Feb152022

Episode 488 – Sometimes A Cigar Is Just A Cigar

The one good thing about our crumbling society is that there are so many stupid stories to make fun of. It may be the end of civilization but at least this stuff is entertaining.

 

When Is This Going to End?

The Joe Rogan thing is still going and doesn’t seem like it’s ever going to end. It’s really pissing the Left off. Joe Rogan is still doing his podcast. Spotify is still hosting him. And if something happens to Spotify, Joe Rogan is still going to get $100 million from Rumble.

The Left just has no idea how they’re going to handle this. Ask Alisyn Camerota of CNN. She just has no idea what she’s going to do about Joe Rogan:

No one asked you to do anything, Alyson. Joe Rogan has more viewers in one day than CNN has in a week. And that’s not much of an exaggeration.

On Tuesday, Joe Rogan did a podcast with comedian, Akaash Singh, and said:

“In a lot of ways, all this is a relief, ’cause that video had always been out there. It’s like, this is a political hit job. And so they’re taking all this stuff that I’ve ever said that’s  wrong, and smushing it all together. But it’s good ’cause it makes me address some s*** that I really wish wasn’t out there.”

You think, Joe. But that begs the question, “Why did you apologize at all?” All those videos were ten to twelve years old and no one said word one of them until now.

Akaash then said:

“You know why I’m proud of you? Because I think comedians have for years done this immature thing where it’s like we don’t apologize. We say whatever we want. You can apologize if you say some wild s*** and we’ve all said some wild s*** and you apologized and owned that it was wrong. Good for you.”

This is a great point. Joe Rogan is a comedian. I have heard some of his comedy routines. You can bet that last dollar that these Leftist goons are going through every show of his on YouTube and creating another compilation video. Everything he said about women and gays and trans-folk is going to come out. It just takes some time to compile that stuff. Trust me, Joe Rogan is not only going to be a racist. In the coming weeks he’s going to be a sexist, bigoted transphobe who probably has a thing against panda bears too.

But just how many people are truly hurt by Joe Rogan using the n-word on his podcast? How many black people are upset about it?

James Klug went out to the most liberal part of Los Angeles, Venice Beach, and asked people what they thought. He asked black and white people.

First, he asked a lot of white people what they thought:

What woke white people. I’m, one old broad even said the holy one, George Floyd. I mean, she brought up George Floyd. If I didn’t see the video, I would have thought she was black because she so in tune with the hood.

But the response from the black people really sealed it. Listen:

I’m confused. Did the black people not get upset about Joe Rogan? Did one actually admire Joe Rogan and his accomplishments and actually hope to be like him?

You should really read Shelby Steele’s book, White Guilt. He discusses this phenomenon in detail. Since the 1960s, white people, especially liberal white people, have felt the need to atone for the injustice done to black people during slavery and Jim Crow. They will even back a black narrative that doesn’t exist. In this case, that Joe Rogan hurt a lot of people by saying the n-word. Again, he didn’t call anyone the n-word, he used the word in the context of free speech and racism. One of these conversations he had was with the black actor, Jamie Foxx.

I bet you a dollar that the guys who spent days making that n-word compilation were white.

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/rogan-responds-to-video-compilation-of-him-using-n-word-this-is-a-political-hit-job

 

Speaking of Being a Victim

Speaking of blacks always being victims, you may remember that I bought Ibram X. Kendi’s book, How to be an Antiracist. The book was all about how all whites are racist and how all the systems in the awful United States are made to hold the black man down.

Yeah, well, apparently our systemically racist society pays this race baiter $541 per minute when he gives his lectures.

I really don’t have anything more to say about that.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-uva-a-public-university-spent-nearly-541-per-minute-for-ibram-kendi-racial-equity-lecture

 

Down the Drain

CNN is really, really struggling.

  • Jeffry Tubin, one of their political correspondents, likes to jerk off during conference calls but they couldn’t fire him.
  • They had to fire their highest rated host Chris Cuomo because he advised his brother, Andrew Cuomo, during him murdering 10,000 old people during the China virus and grab-assing cops.
  • Two of their producers were having sex with kids.
  • Jeff Zucker, the CEO, was boofing his replacement for the last 20 years.
  • And Brian Stelter, another show host, is fat, balding, ugly and stupid.
  • Oh yeah…and like 6 people watch their channel. Reruns of Frazier are beating CNN.

But they did find the story of the year and it might lead to another political scandal. Possibly more impeachment hearings. All this from a probably very accurate book by Maggie Haberman of the New York Times. Listen:

WOW! Crime of the century! Trump may or may not have thrown paper in the toilet and the toilet clogged. We don’t know what was on papers but maybe it was important. Maybe it was the nuclear codes.

Call Nancy Pelosi! Call Adam Schiff! Call Maxine Waters!

There are two things that are really sad here. First, that this woman wrote a book about Trump and this was the story CNN decided to carry from this book. Probably not going to buy this book.

The second thing is that CNN needs Trump. Bad. The guy has been out of office for over a year and they are still talking about him. Kind of pathetic since they were most of the reason Trump is no longer President.

 

What is a Woman

Adele, the singer from England won entertainer of the year on Tuesday. I don’t know what awards show she won it because I just don’t care.

But she said something that created a storm of bigotry. Listen:

That’s right! She’s a transphobe because she had pride in being a woman.

Those words, “I love being a woman” sparked outrage on Twitter, the wasteland of reason.

One on Twitter said:

“Please, no, ADELE can’t be a TERF. That last comment, though ambiguous, could be perceived as TERF-y. Please no.”

TERF stands for trans-exclusionary radical feminist.

Another tweeted:

“Who’d have thought #Adele was a transphobe and would use her platform to call for the destruction of the trans community. Especially the confused teenagers.”

So, now, just acknowledging being a woman is bigoted. Woman are so bad they can’t even do women right. I’m sure she’ll apologize for…being a woman?

I needed to research this. I wanted the whole trans philosophy. Where’s the best place to do that? The Hell that is known as TikTok. It only took me a few minutes to find what I was looking for.

Some things:

  • I don’t want to date a trans woman because a trans woman is a man and I don’t have any attraction to men.
  • An infertile woman still has the possibility to get pregnant. Miracles happen. A trans woman is a man, and can’t get pregnant…ever.
  • The logic is a little off here. An infertile woman proves transphobia?
  • I can recognize most trans people. There are few that really look like their chosen sex. But most look like they’re trying to be something they’re not. Like this guy.
  • Finally, this guy doesn’t respect my biological sex and it doesn’t exist?
    • No one cares who he respects. This is what I don’t get about TikTok and the selfie thing. If one goes viral it’s usually because they did or said something stupid.
    • My biological sex does exist. How do I know? I have four kids. Josie has three kids. My DNA will move on through history. How many kids is this guy going to have?

So if one is a woman, it’s transphobic for that woman to acknowledge and celebrate being a woman. If one is a man who thinks he’s a woman, it’s OK to celebrate his womanhood. In fact, a straight man who does not find a man who thinks he’s a woman attractive sexually, he is also a transphobe and a sexist.

Ugh! This trans thing is so stupid.

https://www.newsweek.com/adeles-i-love-being-woman-brit-awards-speech-sparks-transphobia-debate-1677505

 

I Could Have Told You That

According to the New York Post:

It is the secret we are all trying to unlock – how to live long and happy lives.

Science has found the key success, well, for men anyway.

In the United Kingdom, men in general are not expected to live as long as women – so maybe they need a little bit more help.

The average life expectancy for a man is 79, compared to women who are expected to live until 82 years old.

The most common age of death for men in the UK between 2012 and 2014 was 86, but women were living until 89 during the same time period, according to the Office of National Statistics.

The reason for women outliving men is down to genetics, according to Medical Daily.

Then they give six ways that a man can improve his quality of life and life span. Five of the six are not much of a surprise: Have sex, get married, have kids, be responsible and be involved with your children.

But the first piece of advice is a little out there: stare at boobs. That’s right. Boobs are good. Why? Because boobs give men positive thoughts

According to the Post:

A 2012 study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, looked at the effects positive thinking had on men’s health.

After a year, positive thinking had a powerful effect on health choices.

More than half of the patients with coronary artery disease increased their physical activity versus 37 percent in the control group, who were not asked to write down positive thoughts in the morning.

The same happened in men with high blood pressure.

More than 40 percent of those with high blood pressure followed their medication plan compared to 36 percent in the non-positive thinking group.

So there you have it!

Ask your wife if she loves you. When she says, “Yes” tell her to put on that sexy little halter top and you’ll live longer.

https://nypost.com/2017/03/22/staring-at-boobs-may-give-a-boost-to-male-lifespans/

 

Emojis and Racism

National Public Radio, or NPR, got into big trouble for ignoring the Hunter Biden laptop story because they did not think it was an important story. But the brilliant editors decided the releasing a story called Which Skin Color Emoji Should You Use? The Answer Can Be More Complex Than You Think. This is such an important story, that they assigned three writers for it. They are Alejandra Marquez Janse, Patrick Jarenwattananon and Asma Khalid.

Let’s go through a little bit of this Pulitzer Prize worthy piece:

Heath Racela identifies as three-quarters white and one-quarter Filipino. When texting, he chooses a yellow emoji instead of a skin tone option, because he feels it doesn’t represent any specific ethnicity or color.

So is he three-quarters white and one-quarter Filipino or does he just identify as that?

He doesn’t want people to view his texts in a particular way. He wants to go with what he sees as the neutral option and focus on the message.

“I present as very pale, very light skinned. And if I use the white emoji, I feel like I’m betraying the part of myself that’s Filipino,” Racela, of Littleton, Mass., said. “But if I use a darker color emoji, which maybe more closely matches what I see when I look at my whole family, it’s not what the world sees, and people tend to judge that.”

This sounds like a rich person problem. I figure that this guy has enough money not to worry about things like crime, inflation and war. He’s becoming stressed out over the color of an emoji. Maybe he should look at some boobs and calm down.

But I looked up the demographics of Littleton, Massachusetts and, sure enough, I was right. According to Wikipedia:

The median household income was $123,413 and the median family income was $143,233. About 2.4% of families and 3.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.9% of those under age 18 and 5.2% of those age 65 or over.

Well, anyway, they then give another example of a person who is black and she gives her story. Finally, NPR gets to the studies. Yeah, someone actually was paid to study this crap.

A 2018 study published by the University of Edinburgh looked at the use of different skin tone emojis — what it referred to as “modified” emojis — on Twitter to find out if the modifiers contributed to self-representation.

Alexander Robertson, an emoji researcher at Google and Ph.D. candidate involved in the study, said the emoji modifiers were used widely but it was people with darker skin who used them in higher proportions, and more often.

Some things:

  • Google hired a Ph.D. candidate to study emojis?
  • Do you think your parents would be bragging that their Ph.D. son got his Ph.D. to study emojis?
  • By the way, not a shock that people of color are using the colored emojis. Can I say colored emojis? Is that racist?
    • People of color have been conditioned to believe their color is a badge of honor and should be celebrated. That’s why they created the colored emojis in the first place.
    • Honestly, white people like me don’t give a damn about the color of the emoji.
    • Old farts like me don’t even use them. That’s because I can write like an adult.

Continuing:

After another look at Twitter data, Andrew McGill, then writer for The Atlantic, found that some white people may stick with the yellow emoji because they don’t want to assert their privilege by adding a light-skinned emoji to a text, or to take advantage of something that was created to represent diversity.

Perhaps, like Heath Racela, they simply don’t want to think about how their message could be interpreted.

But Zara Rahman, a researcher and writer in Berlin, argues that the skin tone emojis make white people confront their race as people of color often have to do. For example, she shared Sarai Cole’s confusion when someone who is white uses a brown emoji, so she asked some friends about it.

When Sigmund Freud talked about a person’s actions show underlying sexual desires, a reporter asked him what it meant that he always had a cigar in his mouth. Freud responded, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”. I’m pretty sure we can apply that to the emoji thing. Race doesn’t have to be entwined in everything that everyone does.

Ok, I’m done. This is too stupid.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1078977416/race-chat-emoji-skin-tone-colors