Slouching Towards Oblivion

Showing posts with label snarky comment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snarky comment. Show all posts

Thursday, January 13, 2022

Observation

Went to do the grocery shopping yesterday and there were only 4 kinds of Oat Milk, where there used to be 5.

And I had to buy Lightly Salted Peanuts, as well as Gluten Free Saltines, and Vanilla Pudding Cups instead of chocolate.

This is the American retail hellscape - devastated.

Friday, August 13, 2021

Today's Prayer


God grant me the serenity to accept that Trump supporters are morons, the courage to tell Trump supporters they're morons, and the wisdom not to be a Trump-supporting moron.

@middleageriot

Wednesday, September 06, 2017

Market-Based Solutions

I think we can all say we're fairly well aware of the Natural Disasters that're piling up all around us, even if way too many of us are still resistant to the reality that hurricanes and wild fires are Human-Exacerbated.




But let's not dwell on the past. Let's talk about sensible Vienna School solutions.

You see, it's not a problem of happenstance - it's a simple problem of distribution and logistics.  So all we have to do is transfer some of the western states' fires to the Gulf Coast, and send some of the rain in Texas Louisiana and (soon) Florida to Alaska Oregon and California.

Can you imagine the payoff for some bright young entrepreneur with a good idea and mom's garage to work in?

And of course, we start the ball rolling by providing incentive - like, say...oh I don't know...a tax cut.

So c'mon, libtards - trade in those Birkenstocks for a nice pair of Khakis and a white polo shirt, and let's get to work.

Saturday, April 08, 2017

WWaDD


Bill Maher last night

Thursday, December 22, 2016

Hope's Fading Glimmer

Donald Trumps inauguration line-up has become a joke, with no big-name stars accepting his invitation to play the esteemed gig (tickets for which cost $350).
Previously, it was revealed Elton John, country star Garth Brooks, and opera singer Andrea Bocelli had all turned down the President-elect’s celebratory bash.
We can now add Celine Dion of decliners. According to The Wrap, Las Vegas hotelier Steve Wynn promised Trump the "Power of Love” singer would make an appearance, but failed to deliver.

So far, it has been confirmed that 16-year-old Jackie Evancho, an America’s Got Talent contest, will play the “Make America Great! Welcome Celebration”.
I've always tho't there must surely be something redeeming about Celine Dion, but I could never find it - but hey, maybe that's it.

Thursday, November 24, 2016

On That NYT Chat With Trump

Here's the whole banana in case the pay wall at NYT jumps up in front of you.
It was good to hear Donald Trump “disavow and condemn” the white nationalism of some of his supporters, in a meeting Tuesday at The New York Times.
It was good to hear him acknowledge that climate change is linked to human activity, and that maybe waterboarding isn’t such a great idea after all. And speaking for the home team, it was good to hear him even call The New York Times a “great, great American jewel.”
It was, of course, hard to square all these statements with his record of spreading the birther lie about President Obama, calling climate change a “hoax,” promising he’d “bring back waterboarding” and describing The New York Times as “failing.”
But, hey, if President-elect Trump moderates his views, and then crystallizes those views in policies that, as he put it, “save our country,” we will commend him on growth in office. “I am awed by the job,” he said.
The problem is, as pleasant as it was to hear those remarks, it was alarming to confront how thinly thought through many of the president-elect’s stances actually are. Consider climate change. Mr. Trump said that he valued clean air and water, but that he hadn’t decided if combating climate change was worth the expense. “I have a totally open mind,” he said, making a virtue of not knowing the issue.
Or take torture. In the campaign, he stoutly defended waterboarding, which is contrary to American values and illegal under international law. Yet one conversation, with Gen. James Mattis, a candidate for defense secretary, may have changed his mind. General Mattis told Mr. Trump what experts have been saying for years: Torture doesn’t work. Mr. Trump said he was “impressed and surprised” by General Mattis’s assurance that, “Give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers and I’ll do better.”
We would applaud any sensible change of position, however arrived at. Mr. Trump’s apparent flexibility, combined with his lack of depth on policy, might be grounds to hope he will steer a wiser course than the one plotted by his campaign. But so far he is surrounding himself with officials eager to enact only the most extreme positions. His flexibility would be their springboard.President Obama, who also spoke of bringing the country together, invited Republicans to join his administration. We have not yet seen Mr. Trump make any such effort to reach across party lines.
And in one area, Mr. Trump remained quite inflexible: He made clear he has no intention of selling his businesses and stepping decisively away from corrupting his presidency with an exponentially enhanced version of the self-dealing he accused Hillary Clinton of engaging in.
Ronald Reagan used to say that in dealing with the Soviet Union, the right approach was to “trust, but verify.” For now, that’s also the right approach to take with Mr. Trump. Except, regrettably, for the trust part.
I'm sure Trump likes to believe he's setting up a Team Of Rivals, and that'll be great because he's letting the scorpions in the bottle slug it out and he'll go with whatever idea the survivor can articulate. And that's perfect for Trump because he possesses a depth of understanding comparable to that of any randomly chosen 8th grader.

Saturday, November 05, 2016

Thanks, Trump

Thursday, November 03, 2016

Today's Nostalgia

Call me silly and old-fashioned, but I find myself yearning for the days when the FBI and the Russians weren't on the same side.

Wednesday, January 06, 2016

Today's Snark

Give a Republican a fish, and he'll tell you a story about his long hard struggle to become a great fisherman.

Offer to teach a Republican to fish, and he'll denounce you as a socialist.


hat tip = The Daily Shit or maybe it was LOLGOP - I get confused sometimes.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009