Althouse: At the Monday Night Café...

May 1, 2023

At the Monday Night Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

22 comments:

wildswan said...: As our story begins, Ruckus Carlson is being held prisoner in an oubliette in the sinister fortress of Lackwit the Mordork. An oubliette, as we have all forgotten because it was knowledge we no longer needed, was a special cell in which prisoners were placed by order of a French aristocrat and then, Forgotten. The offences which led to such a dire punishment were grave, usually grouping themselves under the dread headings: Thinking while a peasant, Publishing thought that might confuse the peasants, Imagining human equality. Or anything else. It was good to be an aristocrat then. And our story? Forget about it.

Free Tucker Carlson!; 5/1/23, 6:58 PM
Jamie said...: I feel like Sisyphus, except with no one to blame but myself, on the whole trans thing - I'm so tired of talking about it, but it seems to push every button I have. Is it the targeting of children? Is it the undoing of feminist gains? Is it the sheer hypocrisy of "In this house, we follow the science / In this house, we believe you're a woman (or a man) if YOU believe you're a woman (or a man)"?

I don't know! But this rock is damn heavy!; 5/1/23, 7:31 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Understanding how to Understand

Hint: Arrival (2016) via Plato and Derrida

"Understanding is only possible because of misunderstanding."

I loved this video.; 5/1/23, 9:18 PM
Caroline said...: @jamie, the rock is heavy because lies are burdensome. You are created in the image and likeness of God, and your soul, your bones, your whole being, is chafing to get out from under this illusion.; 5/1/23, 9:51 PM
Rt41Rebel said...: I've been out on Drudge for about the last 7 years, but I still checked in about once a week. It's shifted again. It's all about what George Carlin referred to as entropy. Most of the articles are about the entropy caused by Biden.; 5/2/23, 12:43 AM
Rt41Rebel said...: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=george+carlin+entropy&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:a780e795,vid:egRgweL12Uc; 5/2/23, 12:47 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I was remembering a good friend coworker I had when I worked in pearl river NY late 90s. He was a closeted gay man and he started coming out to family and friends and he didn’t come out… he didn’t tell me until way later one night at a party at his apartment when I sort of confronted him after meeting a woman who used to date him when he was in college. I was like, Bob what happened, why you let this woman go? He looked right at me and told me, Lem I’m gay. I said, oh 😯. He looked at Johanna, another friend of ours standing nearby and said to her, I told him, I told Lem.

Later I remember that when Bob had tried to have the conversation with me I had told him, I didn’t mind if people were gay but I just didn’t understand it. That was enough for Bob to hold back fearful that I would… disapprove of him.; 5/2/23, 2:45 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Mocking is pretending to understand.; 5/2/23, 3:07 AM
Enigma said...: Dr. John Campbell of Youtube underwent a transformation during the pandemic and shifted from being pro-government to a biting critic of establishment corruption and incompetence. Youtube just slapped him with a one-week ban and strike for his interview with a UK politician.

Watch the censored video on Rumble, and use Rumble to discover alternative viewpoints:

https://rumble.com/v2l3cfk-mr-andrew-bridgen-mp.html

https://rumble.com/c/DrJohnCampbell; 5/2/23, 3:14 AM
Clyde said...: RIP to the great singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, 1938-2023. I visited the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point, Michigan in 2021, and his song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is on a loop in the museum. I don't know which songs might have already been posted in the comments, but I'll put links to a few that I like:

Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Official Audio)

Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind

Gordon Lightfoot - Early Mornin' Rain

Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown; 5/2/23, 3:47 AM
wendybar said...: I don't care WHAT you think....Progressivism is a mental disease. HOW in the hell, do 2, 3, or 4 year old toddlers even have an inkling about transgenderism and WHY would you mutilate a baby this age??? I thought I was a cat until I was 4 or 5. I'm sure glad my parents didn't give permission for me to be mutilated into one. THIS is sick. And it proves our country is in the toilet. Thanks, Obama for fundamentally changing us into a mental institution.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/sick-north-carolinas-leading-medical-institutions-duke-unc-and-ecu-offers-transgender-treatments-to-2-3-and-4-years-old/; 5/2/23, 5:13 AM
wendybar said...: "One girl was called Jean Marie
Another little girl was called Felicity
Another little girl was Sally Joy
The other was me, and I'm a boy

My name is Bill, and I'm a head case
They practice making up on my face
Yeah, I feel lucky if I get trousers to wear
Spend evenings taking hairpins from my hair

I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But my ma won't admit it
I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But if I say I am, I get it

Put your frock on, Jean Marie
Plait your hair, Felicity
Paint your nails, little Sally Joy
Put this wig on, little boy

I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But my ma won't admit it
I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But if I say I am, I get it

I want to play cricket on the green
Ride my bike across the street
Cut myself and see my blood
I want to come home all covered in mud

I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But my ma won't admit it
I'm a boy, I'm a boy, I'm a boy
I'm a boy, I'm a boy, I'm a boy, I'm a boy
I'm a boy, I'm a boy, I'm a boy"
Writer/s: PETER TOWNSHEND; 5/2/23, 5:16 AM
wendybar said...: 'Perhaps you’ve seen the video of Lindsay Graham, an Arizona woman who dressed as a cat to speak to her local school board. Graham wore a cat costume, introduced herself as a cat, said “meow, meow,” then asked who believed she was an actual cat. Nobody raised their hands. Which was exactly Graham’s point: nobody believed she was a cat because she’s not a cat. People aren’t stupid. But our Dems believe that we are. A woman doesn’t become a cat because she dresses as one, meows, and calls herself a cat; any more than a biological male becomes female by wearing a dress, heels, lipstick, and calls himself a woman. To accept that Graham is a cat is to accept fantasy for reality and a lie for the truth.'
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/05/a_woman_is_not_a_cat.html; 5/2/23, 5:26 AM
rehajm said...: In other news you won’t get from Althouse Republicans did something good: with the debt ceiling they also killed all that gas stove banning crap comkng from the left…

8 SEC. 10025. GAS KITCHEN RANGES AND OVFNS
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20 administer, or enforce the proposed rule titled "Energy
21 Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards
22 for Consumer Conventional Cooking Products; Supple.
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24 of publie meeting" (88 Fed. Reg. 6818; pablished Feb.
ands for gas kitchen ranges and ovens, or any substantiall
similar rule; 5/2/23, 6:20 AM
wendybar said...: The whole administration are fucking liars.

"“You were not aware that Hunter Biden served on Burisma’s board?” the investigator pressed.

“To the best of my recollection, I was not,” said Blinken, who one month after the grilling became President Biden’s secretary of state.
“Although you denied having any knowledge that Hunter Biden was associated with Burisma, emails reportedly from Hunter Biden’s laptop reveal that your wife, Evan Ryan… corresponded directly with Hunter Biden (from her personal email address) in an apparent attempt to connect you with representatives of Burisma’s US lobbying firm, Blue Star Strategies,” the two senators wrote.
“Although this email exchange did not reference you by name, State Department documents obtained during our investigation make it clear that you were concurrently trying to connect with representatives from Blue Star Strategies.”"
https://nypost.com/2023/05/02/gop-senators-suggest-blinken-lied-about-burisma-was-trying-to-connect-with-firms-us-lobbyists/; 5/2/23, 6:21 AM
Humperdink said...: The racism industrial complex continues it massive search for racial injustice. And lo and behold another example has been uncovered. This time by novice race hustler Eric Adams, mayor of the shrinking apple. The former sanctuary city has been the recipient of busloads of sanctuary seeking illegals. But Hizzoner the Mayor has claimed it's racist to ship these wannabee citizens to cities run by Black mayors. Creativity at it's finest. Higher office is in the offing for the former cop now race grifter.; 5/2/23, 6:30 AM
rhhardin said...: JP Morgan Chase bought First Republic Bank and simultaneously disappeared my savings account. So I know where they got the money.

Left my checking account alone so far.; 5/2/23, 6:40 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: "Climate scientists" falsifying temperature records. Asian tree ring data shows a decline in temperature since 1850, but through manipulation, it was converted to show the infamous Michael Mann hockey stick profile. The methods they used always creates a hockey stick profile, not matter the length of the temperature series or the trend of the raw data. Nice work if you can get it.; 5/2/23, 8:54 AM
wendybar said...: "I’m gonna blow some minds here, so anyone reading will want to sit down first: Wearing make-up and sequin shirts on stage while playing rock music is not the same as telling kids they are the opposite sex and chopping their genitals off."(from Redstate https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/05/02/left-wingers-seethe-in-anger-after-famous-glam-rockers-come-out-against-mutilating-kids-n739868)

https://twitter.com/deesnider/status/1652933403484778497?s=20; 5/2/23, 9:04 AM
wendybar said...: Anybody who believes anything that comes out of this FRAUDULENT WH deserves exactly what they are going to get...GOOD AND HARD!!!

Tim Young
@TimRunsHisMouth
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This might be the worst lie ever told by a White House Press Secretary:

"When it comes to illegal migration, you have seen it come down by more than 90%, and that’s because of the actions that this president has taken." - Karine Jean-Pierre

Geoff Thomas
@vornewsguy
The press corp should just walk out but 99.9% of them are in bed with the government
11:58 PM · May 1, 2023; 5/2/23, 9:15 AM
wendybar said...: George Soros in Drag...

https://gab.com/JustBCuZ/posts/110298591857438824; 5/2/23, 9:32 AM
Humperdink said...: RE: Hunter Biden's child support case. Having one child to support in PA would cost 25% of your gross income. Each additional child would be 5% more. I had three to support. After the last check, my new spouse and I partied. Change in circumstance does not change your earning capacity.

I suspect the good first son is doing what the Bidet's do best, sheltering income.; 5/2/23, 10:13 AM