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Sunday, September 21, 2025

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 





26 comments:

Joe Conservative said...

Isn't THAT what SoJus virtue signaling is??? Raumdeutung???

Les Carpenter said...

Nope. Rather it's an insightful observation borne of pristine wisdom.

Dave Dubya said...

Joe,
You forgot to define "TDS" or admit it's the MAGA version of "Putin Derangement Syndrome" as in Garry Kasparov's: "Last night, apropos of nothing at all, I was thinking about how in Russia, you can’t go on television and make fun of the president or his favorites."

That's ok. We know you'd rather just be a racist who thinks there's no such thing as "driving while Black" in the US. Those uppity Blacks are just "virtue signaling", amirite?

After all, your fellow racist white nationalist Charlie Kirk expressed your views on Jasmine Crockett. How DARE she not honor Charlie Kirk as a great American!!

Jasmine Crockett’s remarks on Charlie Kirk to Dana Bash: "He got out there and was talking negatively about me directly, so if there was any way I was going to honor somebody who decided they were going to talk negatively about me, and proclaim I was somehow involved with the “great white replacement”, yeah, I’m not honoring that kind of stuff... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side of the aisle couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities".

-FJ/JC/Thersites along with Skud have shown us who they are.

Here's another Black woman for Trump and Joe to smear. “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” ~ Maya Angelou




Dave Dubya said...

Good news for Joe!

Thanks to Charlie Kirk and his malevolent mendacious messiah, his fellow white victims of the "great replacement" will NOT be enslaved by evil Black immigrants.

Charlie Kirk Sept 27 2024: "Just so we're clear, the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night - it's only gonna get worse - unless Donald Trump wins.
There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama and they will become your masters".

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” ~ Maya Angelou

Les Carpenter said...

The absolute hate that flowed through Kirk's racist veins continues on as one of the diving energies of MAGA racism, bigotry, misogyny, and deep division.

Dave Miller said...

Dave, that's a horrible statement. Can you provide a link so I can share it?

Dave Dubya said...

Here the video of the vile racist spewing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdNRQzF8HbU

Shaw Kenawe said...

This is the man Trump and his supporters wan us to canonize and hold up as some sort of saint. He never was. In fact, his words show that he's quite the opposite:

KIRK (HOST): The Harris-Biden regime, they are stuffing foreigners in the reddest communities across the country, in small town red America, I think partially as revenge. Blake might not agree with this, but I think that they get, like, off on this sinister, like, we're gonna go send the Haitians into red America.

BLAKE NEFF (CO-HOST): Maybe a bit of that. Maybe a bit of that.

KIRK: I think there's an element there. You can't convince me. I have no evidence of that, but it's just gut instinct. I'm not gonna get into what states can do to resist this yet because I wanna win the election and do this properly through the federal government. If we lose in November, it's gonna get very, very messy. I'm just gonna be honest. Like, it's gonna get messy of states being —

NEFF: Especially if they start packing the courts, then you're you really have to start thinking, like, OK. What are we gonna do about, like, this truly out of control wants it all —

KIRK: Do we have a country at this point?


This is horrible! Stoking fear and loathing for an entire group of people. And it is unAmerican and not what his Savior, Christ, preached.

SOURCE

Shaw Kenawe said...

Charlie Kirk: “If you vote Democrat as a Christian, I think you can no longer call yourself a Christian. You have to call yourself something else. I do not think you can be a Christian and vote Democrat.”

Dave Miller said...

Don't anyone think this by any means, an isolated view from those on the Christian right, or, just in case a blast from my blogging past happens by, the Christian wrong. It's a common help viewpoint.

However, there many on the Christian left who also claim you can't be a Christian and vote for Republicans, Trump or MAGA.

So where does this leave us?

Dave Miller said...

Shaw, this statement, uttered by Kirk in support of his belief of the Biden Admin "stuffing foreigners in the reddest communities" explains MAGA to a tee. All you have to do is read the HMS Mothership. They live, a la Kirk, there is no evidence, but they know things to be true...

On a host of their pet complaints about the Clintons, Obama, Biden, voter fraud and more. On one issue, when I was still allowed to post there, it was said all over Ohio, which Obama had won in the 2016 elections, the crew claimed there were "more votes" in counties all across the state.

When I asked for proof, and showed the official ballot counts, approved by the GOP Sec of State, I was poo poohed with the typical if you believe that Dave, it explains a lot. We know Obama cheated even if there is no evidence...

It's secret knowledge. Just like what Kirk claimed.

How do we debate, discuss, argue productively or even communicate when evidence does not matter?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

lol! Gazeful Correctness. The Democratic Gaze. The politically deployed "Foucaldian power-centric" version of the Lacanian Gaze. In other words, not very "pristine".

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

OMG, are you white shaming me Dave? How cute. You still think that tactics' working...

Les Carpenter said...

Kirk obviously had NO idea of Jesus of Nazarath's teachings. Either that OR he simply didn't care beyond the political and shock value Christian Nationalism served the fascist authoritarians.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Take off the Race-Coloured Glasses, Democrats. It's time to think metaphorically, and not symbolically, again. Redeeming symbols isn't possible any more.

Andrei Tarkovsky:
“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means... I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Let me stress: metaphorically, not symbolically. A symbol contains within itself a definite meaning, certain intellectual formula, while metaphor is an image. An image possessing the same distinguishing features as the world it represents. An image — as opposed to a symbol — is indefinite in meaning. One cannot speak of the infinite world by applying tools that are definite and finite. We can analyse the formula that constitutes a symbol, while metaphor is a being-within-itself, it’s a monomial. It falls apart at any attempt of touching it."

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

The Democratic Gaze...

Shaw Kenawe said...

Trump today at the Kirk Memorial in Arizona: “Charlie Kirk was like the son I never had.”

Trump is so far gone in the head that he forgot he has THREE sons! I wonder how they felt when they heard this.

Dave Dubya said...

Dave,
It's on youtube.
Kirk Says Haitians Will 'Become Your Masters'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdNRQzF8HbU

Shaw Kenawe said...

Kirk, who nothing about gymnastics and the stress young women are under when performing, said this about the greatest gymnast, Simone Biles. Kirk was NOT a nice person. He was full of meanness:

“‘A SHAME TO THE COUNTRY’ — Charlie Kirk’s Brutal Attack on Simone Biles That Shook the Nation”

Back in 2021, when Simone Biles, the greatest gymnast of all time, withdrew from the Olympics to protect her mental health, Charlie Kirk didn’t hold back. He called her a “sociopath,” “weak,” and even labeled her “a shame to the country.”

The remarks didn’t just make headlines—they ignited a cultural firestorm. Social media exploded, athletes and celebrities weighed in, and the debate over mental health, pressure, and public scrutiny in sports raged across every platform.

That single interview, and the phrases Kirk used, sparked one of the most bitter public feuds in recent memory, leaving lasting ripples in both sports and politics.

Remember how Kirk attacked Black women and their ability to achieve anything at all.

Les Carpenter said...

Perhaps the religous right (and left) considering that religion of any ilk has no place in government?

Government has no business messing in religion and religion has no business messing in government. Period. Full stop. Just as the Founding Fathers intended.

Until that happens it leaves us right where we're at. Hopelessly fighting over stuff rather than finding the best and most equitable solution for the greatest numbers. Just as Thomas Paine would have had it. And said as much.

skudrunner said...

And because he didn’t agree with the leftist ideals you applaud his assination. I guess that is your answer to individual ideas. You don’t agree with me, I will dance on your grave.

Yes dube you have shown who you are

Dave Dubya said...

-FJ,
I'm not the fool you take me for.
I'm well aware of authoritarian personalities. They have neither shame nor conscience.
And authoritarians are far more likely to be bigots and racists, as Kirk, Trump, you and Skud continually remind us.
You think that's some kind of secret?

Shaw Kenawe said...

Skud, who’s the “ you” that you claim applauded Kirk’s death? Because no one here did that. So that’s false. We disagree with many of his ideas, and what he said, including when he stated that all Black women “ do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously.” And that they “ had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.”

He obviously was not very intelligent, because a well read person would know that is patently not true. He probably never heard of Black women like Katherine Johnson and Mae Jemisen.

Dave Dubya said...

John Oliver had some advice for CEOs who come under pressure by the Trump administration in its efforts to silence speech and that is to say to the bully, “Fuck you. Make me.”

Kimmel will be back.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jimmy-kimmel-live-return-abc-1236374942/


Jimmy Kimmel is getting back on the air.

The ABC late-night host is returning to broadcast on Tuesday following a brief-but-monumental suspension that sparked a national debate over the Trump Administration’s pressure tactics and the modern limits and consequences of free speech.

“Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country,” ABC parent The Walt Disney Company said in a statement Monday. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”

Dave Miller said...

Yes Skud... time to put or shut up. Show us where applauded the killing of Kirk. Or where Shaw, Les or I did. Because without evidence, you are lying.

So why would you do that?

Les Carpenter said...

It remains to be seen to what degree Kimmel will be muted. ABC (Disney) won't risk hurting tRump's sensitive whittle feelings.

Although. with Rand Paul and Ted Cruz making statements supporting free speech across the board maybe tRump will back down.

They were probably thinking what might happen if they didn't speak out in support of free speech and the first amendment when the political tide shifts again like the pendulum it has always been. They were probably worried about pay back. Something tRump certainly subscribes to as we're seeing in real time.