With that, Stewart proceeded to echo his guest’s cautious optimism about Elon Musk’s plan to slash the federal budget with his Department of Government Efficiency.
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I was already done with jon stewart, and this only confirms my decision by orders of magnitude. WTF will we hear next about him? That he’s been hangin’ with bill maher?
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Why do we even vote if we don’t think someone’s track record and campaign give us any idea about what they’ll do? Let’s just assign someone to be president totally at random and hope things miraculously turn out well with whatever doofus takes the helm. The odds would be so much better.
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There is a quote from Otto Frank, but I can’t find it now. He remembers being at a party soon after Hitler was appointed chancellor. Late in the evening he was sitting at a table with friends when they started a lively discussion of Hitler and what he meant for the country. One person at the table quieted them all down by saying “Well… let’s see what he can do!”
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I …
What?
/em reads the text of the image again, then reads it for yet a third time.
No, sorry, my brain absolutely refuses to process that level of stupidity. I’m not about to start telling anyone else that how they do or don’t have sex is valid, but I can’t even find words right now for this. (Luckily making public statements like that does seriously reduce the number of potential partners for this particular fool.)
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Remember how “gay” at one point just meant happy? Some straight people are dedicated to bringing that back by insisting they live as miserably as possible.
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ooh! can Jane come over and plant me a garden like that?
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Once upon a time, there was a word for any non-procreative sex act with another person. That word was “sodomy”. For most of the middle ages, “sodomy” was any sexual act meant for pleasure instead of for procreation. (That said, even then they didn’t necessarily go all the way to conflating pleasure itself with sin: Halakha had rules on how part of a husband’s duty to his wife was doing his part in helping her enjoy it.)
Then, relatively recently, the meaning contracted to be primarily man on man sex, then to anal sex specifically.
What this putz is doing, whether he knows it or not (spoiler: he has no idea that that’s what he’s doing, he has neither the education nor the self-awareness), is bringing it full circle. They’ve taken “gay” as meaning “male homosexual sex”, and expanding it back to the original “any sex done for pleasure instead of babies”, only they’ve taken it farther and imposed the binary that it’s either/or: there is no overlap possible in their little brains, it’s for pleasure XOR it’s for babies, and it’s wrong to enjoy it if you don’t have to. What a coincidence that the man has to enjoy it, but the woman doesn’t.
And it’s not just this schmuck saying it. This is just part of a wider zeitgeist. When people like Ben Shapiro says that it’s some sort of medical condition if a woman is wet when she’s aroused, as if he’s unaware that he is telling on himself that he’s never experienced an aroused woman, that’s not an accident, that’s an article of the new fascist faith.
And, yes, it’s very 1984. It’s all about control and power and sublimation of desire. It’s not an accident.
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These new puritans make me feel so ill.
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And blocked. Thank you.
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Just now seeing some articles implying (or saying outright) that the real villains are the providers or the patients, and the insurance assholes are the good guys. I just cannot.
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Well, it’s nice when the useless jerks who will be first up against the wall flag themselves.
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And how about the researchers who discovered and proved the efficacy of the treatments? And the taxpayers who funded most of the research?
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Awful people. Having treatments available just makes people think treatments should be covered. That makes things harder for real working class heroes, who are those Randian geniuses who only help themselves. And Bret Stephens would know – he has heroically found a position where he gets paid lots despite only writing drivel so useless and insipid I think an AI might refuse to take his job.
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Stolen.
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