Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:I just met Josh Brolin outside the ski lodge. He was with his wife and a couple other guys. I was walking past and our exchange went like this:

Trag: "Josh -- fellow sober guy. Love you sober content man, sincerely. Thank you."

Josh Brolin: (shaking my extended hand) "Hey thanks man, I appreciate that."

Josh Brolin's wife: "Awww." (Making that sweet pouty face one sometimes makes when you've touched their heart.)

96583UP wrote:

spike wrote:something something 96up

a few observations / opinions from my side from this whole episode:

1) it is remarkable how poor reading comprehensions skills can be

2) having lived the life of a wrongly-labaled maga for a few days, and seeing how quickly the moral high ground left abandoned me, demonstrated first-hand the power of stereotyping, misinformation, and the power and potential danger internet poses

3) it must be terrifying for any public figure from any industry to log on online and see the hate waiting for them in various places

4) watching woke piranhas descend on a maga target is a miserable sight. they might be as bad as maga in their willingness to insult and reduce the opponent to worthless status. a reminder perhaps that for the universe to exist in balance there must be both

5) the articles that you click on don’t make you a better person

6) Obama was a once in a generation orator and I doubt we will see a compelling enough candidate any time soon sufficient to both band together the tribes of visceral hate idealist left and crossover to independent and moderate red voters

7) why don’t the woke piranhas question the Dems own graft? why are elizabeth warren and chuck schumer worth $50mm+ on a $200k/yr salary? are they too busy obsessing over the orange man they are missing the big picture? there are reasons why ‘maga’ want to drain the swamp that would presumably appeal to ‘both teams’

<braces for pitchforks and torches>

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

96583UP wrote:having lived the life of a wrongly-labaled maga for a few days

Jorge wrote:

96583UP wrote:

spike wrote:something something 96up

a few observations / opinions from my side from this whole episode:

1) it is remarkable how poor reading comprehensions skills can be

2) having lived the life of a wrongly-labaled maga for a few days, and seeing how quickly the moral high ground left abandoned me, demonstrated first-hand the power of stereotyping, misinformation, and the power and potential danger internet poses

3) it must be terrifying for any public figure from any industry to log on online and see the hate waiting for them in various places

4) watching woke piranhas descend on a maga target is a miserable sight. they might be as bad as maga in their willingness to insult and reduce the opponent to worthless status. a reminder perhaps that for the universe to exist in balance there must be both

5) the articles that you click on don’t make you a better person

6) Obama was a once in a generation orator and I doubt we will see a compelling enough candidate any time soon sufficient to both band together the tribes of visceral hate idealist left and crossover to independent and moderate red voters

7) why don’t the woke piranhas question the Dems own graft? why are elizabeth warren and chuck schumer worth $50mm+ on a $200k/yr salary? are they too busy obsessing over the orange man they are missing the big picture? there are reasons why ‘maga’ want to drain the swamp that would presumably appeal to ‘both teams’

<braces for pitchforks and torches>

Glad you came back. I mean no offense but I've been surprised by how this affected you. From where I stood it didn't look too different from any other RM disagreement. Probably on the tamer side even. We will push past it and everything will be OK

Jorge wrote:

96583UP wrote:

spike wrote:something something 96up

a few observations / opinions from my side from this whole episode:

1) it is remarkable how poor reading comprehensions skills can be

2) having lived the life of a wrongly-labaled maga for a few days, and seeing how quickly the moral high ground left abandoned me, demonstrated first-hand the power of stereotyping, misinformation, and the power and potential danger internet poses

3) it must be terrifying for any public figure from any industry to log on online and see the hate waiting for them in various places

4) watching woke piranhas descend on a maga target is a miserable sight. they might be as bad as maga in their willingness to insult and reduce the opponent to worthless status. a reminder perhaps that for the universe to exist in balance there must be both

5) the articles that you click on don’t make you a better person

6) Obama was a once in a generation orator and I doubt we will see a compelling enough candidate any time soon sufficient to both band together the tribes of visceral hate idealist left and crossover to independent and moderate red voters

7) why don’t the woke piranhas question the Dems own graft? why are elizabeth warren and chuck schumer worth $50mm+ on a $200k/yr salary? are they too busy obsessing over the orange man they are missing the big picture? there are reasons why ‘maga’ want to drain the swamp that would presumably appeal to ‘both teams’

<braces for pitchforks and torches>

Glad you came back. I mean no offense but I've been surprised by how this affected you. From where I stood it didn't look too different from any other RM disagreement. Probably on the tamer side even. We will push past it and everything will be OK

Ello Sailor wrote:

96583UP wrote:having lived the life of a wrongly-labaled maga for a few days

Hey man, I came out and said you weren't MAGA. What you said about Zelensky was pretty wild though. Dude is a straight up hero.

Also, piranhas mostly feed on rotting flesh. Is there something going on with your junk that you haven't told us about?

Jorge wrote:What should I tell him?

tree_ wrote:Time for a meditation session

96583UP wrote:

spike wrote:something something 96up

a few observations / opinions from my side from this whole episode:

1) it is remarkable how poor reading comprehensions skills can be

2) having lived the life of a wrongly-labaled maga for a few days, and seeing how quickly the moral high ground left abandoned me, demonstrated first-hand the power of stereotyping, misinformation, and the power and potential danger internet poses

3) it must be terrifying for any public figure from any industry to log on online and see the hate waiting for them in various places

4) watching woke piranhas descend on a maga target is a miserable sight. they might be as bad as maga in their willingness to insult and reduce the opponent to worthless status. a reminder perhaps that for the universe to exist in balance there must be both

5) the articles that you click on don’t make you a better person

6) Obama was a once in a generation orator and I doubt we will see a compelling enough candidate any time soon sufficient to both band together the tribes of visceral hate idealist left and crossover to independent and moderate red voters

7) why don’t the woke piranhas question the Dems own graft? why are elizabeth warren and chuck schumer worth $50mm+ on a $200k/yr salary? are they too busy obsessing over the orange man they are missing the big picture? there are reasons why ‘maga’ want to drain the swamp that would presumably appeal to ‘both teams’

<braces for pitchforks and torches>

Jorge wrote:

96583UP wrote:

spike wrote:something something 96up

a few observations / opinions from my side from this whole episode:

1) it is remarkable how poor reading comprehensions skills can be

2) having lived the life of a wrongly-labaled maga for a few days, and seeing how quickly the moral high ground left abandoned me, demonstrated first-hand the power of stereotyping, misinformation, and the power and potential danger internet poses

3) it must be terrifying for any public figure from any industry to log on online and see the hate waiting for them in various places

4) watching woke piranhas descend on a maga target is a miserable sight. they might be as bad as maga in their willingness to insult and reduce the opponent to worthless status. a reminder perhaps that for the universe to exist in balance there must be both

5) the articles that you click on don’t make you a better person

6) Obama was a once in a generation orator and I doubt we will see a compelling enough candidate any time soon sufficient to both band together the tribes of visceral hate idealist left and crossover to independent and moderate red voters

7) why don’t the woke piranhas question the Dems own graft? why are elizabeth warren and chuck schumer worth $50mm+ on a $200k/yr salary? are they too busy obsessing over the orange man they are missing the big picture? there are reasons why ‘maga’ want to drain the swamp that would presumably appeal to ‘both teams’

<braces for pitchforks and torches>

Glad you came back. I mean no offense but I've been surprised by how this affected you. From where I stood it didn't look too different from any other RM disagreement. Probably on the tamer side even. We will push past it and everything will be OK