A Fraudulent Impeachment – It’s amazing the depths the left will stoop to to smear someone who is in their way. They act like the mafia when they want to take someone out. I’m amazed that Trump was as tough as was, holding his ground and not putting up with their shit. They did everything possible to destroy him, but failed.
Golf
Do White People Even Play Golf? – It’s the same shit as regular advertising. You’d think there were no white husbands anymore either. Fortunately, this one is a get woke, go broke FAFO that’s not going well for Nike.
Well, right now, the Middle East is off my list. I think the reason why is obvious.
After reading the stories of Chris Kyle (An American Sniper) and Lone Survivor, I’m not too hip on Afghanistan. The amenities there seem a bit lacking, as is the hospitality of the tribesmen.
On a more serious note, I don’t really want to go back to Europe. I traveled there on business and vacation for decades. I’m married to a Scandinavian, so I’ve been there more times than I wanted to go.
Travel used to be a lot more fun and good until about 9/11. After that, going through airports sucks.
When I used to go to an office in Paris, London, Milan, or Cannes (and many other cities, depending on the job), the people were a lot nicer. Now, the American bashing has taken its toll on me.
Even my wife is tired of her relatives talking so much shit about the US and the American people. She doesn’t go as much as she’s fed up also, just not as much as me.
If you’re introverted or neurodivergent, it means your brain is processing more during group conversations than other people realize.
I could feel myself disappearing into the background.
I was sitting at a table with six other adults in a noisy coffee shop. We were all strangers, meeting for a book club for the first time.
I had joined the group because I love reading, but also because I wanted to make a few new friends. As an introvert, I don’t always make friends easily, so I thought it would help to have a built-in topic to talk about — the book.
But suddenly, I was back in a familiar introvert struggle that had been with me my whole life: a group conversation.
The conversation moved fast, bouncing from person to person with no structure. Even when I had something meaningful to say, I couldn’t get my thoughts out quickly enough before someone else started talking. When I did speak, someone often interrupted me before I was finished, and I felt pressure to rush just to get my words out.
All around me, other people were talking and laughing. Coffee machines hissed. Orders were being called out. Sometimes I couldn’t hear well, but more than that, as a highly sensitive person, I could feel my mind getting overstimulated. I started mentally checking out.
If you’ve had a similar experience, you’re not alone. Group conversations aren’t always easy for introverts, highly sensitive people, or neurodivergent people. Since that book club, I’ve learned a few things about group conversations that make them a little easier. They might help you, too.
Why Group Conversations Are Draining
If group conversations feel harder than one-on-one conversations, you’re not imagining it. Group conversations are a different social task altogether. They aren’t just one-on-one conversations with more people added.
The more people in the conversation, the harder it becomes to follow what’s happening, know when to jump in, and get a fair share of speaking time. Research on conversation shows that human turn-taking is extremely fast. Usually, there are only a few hundred milliseconds between when one person stops talking and another person begins.
(Fun fact: In one study, Danish speakers had the longest average gap between turns, which I find interesting because Danish culture is supposedly very introvert-friendly.)
All of this adds to something called cognitive load. When you have to deal with multiple speakers at once, or keep switching your attention from one speaker to another, you listen more slowly and less accurately. That higher listening demand makes it even harder to know when to speak.
In other words, big groups place more demands on your attention, memory, and energy than one-on-one conversations do.
And it doesn’t help if you’re in a noisy public place, with other sounds and sights competing for your attention, like I was at that book club.
If you’re introverted, sensitive, or neurodivergent, it doesn’t mean you have nothing to say. It means your brain is taking in and processing more stimuli than other people often realize.
How to Make Group Conversations Easier
Whenever possible, I try to socialize one-on-one or in small groups. It lowers my cognitive load and helps me protect my energy as an introvert.
But sometimes that’s just not possible. You may also have to deal with group conversations at work, at networking events, or at family gatherings.
So here are a few ways to make them a little easier:
1. Jump in early.
Research shows that as groups get bigger, it gets harder for everyone to participate equally. Often, one or two people end up dominating the conversation. That was definitely true at my book club. One man seemed to think he was the main character.
Making a comment early helps in two ways. First, it removes the pressure of trying to find the perfect moment later. Second, it makes it easier for other people to bring you back into the conversation as things go on.
It can also reflect well on you. Speaking early can make you seem confident, even if you feel anything but confident inside.
And your comment doesn’t have to be brilliant. It can be tiny, like an interesting observation, a moment of agreement, or a clarifying question.
Another reason to speak early is your social battery. As the event goes on, you may lose steam, and group conversations can drain your energy even faster. Even if it goes against your quiet nature, talking early lets you contribute while your energy is still at its highest.
Once the introvert hangover starts to set in, it gets harder to think clearly, listen well, and put your thoughts into words.
2. Use follow-up questions as your entry point.
Not sure how to jump in? Ask a question right after someone finishes talking. Follow-up questions are easier than coming up with a completely new topic under pressure.
Good examples are:
“What happened next?”
“How did you feel about it?”
“Was that what you expected?”
“Would you do it again?”
“What did you learn?”
In a group, follow-up questions do double duty. They lower your cognitive load, and they make the speaker feel heard.
Research has also found that people like you more when you ask follow-up questions, because it shows that you’re interested in them. In one study, people who asked more follow-up questions during speed dating were more likely to get asked on second dates.
This approach also plays to a natural introvert strength. One of our conversational superpowers is helping a discussion go one layer deeper instead of jumping from topic to topic. Introverts are often the ones who move beyond small talk and into more interesting, meaningful territory. And the science supports that instinct: People often expect deeper conversations to feel awkward, but they actually leave people feeling more connected.
Just make sure to read the room. If the group is joking around or rushing with excited energy, a deep question can feel a little out of place. For example, a group that’s quickly swapping travel stories probably won’t want to pause for a deep question about how childhood shaped the way someone experiences adventure.
3. Switch to listening mode when your social battery runs low.
When that happens, it may be time to leave. But if you can’t get away just yet, switch into listening mode. This can help you conserve energy without fully checking out.
Even if it’s obvious you’ve gotten quieter, you don’t want to give the impression that you’re uninterested. Use visible listening cues. Look at the speaker. Nod. Briefly reflect back a phrase. Offer a short verbal cue like, “That makes sense.”
In groups, not everyone talks all the time. Being visibly attentive is still a way of participating.
And if someone points out that you’ve gotten quieter, remember that the strongest response is usually the least dramatic one. Be comfortable with who you are, acknowledge the comment, and then move on.
“To be honest, I’m more of an internal processor.”
“I’m just not a big chatter, but I’m enjoying listening.”
“I get that question a lot, but I’m actually very comfortable.”
“I’m honestly more interested in hearing from you.”
“I tend to speak up once I’ve fully formed my thoughts.”
When the social event is over, plan for some extra “me time.” Because of everything going on, group conversations can be overstimulating, even when you enjoy the people you’re with. There’s nothing wrong with needing a breather afterward, or going home and planning no other social activities for the rest of the day.
The next time an introvert in your life needs alone time, remember it’s not personal. They need solitude because that’s how they’re wired.
I love spending time alone. There’s nothing better than being at home in my comfy clothes, reading a good book, or watching a show while munching on snacks. This doesn’t mean I don’t crave time with “my people” — those I laugh with and share my day with. But when I don’t get enough alone time, I start to feel tired, cranky, and overstimulated, even if I’ve enjoyed being with the people I love.
Sometimes when I need alone time, the people in my life feel hurt. They feel rejected, but that’s not what it means. I need little periods of solitude to recharge my energy and feel like myself again.
Why do introverts need alone time? Why does socializing exhaust us, even when we’re having fun? Recent research offers some interesting insights. I delve deeper into these findings in my book, The Secret Lives of Introverts.
The Curious Connection Between Introverts and Rewards
When writing my book, I spoke with Colin DeYoung, a psychology professor at the University of Minnesota who had published a paper on introversion. He explained that one reason introverts need alone time is related to how we respond to rewards.
No, I’m not talking about the gold stars you might have earned in grade school (though it could be argued that stickers are indeed a reward for kids). For adults, rewards can be things like money, social status, social connections, food, and even sex. When you get promoted at work or convince an attractive stranger to give you their phone number, you’re receiving a reward. Hurray!
Of course, introverts also value things like money, relationships, and food. However, researchers believe that introverts are wired to respond differently to rewards than extroverts. Compared to our more outgoing counterparts, we “quiet ones” are simply less motivated and energized by these same rewards. It’s as if extroverts see big, juicy steaks everywhere, while introverts see overcooked hamburgers.
In fact, as any introvert can confirm, sometimes those “rewards” aren’t just less appealing — they can actually be tiring and annoying, like a big party. This brings me to another reason why introverts need alone time: We react differently to stimulation.
An Extrovert and an Introvert Go to a Party
Take, for example, two friends at a house party — one an extrovert, the other an introvert. They’re crammed into a crowded room where loud music blares from huge speakers. Everyone is practically shouting to be heard over the din. There are a dozen conversations happening simultaneously, with just as many things demanding their attention.
For the extrovert, this level of stimulation might feel just right. He sees potential rewards everywhere — an attractive stranger across the room, opportunities to deepen old relationships, and the chance to make new friends. Most importantly, tonight offers a chance to boost his social status within his friend group, especially if he plays his cards right.
So, the extrovert feels energized and excited to be at the party. In fact, he’s so motivated that he stays late into the night. He’s exhausted the next day and needs time to recover — after all, partying is hard work. But to him, the energy spent was well worth it.
Now, back to our introvert. See him over there, hunkered down in the corner? For him, the environment feels overwhelming. It’s too loud, there are too many things happening at once, and the crowd creates a dizzying buzz of activity. Sure, he wants to make friends, fit in, and be liked, but these rewards just aren’t as tantalizing to him. It feels like he would have to expend a lot of energy for something he’s only mildly interested in to begin with.
So, the introvert heads home early to watch a movie with his roommate. In his own apartment, with just one other person, the level of stimulation feels just right. He exchanges some texts with a woman he met a few weeks ago in one of his classes. Like the extrovert, he too wants friends and a romantic partner. However, he finds it too tiring to deal with the noise and socializing at a big party to make those connections.
The Dopamine Difference
Chemically, there’s a good reason the introvert in the above scenario feels overwhelmed, and it relates to a neurotransmitter called dopamine. This chemical, found in the brain, is often referred to as the “feel good” chemical because it regulates our pleasure and reward centers.
One of its roles is to make us notice potential rewards and motivate us to pursue them. For example, dopamine alerts the extrovert to the attractive stranger at the party and fuels his motivation to come up with a cheesy pick-up line.
Another important function of dopamine is reducing our cost of effort. Socializing requires energy because it involves paying attention, listening, thinking, speaking, and moderating our emotional reactions. Technically, socializing is tiring for everyone, including extroverts. However, dopamine helps make it less exhausting for them.
According to DeYoung, extroverts have a more active dopamine reward system. As a result, they can better tolerate — and often push through — the tiredness that inevitably comes with socializing. Much of the time, they don’t experience the same level of mental and physical fatigue that introverts do, thanks to dopamine.
It’s called the “introvert” hangover, not the “extrovert” hangover for a reason.
A New Theory of Introverts and Dopamine
In her 2002 book, The Introvert Advantage, Dr. Marti Olsen Laney speculated that introverts may be more sensitive to dopamine. In other words, we “quiet ones” might need less of it to feel good. Too much, she wrote, could leave us feeling overstimulated.
Science has come a long way since then. When I caught up with DeYoung again, he told me that theory had since been disproven. In fact, scientists now think it’s the opposite.
In fact, DeYoung told me, extroverts are the ones who are more sensitive to dopamine. For example, if introverts and extroverts are given the same drug that affects dopamine, extroverts tend to have a stronger response and become more motivated by similar stimuli later on.
It’s not that dopamine itself makes introverts feel overstimulated. Rather, when introverts do overstimulating things, like going to a party, they may not get as much dopamine release. Extroverts, on the other hand, may get a much bigger dopamine hit from those same activities.
“Without the sense of reward, the extra focus, and the sense of being ‘worth the effort’ that dopamine initiates,” DeYoung told me, “the introverts simply find the activities overwhelming and/or tiring instead.”
Extroverts Place More Significance on People
Finally, a study found that extroverts might simply find humans more interesting than introverts do. This finding aligns with the idea that introverts are less motivated to seek social rewards.
In this study, researchers observed a diverse group of individuals and recorded their brain’s electrical activity using an EEG. As participants were shown pictures of both objects and people, the researchers measured their brains’ P300 activity. This activity happens quickly in response to sudden changes around us and gets its name because it occurs within 300 milliseconds.
Interestingly, researchers found that extroverts showed the P300 response primarily when viewing images of faces, whereas introverts only exhibited this response after viewing objects. Essentially, extroverts’ brains became more active when looking at people.
This doesn’t mean that introverts hate people (though, admittedly, the human race can get on my nerves occasionally). Researchers still don’t fully understand introversion. However, these findings suggest that extroverts might simply place more importance on social interactions than introverts do.
So, the next time an introvert in your life needs alone time, remember that it’s not personal. Introverts need alone time because their brains are wired that way. It isn’t necessarily a reflection of how they feel about you or your relationship.
As for me, you can find me at home tonight. Preferably with the whole place to myself, that is.
That’s easy. With my health problems, I’ll be a pile of ashes spread out somewhere.
Even though I’ll post it as a reminder, I’m going under the knife tomorrow morning. I’ve scheduled some stuff in advance, but I can’t promise much after Wednesday.
I may get headlines out tomorrow, but that will be the last day until probably the weekend.
That people were shallow. That people would peak at different times in their lives. For some, the peak was high school.
I learned that I had to try harder to be more successful than those I went to school with. To not stand still at that point in life, but to learn and grow and to unlock my fullest potential. I set my standards to be better than those I went to school with. That came to fruition.
Mostly, I learned to never look back. I closed that chapter in my life, and the best thing about it was leaving. I needed to move on in life and do more.
I saw this and couldn’t let it go. Between him, DeNiro, Colbert and the other Hollywood Assholes, the TDS is strong with these people. They think that because they got famous from making movies or being on TV, their opinion is important.
Bruce Springsteen, who is rumored to be worth a billion dollars or more, blasted rich American men for abandoning the world during his resist, hate-Trump tour recently.
This is what the American left is now. They are possessed by a political philosophy based entirely on greed and envy where anyone with wealth is automatically evil – except them, of course.
It’s like they all drank the Bernie Sanders Kool-Aid.
Hard as it is to believe, there is a bigger asshole this week.
Yes, Anti-American and pro-commie Jane Fonda raised her wrinkly head for no good reason, just to be an asshole, again. She deserves a lifetime achievement award.
On the Friday before Good Friday, octogenarian nepo baby traitress Jane Fonda held a rally outside the Kennedy Center to protest the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Trump-friendly billionaire David Ellison.
The purpose of the rally isn’t worth dwelling on. Fonda won’t be able to stop this merger, which, contrary to the objections of numerous Democrat senators, presents no real issues under antitrust law.
What’s more interesting is the group that organized it: Fonda’s resurrected Committee for the First Amendment.
The difference between the communism the old Committee for the First Amendment sought to excuse, and the progressivism Fonda’s iteration exists to promote is a superficial one. For both, everything boils down to the distinction between oppressor and oppressed. Marxists considered oppression solely on the basis of economic class. Wokesters take an “intersectional” view that also encompasses race, sexuality, and gender identity.
But like the Marxists, they believe utopia will arrive when the tide of progress sweeps away the oppressors. And like both the Romans and the Marxists, they feel it’s their duty to crush anyone who obstructs that progress.
There is going to be a long line of soldiers waiting to piss on her grave.
What Do Americans Consider Immoral? – Republicans and Democrats differ sharply on whether abortion, homosexuality and the death penalty are morally wrong
As NFL embraces streaming, poll finds overwhelming pushback – the fans are only going to take so much. It’s like Disney pricing the Tragic Kindom out of bounds of the middle class. They forgot who their audience is. Plus, the streaming sucks.
Let’s see, I’m not having any lions, badgers, monkeys, gorillas, any animals from the weasel family, skunks, pigs, chickens, and I could go on. I think you get the picture.
I’ve had cats and dogs, but I’m down to dogs now. It’s the typical Ford/Chevrolet debate over which is better. Since this is about me, the answer is dogs.
They love you, are more loyal, and learn to obey better. They get you out to walk so that you get exercise and are happy to see you, whether you’be been gone all day, or to get the mail.
Pick your own and don’t criticize mine. I like animals better than people, but that is the introvert in me. I love my dog, and still love the dogs that have been in my life.
Obama’s Tower of Doom Is Harder to Get Into Than America Itself – It doesn’t matter, no one is going to the South Side of Chicago anyway. No one gives a shit about Obama other than the media and the reverse racists, so it’s a waste of a billion dollars for the citizens of Illinois.
Maybe Star Trek fans can go look at it to see the closest thing to a real life Borg Cube looks like
So much for Allies
The Special Relationship Is Dead – France I get. They’ve fucked us as soon as Lafayette died. The UK used to have a backbone. Now, they have a Mosque. Time to pull out of NATO
I’ve been a huge Olympics fan since 64 in Tokyo. I suffered through John Carlos and Tommie Smith in Mexico City in 68 and the terrorists in Munich in 72. I started watching during the Cold War, so the whole US vs. the USSR was going on.
I was always a track fan, especially the sprints and hurdles. I tend to miss the field events unless there was a spectacular athlete like Duplantis in the pole vault at present. I’d pick the 200 over the 100 as there is more going on with a turn involved than who can go the fastest in a straight line.
I swim for exercise, having been on swim teams as a kid. Unlike track, I like the distance events. I never miss a chance to see Katy Ledecky swim. I know her career is coming to a close sometime soon, so seeing greatness is a pleasure.
I enjoy the other events to a varying degree, but have less patience for a lot of the events.
I watched surprisingly little of the Winter Olympics this year. While I have in the past, I lost interest this year.
Yannow, they’s assholes evrywhar. The entier country wants the Save Act, including the libs, yet Thune can’t get it passed. It would stop cheating as we know it, although I’m sure they will think of a new way
The Senate has packed up and gone on a two-week vacation without passing the SAVE America Act. They also passed a compromise bill to fund DHS, except for ICE and CBP and their support staff, which House Speaker Mike Johnson has rejected.
I know he hates Trump, but does he hate Americans and Republican control of the Senate also?
Hard as he tried, he still couldn’t be a bigger asshole than the wife of Gavin Newsom. Yes, he’s running for president and his wife just did this:
Gavin Newsom’s wifey brags about taking her kids to southern American states to see “racism” up close and personal
How about the homeless, the people and companies leaving the state that her husband ruined, and the shithole that California has become?
She is vying to be 1st Lady and pulls this kind of shit.
According to Jennifer, the Newsom family took the kids on a red state tour to show them firsthand what racism is all about. The problem with this, however, is that these states and their inhabitants are not racist. In fact, implying people are racist simply by existing would, in fact, be racist.
She went as far as to claim that she wanted to see racism, misogyny, and bullying for them to effectively “be the change they wish to see in the world.” She believed visiting these states would “expand their hearts” so that they could continue on the leftist mission their father had embarked on. And while it is great to teach your kids that things like racism, sexism, and bullying are wrong, she largely missed the mark here.
She went looking for trouble when it was in her backyard.
She’s trying to outdo Hillary, Michelle (Big Mike) Obama or Jill Biden as the worst first lady.
That probably won’t happen, but what will is that she is the asshole of the week.
The real answer is almost everything. From the minute you are born, you live a different life from everyone else.
So the real answer is life. It shapes everyone differently, from the experiences to how we handle them. Even Identical twins have separate lives.
Unless you could do everything at the same time with the same person and have the same response, you are different.
That is comforting to me, because I don’t want what anyone else has. My life is mine.
On a side note, have you ever looked at a group of people together? How is it that we have that many people and not a one of them is the same? Different eyes, nose, ears, chin, size, shape, coloring, and the list goes on.
I could bring God into this conversation, but I know a lot of you have different views, so I’ll just leave it at this. Go ahead and try to find 2 people who are the same, or even close.
Either a mountain or a church. I’m most at home when I”m in the mountains, which is strange since I grew up at the beach. Tourists ruined that for me.
I long for the quiet and peacefulness, and the weather in the summer.
No one is going to remember me for anything, so a church might want them to consider eternity and make a decision to dedicate their life to God instead of ruin it like most do.
Azat tweeted, “A halal butcher in Zurich, Switzerland has sold 3.1 tons of pork labeled as veal to Muslim customers, who haven’t noticed any difference for three years.” – This is funny as shit.
It was a little slow this week. AOC is on Ketamine, but she’s insignificant. The media hates Trump, and especially that he’s kicking major ass over in Iran. No one knows that he exposed that the Chinese defense system is a paper tiger, and he cut off most of their oil. The fact is, the media wake up and go to sleep hating him so they are piss ants also.
Since we are having to deal with Iran, it exposes this week’s winner, who caused the problem.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth called out former President Barack Obama on Thursday, accusing him of helping to finance Iran’s military with “pallets of American cash.”
“Many of the Iranian military factories and bases that we’re systematically destroying were paid for by the pallets of American cash that Barack Obama flew into Tehran under the Iran deal,” Hegseth said.
Critics have long condemned Obama for empowering the state sponsor of terrorism in 2016 with a $1.7 billion cash payout.
That’s right. Remember the piles of cash that he delivered to Iran? Remember the deal that allowed them to develop a nuclear program. It was a total asshole move. Only someone who hated America would do something like that.
So for that, Obama is the Asshole of the Week. This whole thing and the October massacre of Israelites by the Palestinians would have never happened without him
“Over 10,000 enemy targets destroyed, over 150 naval vessels sunk, underground facilities destroyed, defense industrial base in shambles. Not only do they no longer have a Navy, they no longer have a Navy commander,” Hegseth declared.
Many of those targets were funded by the Obama administration, according to Hegseth.
“You might call it an inconvenient truth,” the secretary quipped.
In 2016, the Obama regime secretly airlifted $1.7 billion in cash to Iran, including $400 million delivered on pallets in a single unmarked cargo plane. The payment was alleged to be part of a $1.7 billion settlement resolving a decades-old dispute over a failed arms deal from the Shah’s era. The cash was physically flown to Iran because U.S. and international sanctions blocked normal financial transfers.
The $400 million cash transfer occurred on January 17, 2016, the same day Iran released four American prisoners, fueling accusations that it amounted to ransom. Obama officials stated the payment was not a quid pro quo but admitted the timing was used as leverage to ensure the prisoners’ release. The remaining $1.3 billion in cash was delivered in two subsequent shipments on January 22 and February 5, 2016.
Just in: He’s even a bigger asshole by doing this:
🚨I’m still trying to process what just happened.
The highest ranking US intelligence official, just released smoking gun docs proving that Obama and his underlings committed treason/sedition.
Meaning Trump was right about everything, the news is fake, and the Deep State is… pic.twitter.com/lVqWIC3qFM
Aside from the fact that there is a God, this is an easy one.
No one gives a shit about you, really. Not long after you die, people don’t even think of you, other than in a story. Two generations after you die, virtually no one remembers you or anything you did.
Think of all the people who have come and gone in your life. You don’t think about 90% of them. Who remembers every kid in elementary school? How about the kids on the street you grew up on. When did you speak with them last? Did they initiate the conversation?
Most people overestimate their importance, especially to others. Your spouse will likely even get remarried if you die.
This works for me on a lot of levels, though. I have eliminated a lot of people from my life who weren’t making it any better. That’s a thing that is best for introverts, though.
This fact has been my best friend in a lot of instances. I even got rid of Facebook because too many people wanted back in my life that I thought I’d gotten rid of.
Did Ralph Baric at UNC Create SARS-CoV-2? – If he didn’t, he sure as hell had something to do with it because they also created the Moderna version of the jab. I lived near their, it other than basketball, there was a lof of shit associated with that school (and Duke)
I got into computers before there was a PC. When I saw the introduction of the Apple II and the IBM-PC, I saw the opportunity door of life open, and I was first in line.
No one else could figure out what to do with them, as I lived in a mainframe world. I learned everything I could, and by the time others started playing with them, I was an industry insider. I worked with some of the smartest people in the industry. It was fun to know what was coming years before they announced it.
I used to worry about other people’s feelings, and I wound up doing a lot of stuff that I didn’t want to do. I found out later that they didn’t really care and felt expendable. They would have been ok if I was there or not, so I wasted a lot of time.
Now, I’ll make exceptions for some of my family, but I say no a lot. Sometimes, my goal is that I just don’t want to do what they want to. When I found out they didn’t really care, and I wasn’t hurting anyone’s feelings, I am just fine saying no to almost anything and everything.
My goal is to avoid crowds and people whenever possible now
The Oscars Died Last Weekend…Did Anyone Even Notice? – no, because I haven’t cared about Hollywood for decades when I found out who these people are. The movies have sucked for decades. It was last good when air travel was enjoyable, a long time ago
I learned way more from mistakes than I did from successes. I expected them. Having to re-do something, or being embarrassed for saying or doing the wrong thing, were lessons I never forgot. For the record, I consider losing the same thing as a mistake. I hate to lose at anything. If I do, I make sure it only happens once in a row,.
Life is a great teacher. When you get old like me, you’ve been through a lot. School can’t teach you much other than how to learn, or some facts to memorize. Having to survive is a lesson that I get every day. Hell, I’m grateful every day I wake up now.
It was hard to choose this week. John Thune wouldn’t let the Save act get a vote, despite most of the country on both sides wanting it. Honorable mention, but still an asshole.
Next, also on the Save Act is Chuck Schumer, Thune’s counterpart on the (seemingly) other side.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called the SAVE America Act “one of the most despicable pieces of legislation” he has seen ahead of the bill being brought to the floor for a vote this week.
Speaking to reporters on a Sunday phone call, Schumer claimed that President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans are attempting to “disenfranchise millions of Americans and undermine democracy by pushing this despicable SAVE Act,” also called the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility Act.
He also called the election integrity bill “one of the most despicable pieces of legislation I’ve come across in the many years I’ve been a legislator.”
“Nothing is more important than defeating this dagger to the heart of our democracy,” the Democrat leader told reporters.
He’s an asshole because he knows that if they have voter ID, the Dem’s can’t cheat. On top of that, he said Trump wanted to use voter ID to cheat in the mid-terms. Imagine that, calling out your opponent for doing what you are doing, cheating.
BUT
While it happened during the Biden administration, there was this:
‘Living in sex-slavery’: Biden admin was ‘paying individuals who were knowingly trafficking’ kids
During the Joe Biden administration, the federal government actually was paying human traffickers to take unaccompanied migrant children.
“The one thing that has been challenging is that under the Biden administration, the government paid sponsors,” under HHS programs, which were tasked with relocating and taking care of unaccompanied children.
“Those sponsors, many times, we found instances where they trafficked these children themselves,” Noem told Congress.
“Under the Biden administration, she said, “we not only had children in this country that were part of a program, the government was paying individuals who were knowingly trafficking them and abusing them.”
A report from the Washington Stand noted the trafficking was in addition to the fact that the Biden administration also misplaced hundreds of thousands of children.
The Scientific Shift Toward God – Overall, scientists have been able to calculate that the odds of our universe existing from random chance are 10 to the 60th power. As a contrast, there are roughly 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand in the Sahara Desert.
Yannow, it gets boring when one person keeps being an asshole. So, I’m not giving her the prize, but she gets mentioned. This woman (I think she’s a female) should just STFU.
Michelle Obama has gone off about how her family was held to higher standards during her husband Barack‘s presidency, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
The former first lady took a swipe at President Donald Trump and his family, saying there’s “no way” his behavior would have been “accepted” by the public compared to when the Obamas lived in the White House.
There’s more here, but she’s just bitching. It’s all a lie because she had 3 times the number of staff that Melania has, drank only top-shelf liquor, and got handed everything to her from fame to fortune while doing mostly nothing, but bitching.
But, this weeks winner was Obama’s writer, and liar Jon Favreau.
Would someone please reach out to Jon Favreau and remind him that he worked for Obama, one of the worst presidents in the history of this country? Oh yeah, and also remind him about Libya, Syria … and the price of gas under his boss.
Not to mention the last person who has anything to say about Iran is a guy whose boss sent billions of dollars to the same 86-year-old tyrant he’s ranting about.
You have to be irretrievably stupid or deliberately trolling to think this post was a smart thing to write.
Dead Americans, $100/barrel oil, billions of dollars a day on a massive war that's so far replaced an 86-year-old tyrant with his son.
He hits out at the current administration for shit that isn’t half as bad as what they pulled. He’s showing more love for a murdering Mullah than the USA.
The real Star Wars movies, but only 4,5 and 6. The prequels and the sequels were horrible. I saw The Empire Strikes back 8 times in the theater at $2.00 a ticket.
All of the Captain America movies, especially The Winter Soldier. On your left.
The Final Countdown was my go-to movie when I called in sick to work, while in reality, I was taking a day off.
Star Trek, The Wrath of Khan, and all of Star Trek, The Original Series TV episodes. Heck, I saw them when they aired the first time in the 60’s.
I’ve seen all of the Looney Tunes and all of the Tex Avery Tom and Jerry cartoons.
I must have seen the Original Jonny Quest well more than 5 times, every episode. I used to get high as a kite in college and watch a bunch of stuff.
It seems that despite women preaching for decades that they don’t need a man and that they’re “above them,” now, when they look to find a partner, there’s not one to be found. Funny how that works, eh? There are tons of videos out on social media showing women and their current plight in “finding a man,” but one particular video seems to really capture the sheer breaking point a lot of ladies have reached. Let’s break it down.
In the clip, the woman is literally in tears, ranting from, of course, her vehicle, where she painfully describes feeling overwhelmed by the toll modern dating has taken on her. She claims that she cares more about the men she dates than they seem to care about her. She says she’s mad. No, not mad. FUMING. No, not fuming. On literal fire.
After screwing men over from the time they were boys in school, to putting them in the friendzone because they weren’t the ideal 666 man, now girls are paying the price. No one wants to put up with their shit and feelings of entitlement anymore.
Guys just want peace and a supportive partner. Girls want the next best thing that will make them look better or improve their status, either on social media or in life. Life has become a Facebook page, trying to get likes and adoration.
Imagine if guys were nice to you always, buying you drinks or complimenting you. After a while, you think you are special. Sure, they wanted some action, but at least they tried, and I promise there were some good guys you tossed away. You can only be shut down so many times before you give up and stop trying.
But regardless of the specifics, the fact is that the dominant message for eons now has been that women don’t need men. Their independence was paramount, traditional relationship structures were dismissed as outdated, and masculinity itself was frequently portrayed as something disposable or problematic.
Yet the desire for partnership, stability, and connection clearly didn’t completely disappear… and now, both men and women are left out in the cold.
NOW YOU KNOW
Push men out of the culture long enough, and eventually the real ones stop showing up. Here are the comments:
“Modern dating: where everyone wants love, but nobody wants the responsibility that comes with it.”
“It’s really hard out there. Feminism F’d everything up.”
“Seems like such a catch…”
“I guarantee she has like 30+ good men in the friend zone.”
“We’re watching a woman reach her breaking point in real-time, and the scariest part? Millions of people are looking in the mirror and seeing the same exhaustion.”
Relationships have been against men for years. They demeaned boys in school because they couldn’t sit still. The mean girls grouped together to diss any guy who wasn’t the star of the sports team. Guys have to put themselves out there and mostly get rejected. If you get married, Divorce courts take at least half of what you own, including the kids, who almost always go with the wife. Why would you want that deal?
Dating is a joke. The story that women can have it all is a lie that feminists have told girls. Fuck around until you are ready to settle down. Get a career and put family on hold. Live the party life, drink and date, keep upgrading boyfriends as you throw away great marriage men. It all changes when you wake up older one day, childless, and the men can now date younger girls who don’t have the attitude of this twunt.
Guys are tired of this shit from entitled females. The truth is that every girl has a vagina. They are everywhere, and not a one of them is the golden one. Girls are giving it away to everyone. No man wants a used bicycle, and the girls are letting all the best men take a ride. They think that just because they slept with a 9 or a 10, that this is their potential. They tossed out the 7’s or less, who were better men that would have taken care of them.
The reality is that they were never above a 6 without makeup, and it’s downhill for them after 30.
A lot of guys just said fuck it, and live their lives without the hassle.
Woke Media Struggles To Explain Why Gen Z Men Are Turning Against Feminism
The progressive left operates on the assumption that generational indoctrination is cumulative – That is to say, they think that through time and indoctrination, they will eventually lay claim to the minds of 100% of the population. Each new generation is supposed to be more “woke” than the last. However, this is not how society or individual psychology works.
Movements of “progress” crash in flames all the time, often because they turn out to be regressive rather than progressive. And once the smoke clears and the social experiment is dead, the public will usually go back to what worked best in the past.
Leftists thought they had the future in the bag with Gen Z. After all, this is the generation hit hardest with woke propaganda. No other generation has been so overwhelmed with LGBT brainwashing, anti-white racism and multiculturalism, socialist Utopian fantasy, moral relativism and anti-masculinity.
Young women have been convinced that abandoning femininity, rejecting their biological destiny and competing with men is “true freedom.” Third-wave feminism teaches women that their ultimate goal in life is to achieve power by any means necessary. It’s a dangerous delusion that relies on men to remain completely and utterly passive.
Gen Z men have been taught from an early age that they are inherently evil monsters that must be subdued and caged (figuratively or literally). They are warned that they will become “Incels”; dangerous landmines just waiting to explode unless they embrace feminism.
They are conditioned to see traditional manhood as a “social construct” that will ultimately end in a bullet riddled rain of toxic masculinity. They are told that the very root of their future happiness and sanity depends on leftist women accepting them as viable, docile and “safe”.
In other words, leftist women have positioned themselves as the arbiters of society by declaring they they will be the people who decide what manhood should be. It’s an interesting narrative. It is specifically designed to give progressives total power over the one thing that could destroy their socialist empire: Strong men who wake up one day and realize they are being treated unjustly and that the system does not work.
Ross Kemp made an entire docuseries on inceldom after watching Adolescence.
Female social circles tend to function on collectivist terms: The group determines membership through a series of struggle sessions and shame tests to ensure that new members submit to their control. Male groups determine membership by merit – Who is most useful, the hardest working, the most intelligent, the most able to move the group’s success forward.
Woke ideology is a vehicle for building a society using effeminate group structures. Most men are held back within such a system and left to rot, never fulfilling their roles because they are seen as threats to the power dynamics of the collective.
According to recent surveys, Gen Z is abandoning this feminist paradigm at record pace. In 2019 in the US, just one third of Americans surveyed agreed that traditional gender roles were becoming more popular. In 2026, that number rose to 40%; among Gen Z the number spikes to 61%.
The woke media is struggling to understand what is happening and trying to figure out how they can shame Zoomer men into coming back to the progressive fold. As Esquire Magazine asks:
“What the hell is going on with Gen Z?”
Both Esquire Magazine and The New York Times have recently lamented new data showing an unusual spike in support for traditional male/female roles in society among Gen Z males. Perhaps the most interesting data point comes from a recent survey out of King’s College London which polled a total of 23,000 adults across 29 countries worldwide. It indicates that 57% of Zoomer men agree that women’s rights have gone too far – to the point that men are being discriminated against.
The media, of course, acts as if this view is absurd even though it is entirely accurate. For the past decade in the US (until Donald Trump’s return to the White House) DEI initiatives in corporations, colleges and within many government institutions were deliberately designed to treat straight white men as second class citizens regardless of their qualifications.
They used to call it conspiracy theory, but numerous successful lawsuits have been filed against these institutions after years of rigging the system against men in favor of “equality of outcome” over equality of opportunity.
When it comes to relationships in the modern west, women have been given carte blanche through the “MeToo” Movement to act as destructive, promiscuous and unhinged as they please under the protection of the feminist zero accountability clause. If anything goes wrong they can simply blame men, and for a long time everyone was expected to automatically believe them.
Esquire engages in this same refusal to question women; blaming “podcasts” and the “male loneliness epidemic” for the rise in traditional views among Gen Z. They will not consider the possibility that this trend is caused by blowback from the trespasses of militant feminist ideology. Feminists can do no wrong. Esquire notes:
“The study doesn’t get into the why of respondents’ answers, but one guess is that this is the result of a generation raised on podcasts. Around every corner on the Internet, members of the so-called manosphere lurk, assuring young men that their failures and setbacks are not their fault. In fact, they are the persecuted ones; the world would be better off if women were subservient to guys. Progress, they seem to think, has gone too far…”
The “manosphere” did nothing more than point out the inconsistencies of the feminist movement and warn about the clear social decline that feminism has caused for men and women alike. Progress for the political left requires that men continue to sacrifice for the collective while never gaining any individual benefits in return.
The imbalance of society in scrambling to appease narcissistic women has radicalized an entire generation of men. Esquire notes:
“What’s most interesting is how divided Gen Z men and Gen Z women are on gender roles in relationships. Which makes a ton of sense, because if you haven’t heard, Gen Z women are facing a nightmare of a dating scene. In an opinion piece for The New York Times, Christine Emba claims that it’s not just app burnout or incels—at least, no more so than in my generation. Instead, there is a fundamental disconnect between what straight young men and women want from one another…”
Thirty-one percent of Gen Z men now agree that a wife should always obey her husband (compare this to 18% of Baby Boomers). 59% of Gen Z men say that men are expected to do too much to support equality. In every category, Gen Z greatly surpasses aging Baby Boomers on traditional values.
Big changes are coming in the form of a masculinity-driven cultural reckoning. Perhaps it’s because feminism flew too close the sun and got burned. They got a taste of power and went insane, once again confirming the theory that women should never be in charge. No matriarchy in history has produced anything of historical or technological significance. Biology and natural law recoils at the idea of a female-centric society.
Feminists try to use scare tactics, like the theory of the “male loneliness epidemic”, as a means to frighten men back into line. However, surveys also show that by 2030 nearly half of all women 25-44 are projected to become single and childless.
The truth is, feminists no longer hold the power of social rejection; it’s men who make that determination, and they are walking away from the woke system. What feminists should be more concerned about is the female loneliness epidemic that is looming for them in the near future.
Delusions of Adequacy 