Like most people, I rarely enjoy admitting that I was wrong about something, but... Despite my objections to "Juneteenth", both the idea for the holiday, and the stupid ass, ghetto, Gullah name, I am now forced to admit, that the results are beyond my greatest hopes and dreams.
It's just so poignant, ironic, and fitting that blacks would turn it into yet another excuse to fight, shoot, and kill one another; Even I didn't really see that one coming! And, it also comes during the early stages of the summer heat, which we also know is another miraculous trigger for black violence!
Step Two: McDonald's should offer "a free order of McFries, to all their valued black patrons, on Juneteenth!", and REALLY get this party started!
The carnage will reach Zimbabwe levels! (and maybe, put McDonald's out of business for good!)
Apropos of nothing, but I was scrolling Reddit because I hate my mental health, and I found this from another anencephalic retard—and clearly a Zoomer, but I repeat myself. (The publication is Taki.)
“Honest question. Why do people like Joe Bob Briggs?
From my perspective he’s an old white man with problematic opinions and it is just difficult to hear him talk. On top of the fact that he actively writes for a publication that is pro-white nationalist… how has he not been canceled? Not trying to say you can’t like him, I’m just genuinely curious because the horror community on a whole seems to embrace him.”
Hahaha! I’ve been a fan of Joe Bob for decades and have met him a few times. Great guy.
Long before Joe Bob and I formally met via Taki's - WAY back in 1993 - he defended (in his newsletter) my right to speak at UT Austin. We didn't know each other; it was just principle on his part. Great guy!
I remember that newsletter, "News of the Weird", it was great! And let's not forget that Joe Bob used to write for Taki's, even put one of my fave pieces there:
I loved his late night cable shows. He was so understated and dry witted about his movie breakdowns even of the silliest and most campy or schlocky films.
After he penned that defense of me in his newsletter in '93, I wrote to him and pointed out that I knew many of the "bimbo-fu" actresses he wrote about. Technically, without knowing it, we traveled in the same circle; I cast many of the low-low-budget films he wrote about.
I saw Jason X in Gainesville Florida on campus and the theater was pretty full for a matinee. I seemed to be the only one who really enjoyed it though as I was the only one laughing at the sleeping bag scene although to be fair Jason did kill someone in a sleeping bag before. I think it was in Part V, not sure. I miss MonsterVision more than I miss Mst3k.
Having a musical-loving mom and going to an all-boys school, and I still came out heterosexual. Thing about "Gee Officer Krupke" is that it's still relevant, except those excuses aren't made for poor white kids anymore.
You have a lyric gift. Glad to hear you're playing for the straight team, there's just so many hetero women out there, they're like fruit dangling from the trees. It's a tragedy so many of them are left untouched by men. The powers that be swear they aren't programming boys to be gay, but the evidence speaks otherwise.
I lived in Silverlake when those signs were up & I had plenty of neighbors who were doing exactly what brought the signs about in the first place, they often bragged about it when they weren't doing it in the halls of my building, those two guys who were the face of getting them taken down were gross & probably did all of this because nobody was cruising them, I saw their pics.
Great column. Too bad the fight was not between physically handicapped students and mentally handicapped students. Then it could be called Crips vs. Tards.
Here's what I don't get about Juneteenth: the telegraph was invented in 1844. 1865 is over 20 years later, enough time for the technology to get to Texas. It's weird that a freed slave or pastor of an African American church (normal denominations wouldn't let some Af-Ams come to the railing for communion which is why they started their own branches) didn't telegraph the news to someone out there?
Maybe I'm just a simpleton, but even in the 1840s people were communicating transnationally and internationally. Churchy women were in letter writing groups etc. I believe people got newspapers shipped from cities like NY and even London, it took time for news to arrive but not 2 full years.
I know most slaves didn't read & write but some apprenticed in trades, ran responsible errands for their masters, etc. It's so bizarre that it took fully 2 years for the news to get there that it honestly doesn't sound correct.
The Richard Gere gerbil myth spread across the world quicker than that and it wasn't even important. "I'm not a slave anymore and neither are you" seems like it would be a quick travelling message.
Juneteenth "historians" can't even agree on if the "you're free" proclamation was read aloud to Texas slaves in a public square, or just handed out as pamphlets to black churches. That's the problem with oral histories; there's scant way to know for sure what really happened.
Until the Union army of occupation took charge, Lincoln's emancipation proclamation meant nothing. Slavery in the border states was not affected in any way, the ratification of amendment 13 on 6 DEC 1865 finally outlawed slavery. I wonder why Sen. Cornyn(holio) didn't offer up a bill proposing a fed. holiday for that date instead ?
I honestly - and this will sound terrible - but I think they wanted a date near Father's Day to provide a distraction and "aren't you special" for the Black community given the high rate of fatherless homes. I get how bad that sounds but I honestly suspect that's a big part of it.
There are so many weird things about Juneteenth to me. One, we never heard of it as kids, even though I went to a school that did a lot of Black history. They had us reading Phillis Wheatley poems, reading about George Washington Carver, we had to learn about Black businesses and newspapers but no mention of this sacred date, ever. Two, the first explanation I heard for it made the slaves involved sound like the most offensive possible stereotypes ("We allus joked freedom'd NEVUH come until Juneteenth an' wouldn't you know, that's when it done come!"). That was at a gathering full of goofy LA county leftists who actually thought it sounded progressive to put it that way. Three, it's just weird to me that with an Emancipation Proclamation in play there wasn't more organized resistance (at least supply chain disruption or something) because people typically can and do communicate about stuff like that. Even in very stressful situations people find ways to like, grease the skids for the liberating force coming to help them out. Consider DeGaulle or someone. Finding a way to let the Resistance know he's out there, driving Churchill nuts and helping assemble a liberating army. Later in life he even fucked with Canada & Britain again by shooting his mouth off about a "Quebec Libre." He was a masterful shit-disturber and knew how to get attention for his causes, as quixotic as they might seem.
Even if you look up Juneteenth on sites that should be decent sources (the Smithsonian) it's a garbled account. It says something about people praying for help, that the Union army included Black people, and then it's like "Welp and the slaves in Texas were finally freed!" The slaves and any Black newspapers on the East Coast or church leaders, people who you'd imagine could be an organizing force or would possibly be able to make communication links with Black people in Confederate territory, are pretty absent from the story.
But I guess the Civil War is sort of simple and naive compared to many European and Asian wars, period. We're honestly lucky as a country that no one got in on the Confederate side in a big way just to fuck with us. Driving a wedge into the US and preventing the survival of the Union would've been an excellent way to delay or even prevent us from becoming a bigger power. We're very lucky Canada was small & distracted and Mexico couldn't get its shit together.
I will say, in fairness, that in the early 1980s, in L.A.'s "black" period and at my 80% black high school, we did learn about Juneteenth. I think it kinda depended on where you were.
I have to write for work sometimes, I am usually more or less following their style guide and suggestions. I get where you're coming from but I don't want to fall into habits that eff up my actual job.
Dave, don't the blacks know that if white (Jewish?? Depends on who you ask, I think) doctors could invent a disease that would wipe blacks off the face of the earth, that we probably would have done it by now? I figure there have to be a few white doctors who are fed up with their shenanigans.
This is another excellent column. Thanks to your reporting of the barista incident with the screwdriver, I'm going to adhere to a new policy of not correcting strangers' grammar anymore.
Interesting look at different forms of masculinity. I think video game culture has influenced the abrasive way a lot of men act these days.
For example previous generations of Mexican immigrants were often very polite. They had that old-school masculinity where they don't swear in front of women, they acted humble around their bosses etc. They demonstrated being manly by fixing things and maintaining them and raising polite kids, not by getting face tattoos and buying flashy cars. When I lived in Pasadena, every so often an elderly Mexican man like that would stop and tell me I was beautiful on the sidewalk in the most gentlemanly way imaginable. I guess there was always a cholo stereotype but it's weird how even Mexican ideas of masculinity seem to have changed in recent decades. If you looked at Mexican culture 50 years ago you wouldn't guess, "His grandson will have 2 babymamas and a face tattoo."
The outsourcing of labor is also kind of weird - Americans used to be known for mowing their own lawns and DIYing things. That tracks with European aristocrats who often "work in the garden" and have hobby farms and want to be seen as close to the land. My grandfather had a tech type job with the Post Office back in the day - he always mowed his own lawn, he built his own deck etc. One of my uncles is a doctor: same thing. He loved power tools and mowed the lawn on his days off. Their kids use landscapers, though. Weird how that changed.
I can only speak for myself, but I can't step outside without getting eaten alive by bugs. Is it something in my bloodstream? Is there a "science" behind it? I don't know. After my dad died, I started to get really into fixing up my yard, but soon enough I was a mass of welts. One time, even though I was wearing work gloves, I got bitten by a spider and my two middle fingers swelled up like Louie Anderson's. So at that point I was like "fuck the outdoors." Again, I have no idea why this happens (even a quick trip to dump the garbage brings on welts). But holy crap, bugs love me.
I just looked it up. Yep, alcoholics are more attractive to insects. Alcoholics and pregnant women are like honey to them. Well fuck me! At least there's science behind it.
Omg. Don't know if read there was a shooting in Dagestan Russia today. Shot up two churches and two synagogues. My first thought was their are Jews in Dagestan. And sure as shit mountain Jews live there. People talk about israelis not wanting to give up land. These fuckers hold out in a high terrorist haven. But had to laugh at Putin allegedly said "This can happen here. We are accommodating society to all religions." Super smart Putin does under in the long term his Muslim strategy will fail.
Sorry I know that is way off topic. But God damn. Fuck 22 dollars for coffee and water. From skelator, what is she recouping from the fail that was he man.
At this point there's nothing he can do. They are to much a part of Russia. But Putin acts he has everything in control. And shock that they would do this to non Muslims.
Have you seen the Douglas County judge? She sure chimped out, showing her true colors and content of her character. I assume she's in the week to come?
Her career was already in meltdown, she must have decided to go out with a bang--- or is this latest perhaps her attempt to enlist support from the hoi polloi? A gamble, but it worked for the Floyd family!
Today is the day the judicial board rules on whether her 30 ethics violations are grounds for removal. So the literal weekend before that career-dependent ruling, she goes drinkin' and brawlin'. I don't think she's bright enough to have done it on purpose as a ploy. This is a ghetto tard to end all ghetto tards (she only became a judge because nobody else was running).
It's tradition that The Week goes out under a Takimag byline. It was that way when Goad wrote it, and it's been that way since I took over in September 2020. Who am I to disturb tradition? I'm just happy for the work, which I greatly enjoy.
See how it works people, I got Dave finally to admit that he is the one who writes "the week". Never would have gotten the whole truth posing my query under this handle, but as the Great Khaan I will never be denied the facts !!! Now, if only the Asian ladies would start prostrating themselves before me, that would truly be what is best in life.
Like most people, I rarely enjoy admitting that I was wrong about something, but... Despite my objections to "Juneteenth", both the idea for the holiday, and the stupid ass, ghetto, Gullah name, I am now forced to admit, that the results are beyond my greatest hopes and dreams.
It's just so poignant, ironic, and fitting that blacks would turn it into yet another excuse to fight, shoot, and kill one another; Even I didn't really see that one coming! And, it also comes during the early stages of the summer heat, which we also know is another miraculous trigger for black violence!
Step Two: McDonald's should offer "a free order of McFries, to all their valued black patrons, on Juneteenth!", and REALLY get this party started!
The carnage will reach Zimbabwe levels! (and maybe, put McDonald's out of business for good!)
Cheers Dave!
LOL! Well, Black History Month is during February, so they had to give blacks at least ONE hot-weather holiday to brawl!
Make the free fries cold and watch out whitey .
LOL!
Apropos of nothing, but I was scrolling Reddit because I hate my mental health, and I found this from another anencephalic retard—and clearly a Zoomer, but I repeat myself. (The publication is Taki.)
“Honest question. Why do people like Joe Bob Briggs?
From my perspective he’s an old white man with problematic opinions and it is just difficult to hear him talk. On top of the fact that he actively writes for a publication that is pro-white nationalist… how has he not been canceled? Not trying to say you can’t like him, I’m just genuinely curious because the horror community on a whole seems to embrace him.”
Hahaha! I’ve been a fan of Joe Bob for decades and have met him a few times. Great guy.
Long before Joe Bob and I formally met via Taki's - WAY back in 1993 - he defended (in his newsletter) my right to speak at UT Austin. We didn't know each other; it was just principle on his part. Great guy!
I remember that newsletter, "News of the Weird", it was great! And let's not forget that Joe Bob used to write for Taki's, even put one of my fave pieces there:
https://www.takimag.com/article/my_name_is_joe_bob_and_im_an_english_major_joe_bob_briggs/
I loved his late night cable shows. He was so understated and dry witted about his movie breakdowns even of the silliest and most campy or schlocky films.
"problematic opinions" - like what? Does he like Jason X?
Well, it had tits and liquid nitrogen frozen face smashed to pieces-fu, so… probably at least a little.
After he penned that defense of me in his newsletter in '93, I wrote to him and pointed out that I knew many of the "bimbo-fu" actresses he wrote about. Technically, without knowing it, we traveled in the same circle; I cast many of the low-low-budget films he wrote about.
I saw Jason X in Gainesville Florida on campus and the theater was pretty full for a matinee. I seemed to be the only one who really enjoyed it though as I was the only one laughing at the sleeping bag scene although to be fair Jason did kill someone in a sleeping bag before. I think it was in Part V, not sure. I miss MonsterVision more than I miss Mst3k.
My pal Duke Haney wrote that one — part 7 maybe? I can never keep them straight.
Does he know that Joe Bob's Jewish?
"It took mere minutes for the brawl to begin. Teens rumbling like a 2024 West Side Story."
Shaniqua,
I've just met a girl named Shaniqua,
I served her a cold fry,
Now someone's gotta die,
That's me.....
Brilliant! If I ever get too drunk to write, I'm coming to you!
A huge compliment!
Dear kindly Sergeant Krupke,
Ya gotta understand:
It's just our bringin' upke
Is the fault of the white man,
Our fathers don't pay child support,
Our mothers are on WIC,
We just happy we ain't no motherfuckin' spic!
LOL!!!!
Having a musical-loving mom and going to an all-boys school, and I still came out heterosexual. Thing about "Gee Officer Krupke" is that it's still relevant, except those excuses aren't made for poor white kids anymore.
You have a lyric gift. Glad to hear you're playing for the straight team, there's just so many hetero women out there, they're like fruit dangling from the trees. It's a tragedy so many of them are left untouched by men. The powers that be swear they aren't programming boys to be gay, but the evidence speaks otherwise.
Are you sure one of your unsubscribes wasn’t Al Roker due to you using the word “nappy” (you know, the Don Imus treatment)?
LOL!
I lived in Silverlake when those signs were up & I had plenty of neighbors who were doing exactly what brought the signs about in the first place, they often bragged about it when they weren't doing it in the halls of my building, those two guys who were the face of getting them taken down were gross & probably did all of this because nobody was cruising them, I saw their pics.
You wrote more than five words, UNSUBSCRIBED !!
Great column. Too bad the fight was not between physically handicapped students and mentally handicapped students. Then it could be called Crips vs. Tards.
LOL!!!!
Here's what I don't get about Juneteenth: the telegraph was invented in 1844. 1865 is over 20 years later, enough time for the technology to get to Texas. It's weird that a freed slave or pastor of an African American church (normal denominations wouldn't let some Af-Ams come to the railing for communion which is why they started their own branches) didn't telegraph the news to someone out there?
Maybe I'm just a simpleton, but even in the 1840s people were communicating transnationally and internationally. Churchy women were in letter writing groups etc. I believe people got newspapers shipped from cities like NY and even London, it took time for news to arrive but not 2 full years.
I know most slaves didn't read & write but some apprenticed in trades, ran responsible errands for their masters, etc. It's so bizarre that it took fully 2 years for the news to get there that it honestly doesn't sound correct.
The Richard Gere gerbil myth spread across the world quicker than that and it wasn't even important. "I'm not a slave anymore and neither are you" seems like it would be a quick travelling message.
Juneteenth "historians" can't even agree on if the "you're free" proclamation was read aloud to Texas slaves in a public square, or just handed out as pamphlets to black churches. That's the problem with oral histories; there's scant way to know for sure what really happened.
SOMEONE had to plant and harvest the crops, and they already kicked out the Mexicans
Everyone in Houston today who's not black regrets that.
Until the Union army of occupation took charge, Lincoln's emancipation proclamation meant nothing. Slavery in the border states was not affected in any way, the ratification of amendment 13 on 6 DEC 1865 finally outlawed slavery. I wonder why Sen. Cornyn(holio) didn't offer up a bill proposing a fed. holiday for that date instead ?
Cornyn[holio's] staff said that there would be insufficient mayhem in December ???
It would have been too patriotic, as you know.
I honestly - and this will sound terrible - but I think they wanted a date near Father's Day to provide a distraction and "aren't you special" for the Black community given the high rate of fatherless homes. I get how bad that sounds but I honestly suspect that's a big part of it.
There are so many weird things about Juneteenth to me. One, we never heard of it as kids, even though I went to a school that did a lot of Black history. They had us reading Phillis Wheatley poems, reading about George Washington Carver, we had to learn about Black businesses and newspapers but no mention of this sacred date, ever. Two, the first explanation I heard for it made the slaves involved sound like the most offensive possible stereotypes ("We allus joked freedom'd NEVUH come until Juneteenth an' wouldn't you know, that's when it done come!"). That was at a gathering full of goofy LA county leftists who actually thought it sounded progressive to put it that way. Three, it's just weird to me that with an Emancipation Proclamation in play there wasn't more organized resistance (at least supply chain disruption or something) because people typically can and do communicate about stuff like that. Even in very stressful situations people find ways to like, grease the skids for the liberating force coming to help them out. Consider DeGaulle or someone. Finding a way to let the Resistance know he's out there, driving Churchill nuts and helping assemble a liberating army. Later in life he even fucked with Canada & Britain again by shooting his mouth off about a "Quebec Libre." He was a masterful shit-disturber and knew how to get attention for his causes, as quixotic as they might seem.
Even if you look up Juneteenth on sites that should be decent sources (the Smithsonian) it's a garbled account. It says something about people praying for help, that the Union army included Black people, and then it's like "Welp and the slaves in Texas were finally freed!" The slaves and any Black newspapers on the East Coast or church leaders, people who you'd imagine could be an organizing force or would possibly be able to make communication links with Black people in Confederate territory, are pretty absent from the story.
But I guess the Civil War is sort of simple and naive compared to many European and Asian wars, period. We're honestly lucky as a country that no one got in on the Confederate side in a big way just to fuck with us. Driving a wedge into the US and preventing the survival of the Union would've been an excellent way to delay or even prevent us from becoming a bigger power. We're very lucky Canada was small & distracted and Mexico couldn't get its shit together.
I will say, in fairness, that in the early 1980s, in L.A.'s "black" period and at my 80% black high school, we did learn about Juneteenth. I think it kinda depended on where you were.
That's interesting - thanks
It was a bone thrown to BLM et al.: "Look, here's a new federal holiday, please don't tear shit up until we give you the order to do so!"
You're an intelligent person and you capitalize Black. I'm curious if you think we should capitalize White too.
I have to write for work sometimes, I am usually more or less following their style guide and suggestions. I get where you're coming from but I don't want to fall into habits that eff up my actual job.
I'm looking forward to the sequel to Juneteenth - where the news "finally gets around" that race relations have improved dramatically since the 60s.
LOL!!!!
Dave, don't the blacks know that if white (Jewish?? Depends on who you ask, I think) doctors could invent a disease that would wipe blacks off the face of the earth, that we probably would have done it by now? I figure there have to be a few white doctors who are fed up with their shenanigans.
Blame Yakob for outsourcing the making of white people out of mud to China.
LOL!!!!!!
"Maaaaaaan, these whites be defective! Can't make fries or nothin'."
Good point!
L.A. is not real.
The Walt Disney Concert Hall looks to be crying out, "Nuke me, then I will be complete!"
Having seen it in person, I can tell you it's WAY worse up-close!
Same goes for Ron Unz
LOL!
This is another excellent column. Thanks to your reporting of the barista incident with the screwdriver, I'm going to adhere to a new policy of not correcting strangers' grammar anymore.
LOL!!!!
This seems like a longer form of what you've written.
https://unherd.com/2024/06/california-has-surrendered-its-streets-to-assholes/
Interesting look at different forms of masculinity. I think video game culture has influenced the abrasive way a lot of men act these days.
For example previous generations of Mexican immigrants were often very polite. They had that old-school masculinity where they don't swear in front of women, they acted humble around their bosses etc. They demonstrated being manly by fixing things and maintaining them and raising polite kids, not by getting face tattoos and buying flashy cars. When I lived in Pasadena, every so often an elderly Mexican man like that would stop and tell me I was beautiful on the sidewalk in the most gentlemanly way imaginable. I guess there was always a cholo stereotype but it's weird how even Mexican ideas of masculinity seem to have changed in recent decades. If you looked at Mexican culture 50 years ago you wouldn't guess, "His grandson will have 2 babymamas and a face tattoo."
The outsourcing of labor is also kind of weird - Americans used to be known for mowing their own lawns and DIYing things. That tracks with European aristocrats who often "work in the garden" and have hobby farms and want to be seen as close to the land. My grandfather had a tech type job with the Post Office back in the day - he always mowed his own lawn, he built his own deck etc. One of my uncles is a doctor: same thing. He loved power tools and mowed the lawn on his days off. Their kids use landscapers, though. Weird how that changed.
I always wonder why I pay someone to mow my lawn while I'm out exercising...
I can only speak for myself, but I can't step outside without getting eaten alive by bugs. Is it something in my bloodstream? Is there a "science" behind it? I don't know. After my dad died, I started to get really into fixing up my yard, but soon enough I was a mass of welts. One time, even though I was wearing work gloves, I got bitten by a spider and my two middle fingers swelled up like Louie Anderson's. So at that point I was like "fuck the outdoors." Again, I have no idea why this happens (even a quick trip to dump the garbage brings on welts). But holy crap, bugs love me.
I just looked it up. Yep, alcoholics are more attractive to insects. Alcoholics and pregnant women are like honey to them. Well fuck me! At least there's science behind it.
My wife is the same way, bugs love her. Insects generally leave me alone, but for a few minor bites now and then.
Omg. Don't know if read there was a shooting in Dagestan Russia today. Shot up two churches and two synagogues. My first thought was their are Jews in Dagestan. And sure as shit mountain Jews live there. People talk about israelis not wanting to give up land. These fuckers hold out in a high terrorist haven. But had to laugh at Putin allegedly said "This can happen here. We are accommodating society to all religions." Super smart Putin does under in the long term his Muslim strategy will fail.
Sorry I know that is way off topic. But God damn. Fuck 22 dollars for coffee and water. From skelator, what is she recouping from the fail that was he man.
What can he do, he has so many of them. Russia is more multicultural, in the true sense of the word, than we are.
At this point there's nothing he can do. They are to much a part of Russia. But Putin acts he has everything in control. And shock that they would do this to non Muslims.
Have you seen the Douglas County judge? She sure chimped out, showing her true colors and content of her character. I assume she's in the week to come?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kES1SvSZ8S8
You read my mind! No way I could let THAT story go unmentioned!
Her career was already in meltdown, she must have decided to go out with a bang--- or is this latest perhaps her attempt to enlist support from the hoi polloi? A gamble, but it worked for the Floyd family!
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/panel-douglas-judge-guilty-of-systemic-incompetence
Today is the day the judicial board rules on whether her 30 ethics violations are grounds for removal. So the literal weekend before that career-dependent ruling, she goes drinkin' and brawlin'. I don't think she's bright enough to have done it on purpose as a ploy. This is a ghetto tard to end all ghetto tards (she only became a judge because nobody else was running).
Dave, I have a question, why are you takimag189? We all know that you write "the week " . . .
It's tradition that The Week goes out under a Takimag byline. It was that way when Goad wrote it, and it's been that way since I took over in September 2020. Who am I to disturb tradition? I'm just happy for the work, which I greatly enjoy.
I would have been very upset had you disturbed Taki's tradition.
#moiaussi
Dave finally admits writing TWTP, but Wikipedia still calls him a denier
LOL!!!!
See how it works people, I got Dave finally to admit that he is the one who writes "the week". Never would have gotten the whole truth posing my query under this handle, but as the Great Khaan I will never be denied the facts !!! Now, if only the Asian ladies would start prostrating themselves before me, that would truly be what is best in life.
Is it wrong that I just now liked my own comment?
Not if you really truly liked it.