Posted on 01/18/2024 8:24:34 AM PST by bitt
Those who have been reading me, watching me, or tapping my phone for a while know that I'm all about handling life's vicissitudes with humor. I didn't opt for a career in stand-up because I thought it offered the most stability, I wanted to give myself and my audiences an outlet for having fun while working through some of the darker stuff in life.
I also think that people should have fun just for the sake of fun. I'm very pro-fun.
Because everyone on the American Left traffics in fear-mongering, the brand tends to be rather pinched, sour, and bitter. It's difficult to be lighthearted when engaged in a quest to find grievances every waking moment of every day. The humorlessness has really taken root in the younger generations. I've noted on many occasions that today's 20-somethings are the crankiest "Get off my lawn!" types in America.
Now, I know that not everyone on the left is like this in real life. I've been in the entertainment industry since my late twenties, so I've been surrounded by leftists for most of my adult life. I've had a lot of good times with them. As I said though, the political brand is an angry one. Once they get online or in a political discussion, they all look and act as if they'd just downed a mug of vinegar.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
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..”The AP listed more examples of roadside groaners that will soon be illegal:
“Use Yah Blinkah” in Massachusetts
“Visiting in-laws? Slow down, get there late,” from Ohio
“Don’t drive Star Spangled Hammered,” from Pennsylvania
“Hocus pocus, drive with focus” from New Jersey
“Hands on the wheel, not your meal” from Arizona.
This latest exercise in state-mandated buzzkill comes to us courtesy of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), a division of Pete Buttigieg’s U.S. Dept. of Transportation. These humorless busybodies have taken time out from correcting racist roads to crack down on entertaining roadside signage. They’ve given officials two years to get with the program and stop programming laughs for passing motorists.”
How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
THAT’S NOT FUNNY!!!!!
“one to screw it in, one to excoriate men for creating the need for illumination, one to blame men for creating such a faulty means of illumination, one to suggest the whole “screwing” bit to be too “rape like”, one to deconstruct the lightbulb itself as being phallic, one to blame men for not changing the lightbulb, one to blame men for trying to change the lightbulb instead of letting a woman do it, one to blame men for creating a society that discourages women from changing lightbulbs, one to blame men for creating a society where women change too many lightbulbs, one to advocate that lightbulb changers have wage parity with electricians, one to alert the media that women are now out lightbulbing men, one to just sit there and take pictures for her blog for photo evidence that men are unnecessary.”
(PRETTY FUNNY...)
I hate to tell you, but the GULAG is already here.
Lack of a bureaucratic sense of humor killed the Burma Shave signs...
I thought this would be a story about the Jan6 patriots incarcerated in the DC gulag, without heat, without extra clothes like the guards wear, without extra blankets to alleviate the 55 degree temps they are forced to endure.
Things got to change—and when they do, they will change fast. Look to see a “Trump Revolution” with “Trumpcare.” IF, and that is still in Question, Trump wins back the White House, the left will trash the economy and the Stock Market to make Trump into Herbert Hoover. It will not work. He may well have no choice but to punish the Cabal of the powerful.
How about “Watch my rear end, not hers”?
I used to love those when I was a kid.
I am guessing that BUTT PLUG PETE never saw Burma Shave Signs growing up.
I am more than amused that Biden & the media keep touting the sales during December, etc., being higher.
THE ONLY REASON THOSE NUMBERS ARE HIGHER THIS YEAR THAN PRIOR IS BECAUSE THE PRICES FOR EVERYTHING WENT UP.
I would vet that FEWER ITEMS were sold-—but the prices definitely were much higher.
I think the signs should stay off until there is something worth saying.
We need a real Gulag, one for hardened criminals. A cheap place to put them where the labor is cheap. Let them do factory work for the local government. Make sure there’s a sheep farm nearby.
Me too!
The new Myanmar Shave signs lack any humor...
And you managed to get through all that without once using the word “patriarchy”! Well done!
Just one, she holds it in the air, and the world turns all around her. (I heard this one from a blonde)
As a man grows old
In this vale of sin
His head grows bald
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