Biden and Gas Prices
I’m seeing that the White House is now taking credit for declining gas prices:
I remember the whole time that gas prices were going up to record levels, President Biden was referring to it as “the Putin price hike” or blaming it on COVID, however that was supposed to make sense, while his sycophants kept repeating that “presidents don’t control gas prices.”
But he does want to take credit when prices go down.
Unfortunately, his timing was a little off because gas prices are going up again. Prices where I live in California had come down to less than $5.50 a gallon but then shot up about a dollar seemingly overnight.
This is what our prices look like today:
I thought maybe World Was III had started when I wasn’t paying attention.
Woman’s Body Found in Santa Clarita Clothes Donation Box
Woman’s body found in Santa Clarita clothes donation box — msn.com
Maybe she didn’t understand that you’re supposed to remove the clothes before putting them in the box.
Actually, she was stuck in the donation slot so it seems more likely that she was there to collect (i.e., steal) the donations.
White Lives Matter?
New Kanye West tee:
I like it. To me it makes more sense to say that either all lives matter or no lives matter. I wouldn’t break it down by group, but I still like it.
The Most Dangerous Movement in History!
Yes or no: is MAGA the most dangerous movement in modern American history?
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) October 6, 2022
Yes! We must continue Biden’s historic progress on GDP, inflation, stock market, crime, border security, energy independence, foreign policy, supply chain, etc. etc.
Cancel Culture is the Stupidity of Our Generation
Well, you know, the human race has consistently behaved stupidly throughout history. Cancel culture is the stupidity of our generation. Time will pass, we will look back and it will happen to us as with the McCarthy era. We will be ashamed of it. And we’ll say to ourselves, “My God, did people really do that and accept it? That teachers be fired, university professors, that scientists be discredited, that actors be put on blacklists?
People will take time to see it. Again, the example of McCarthyism serves, which was horrible in the US. Everyone was called a communist. “If you listened to folk music, communist.” It turned into something laughable. And then people started seeing it. There are already many people who see cancel culture for what it is: an embarrassment.
Billy Eichner Laments
Billy Eichner Laments Box Office Flop of His LGBTQ Rom-Com — mediaite.com
“Laments.” It’s lamentable that no one paid to see his gay rom-com. But really, who did anyone think was going to see it?
Billy Eichner fans? Maybe I’m not up to speed on popular culture but I’ve never heard of Billy Eichner.
Rom-com fans? I hate rom-coms, as does every adult male that I know.
I don’t like movies about love. Why do people cry over love stories with a happy ending? Are they crying tears of joy? No . . . I think they’re crying because we’ve all lived long enough to know that there probably is no such thing as true love and if there is, we’re all going to get old and die without finding it.
Still, women love rom-coms — why else would Sandra Bullock be famous? — and sometimes they can get a man to come with them, but gay rom-coms?!
Will there be love scenes? Not even women want to see men making out with each other. Women making out with each other? Yes. Count me in.
You know what I think is really lamentable is Billy Eichner (in a tweet that appears to have been deleted) suggesting that anyone who doesn’t see his gay rom-com is a “homophobic weirdo.” Another ultra-tolerant progressive.
Yeah, you can go with that but there have been lots of movies with gay themes that did well, even won Academy Awards: Midnight Cowboy, Philadelphia, Moonlight, Brokeback Mountain . . . they weren’t rom-coms, but you know . . . go ahead and make whatever movie you want to make and if people are interested in paying to see it they will. And if they’re not, they won’t.
And people (I could have told you this in advance) are not interested in paying to see a gay rom-com starring Joe Nobody.
It’s Called Acting, My Dear Boy
Bros Actor Guy Branum Blasts The Whale and Brendan Fraser’s Casting — movieweb.com
In which a couple of fat gay actors complain that Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming move The Whale casts Brendan Fraser, who is not gay or especially fat, as a 600-pound gay man.
“Who knows more about being an obese queer man than an obese queer man?” asks Daniel Franzese, an obese queer man.
This reminds me of a story (which admittedly Dustin Hoffman has said is not quite accurate) about Marathon Man, in which Hoffman starred with Laurence Olivier. Hoffman showed up one day having not slept the night before so he could shoot a scene in which his character had not slept the night before.
Olivier thought it was absurd. “It’s called acting, my dear boy,” he said.
Olivier in that movie played a cold-blooded Nazi killer, that is, a cold-blooded Nazi who killed people, not a cold-blooded killer of Nazis. Since Olivier was not in fact a cold-blooded Nazi killer, wouldn’t it have been better to cast an actual cold-blooded Nazi killer? Who knows more about being a cold-blooded Nazi killer than a cold-blooded Nazi killer?
OK, that’s a little extreme. Try this one: Philadelphia was a pretty good movie even though everyone knows Tom Hanks and Antonio Banderas are not gay. Brokeback Mountain, Midnight Cowboy, Moonlight . . . as far as I know, none of the gay lead characters was played by an actual gay person.
Hasn’t Meryl Streep played a lesbian in at least a couple of movies (Manhattan, The Hours)? Meryl Streep is not gay. Conversely, that Doogie Howser kid is gay and he plays straight roles.
I suppose what I’m getting at here is that you don’t have to be X to play an X character. It’s called acting, my dear boy.
What Kind of Dogs Were They?
The dogs were pit bulls. I haven't been so shocked since Claude Rains discovered gambling at Rick's Café. https://t.co/eBN7UuKLPy
— Paul Epps (@paulepps) October 8, 2022
A Total Lack of Humanity and Empathy
I’ve said this before, but progressives, who position themselves as paragons of tolerance and inclusion, are always the most hateful people I’ve ever met.
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) September 29, 2022
USC Cardinal Divas
As a USC alum, I'm very proud of this. And there is no sane "backlash." Every time a black person does something, there's a "backlash," real or imagined. A couple of wingnuts on Twitter is not a "backlash." https://t.co/cbEJlRLQgj
— Paul Epps (@paulepps) October 7, 2022
How Hot is Hot?
It’s Not Because I’m a Programmer
Politics Obscures Our Common Humanity
If politics drives you to hate your neighbors and everyone who sees the world differently from you – instead of being angry with centers of power – then it’s playing a very distorted role in your life. . . .
Politics matters. But, by design, it often obscures the common humanity that drives most of us.
Chess Game of the Day: Four Knights Game
One of my online chess games. Some annotations below . . .
4. Nd5 A Four Knights gambit that I like.
13. …Qd7 13. …c5 or 13. …d5 would be good here.
20. Qxb7 Looks even now.
21. …Rd5 White looks to be gaining some advantage.
33. …Kh6?? Black could put up more of a fight with 33. …Kh5.
35. …Qg5 There’s a forced mate from here but Black didn’t have any good moves left.
And That’s the Truth: White People Gotta Commit More Violent Crimes
[And That’s the Truth is a feature by our guest blogger, Sojourner Truth– PE]
I just read that black people commit the majority of violent crimes in America. And there ain’t that many black people! They shouldn’t be committin more violent crimes than every other race put together.
And I hates to say it but I can tell just from readin a headline whether or not I click through on the link I’m gonna see a black face on the other side.
Man Kills Restaurant Worker Because His French Fries Were Cold — That’s a black guy.
Restaurant Worker Kills Man for Complaining That His French Fries Were Cold — That’s a black guy.
Man Killed Resisting Arrest — That’s a black guy.
Man Kills His Wife Because She Won’t Shut Up — Ok, that could be anybody.
Nine People Shot Outside a Club — Black guys.
Wake up, white people! These statistics are embarrassing. It’s not like it’s hard to get hold of a gun. Anybody can get one. White people gotta start committin more violent crimes.
And that’s the Truth!
How is J.K. Rowling’s Transphobia Like Joseph Smith’s Golden Plates?
You have to read this! Hilarious. They cannot even tell you what J.K. said that was transphobic. BECAUSE SHE NEVER SAID ANYTHING TRANSPHOBIC YOU WINGNUTS!! https://t.co/vQJlTPKR19
— Buck Angel® Transsexual (@BuckAngel) September 29, 2022
Verbal Blunder of the Week Competition
Competition was intense in the Verbal Blunder of the Week competition . . .
First was the Joe Biden “I see dead people” gaffe:
"Jackie are you here? Where's Jackie?"
Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) died in a car accident in August pic.twitter.com/cHc3b7zPmE
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) September 28, 2022
KJP tried to explain that Biden was trying to locate the deceased congresswoman in the audience because she was “top of mind”:
.@CeciliaVega: "What happened at the Hunger Event today? [Biden] appeared to look around…for…a member of Congress [Jackie Walorski] who passed away last month…What happened there?"
KJP: He "was acknowledging her incredible work…She was on his mind…top of mind" pic.twitter.com/LhEECd4QBR
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 28, 2022
I suppose when I listen to Beatles music or to his own music, John Lennon is “top of mind” for me but I don’t look around the room trying to locate him.
These next two, it’s kind of a toss-up for me which one is more horrifying, but in the first one, someone thought it would be a good idea to send Kamala Harris to the Korean DMZ, at which she proclaims the importance of our alliance with the Republic of North Korea, which as you probably know, even if Kamala Harris doesn’t, is a sworn enemy of the United States.
VP HARRIS: "The United States shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea."
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 29, 2022
And the final entry is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi actually saying that red states shouldn’t be shipping out immigrants, they should be letting immigrants stay to “pick the crops.” Of course. What else would they do?
Pelosi: "We have a shortage of workers in our country. In Florida, some of the farmers and the growers are saying 'why are you shipping these immigrants up North? We need them to pick the crops down here.'" pic.twitter.com/uCXgz0AXSB
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 30, 2022
My Beto O’Rourke Campaign Ad
No guns though because this guy is a low-testosterone pussy who wouldn't know how to hunt, kill and eat something if his life depended on it. What a useless creature. Total waste of oxygen. https://t.co/2gOPTNhSMw
— Paul Epps (@paulepps) October 1, 2022
Thomas Jefferson: MAGA Republicans
My fellow Americans –
I have to confess I have not figured out the difference between a “MAGA Republican” and a plain old Republican. A “Make America Great Again” Republican. It doesn’t sound so bad.
And with that still unresolved, we are now confronted with “extreme MAGA Republicans,” who apparently want to make America extremely great again.
.@RepJeffries on midterms: "Extreme MAGA Republicans apparently do not believe in democracy anymore. […] We'll have an opportunity to make our case to the American people […] and the consequences of what might happen if extreme MAGA Republicans are allowed to seize power." pic.twitter.com/T4LAMCxuyx
— The Hill (@thehill) September 29, 2022
Midterm elections are not far away and if I were a Democrat, I wouldn’t be looking forward to them with great optimism.
Every Democratic policy has failed. They are under water with the economy, we are in a recession based on the GDP numbers continuing to decline, mortgage rates are at a 15-year high of 6.7%, we are in a bear market based on the plunging stock market ($9 trillion dollars in value lost since January,) the Inflation Reduction Act won’t reduce inflation.
They are under water on crime, supply chain, energy independence, border security, international policies.
But they do have some made-up phrases to enter into battle with: “MAGA Republicans,” “extreme MAGA Republicans,” “semi-fascists.” Next time you hear someone use the word “fascist,” ask them what it means. That should be fun. A lot of people just repeat words and phrases that they’ve heard even though they have no idea what the words or phrases actually mean.
Make America extremely great again . . .
