I’m waiting for the announcement from our learned and well traveled host. When Jack says, “That’s it! We’re now officially a banana republic.” I’ll start to worry. Hopefully, this call will not be like for a recession, the start of which can only be determined retroactively, many months after the fact.
Wow! Hitting the Way Back Machine. Zombies like Fetterman make Franken and Jesse Ventura look almost quaint. OK, now I’m worried. While we’re figuring out which of Dante’s circles we’re in, how about a quick Baruthian take on the UAW strike?
Go look up Senator Tim Scott's response to the strike. Ridiculous. He thinks they should all be canned, because Reagan fired the PATCO members.
Not even close.
I sympathize with the UAW except on the $$$$$ increase amounts. They have collective bargaining and the Big 3 shut down in 2023 really doesn't hurt that much considering how small the Big 3 really is in the market these days.
Air traffic controllers, had the ability to cause complete chaos to the US economy and airplane safety. Also the fact that Fed employees can't strike.
To my understanding when the government stepped in UAW conceded their COLA. $100 in 2009 is now worth $143. Cashwise they're only asking for their COLA back.
Complaining about CEO pay doesn't do any more for auto workers than screen writers complaining about how much actors are paid, or a janitor at a sports stadium complaining about how much pro athletes are paid.
With all their days off, most of them already work the equivalent of 4 day weeks. I have a neighbor who works the line at the local assembly plant. Doesn't work summers.
It would take a GM worker 362 years to make Mary Barra's annual compensation. UAW members have seen their wages rise 6 percent since 2009. Barra's has gone up 34 percent percent since 2019.
You don't have to be Marxist to think that is deeply wrong.
I think it's interesting that it's been couched in terms of CEO pay. There are three ways to look at this, only two of which I have seen mentioned:
1. By percentage: "The Big Three CEOs saw their pay increase by 40% over the last four years, while our pay only went up by 6%," UAW President Shawn Fain said at a news conference last week.
2. International Norms: I can't find it now, but it the US3 bring in less revenue than companies like Toyota, VW, and Daimler, but the CEOs earn several multiuples. Honda's CEO makes only about 1.5 Million versus Farley's $20 M.
3. CEO per worker: This is similar to #2, but for decades companies have been cutting headcount and raising CEO pay. So if, hypothetically, at one time the CEO of GM had $1M compensation for 1M employees, in 2022 GM had only 167k employees and Mary was paid $29 M.
Obviously "profit per worker" is an important metric of an enterprise.
But the GM that had 400k UAW workers (plus white collar folks) was also the world's largest company, period, smaller only than some Soviet state industries. Today's GM is a shadow of its former self.
GM + Ford comes up with a counter proposal. "Mary gets 3 million next year and the same for Farley. We all good?".
The fact that they ARE overpaid doesn't mean that the UAW should have their members use Honda's ratio for compensation. 2 separate things, and I find the big shot compensation appalling.
Not sure what's appalling about it: even Warren Buffet (who is widely considered a capitalist) has complained for decades about how much of the company profits is being commandeered by managers, who are employees.
I'm not sure paying someone $21 million while presiding over billion dollar losses on the EV side is anyone's idea of providing good shareholder value.
Quick Baruthian take: Each and every single person on both sides of this is a massive idiot trying as hard as they can to make sure everybody ends up jobless and out of business.
32 hour work week is a fantasy when Chinese factories for EVs will have dormitories and suicide nets.
CEO pay is out of control, but it's one dude. There'e a limit to how hard he can deplete the firm. Giving every UAW worker an extra $500 costs more than making the CEO richer than Floyd Mayweather.
"32 hour work week is a fantasy when Chinese factories for EVs will have dormitories and suicide nets"
Given that these are hourly employees, the main reason this matters is due to employer-provided healthcare, which arose from WWII wage controls and persists in order to protect the insurance cartel and decrease workers' bargaining power.
Perhaps the idea of ever competing with China was evil; we have to work toward decoupling rather than copying the worst aspects of Communist China.
CEO pay may not be business-threatening at GM, but it certainly is at plenty of small to midsize companies.
But the issue isn't the money in any respect. It's whether the goal is building a business or just looting a pile of assets. That's a legitimately hard decision that both management and the union each have to make. But if one side really does want to build a business, that side is going to have nothing but contempt for asset looters.
Don’t forget the army of consultants the MBA’s have to hire to tell them how to do their jobs. Or to keep their frat brothers in Johnny Walker Blue. One of those things.
CEO “pay” is a misnomer as a huge component of executive comp is stock grants, which costs the company little to give, and is highly aligned with shareholder incentives. Barra received $2.1M in salary and $6.3M in bonus (presumably cash). “Other comp” (probably retirement account contributions and perhaps other perks (auto allowance? Club dues? Jet usage?)) was another $1.1M. The remaining comp ($20M) is all stock options and grants.
In the early 90s its forecourt was a bazaar of Soviet and Cold War junk. You could buy medals, Lenin and Stalin busts, decommissioned light weapons and Soviet army uniforms there.
I was in Warsaw about 8 years ago and it's like the video, lots of lights, same turgid interior. No more Soviet flea market.
If a woman doesn't have children by 30 she will go crazy for violating her prime directive. Same if no grandchildren by menopause. This explains most of our current issues in politics and the corporate world.
No doubt. If you have someone on your tail going into a corner, they may think you are slow, but they will also think you are all in. Very easy to be nerfed off the track if you think too much.
To succeed at just about anything, one has to keep focused on the goal and have faith in oneself. At the same time, there's a reason why we teach kids the story about Icarus.
If one is going to *live* on the edge, one has to keep from going over the edge.
America has a weird way of celebrating its Playboys until they become problematic. Then everything they ever stood for and were encouraged to do is wrong. I personally hate everything.
W.C. Fields once gave out as a Christmas gift a large leather bound book which was embossed on the front in gold letters declaring “Places Where I Am Not Wanted—W.C. Fields”. Inside was the Los Angeles phone book.
See, one could make the case that if a woman's been with more than a dozen men in her life, she's a whore by nature and has abdicated the right to complain about being mistreated.
I don't care what the "Men Are Dogs" and "Women Are Hypergamous Sluts" guys say admiringly about promiscuity, humans are wired to have one long-term sexual partner in their lives.
The teenage boy who gets burned by his crush and decides Never Again, Better Villain Than Victim and the girl who Uses Her Feminine Wiles to get what she wants are both wrong.
I’m sure that in the circles Brand moved in back then his reputation preceded him. I’ll also bet that most if not all of his partners made themselves quite readily available. Why would Brand even make any effort if they were just lined up waiting? Effort just gets in the way and why expend the energy if it’s not necessary?
Remember how Ned Flanders was 60 but looked half that because of clean living, and how Homer lamented that Ned had never actually lived a day in his life?
The writer of the article straight up says she went through hundreds of hours of interviews and apparently contacted as many women hes had contact with as she could. How is this not the journalistic equivalent of entrapment? If you talk to enough people about anyone you will eventually find someone willing to say something bad about them, to say nothing of a self-admittedly promiscuous celebrity. Do people really underestimate what will be done for a bit of ephemeral fame or money? It astounds me(but not really) that people dont see right through this. It’s been a clever game they’ve played - when you spend years proclaiming the nobility of victimhood, its very easy to find victims when they suit your purposes.
If you called the last 20 women with whom I've had sex, five of them would tell you they watched me skin a live cat with a rusty butter knife. It's insane.
The revolution is successful, but survival depends on drastic measures. Your continued existence represents a threat to the well-being of society. Your lives means slow death to the more valued members of the colony. Therefore, I have no alternative but to sentence you to death. Your execution is so ordered. Signed, Kodos, Governor of Tarsus IV. „
Especially if they were paid by the DNC to say you skinned that cat. Good thing you're probably not going to be nominated to the Supreme Court anytime soon. Though I'd say you belong on the Supreme Court much more than John Fetterman belongs in the Senate.
Fetterman's shining accomplishment so far is being a poster boy for Beyond Business Casual. I fail to see considering he has handlers to lead him by a leash, how he can't dress up. There's a few Rs in the Senate that ought to show up in drag and then go "What!!!???!!! You got a problem with that!!!??" But, that might open the door for that kind of stuff on the regular.
I'll never forget watching him on a TV interview with some friends and one saying "I don't like that guy, he always looks so weird and doesn't move his body, can't trust him." Then we told him that he was paralyzed... There's really no excuses for Fetterman other than Dems wanting to rub it in
My favorite part is they exempted senators from the dress code but staff members have to abide by it. Kinda reminds me of Congress and insider trading laws.
Man, this Fetterman thing with the Senate dress code is so unbelievably embarrassing for us. It’s not even like he’s dressed casually but nicely, it’s like he is going out of his way to look slovenly. The contempt is the point, I suppose.
I admire the skill and talent of some tattoo artists, but I'll be really happy when the tat thing is over. No woman's looks have ever been improved by more ink than a small butterfly on her boob or butt.
The whole Fetterman thing is a rouse. Y’all know he’s never worked a day in his life, right? It’s all a cosplay at being an ironworker. The rich imitating the poor so they can take control of the poor.
I think he has to serve a certain amount of time before they can have him step down for health reasons and the Democrat governor can appoint a replacement without the need for an election.
I, logically, accept that the religious girls and guys I knew from the homeschool co-op will likely be happier, in the long run, than any of the SSRI-addled artists and sweet but slutty sorority girls that I’ve banged, or even myself. They’re learning trades, making babies at 20, and not terminally online. I certainly have nicer material possessions, and my future novel will be better than theirs could dream of being, but in a way I envy them. The St. Augustine quip of “Lord, give me chastity and continence, but not yet!” Made an appearance in a class this semester. Plays in my head often now.
I'm not trying to do that. I dont think of myself as someone with a lot of partners. I've owned more cars than I've had girlfriends. My brother once did in a year what I've done in 36 years. I'm not trying to lord anything over anyone in that regard.
Maybe I completely missed the intent, this being the internet, but if people like Brownell or the reddit crowd are particularly daft about consent to this degree, yes, it's a very important and sensitive issue, but sure there is another way to make the point. This is more me thinking out loud.
>It does not work that way. It's like asking a girl "Can I kiss you?" It's pathetic.
I dunno about this. In my younger days I rather liked this approach after opening a nice young woman. Cept it was usually when the casual flirty conversation started to wane, I'd say "so you wanna go fool around?" And they often did. I recall one time sitting on a couch next to a girl in senior high school year and after chatting a bit, I asked her if she wanted to have sex. She said yes, but not right here. Well yes, dear. Like my one degenerate buddy used to say, "just ask em, it's 50/50 yes or no!" Some of our odds are better than others.
These days with the wife are considerably less consensual. It's just more fun for the both of us.
Using sex assault allegations to undermine opposition is part of the women’s studies playbook, and has been taught on college campuses for at least 30 years. Rape has been defined down to “I had a drink that night” or “I affirmatively consented at the time, but changed my mind later.” Go ask a Ukrainian POW what actual rape is like.
Just like how in divorces, it's a standard tactic for the soon-to-be-ex-wife to accuse her husband of sexually abusing the kids, for no better reason than to get leverage in the custody battle.
I think that's an exaggeration, in the sense that "standard" sounds like it's a common occurrence. It is common enough, however, that a lot of family law judges these days reject the charge out of hand because the vast majority of charges of molestation when there is a divorce involved have proven to be false.
Would someone please help out an Englishman struggling with some cultural references here? What does "redpill a lot of fence-sitter/Gray Tribe/casual tankie types" mean? I know what fence-sitter means, but is Gray Tribe just old boomers (er, like me) and wtf are casual tankies? Here a "tankie" is a left-winger who still supported the Soviet Union after they sent the tanks into Czechoslovakia (they still exist, truly - but one could never call them casual with that belief set). Much as I love this site I do sometimes get a bit lost!
You're more or less on point. We have "casual tankies" in the USA who cosplay at being Commies but who would be the first ones up against the wall if Tito came back.
Long indeed it is, particularly for a grasshopper like me. But thank you - I have even forwarded it to my children, which is as high as a compliment can get, imho.
Red Pill is a term from the Matrix movie. Take the red pill and the scales fall from your eyes. It's current usage is men that don't believe women are sugar and spice and everything nice, and given a chance would cut out your liver in the middle of the night to sell it. Then call the cops to say you hit her while you were trying to protect yourself.
I confess I have never seen the Matrix. It came out when my children were tiny, so a bit of cultural reference just glided past me. Now that my hair is silver and dragons no longer roam the earth, I shall put it on my list.
If reports are to be believed, Yuki and Danny boy will be announced as being brought back at Suzuka. This ends up with a rather sticky situation for Lawson who seems incredibly and humble compared to what I expected given even how he looks and dresses. (I know I'm not supposed to judge, but he does look like he'd be a douche... instead he's quickly becoming one of my favorite drivers by just how business like he seems.)
A few rumors have that Williams is knocking trying to get Liam some seat time before Checo's contract is up. Not sure how true that is, but loaning him out to see what he is really made of would make some sort of sense. I have to keep reminding myself that Sergio isn't young anymore. He's got a lot of races under his belt. And, for once, Max didn't see bored this weekend. The challenge returned to driving a less than perfect car. Or rather, the challenge returned to driving a car with more clear flaws.
But, but, but Sargeant is a Yank, and he's a poster boy in the US for F1 racing. F1 needs him. The only reason people watch in the US is because of him.
I don't have Netflix but did have access when visiting my sister about a month ago. So, I turned on some of the episodes of DTS. "WTF!?" were my thoughts. If that's what's selling F1 in the US, the ones that are watching it in the US because of that, had better be more interested in F1 without DTS than with it. I thought it was incredibly stupid. Maybe DTS got you to watch. If you need DTS to stayed interested you will drop F1 somewhere in the next few years.
When I was married, my ex and I would sometimes disagree about what to watch on television. I'd want to watch the Red Wings play hockey and she'd want to watch something like St. Elsewhere or NYPD Blue. I'd tell her, "You want drama? There are at least 200 people in NYC and LA that know exactly how that show will turn out. Nobody knows who' going to win the hockey game. That's dramatic."
Don't get me started with the Bachelor whatever shows. Whenever I'm stuck viewing them I fell like HAL 9000 having my memory modules pulled. "Daisy, Daissssyyyyyyyy....."
My sister years ago was visiting with her oldest when Meghan and Harry tied the knot. He and I were making sport of the TV coverage. She got pissed big time. Today though, she denies any knowledge of that.
Came here to say this. I’ll also add that I hope we see Yuki and Lawson paired at AT next year. It would be fun to see two young talents competing for a seat at the big team come 2025. Ricardo’s time in F1 as far as I’m concerned should be up. I’m sure he’d have zero problems getting a plum factory hypercar seat in WEC if he made himself available.
Fat Brad is back! At Jalopy-necks. Looks like he started Cheeto-dusting his keyboard again on September 11th.
How do I break away from a decade long habit of thinking it is a site worth a daily visit? "Stop Calling Shawn Fain a 'Union Boss'" articles edge me closer, but the eroded promise of some unique insight or story about the auto world still presses me on.
Open thread, therefore super random question. Is there a way to improve reading speed? Mine is the same as speech. I don't move my lips, however. Lots of books to read out there, would like to get through them quicker.
I have no advice to offer, I was a fast reader by the time I was three years old. It was the whole "getting along with other humans" that has always stymied me.
I’ve had that happen on sites that require you to read the Privacy Policy or other such legal gobbledygook that basically says that you’re giving away your great-grandchild’s firstborn--you have to actually scroll through all 1,500 pages of it before you can check the box to consent to aforementioned anal searches without lubrication!
I have a theory on this. Ask my wife I have a theory on everything. I learned to read early but was taught reading in school using flash cards where you learned words by sight, rather than phonetically. It’s a longer process. It takes much longer to read words phonetically. My advice is to read more and your speed will improve. That’s what worked for me as I have to evaluate new word phonetically. Once I know them I am much faster.
My 11 year old grandson howled in delight when I told him how a man knows he's too fat, partly because it was funny, but mostly because I told him an adult joke.
BTW, I sometimes see couples that are both pretty big and wonder how the parts fit.
Look up Bionic Reading. I have always read quickly but can go even faster and still comprehend with that format. That said, I don’t need to read any faster so I don’t use it.
look at the bottom of the words at three spots per line. but it's fun to 'hear' thewords by reading each one. you should be able to do about 1 line/sec.
Things like this are why I am starting to agree with Larry Correia that dueling should be brought back.
I’m waiting for the announcement from our learned and well traveled host. When Jack says, “That’s it! We’re now officially a banana republic.” I’ll start to worry. Hopefully, this call will not be like for a recession, the start of which can only be determined retroactively, many months after the fact.
Hate to say it but I think the minute they "found votes" for Al Franken we made the cut
Wow! Hitting the Way Back Machine. Zombies like Fetterman make Franken and Jesse Ventura look almost quaint. OK, now I’m worried. While we’re figuring out which of Dante’s circles we’re in, how about a quick Baruthian take on the UAW strike?
Go look up Senator Tim Scott's response to the strike. Ridiculous. He thinks they should all be canned, because Reagan fired the PATCO members.
Not even close.
I sympathize with the UAW except on the $$$$$ increase amounts. They have collective bargaining and the Big 3 shut down in 2023 really doesn't hurt that much considering how small the Big 3 really is in the market these days.
Air traffic controllers, had the ability to cause complete chaos to the US economy and airplane safety. Also the fact that Fed employees can't strike.
40% is the number I saw.
To my understanding when the government stepped in UAW conceded their COLA. $100 in 2009 is now worth $143. Cashwise they're only asking for their COLA back.
I hate the UAW, but they exist because of bad management.
Henry Ford paid well because he was such a tyrant, it was the only way he could get ANYONE to work for him.
The Union bringing up how many times CEO compensation has multiplied compared to assembly line workers pay made me laugh.
This Fain guy sure has the Marxist rhetoric down.
It’s funny because the Big 3 CEOs cannot refute this argument. I like watching them squirm. They’re nothing more than rent-seekers.
Complaining about CEO pay doesn't do any more for auto workers than screen writers complaining about how much actors are paid, or a janitor at a sports stadium complaining about how much pro athletes are paid.
Yep, have the board tie your pay to stock price. Use profits or borrow money to buy back shares in your company, therefore raising the price.
Real Henry Ford level geniuses.
It’s in the training materials!
Fain is exceptionally strident. The only thing he’s missing is a hammer & sickle hat.
Early UAW wanted a 32 hour work week but Walter Reuther fought against that for being communism. He wanted workers to work but for a proper wage.
With all their days off, most of them already work the equivalent of 4 day weeks. I have a neighbor who works the line at the local assembly plant. Doesn't work summers.
Trigger warning hot take:
The UAW was the reason the Detroit 2 went bankrupt the first time and will play no small part when they do they next time.
Amplification of hot take with caveats:
The UAW and moronic American leadership are like the two parts of the Little Boy critical mass.
Put the UAW into a Japanese company, and they'll manage to stay afloat.
Give the American leadership a Mexican workforce, and they'll get some Fusions and Hemis out the door.
Put both halves together, and you are GUARANTEED disaster eventually.
NO. 95% of it was due to incompetent and idiot management.
It would take a GM worker 362 years to make Mary Barra's annual compensation. UAW members have seen their wages rise 6 percent since 2009. Barra's has gone up 34 percent percent since 2019.
You don't have to be Marxist to think that is deeply wrong.
I think it's interesting that it's been couched in terms of CEO pay. There are three ways to look at this, only two of which I have seen mentioned:
1. By percentage: "The Big Three CEOs saw their pay increase by 40% over the last four years, while our pay only went up by 6%," UAW President Shawn Fain said at a news conference last week.
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/13/1198938942/high-ceo-pay-inequality-labor-union-uaw-workers
2. International Norms: I can't find it now, but it the US3 bring in less revenue than companies like Toyota, VW, and Daimler, but the CEOs earn several multiuples. Honda's CEO makes only about 1.5 Million versus Farley's $20 M.
3. CEO per worker: This is similar to #2, but for decades companies have been cutting headcount and raising CEO pay. So if, hypothetically, at one time the CEO of GM had $1M compensation for 1M employees, in 2022 GM had only 167k employees and Mary was paid $29 M.
Obviously "profit per worker" is an important metric of an enterprise.
But the GM that had 400k UAW workers (plus white collar folks) was also the world's largest company, period, smaller only than some Soviet state industries. Today's GM is a shadow of its former self.
In this vein, check out the recent Carlos Ghosn documentary on Apple TV+
Watched that on Netflix earlier this year. It’s very good
GM + Ford comes up with a counter proposal. "Mary gets 3 million next year and the same for Farley. We all good?".
The fact that they ARE overpaid doesn't mean that the UAW should have their members use Honda's ratio for compensation. 2 separate things, and I find the big shot compensation appalling.
Not sure what's appalling about it: even Warren Buffet (who is widely considered a capitalist) has complained for decades about how much of the company profits is being commandeered by managers, who are employees.
I'm not sure paying someone $21 million while presiding over billion dollar losses on the EV side is anyone's idea of providing good shareholder value.
Quick Baruthian take: Each and every single person on both sides of this is a massive idiot trying as hard as they can to make sure everybody ends up jobless and out of business.
32 hour work week is a fantasy when Chinese factories for EVs will have dormitories and suicide nets.
CEO pay is out of control, but it's one dude. There'e a limit to how hard he can deplete the firm. Giving every UAW worker an extra $500 costs more than making the CEO richer than Floyd Mayweather.
"32 hour work week is a fantasy when Chinese factories for EVs will have dormitories and suicide nets"
Given that these are hourly employees, the main reason this matters is due to employer-provided healthcare, which arose from WWII wage controls and persists in order to protect the insurance cartel and decrease workers' bargaining power.
Perhaps the idea of ever competing with China was evil; we have to work toward decoupling rather than copying the worst aspects of Communist China.
CEO pay may not be business-threatening at GM, but it certainly is at plenty of small to midsize companies.
But the issue isn't the money in any respect. It's whether the goal is building a business or just looting a pile of assets. That's a legitimately hard decision that both management and the union each have to make. But if one side really does want to build a business, that side is going to have nothing but contempt for asset looters.
Its not just the CEO being overpaid, but the army of useless MBA types below the CEO.
Don’t forget the army of consultants the MBA’s have to hire to tell them how to do their jobs. Or to keep their frat brothers in Johnny Walker Blue. One of those things.
CEO “pay” is a misnomer as a huge component of executive comp is stock grants, which costs the company little to give, and is highly aligned with shareholder incentives. Barra received $2.1M in salary and $6.3M in bonus (presumably cash). “Other comp” (probably retirement account contributions and perhaps other perks (auto allowance? Club dues? Jet usage?)) was another $1.1M. The remaining comp ($20M) is all stock options and grants.
See also Rossi, Dino, loser of the 2004 Washington governor's race after votes for his opponent were "found" in King County
I think that was beta testing.
Lavrentiy Beria smiles.
Great reference! Have you seen The Death of Stalin? Very good movie
Will look for it, thanks!
Steve Buscemi as Khrushchev has to be one of the best casting decisions of all time
When I was a kid I went to shows at the Warsaw Palace of Culture built by the Soviets.
Now we have show trials for dumb chumps who went to Washington on Jan 6 and fucked around.
I had a bunch of relatives slaughtered by both the Nazis and Ukrainians.
Now we're all excited about the war over there.
It's a bit of a muddle.
https://youtu.be/IGTFRJgXwC4?si=di_ZMvIdPJn9iSK2
That's the one.
In the early 90s its forecourt was a bazaar of Soviet and Cold War junk. You could buy medals, Lenin and Stalin busts, decommissioned light weapons and Soviet army uniforms there.
I was in Warsaw about 8 years ago and it's like the video, lots of lights, same turgid interior. No more Soviet flea market.
And the ones who do have kids? In their fifties.
If a woman doesn't have children by 30 she will go crazy for violating her prime directive. Same if no grandchildren by menopause. This explains most of our current issues in politics and the corporate world.
I enjoy Max dunking on Lewis and I hope it will continue.
I’m no literary scholar but I’m sensing your use of the modifier ‘Princess’ is less than complementary. What is it you don’t like about Russell?
That's what Max called him -- I think it's funny and appropriate, he comes off as being such a toff.
He believes people should just move over for him, which implies delusions of Royalty. Max is an asshole, but he was spot on.
They all believe that...
They all do. Grojsean always thought he was Ferrari material.
You have to.
You have to believe you're a golden god.
Because otherwise the car will intimidate you into a casket.
No doubt. If you have someone on your tail going into a corner, they may think you are slow, but they will also think you are all in. Very easy to be nerfed off the track if you think too much.
Why is it that so many things require a man to be a complete and utter douche?
To succeed at just about anything, one has to keep focused on the goal and have faith in oneself. At the same time, there's a reason why we teach kids the story about Icarus.
If one is going to *live* on the edge, one has to keep from going over the edge.
Plus, he’s just so pretty!!!
Truly is. Looks like someone who would play an F1 driver in a movie
America has a weird way of celebrating its Playboys until they become problematic. Then everything they ever stood for and were encouraged to do is wrong. I personally hate everything.
A brief list of things I hate:
1. Everything
Can confirm.
You forgot to add #2: everyone.
You both sound like fun.
I am an effervescent embodiment of joyousness.
Don't tell my wife she won't believe you.
A dog is man's best friend. Women know better.
They are!
Actually I hate parties, too.
W.C. Fields once gave out as a Christmas gift a large leather bound book which was embossed on the front in gold letters declaring “Places Where I Am Not Wanted—W.C. Fields”. Inside was the Los Angeles phone book.
Brilliant! 😂😂
A man of culture.
"Did they ask you to come back?"
"No, they dared us."
"What's a phone book?" - Everyone born after 1992.
"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member." - Julius Henry Marx
#3: Computers.
We turned our world over to a machine that only a few of us truly understand, and hope for the best.
We're one Nork EMP away from The Road Warrior.
You either die a hero, or you live long enough to become a villain.
Old rape claims are unfalsifiable, ergo unscientific.
Let's say the allegations are ture. Those women knew what they were getting into.
Another case of Regret Not Rape.
See, one could make the case that if a woman's been with more than a dozen men in her life, she's a whore by nature and has abdicated the right to complain about being mistreated.
I don't care what the "Men Are Dogs" and "Women Are Hypergamous Sluts" guys say admiringly about promiscuity, humans are wired to have one long-term sexual partner in their lives.
The teenage boy who gets burned by his crush and decides Never Again, Better Villain Than Victim and the girl who Uses Her Feminine Wiles to get what she wants are both wrong.
No, we shouldn't.
We should be asking these women why they didn't come forward immediately after the incident.
They may be lying about the laying.
I’m sure that in the circles Brand moved in back then his reputation preceded him. I’ll also bet that most if not all of his partners made themselves quite readily available. Why would Brand even make any effort if they were just lined up waiting? Effort just gets in the way and why expend the energy if it’s not necessary?
Remember how Ned Flanders was 60 but looked half that because of clean living, and how Homer lamented that Ned had never actually lived a day in his life?
You can't win.
Doesn't statute of limitations apply,, or is that another quaint and obsolete concept?
The writer of the article straight up says she went through hundreds of hours of interviews and apparently contacted as many women hes had contact with as she could. How is this not the journalistic equivalent of entrapment? If you talk to enough people about anyone you will eventually find someone willing to say something bad about them, to say nothing of a self-admittedly promiscuous celebrity. Do people really underestimate what will be done for a bit of ephemeral fame or money? It astounds me(but not really) that people dont see right through this. It’s been a clever game they’ve played - when you spend years proclaiming the nobility of victimhood, its very easy to find victims when they suit your purposes.
I call it getting Kavanagh’d.
If you called the last 20 women with whom I've had sex, five of them would tell you they watched me skin a live cat with a rusty butter knife. It's insane.
Like a woman scorned for Sega
The Dreamcast was pretty awesome...
I don’t think he’s in legal trouble, only under threat of never earning another penny.
Legal system? We run a country that way.
Ok, Did you?
The only thing I've ever done to a cat with a knife was cut up an Outback filet for my five indoor kittens!
No rules, just right!
The strong do what they will, and the weak suffer what they must.
The revolution is successful, but survival depends on drastic measures. Your continued existence represents a threat to the well-being of society. Your lives means slow death to the more valued members of the colony. Therefore, I have no alternative but to sentence you to death. Your execution is so ordered. Signed, Kodos, Governor of Tarsus IV. „
Put a vid of that on your Insta and it'll do NUMBERS
And if you were just a bit more famous, it might be double that! Luckily a cursory glance at your IG tells us youre not capable of such atrocities.
Especially if they were paid by the DNC to say you skinned that cat. Good thing you're probably not going to be nominated to the Supreme Court anytime soon. Though I'd say you belong on the Supreme Court much more than John Fetterman belongs in the Senate.
And between the 4 they can’t get out 1 intelligible sentence.
The Pennsyltucky Orc.
I may use that to piss some people off.
Fetterman's shining accomplishment so far is being a poster boy for Beyond Business Casual. I fail to see considering he has handlers to lead him by a leash, how he can't dress up. There's a few Rs in the Senate that ought to show up in drag and then go "What!!!???!!! You got a problem with that!!!??" But, that might open the door for that kind of stuff on the regular.
Never saw Charles Krauthammer wearing a hoodie.
I'll never forget watching him on a TV interview with some friends and one saying "I don't like that guy, he always looks so weird and doesn't move his body, can't trust him." Then we told him that he was paralyzed... There's really no excuses for Fetterman other than Dems wanting to rub it in
8 years ago when our President was of sound mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkr-lePr7jA&ab_channel=BlazeTV
My favorite part is they exempted senators from the dress code but staff members have to abide by it. Kinda reminds me of Congress and insider trading laws.
Or NYC Met Galas where the elites weren't masked up and the "Help" had black masks on. Might as well have gone all in and dressed them in Gimp suits.
>>There's a few Rs in the Senate that ought to show up in drag
C'mon man. Hasn't worked for Susan Collins this whole time...
I still say that Congressmen should have to dress like the Hamburglar.
I support this idea 100%
How about this?
https://sport.woot.com/offers/rasta-imposta-genie-in-the-lamp-costume-1?cjdata=MXxOfDB8WXww&ref=mwj_cd_deal_9&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=CJ&cjevent=9ee08316587511ee807e00890a82b824&utm_source=Slickdeals+LLC
Or orange jumpsuits
Man, this Fetterman thing with the Senate dress code is so unbelievably embarrassing for us. It’s not even like he’s dressed casually but nicely, it’s like he is going out of his way to look slovenly. The contempt is the point, I suppose.
“Dressing well is a form of good manners.”
-Tom Ford
The grave of Sen. Robert C. Byrd is quaking at the news of US Senators schlubbing around in sweatpants.
And the tatts!
I admire the skill and talent of some tattoo artists, but I'll be really happy when the tat thing is over. No woman's looks have ever been improved by more ink than a small butterfly on her boob or butt.
Fetterman is Schumer's golem.
Nah, the golem protected the community. Look up the original story concerning the Maharal of Prague.
By the way, in my grandparent's Litvak Yiddish, "geilem" was a term of disparagement for someone who had all the brains of an idol made of clay.
The whole Fetterman thing is a rouse. Y’all know he’s never worked a day in his life, right? It’s all a cosplay at being an ironworker. The rich imitating the poor so they can take control of the poor.
MBA from University of Connecticut, MPP from Harvard. “Worked” for dad until dad bought him that town.
He comes across as a halfwit thug with the morals of a sewer rat. Which is his act. Because that's how they see us.
I think he has to serve a certain amount of time before they can have him step down for health reasons and the Democrat governor can appoint a replacement without the need for an election.
I've never thought of you as a half-wit thug, but the morals... well...
kidding
His Mrs. is a piece of work, too. I bet she thinks Eva Peron is a role model.
Absolutely true!
And why are you so intent on talking up these encounters as something worth Lording over the Brownells of the world? Ew..
I can agree with that on the consent part. I'm just annoyed that quantity is used as some sort of trophy to lord over people.
You're dead right on all counts.
How many times can you rip the tape off before it won't stick anymore?
I, logically, accept that the religious girls and guys I knew from the homeschool co-op will likely be happier, in the long run, than any of the SSRI-addled artists and sweet but slutty sorority girls that I’ve banged, or even myself. They’re learning trades, making babies at 20, and not terminally online. I certainly have nicer material possessions, and my future novel will be better than theirs could dream of being, but in a way I envy them. The St. Augustine quip of “Lord, give me chastity and continence, but not yet!” Made an appearance in a class this semester. Plays in my head often now.
Reminds me of that one episode of MTV Cribs where some rapper bragged about having 30 cars.
At least half were Cavaliers and Grand Ams.
I have absolutely fucked a few Sunfires and (under)Achievas.
https://www.theonion.com/report-many-rappers-may-suffer-from-unrealistically-hi-1819564937
I'm not trying to do that. I dont think of myself as someone with a lot of partners. I've owned more cars than I've had girlfriends. My brother once did in a year what I've done in 36 years. I'm not trying to lord anything over anyone in that regard.
Maybe I completely missed the intent, this being the internet, but if people like Brownell or the reddit crowd are particularly daft about consent to this degree, yes, it's a very important and sensitive issue, but sure there is another way to make the point. This is more me thinking out loud.
>It does not work that way. It's like asking a girl "Can I kiss you?" It's pathetic.
I dunno about this. In my younger days I rather liked this approach after opening a nice young woman. Cept it was usually when the casual flirty conversation started to wane, I'd say "so you wanna go fool around?" And they often did. I recall one time sitting on a couch next to a girl in senior high school year and after chatting a bit, I asked her if she wanted to have sex. She said yes, but not right here. Well yes, dear. Like my one degenerate buddy used to say, "just ask em, it's 50/50 yes or no!" Some of our odds are better than others.
These days with the wife are considerably less consensual. It's just more fun for the both of us.
Ill try it and report back.
More proof they're not normal or healthy human beings.
They're all damaged in some way.
Doesn't that say more, Jack, about you? 🤔
Only that I tend to inspire strong reactions in people!
Assuming you haven't been celibate since your latest nuptials, a simple reading of that would include your wife.
So did you gather them all together to watch you skin one cat or did you do it five separate times?
Did it on Zoom
Using sex assault allegations to undermine opposition is part of the women’s studies playbook, and has been taught on college campuses for at least 30 years. Rape has been defined down to “I had a drink that night” or “I affirmatively consented at the time, but changed my mind later.” Go ask a Ukrainian POW what actual rape is like.
They are indeed insufferable. Surely nothing will come of this mentality.
Except the conviction of innocent men.
Good thing that hasn't happened!
Never!
Just like how in divorces, it's a standard tactic for the soon-to-be-ex-wife to accuse her husband of sexually abusing the kids, for no better reason than to get leverage in the custody battle.
I think that's an exaggeration, in the sense that "standard" sounds like it's a common occurrence. It is common enough, however, that a lot of family law judges these days reject the charge out of hand because the vast majority of charges of molestation when there is a divorce involved have proven to be false.
Would someone please help out an Englishman struggling with some cultural references here? What does "redpill a lot of fence-sitter/Gray Tribe/casual tankie types" mean? I know what fence-sitter means, but is Gray Tribe just old boomers (er, like me) and wtf are casual tankies? Here a "tankie" is a left-winger who still supported the Soviet Union after they sent the tanks into Czechoslovakia (they still exist, truly - but one could never call them casual with that belief set). Much as I love this site I do sometimes get a bit lost!
I think the "Grey Tribe" are centrists, like how "Blue Tribe" people are Democrats.
Australians call old folk in camper vans "grey nomads" which I think is a great image.
And they all seem to travel at 50mph, towing their acoustically transparent excrement boxes.
Tru dat!
Tankies is a term for communist, it's a little tongue in cheek here.
Speed has Grey Tribe, referencing slatestarcodex's work originally, I think.
You're more or less on point. We have "casual tankies" in the USA who cosplay at being Commies but who would be the first ones up against the wall if Tito came back.
Gray Tribe is explained here, but it's long: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/
*sent to goli otok to make sand from rocks is more accurate in Tito’s case
Long indeed it is, particularly for a grasshopper like me. But thank you - I have even forwarded it to my children, which is as high as a compliment can get, imho.
"tankies" was originally used for Communist Party of Great Britain members who supported the Soviet's response to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Seven Days of Freedom by Barber should be required reading.
https://archive.org/details/sevendaysoffreed0000barb/
Red Pill is a term from the Matrix movie. Take the red pill and the scales fall from your eyes. It's current usage is men that don't believe women are sugar and spice and everything nice, and given a chance would cut out your liver in the middle of the night to sell it. Then call the cops to say you hit her while you were trying to protect yourself.
Many thanks, all. I was part way there at least!
I confess I have never seen the Matrix. It came out when my children were tiny, so a bit of cultural reference just glided past me. Now that my hair is silver and dragons no longer roam the earth, I shall put it on my list.
Just keep in mind the guys who created it are a couple of trannies, and said it was about transgenderism.
It was. Only movie I ever saw that got a standing ovation when the end credits rolled.
He's had 1000 women and all they could come up with were 4 complaints. I'd say that speaks well for Mr. Brand.
Charlie Kirk??
Yeah, the controlled opposition.
Grifter class.
Someone's got to articulate a movement's policies and ideologies.
Would you say that James Lindsay and Chris Rufo are grifters?
If reports are to be believed, Yuki and Danny boy will be announced as being brought back at Suzuka. This ends up with a rather sticky situation for Lawson who seems incredibly and humble compared to what I expected given even how he looks and dresses. (I know I'm not supposed to judge, but he does look like he'd be a douche... instead he's quickly becoming one of my favorite drivers by just how business like he seems.)
A few rumors have that Williams is knocking trying to get Liam some seat time before Checo's contract is up. Not sure how true that is, but loaning him out to see what he is really made of would make some sort of sense. I have to keep reminding myself that Sergio isn't young anymore. He's got a lot of races under his belt. And, for once, Max didn't see bored this weekend. The challenge returned to driving a less than perfect car. Or rather, the challenge returned to driving a car with more clear flaws.
But, but, but Sargeant is a Yank, and he's a poster boy in the US for F1 racing. F1 needs him. The only reason people watch in the US is because of him.
</sarc>
Ooooof. Yeah, he is a talented driver but seemingly not at this level.
Fun fact, we average like 1.1mil audience in the USA watching F1. Nascar beats it by almost 40% even during crappy weeks.
Watching racing in the USA is basically dead. Watching DTS in the USA... well... that's why Danny Ric is going to continue getting PAID.
I don't have Netflix but did have access when visiting my sister about a month ago. So, I turned on some of the episodes of DTS. "WTF!?" were my thoughts. If that's what's selling F1 in the US, the ones that are watching it in the US because of that, had better be more interested in F1 without DTS than with it. I thought it was incredibly stupid. Maybe DTS got you to watch. If you need DTS to stayed interested you will drop F1 somewhere in the next few years.
I swear it was like watching some slop on Bravo.
In my experience, 90% of what women watch is just like that. "Love Island" and so on.
I usually scream at the people on TV how idiotic it is. I know, they can't hear me.
When I was married, my ex and I would sometimes disagree about what to watch on television. I'd want to watch the Red Wings play hockey and she'd want to watch something like St. Elsewhere or NYPD Blue. I'd tell her, "You want drama? There are at least 200 people in NYC and LA that know exactly how that show will turn out. Nobody knows who' going to win the hockey game. That's dramatic."
Don't get me started with the Bachelor whatever shows. Whenever I'm stuck viewing them I fell like HAL 9000 having my memory modules pulled. "Daisy, Daissssyyyyyyyy....."
My sister years ago was visiting with her oldest when Meghan and Harry tied the knot. He and I were making sport of the TV coverage. She got pissed big time. Today though, she denies any knowledge of that.
OK, I'll bite. What is DTS?
I had to look it up: "Drive to Survive"
I think they used to be Sedan DeVilles.
Fun fact - 70+ million people globally watch an F1 race.
How many people watch NASCAR outside of the USA?
Roughly 69.9 million?
69.69 million lol
Nice!
Came here to say this. I’ll also add that I hope we see Yuki and Lawson paired at AT next year. It would be fun to see two young talents competing for a seat at the big team come 2025. Ricardo’s time in F1 as far as I’m concerned should be up. I’m sure he’d have zero problems getting a plum factory hypercar seat in WEC if he made himself available.
Looks like they're gonna go with the Drive To Survive strategy.
Fat Brad is back! At Jalopy-necks. Looks like he started Cheeto-dusting his keyboard again on September 11th.
How do I break away from a decade long habit of thinking it is a site worth a daily visit? "Stop Calling Shawn Fain a 'Union Boss'" articles edge me closer, but the eroded promise of some unique insight or story about the auto world still presses me on.
```
$ grep jalopnik /etc/hosts
0.0.0.0 jalopnik.com
0.0.0.0 www.jalopnik.com
```
This should be in the root nameservers
Please explain, I don’t speak jive. I mean i haven’t been to Biden’s code camp yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)#Purpose
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)#Extended_applications
Thank you sir!
Treat it like we treated Drudge when he sold out.
Yeah, he cooked his own goose years ago!
Let's check out his work...
"This weekend has convince me, we have fully taken on the roll that Boomers once held in car culture. "
Yup that's Fat Brad.
Literal LOL
Wow, that’s great!
Sir, that is
DISGUSTING
ly funny
The Ballad of Fat Brad (chorus)
🎵 Are you takin' on the rolls?
Storin' the cal-or-ies?
Can you fit through any doors?
Will they sell you any jeans? 🎵
LMAO. The turning point for me was when I realized I was too fat to buy pants at Academy anymore.
Fat girl, I can't believe you're eating again.
Fat girl, where does your neck begin?
Holy shit
I'm not even that bad and this guy is a writer?
(I use that term loosely)
Wtf do those children think the liberal Detroit Free Press called Walter Reuther when he was running the UAW.
About the connotation of the word "boss", will those children deny that Jimmy Hoffa was connected?
You'll never find either of those things on that site. Ever.
Here, you might.
Mostly from you, however.
There's quite a few of us here, where we belong.
RBR ought to throw a race by putting zero side pods on and say "Yep, it doesn't work. Only idiots would think that this was a good idea".
Open thread, therefore super random question. Is there a way to improve reading speed? Mine is the same as speech. I don't move my lips, however. Lots of books to read out there, would like to get through them quicker.
Are you tracing the words with your finger as you go? That usually helps.
Also most books are overrated, and occasionally smell funny.
I'm interested in new books, smell is not an issue.
I have no advice to offer, I was a fast reader by the time I was three years old. It was the whole "getting along with other humans" that has always stymied me.
I’ve had that happen on sites that require you to read the Privacy Policy or other such legal gobbledygook that basically says that you’re giving away your great-grandchild’s firstborn--you have to actually scroll through all 1,500 pages of it before you can check the box to consent to aforementioned anal searches without lubrication!
I have a theory on this. Ask my wife I have a theory on everything. I learned to read early but was taught reading in school using flash cards where you learned words by sight, rather than phonetically. It’s a longer process. It takes much longer to read words phonetically. My advice is to read more and your speed will improve. That’s what worked for me as I have to evaluate new word phonetically. Once I know them I am much faster.
Lift weights, eat saturated fats from animals, supplement creatine.
It makes you smarter too!
I’ve got a twelve inch thrust but lots of that is airtime
M8, it's not the size of the tool, it's how many tools you got in the toolbox 💪
NOW YOU TELL ME!!!!
Well then I'm not doing it, I can't afford to lose an inch and a half, I need it to clear my stomach!
My 11 year old grandson howled in delight when I told him how a man knows he's too fat, partly because it was funny, but mostly because I told him an adult joke.
BTW, I sometimes see couples that are both pretty big and wonder how the parts fit.
Life, um, finds a way.
“Roll it in flour, aim for the wet spot”
Yo momma's so fat...
We're calling them "hogs" now?
Then at least 95% of men have a little oinker. Average is something like 5.2, with small variations depending on ethnicity.
In any case, who wants to worry about hitting an ovary or her being too sore for action the next morning?
We’ve been saying that but only if you’re well endowed.
Look up Bionic Reading. I have always read quickly but can go even faster and still comprehend with that format. That said, I don’t need to read any faster so I don’t use it.
Thanks for the tip I'll check it out.
Need SOMETHING to get through 800 comments in one evening! 😂😂
I spent a LOT of time reading this Substack!
look at the bottom of the words at three spots per line. but it's fun to 'hear' thewords by reading each one. you should be able to do about 1 line/sec.
Is Evelyn Wood still a thing?
No idea, will have to look it up.
It was ~15 years ago. Our HS had an ACT prep class one semester and part of it revolved around it. I found it to be beneficial.