Lara Trump was on Fox news, discussing inflation before veering off topic and in to the culture wars;
Here’s a transcript, courtesy of Mediaite.
They have told us from the beginning that they want to fundamentally transform America. Well, how do you that? You have to change America from the inside-out. You have to take away our traditions. … ‘Oh, don’t have a turkey, then people won’t come over.’ Last year, remember, they didn’t want us to get together, so I guess we’re lucky they’re letting us have Thanksgiving this year.
How dare the libs try to protect people from COVID.
At really, the core of this, they want to divide Americans up. They don’t want us to have any common ground. They don’t want us to have any shared traditions like Thanksgiving. A lot of places last month actually did away with Halloween because they wanted to be inclusive of the people that didn’t celebrate Halloween.
Er, what? Can I get a citation here on this Halloween thing?
It all goes to fundamentally transforming this country, and the way you do that is you make sure that we have no commonality whatsoever, no traditions as Americans whatsoever. You start chipping away at that, and they don’t care that Thanksgiving costs a lot more.
So wait, the libs are trying to destroy Thanksgiving so that no one will notice rising inflation? That is indeed a new one.
Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving, if you’re into that sort of thing. I’m planning on shoveling stuffing into my mouth until I pass out.
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@ Vicky P
I’m glad you found it interesting.
There’s quite a booming local film industry here now. Because of stuff like Poldark, Doc Martin, and Game of Thrones there’s all the relevant support services.
It’s funny; the bad husband in An Tarow is someone I used to work with. He’s really nice in real life; and also quite posh. But he’s getting a nice little career for himself playing moody Cornishmen. This is a film well worth checking out for the ‘behind the postcard‘ Cornwall.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/sep/01/bait-review-mark-jenkin-cornish-fishing-village
@ battering lamb
I hear you!
@GSS ex-noob
But the route to your own divinity is through you and your instinct! Yeah I am definitely one to advocate for fitness and health for all people whatever their goal in life, goddess or otherwise, but I assure you divinity is not dependent on any particular calisthenic move! Case in point is your awesome gorgeous gold lame and hot guy serving you story from a few threads ago which I loved by the way!
@ .45
Absolutely.
Why would I of all entities in the multiverse ever mock any fetish or kink especially a common one like that?
Anyone who had read even two words of me knows what I mock in men is their entitlement and attempts to deny my choice of sexual partners not any particular fetish ever. If a guy leaves me alone he can have all the foot fetish in the world and if he’s decent maybe he’ll find someone to enjoy it with.
Doubtful!
@Battering Lamb
Thanks you! So far they are. I still need to do more seeing how I can make my latex bodypaint on the calves blend in properly with them so it looks as natural as possible. My skin can only take so much of the latex going on and off so repeatedly so there will be a break for a few days. That’s a great example of how the trolls and wankers don’t get how physically hard this is. It’s so cool it’s worth it.
Yes I will also definitely have horns. The sight of horns and hooves and what they evoke juxtaposed with a small, slender conventionally attractive cis woman’s body like mine is what I’m enjoying. That is that kind of mix of frightening appearance with an appearance of conventional “sexiness” as patriarchially defined. That’s why I want my body in just bodypaint when I have horns and hooves. I love that. The one time so far already when I was entirely in gold metallic latex full bodypaint with hooves I wanted to act a little meaner, speak more sharply and yell more and I did get into that zone pretty easily…the horns will help so I will really “be” this demonic-erotic supernatural bitch being.
@.45 (again)
See I told you
@ TyrantBitchGoddessStacey
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that some of your stable discover a desire for foot worship once you get your hooves in order. (Not that I expect to be told – this is all very much your business.)
@ Alan
That picture pretty much captures me of late. I have a couple of short work weeks coming up that I hope will help Lately I’ve been wondering if it’s the diabetes, a post-stroke effect, or just “working in healthcare during a pandemic.” Or stress related to worrying about my MIL – she’s home from the hospital now and sounding quite chipper, which has relieved Mr. Parasol to no end. So many possibilities. (And in case anyone’s concerned, my last round of lab work was fine, and that was just last month.)
Since night has fallen in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone:
…to those of you out there who celebrate it! (Renderings copypasted from: https://gehayi.tumblr.com/post/669138820129767424/homoqueerjewhobbit-glintglimmergleam)
Indeed, a happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate it (or just like fried food).
@GoddessStacey: Alas, my gold lame outfit is several sizes too small now. Also I’m a bit leery of strangers being close to me, since I don’t have any trusted worshippers lined up. I will have to brainstorm a persona that I can sit down in comfy clothes with. Which is a very royal thing to do, everyone else must stand or kneel. I’m definitely not strong enough for my old chain mail bikini any more. Maybe I can find some nice submissive men who will do housework. I bark orders great.
@Allandrel: that sounds like a fun game.
But first, I must eat leftovers.
The batshittery gets more so:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-hero-michael-flynn-secretly-said-qanon-is-total-nonsense
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/lin-wood-sidney-powell-stop-steal-scam-1263665/
And I hear My Pillow guy is now taking his ads off Christian radio because they’re too woke or something.
Also, here’s a simplified infographic guide to What Various Jewish Holidays Are About:
http://64.media.tumblr.com/cc7e42cc18706b66df8dbb99f62a0f5e/dff6c1b5b8096a24-95/s500x750/5b3ebf5288c24f11d30f6cd6f54ef581d54a3658.jpg
Hey, all! I was surfing by and thought I’d drop in n say “hi” to all my brothers n sisters n gender non-conforming friends here!
re: burpees…. Hadda look that up. I remember the exercise from sports training in high school. I believe we just called them “why-the-hell-did-I-get-up-early-for-this?”
re: drilling holes in one’s appendages…. Every time I go in my shop, I’m channelling my high school shop instructors… “don’t use a screwdriver on something you’re holding in your hand” (damn! that hurt) :)… “you’re not REALLY trying to cut on the back-stroke with that saw…?”… and of course, “measure once, cut twice!” …. (wait… that’s not right)
On th’ topic, I had thanx giving with my best friend n her brother n his family. We had chicken. I have some experience with holiday erasure from a stint in the past with a fundamentalist xian church that didn’t celebrate ANY of them. The Fundy church I grew up in had a haunted house in the church at Halloween… which, even at the time, I thought was fundamentally BIZ-f’n-ZARRE
Eddie! Good to see you.
Also, I’ve heard about those! They sound absolutely wild and my sense of morbid curiousity makes me really want to see one, once.
But then I remember how I’d probably be an exhibit in the haunted house, and the fascination passes swiftly into “ew”.
Happy Hanukkah to those who celebrate it.
@Weird Eddie:
Good to hear from you!
Let me guess: was the haunted attraction your church conducted by any chance a Hell House, devoted to portraying the ghastly consequences of sin and the torments awaiting the damned? (There used to be a company selling kits for such, including instructions for special effects to simulate abortion gore.) I recall one description of a Hell House scenario including a teenage girl in a skimpy nightie being exorcised, in a skimpy nightgown and bound spread-eagled and writhing to a four-poster bed; I’m sure that didn’t scratch any prurient itches.
(For whatever it might be worth, I’m an unswerving top when it comes to haunted attractions: hate visiting them, love performing in them.)
@ contrapanglos, Full Metal Ox:
Thanx for the kind greetings!
As I remember, the haunted house was pretty much secular, just ghosts’n’scary noises, etc.
The hellfire n brimstone teachings woulda been wasted on me, I gave no shits what the guy in the front of the sanctuary was saying — I was downstairs where the singing was happening. To this day I have a soft spot for what I call “depression-era xian gospel.”
@GoddessStacy (if I may call you Goddess) You paint a VIVID picture!
Hope everyone is safe and well!
So, okay… I need to thank David for a very strange coincidence — actually for the results of said coincidence.
In a post several days ago, David referenced a book by Johnathan Haidt. I had read that book in ’18 or ’19, and I SHOULD HAVE had it in my Kindle. Not seeing it, I started investigating… and found a “secret library” in the Kindle which had 21 of my books, which were not displayed on the “main” library list!!!
I’m having some issues with what I call “old people’s memory,” and I had thought the info I was searching for was in another book on the Kindle. When I read David’s post my memory of the book was triggered!
THANX, DAVID!!!
(and thanx, bezos, you predatory capitalist m*****f***** for hiding my books)
@ weird eddie
Are you having that thing where you go into a room to fetch something and you can’t remember what it was.
Then you go back into the kitchen and it’s “Oh yeah; fire extinguisher.”
Well, there has been research that links going through a doorway with forgetting stuff. So that would also be an factor there.
@ battering lamb
Yeah, I saw that paper. Amazing. People in open plan homes are less forgetful!
@ Stacey
Remember we were saying about NFTing performances?
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/nov/29/royal-ballet-dancer-natalia-osipova-to-auction-worlds-first-ballet-nfts
re: “oh, yeah, fire extinguisher” 🙂 🙂 🙂
@Alan, Buttercup:. Have you a reference on the “doorway memory” paper? I’m having trouble getting google to understand my query… 🙁 Any clue will help.
Also, a general call to social activists across the world (or, more exactly, the English-speaking west)…
Off the topic: Can we PLEASE stop calling conservative/trumpling conspiracy nonsense “theories?” These are at best “conjectures.”. I would suggest the term “conspiracy fantasies!”
Regarding the doorway memory, I got it
Elaine the Witch. Also I know where your handle comes from !!! Let us celebrate Sci Fi ! I also am Elaine and the Witch.
@Eddie, the phrase ‘doorways make us forget’ turned up stuff on duck duck go, eg https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180309-why-does-walking-through-doorways-make-us-forget https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/ (This one from 2011) https://theconversation.com/its-not-just-doorways-that-make-us-forget-what-we-came-for-in-the-next-room-156030
Very interesting isn’t it
Thanks for the info on Jewish holidays! Shared it my my bff who grew up in Israel to very it’s accuracy.
Happy second day of Hanukkah
Question for the dog experts here. I spent Thanksgiving over at my sister-in-law’s house. One of my niece’s brought her dog with her, and for some reason I can’t figure, the dog doesn’t like me. Like, I opened the door to the house and he tried to nip my fingers before I even stepped inside. Luckily my niece was there to keep ‘Nipper’ in line, and to make sure he understood that I wasn’t on the menu.
He just stalked around me instead, making sure I knew he was keeping his eye on me so I wouldn’t try anything ’funny’ while he was around. He also at times would lay down at my feet, licked the side of my shirt at one point, seemed to want a muzzle scritch when I was giving two other dogs present one, and ‘bumped’ my thigh with his nose more than once (though a couple of those were actual nips, base on what I felt through my jeans).
My question for the hive mind here is, how should I handle this dog going forward? Outside of taking a dislike to me (and two other women that I know of), Nipper is a good dog. He’s good around children and the majority of my niece’s friends, and does listen when he’s told ‘no’. He’s a shelter dog, and it’s suspected he was abused before his previous owners dumped him in the middle of nowhere. I did my best not to interact with him as much as I could (didn’t pet him, and tried to only look at him out of the corner of my eye since dogs interpret a direct stare as a challenge). Would having a supply of dog biscuits on hand whenever I have to be around him help get him to tolerate me more, or would that just reinforce his bad behavior?
My thanks in advance if any has any advice to deal with this minor situation.
@Gerry Sherry:
Thanks for the info on Jewish holidays! Shared it my my bff who grew up in Israel to very it’s accuracy.
Happy second day of Hanukkah
Disclaimer: I personally am a Goy who found that stuff on Tumblr.
Red silk Phoenix. – dog person here with an extremely over-reactive rescue dog who was severely abused before he came to us – absolutely yes on the treats. My Dobby is fine indoors with us, but when we take walks his responses were all over the place – cowering, posturing, and (after we were attacked by an unleashed small but fierce dog last winter) aggressive towards other dogs. I now carry a pocket full of teeny-tiny Milkbones, and I keep a soothing monologue going while we walk. We’re now at the point where if he sees anything upsetting to him, he’ll come sit at my feet facing me and wait for a treat. Not all dogs are food oriented, but rescues frequently are. The tiny Milkbones are relatively low calorie so you can use a lot of them if necessary. One of my crew sneers at any size Milkbone, but everyone else loves them.
@Malintzin
I’m sorry to disappoint but I don’t actually know what that is. my name is this because my name is Elaine, and children often think I’m a witch.