The Truman Tavern of Simple Truths and Smart One-Liners 33 1/3: The Final Insult

[Sir Mohamed]

How it started ...

2021: Russian military second strongest in the world

2022: Russian military second strongest in Ukraine

2023: Russian military second strongest in Russia

... how it's going.

[Donerail]

America is still a villainous evil empire because of treaties we signed centuries ago to relocate a couple thousand native americans off of land we wanted to use for settlement, agriculture, and natural resource extraction.

[Sestak]

We do not need a thread about your fetishes.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

The english language used in Shakespeare is outdated, that is exactly true. It is in fact more outdated for example than Dante's Italian in The Divine Comedy which was written centuries before but is closer to modern Italian than Shakespeare is to modern English.

This is just ignorance and reflects a deficient education.

[Mechavada]

Somehow this country survived 2 terms of George W Bush

[Citation Needed]

[They not like us]

Filed under: posts that are correct but not in the way the poster intended

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/31/politics/mitch-mcconnell-health/index.html

Following a recent concussion after falling and hitting his head in March, coupled with his two public frozen moments, Republican senators and aides told CNN they are doubtful he will try to run for the job again – potentially opening up the GOP leadership role for the first time since McConnell took the reins in 2007.

According to this CNN quote, McConnell is unlikely to run again for leader next term.
However it also appears like McConnell intends to also finish out his term in office.

The leadership race will probably become Cornyn vs Thune vs Barrasso, which could be anyone's race.

And nothing of value was lost!

McConnell prevented Reid from able to run all over over the gop in 2009-10 and basically turned Obama’s presidency into a more liberal version of Bill Clinton rather than being a transformative progressive leader . It was really thanks to McConnell then that the democrats in 2009-10 had their agenda watered down

[Antonio the Sixth]

BigSerg, compucomp, RedVelvet, Hermit, Shaula, RedBan, Haley/Ryan, Woodbury, BG-NY, and the rest of these basement-dwelling braindead retards need to be chased off this site one way or another. Either let us personally attack them until they cry, or just ban them and save us the trouble-- either way, the status quo needs to change. The current discourse is the worst I've ever seen in my four years on Atlas.

[certified hummus supporter 🇵🇸🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦]

I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED from beyond the grave to speak to this, truly the greatest moral crisis ever to face the Atlas Foram Blog. If the enemies of justice would not hear me, avert your eyes, infidels, traitors to history, and despair.

Dule should not have wished for BigSerg to take his own life. No-one who knows Serg, as once I knew him, would ever hope for him to suffer such a fate. Yes, we want him to attempt suicide, but not to die from it. We want him to live! We wish for him an interminable, agonizing existence, lying alone in a hospital cot, one moment after the next, changeless, uninterrupted, with only the beep-beep of the heart monitor for accompaniment, counting down the final minutes, hours, weeks, decades of his worthless, miserable life. We eagerly anticipate the day when Mister Serg and all those who think like him are expunged from the rostra of the human family and the many billions yet unborn are forever free from the tyranny of tedium that they sustained. That day is fast approaching! The joy we can expect has graced the human heart but once before, in 1945, on the day of freedom’s final victory over fascism the world over. On that day the free peoples of the world vanquished an enemy mightier than any who had marched against mankind. Our victory will never be so glorious, for it is the overthrow of those who only ever dreamed of evil—a weak, petulant, sniveling class of simpletons and mediocrities, the refuse of the human species, who cause even the grifters and penny-scam artists to recoil in disgust. Their fraudulent machismo and hollow smugness cannot conceal the depths of their own depravity—not the horrors of a Hitler or a Pol Pot, but the sad wreckage of unwanted boys who could only ever play at manhood.

I assume the cowards and wilting pansies in the mod cave will delete this, the last post I will ever make on this godless, God-forsaken forum. If Dule is banned, it is the moral weakness of a community that has for years (for decades) permitted Nazis, white supremacists, and vile bigots to clog its councils that condemns him. Free speech is for those who desire freedom. These sniveling sycophants for a washed-up warlord deserve nothing but the Holy justice that is assuredly coming for them.

[President Johnson]

If there was a mathematical equation to determine how punchable someone's face is, it would be called The Gaetz Quotent

[Kamala's side hoe]

Not a one-liner but I didn't know where else to quote-post this. All normies and even most non-normies definitely don't think too hard about the implications of being "pro-Israel" or "pro-Palestine".

Lots of normal people don't follow the specifics of the conflict, they just pick a side and then angrily stick with it. Of course with Israel/Palestine, it leads to stupidity like this. I don't believe though that many people have actually thought it through and think Jewish babies should be killed and Holocaust survivors sent to die in a tunnel in Gaza.

[They not like us]

Also slightly more extended than a one-liner, but given the context of the thread, this is a really great point:

Good grief.

Of all places on the internet, this forum should be the one place that doesn’t take this BS.

We know what bad and bad-faith methodology looks like, what results are so inconceivable that they call the whole poll into question, what a decent subsamble size looks like, the dangers of casting moral judgements on “don’t know”s, how wonky polls can get with low name-rec figures, etc., etc.

We know better. Come on.

[Kamala's side hoe]

Haven't been following the Argentine 2023 election cycle that closely, but I think these blurbs from Cody and Estrella are good TL;DRs of the results.

Step 1: call the Pope, who is from your country, a socialist son of a bitch.
Step 2: call Margaret Thatcher, who won a war against your country, your hero.
Step 3:
Step 4: win.

I’d like to congratulate the Argentine people for deciding to drive their country off a cliff in a new, exciting way instead of the usual boring Peronist way.

[Kamala's side hoe]

There are a couple of related reasons that opinion on the forum is different than opinion among young people in general. The first is that there is a strong tendency among posters on this forum, especially younger ones, to imagine themselves as politicians and to take positions they view as electorally successful. (This is why, for instance, there has historically been a preponderance of "Rockefeller Republicans" on this forum and nowhere else.) The second is that opposition to the government of Israel is a position openly expressed by almost no elected officials in this country, meaning that it is a position espoused primarily through social activism rather than through electoral politics. This forum has always been extremely hostile to and dismissive of social activism of all types, which makes sense for a forum about elections but does lead to some real blind spots.

It wouldn't happen on this forum, of course, but sometimes people can have the temerity to care about things even when those things aren't electorally favorable for Democrats.

[Kamala's side hoe]

There are a couple of related reasons that opinion on the forum is different than opinion among young people in general. The first is that there is a strong tendency among posters on this forum, especially younger ones, to imagine themselves as politicians and to take positions they view as electorally successful. (This is why, for instance, there has historically been a preponderance of "Rockefeller Republicans" on this forum and nowhere else.) The second is that opposition to the government of Israel is a position openly expressed by almost no elected officials in this country, meaning that it is a position espoused primarily through social activism rather than through electoral politics. This forum has always been extremely hostile to and dismissive of social activism of all types, which makes sense for a forum about elections but does lead to some real blind spots.

It wouldn't happen on this forum, of course, but sometimes people can have the temerity to care about things even when those things aren't electorally favorable for Democrats.

I don't care if this R-Filastin avatar is somebody's sock, this is a splendid roast of USGD and Int'l GD posters

It's really telling that everyone is doing weird psychological analyses of progressives, usually to draw grand theoretical proclamations about how all progressives think, instead of just going "uh, the US federal government is using taxpayer $$$ to fund what is going on in Gaza."

That, and progressives are actually disproportionately Jewish, and if you grow up in the USA as a Jew, Israel to some extent is inescapable (ie, you probably at least know someone who went on birthright, got taught about Israel in Hebrew school, etc.). And so you're likely to form a strong opinion on Israel, in this case, negative.

It's clear to me that the demographic that touches the least grass is liberal centrists under 35.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

There are a couple of related reasons that opinion on the forum is different than opinion among young people in general. The first is that there is a strong tendency among posters on this forum, especially younger ones, to imagine themselves as politicians and to take positions they view as electorally successful. (This is why, for instance, there has historically been a preponderance of "Rockefeller Republicans" on this forum and nowhere else.) The second is that opposition to the government of Israel is a position openly expressed by almost no elected officials in this country, meaning that it is a position espoused primarily through social activism rather than through electoral politics. This forum has always been extremely hostile to and dismissive of social activism of all types, which makes sense for a forum about elections but does lead to some real blind spots.

It wouldn't happen on this forum, of course, but sometimes people can have the temerity to care about things even when those things aren't electorally favorable for Democrats.

I don't care if this R-Filastin avatar is somebody's sock, this is a splendid roast of USGD and Int'l GD posters

It's really telling that everyone is doing weird psychological analyses of progressives, usually to draw grand theoretical proclamations about how all progressives think, instead of just going "uh, the US federal government is using taxpayer $$$ to fund what is going on in Gaza."

That, and progressives are actually disproportionately Jewish, and if you grow up in the USA as a Jew, Israel to some extent is inescapable (ie, you probably at least know someone who went on birthright, got taught about Israel in Hebrew school, etc.). And so you're likely to form a strong opinion on Israel, in this case, negative.

It's clear to me that the demographic that touches the least grass is liberal centrists under 35.

Imagine actually believing that “liberal centrists” are a thing that exists   Those are mutually exclusive terms.

[Goldwater]

Imagine actually believing that “liberal centrists” are a thing that exists   Those are mutually exclusive terms.

You must be using very different definitions of "liberal" and "centrist" than I am used to.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Imagine actually believing that “liberal centrists” are a thing that exists   Those are mutually exclusive terms.

You must be using very different definitions of "liberal" and "centrist" than I am used to.

American politics definition of liberal, not the European politics definition

[Horus]

There are a couple of related reasons that opinion on the forum is different than opinion among young people in general. The first is that there is a strong tendency among posters on this forum, especially younger ones, to imagine themselves as politicians and to take positions they view as electorally successful. (This is why, for instance, there has historically been a preponderance of "Rockefeller Republicans" on this forum and nowhere else.) The second is that opposition to the government of Israel is a position openly expressed by almost no elected officials in this country, meaning that it is a position espoused primarily through social activism rather than through electoral politics. This forum has always been extremely hostile to and dismissive of social activism of all types, which makes sense for a forum about elections but does lead to some real blind spots.

It wouldn't happen on this forum, of course, but sometimes people can have the temerity to care about things even when those things aren't electorally favorable for Democrats.

I don't care if this R-Filastin avatar is somebody's sock, this is a splendid roast of USGD and Int'l GD posters

It's really telling that everyone is doing weird psychological analyses of progressives, usually to draw grand theoretical proclamations about how all progressives think, instead of just going "uh, the US federal government is using taxpayer $$$ to fund what is going on in Gaza."

That, and progressives are actually disproportionately Jewish, and if you grow up in the USA as a Jew, Israel to some extent is inescapable (ie, you probably at least know someone who went on birthright, got taught about Israel in Hebrew school, etc.). And so you're likely to form a strong opinion on Israel, in this case, negative.

It's clear to me that the demographic that touches the least grass is liberal centrists under 35.

Imagine actually believing that “liberal centrists” are a thing that exists   Those are mutually exclusive terms.

You would say this since you are one lol

[Goldwater]

Imagine actually believing that “liberal centrists” are a thing that exists   Those are mutually exclusive terms.

You must be using very different definitions of "liberal" and "centrist" than I am used to.

American politics definition of liberal, not the European politics definition

I still don't see how that's mutually exclusive with being a centrist.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Imagine actually believing that “liberal centrists” are a thing that exists   Those are mutually exclusive terms.

You must be using very different definitions of "liberal" and "centrist" than I am used to.

American politics definition of liberal, not the European politics definition

I still don't see how that's mutually exclusive with being a centrist.

Liberal is basically a synonym for progressive.  Not sure how you can be a liberal/progressive and a centrist at the same time.

[Mechavada]

Really hits the "there's nothing that's wrong with America that can't be fixed by what's right with America" vibes for me:

George Floyd is not a good person

Neither are you, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't care if a cop killed you in cold blood.

[Badger]

Credit where credit is due.

Great use of the taxpayer's time and money. Performative resolutions like this should be illegal.

To be fair, aside from picking on the gays, what else does my legislature actually do?

[darklordoftech]

The blueprint is simple:

End zoning regulations.
Remove construction red tape.
Eliminate permitting.
Eliminate height limits.
Smash HOAs.
Smash NIMBYs.
Repeal NEPA and CEQA requirements on predeveloped sites.
Eliminate mandatory parking requirements.
Tear up parking lots.
Tear down malls.
Build transit.
Build apartments.
Build mixed-use neighborhoods.

It is insanely easy. When will they learn?

[Mechavada]

You can question anything you like, just don't pitch a fit when the answer isn't what you were hoping for.

[Kamala's side hoe]

CAMBODIAN: Is that who I think it is? FINALLY! I've been waiting for you for forty-five years you f---ing monster, enjoy the lowest circle of Hell!
HENRY KISSINGER: But consider zis: if I hadn't stopped ze guy über zere, you'd have been waiting here for fifty years.
RICHARD NIXON [coming closer]: Hey, long time no see Henry! But what are you doing?
HENRY KISSINGER: I am echsplaining to zis Cambodian why he should be grateful to me.
RICHARD NIXON: A Cambodian? Damn Henry, all these years and you're still so goddamned concerned about the civilians.

Not a one-liner but I loved the implicit references to Futurama Nixon.