. 

Trump still has a near 90% approval rating among Republicans. Sure there are a few Rs that buck him, for the most part, they either ignore his stupidity or just throw up their hands and say, "meh at least he is not a D."

The never Trumpers have kind of faded from the limelight over the last year. I'd say more Rs are more like Lindsay Graham, initially not Trump and now, all Trump, or tacit approval of Trump. 

https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-ratings-donald-trump.aspx  

Had somebody post this to me on Twitter (removing names, of course):

 

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 Regarding your last RT. NOBODY who works deserves 65 milion dollars. Unless you are a world hero who single handedly ended all war, you deserve to be paid for your work at a normal level.

 

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Seriously, if all the ridiculous wages go down to a more feasible level, and that money is used on real issues like infrastructure, research and overal wage raises for everyone. We would live in a utopia instead of going to a dystopia like we do now.

I've been friends with this person for the better part of a decade, we used to work together. In my responses to him, I tried to keep in mind that he's from Europe (Belgium) and has a different idea of what is "fair" than most people in the US do. But it's amazing to me that so many people think it's "ok" to target paychecks based on feelings, at the core of the issue, of resentment.