Two major sinkings by "cancel" torpedoes.
The first is the hit on the execrable SS Whoopi Goldberg. This homeless-looking beast has held a seemingly secure spot on what must be the most stupid panel show on television, "The View." The show trades in idiocy; it is full of the Wokest of Woke sentiments, and is a source of really bad information. Whoopi Goldberg (Nee Caryn Johnson) has gotten herself into a bind with some SUPER idiocy about the Holocaust, clearly implying it was not that significant of an event since it "wasn't really about race"--and that's all that counts in Whoopi's world--as it involved two groups of white people. Pretty stooooopid. Following that logic, the world should not give a damn when one African group annihilates another, or when one group of North American Indians practiced genocide on another, or when . . . well, you get the point. So, let's all acknowledge that Whoopi is pretty stupid, so stupid that she got herself suspended and--perhaps--fired from her perch by her ultra-Woke network.
Is this fair?
I might surprise some of you by stating I don't think she should be removed from TV for being stupid and having stupid views. I am against "canceling" coming from or against any quarter. We cannot fall for the Justin Trudeau standard of canceling people for holding "unacceptable" views--even by pathetic idiots such as Joy Behar and the others on The View. The First Amendment is for everybody; if we oppose cancel culture when it's aimed at the right, we must oppose it when it's aimed at the left. It, however, does provoke an inner chortle when I see the Progressive Saturn eating his children.
The other torpedo on a 360ยบ run claimed CNN's Grand Pooba Jeff Zucker. He got canned not for ruining CNN, not for running the most loathsome "news" outfit since Pravda, but for having an undisclosed affair with some Lesser Pooba in the company. Who cares? The Wokesters, however, wrote the rules (they don't apply to Kamala Harris, please note) and it's always satisfying when one of them, on rare occasion, gets blown up by the torpedoes they have launched. I think there is more to this story, as it is somehow related to an investigation of the dirty doings between the Cuomo bros; it strikes me as a smokescreen to hide something much more serious. Perhaps we'll find out.
Just some random thoughts on a chilly Wednesday.
Both TANG and GRUNION were sunk by their own torpedoes doing circular runs. I am pleased to see Goldberg and Zucker sunk the same way!
ReplyDeleteWell Scott, your wry sense of Submarine humor
Delete& history is not lost on this Boatsailor~~~
Also recall, somewhat clearly, still, the
seriousness of the lecture on placing
'anti-circling rings'on Steam Driven
torpedoes, by a Senior Chief, while
at Sub School~~~ NL~~~ Said he,
holding a Ring between thumb & finger,
"Forget this, and you might get a
MK 16 up your behind~~~
Apparently, Mssrs Goldberg
and Zucker failed to protect
their '6's~~~
OW~~~Off Duty
"Oh there are
NO SSubmariners
down in Hell~~~"
I disagree that we shouldn't cancel the left as hard. That's why Republicans lose every battle. Uncancel to the right. No mercy to the left.
ReplyDeleteI am more in the camp of let her say what ever she wants, because as you have stated it shines light upon the ideology, and diminishes her credibility. Things people need to see. It's funny how most of them were Covid positive like last week, and they all fully recovered, even comorbidity steeped Whoopi. Yet they still go on about Covid like it is nerve gas.
ReplyDeleteAgree on all counts.
ReplyDeleteIn fairness to Whoopee Who?, who always looks as if she's fresh from a dumpster dive, her thinking about race is limited to the five color codes they put on public school forms. Hence, in National Socialist Germany's attempt to exterminate the Jews, she sees only "white" people--regardless of the detailed racial laws drawn up by Hitler's regime.
ReplyDeleteIn official American thinking, someone very dark-skinned with tightly curled black hair is "African-American", whether he descends from the former enslaved population in the USA, the West Indies, or still lives in the middle of Nigeria; anyone with pale enough skin who hasn't yet been excommunicated from the "white" race (as happened with the Hispanics, and may soon happen with the Middle Easterners and South Asians) is never Anglo-Saxon, Polish, Jewish, Italian, Iranian, Irish, German, or whatever, but belongs to an indistinguishable mass of cultureless "white" people. The Left can even get away with baiting Michelle Malkin that her skin color means she can understand Mandarin. That both Russell Means and Charles Curtiss were enrolled members of Indian tribes apparently says everything about them, too.
During my short and inglorious State Department career, the racial bean-counters were perennially flummoxed by a secretary who worked in the C Street building. She was born in Cuba, fled Castro when young, and clearly her most dominant language was Spanish (betrayed by a marked accent and very rare grammatical slips characteristic of Hispanohablantes). However, there was a catch: her parents were two-time refugees who, being Jewish, had fled the Nazi onslaught in Central Europe to settle in Cuba some time before Castro's revolution forced them to flee again. So, was this secretary an Hispanic, or was she white?
Mr. Amselem, as an apparent descendant of Los Reyes Catolicos' expulsion of the Jews from Aragon and Castille, do you know that case? What say you?
Our obsession with historical wrongs in our own country had thus blinded too many of us to a far more complex diversity in the world and even among ourselves. Because of it, our attempts to become more "multicultural" end up making us more provincial. Ms. Whoopi has shown us one more example of this great American phenomenon.
"...Our obsession with historical wrongs in our own country had thus blinded too many of us to a far more complex diversity in the world and even among ourselves..."
DeleteGee whiz Kephea,
What a trip down memory lane~~~
My first friends in grade school
were, 'Spanish Jews'(they said),
curiously they both had the same first name
Louie(sp)and the same last name too, Levy.
They were first cousins, same names, but
didn't look like each other, both smart
guys, and fun to hang around with in school~~~
My backdoor neighbors were the Goldbergs,
Kenneth, as his Mom called him, was the
elder of two boys, we did a lot of swimming
fishing, and boating, together on Great South Bay~~~
The Goldbergs had a Spanish style palacio right on
the Bay. He invited me to come over, and asked if I
could SWIM~~~ of course I said, but was not exactly
checked out on swimming in deepwater at the time!
The race was on, swim across the canal and back,
no Life preservers, winner gets bragging rights,
Gulp, didn't know I could do it, but I did, tks
to Kenny's challenge, he won the race fair & square
although it was a close call at the finish...He told
me his folks came from Czechoslovakia and showed me
where it was on a map, his mom was a sweet Lady to me,
his Dad was a New Yorker, like mine, we stayed friends
till I was sent off to Military School...
But before I departed, I had a crush on a
beautiful Girl, Bonnie Silver, what a knock-out,
she invited me to her Birthday Party, 13 I think...
All the girls were there, they decided to play
"Spin the Bottle", not sure if I ever got a kiss
from Bonnie, but did get quite a few from other girls
Don't think I ever fully recovered from that event~~~
I sure loved growing up with all my Jewish friends,
Girls & Boys, and their lovly familes, out on Lung Guyland!
Off Duty~~~
Under the Boardwalk~~~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmDoEFyU2ZE
Just a nit-picking comment: if the torpedoes do a 360, they are going in the same original direction. But if they do a 180, that’s when they are firing on themselves.
ReplyDeleteYou’re welcome….
Unless of course, they do a very, very wide 360, then they are approaching themselves from behind and will get blown up.
DeleteCan you tell that I’m bored?
It’s late at night down here and I can’t sleep….
DeleteIt may be unkind but Ms Goldberg always reminds me of a Troll Doll. Seems to have the same IQ as well.
ReplyDeleteAny chance of a truckers protest starting up in Oz?
DeleteG'day Whitewall,
DeleteI doubt it as long distance truck drivers have been able to cross State borders for quite some time now and apart from Western Australia the country has virtually opened up. Though having said that the various States have imposed different restrictions on other activities but they are being confronted by more and more demands for the abolishing of the various restrictions still in place.
On a totally different topic it seems that David Duff has retired from blogging as there hasn't been any activity on his site for a long time.
You are right about DD. I'm afraid his health has failed him. The blog is closed.
Delete"On a totally different topic it seems that David
DeleteDuff has retired from blogging as there hasn't
been any activity on his site for a long time."
-David from Oz
Yes, it does seem so DOZ~~~
Duff, & nonsense too, are
sorely missed, IMHO. Expect
they have other priorities now.
Glad to see you, and Whitewall
too, have skin in the game~~~
It'd also be good to see/read
JK's words, links n'stuff from
time to time as well... Anyone
know where he's hangin his hat?
Regards,
On Watch~~~
"Let's Roll"
JK is probably helping with the Moonshine production in his neck of the woods. It would be good to hear from him if only a heads up that he is ship shape.
DeleteGood to hear it David~~~
DeleteAt JK's advanced age
tis safer that he's in
the production side, viz
consumption end of the Biz...
do hope his 'Ladyship' is
keeping him lathered up
with his fav horsey
Sauce/Linamint...
whoaBoy~~~
any truth to the
rumor he's now
being treated
by Joe Rogans
Vetenarian?
OW~~~
PS & BTW, Hope is not all lost~~~
found this, Old News, over at D&N:
Just to keep y'all aware I ain't dead yet!
(I think she's working on it though.)
Posted by: JK | Friday, 12 November 2021 at 15:36
https://turcopolier.com/russian-federation-sitrep
-11-november-2021-by-patrick-armstrong/
"Let's Roll"
I have it from On High that JK is well and plugging along. Mostly a fight with Mother Nature. She can be a bi-itch sometimes.
DeleteWhitewall's got it - I are here.
ReplyDeleteJust that I been socked in with the latest iteration of Global Warming (no thanks to Al Gore).
Arkansas, as some of y'all might know, don't do cold stuff really even hardly good at all. Actually Arkansas' handiness with Global Warming is CONUS' equivalent of Victoria Nuland's performance in Ukraine.
Which, roughly speaking, is equivalent to extremely idiotic. That said, today was 60°F which is a very welcome respite.
I'll get in touch with SoD - likely take awhile though.
JK
..."Arkansas' handiness with Global Warming is CONUS'
Deleteequivalent of Victoria Nuland's performance in Ukraine." -JK
Hallalieujah!
Four more months of Winter!
Was wondering tho, if I'd receive
my back-ordered Bongo skins, from
Latvia, before the SHTF? My rhythm
section here in Fla, needed a sign~~~
OW~~~
PS
Good to see your smoke
along the Ridge, JK~~~
"Let's Roll"
No "logic" applied to what WG said leads to the conclusion that if an African group annihilates another African group that's ok. She said if Germans annihilated Jews it's an example of MITM. Clearly she meant it is but one example of it. MITM is about "man" in the aggregate and she was referring to what "man" is capable of in all places and in all times. MITM is a book with many chapters and the story is drawn from millennia of human experience, but inhumanity is the critical element. Inhumanity is virtually the default and it operates regardless of the secondary characteristics of the victims.
ReplyDeleteHutsi & Tutsi.
Deletehttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26875506
"Clearly she meant it."
Yeah I suppose she probably did.
Whether she had a f'ing clue what she was expounding on is the question. Whether she realized there was a question at all is left to another day.
Fu ... (Well I certainly would not Anonymous - Perhaps 'You" would?
At any rate - 'You' have "our" fullest appreciation for being ... cough cough ... more studly than we could ever imagine ourselves to be. (No need to report back how good ... uhm ... "the whatever" was.
You're a far far braver Anonymous than I'll ever be Anonymous.
Good Lord fellow[?] I hope you'va had all your inoculations.
(You do, Anonymous, know what a 'Two-Bagger' is?
If'n not that's where the *woman of your desire has a paper bag over her head - breathable - But at the same time you Anonymous have a paper bag over your head; that way, in case her's slips off during your amorous endeavors; at least one of y'all hasn't been so "emotionally wreck-tified" that the either of you can't call 911 for a psychiatric run.
JK
"...at least one of y'all hasn't been so "emotionally wreck-tified" that the either of you can't call 911 for a psychiatric run." JK
ReplyDeleteYes JK, and sadly too, crisis
calls and interventions are,
often times too late to save
the damaged goods, before, a
higher perception is
required to hear the
"diesels humming"~~~
OW~~~
Get yer Tickets here~~~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdazde8-so8
"Let's Roll"