Bill Maher dines with The Donald

[dukeman92]

I don’t give a dang what you do when you piss, weirdo.

He could just wear a diaper like his idol.

 

[UNCatTech]

Thanks for that. Not digressing on Ayn Rand, I mean. I watched The Fountainhead the other night, Ayn Rand was credited as the screenwriter and it showed. God, the dialogue was awful, as was the book, but at least the movie was only 2 hours long. Visually very pleasing, though, very much including a young Patricia Neal in her first screen appearance. But man, that dialogue, and just the whole stupid premise of the whole goddamn thing, same with all the rest of Rand's tripe...

I've never watched the movie, but I read the books. At one point I was so in agreement with those that pointed to Atlas Shrugged as an example of how government over-regulation impacts society. I'm happy to say that I've learned and grown past that phase in life.

 

[UNCatTech]

No, you're just butt hurt that Dems are seen by the public at large as

So you mean “toxic masculinity?” Do I need to sit when I pee?

Q poll, funny. Q exists to keep Dems from jumping off the ledge.

Why do you care about another man's approach to using the restroom? Does it change some thing if one sits to pee? Doesn't it equally accomplish the mission?

I recall a conversation on the ZZL about one of the posters husband sitting to pee.

I often sit to pee in the morning before I dress, you seem interested, would you like to watch? I bet I have less over splash and a lower risk of leaving the seat up by sitting.

Either way, those who care how another person uses the restroom are the real issue.

 

[TarSpiel]

I've never watched the movie, but I read the books. At one point I was so in agreement with those that pointed to Atlas Shrugged as an example of how government over-regulation impacts society. I'm happy to say that I've learned and grown past that phase in life.

Ayn Rand has this weird appeal to 18 year old white middle class econ majors...the same population that take their first philosophy class and then go around saying that everything anyone else says is a "fallacy"

Most of them, thankfully, grow out of it.

 

[05C40]

Ayn Rand has this weird appeal to 18 year old white middle class econ majors...the same population that take their first philosophy class and then go around saying that everything anyone else says is a "fallacy"

Most of them, thankfully, grow out of it.

John Rogers (blog post March 19, 2009): "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

 

[Zoo_View]

I've never watched the movie, but I read the books. At one point I was so in agreement with those that pointed to Atlas Shrugged as an example of how government over-regulation impacts society. I'm happy to say that I've learned and grown past that phase in life.

Did you read each and every page of John Galt’s interminable soliloquy?

 

[UNCatTech]

Did you read each and every page of John Galt’s interminable soliloquy?

If I recall correctly it was over 60 pages of the same thing over and over. So, yes, I did skip much of it.

 

[breepf]

Did you read each and every page of John Galt’s interminable soliloquy?

I only paused to ejaculate.

 

[bridgetender]

I used to watch Dennis Miller's show on HBO and enjoyed it. Then Dennis made a tactical decision to veer right because he apparently believed he had maxed out his liberal audience and wanted to "expand" his base. Sort of the same thing with Bill Mahr. His Covid and vaccine denialism was the breaking point for me. I really don't need someone like Bill Mahr "educating" me on the perils of vaccines. My grandparents told me pretty much all I need to know about how vaccines and antibiotic medicines changed society. And any remaining doubts I had were pretty directly addressed when I started dabbling in genealogy and found out how many children didn't survive childhood and how many women died in childbirth back in the "good old days."

Well said.

I used to watch Maher's show religiously every week. Watching him react with arrogant disdain to a global pandemic was an eye opener for me and I haven't watched him since.

He did nail one thing, though. He's called the conservative movement a slow moving coup, and the rotten fruits of that observation are starting to flourish.