The other side of the story.

govols comments on Nov 11, 2020:

Keep at it. And do it on multiple platforms with broader audiences than here.

Can someone please, PLEASE, tell me what the fuck is going on?

govols comments on Nov 11, 2020:

The really short answer is that it's still utterly uncertain. The actual electors aren't decided until State's legislaures certify their each slate of electors through the results within each State. Then those electors meet in mid-December and vote. Then in early January a joint session of Congress witnesses the actual vote tally. Then, if 270, for both pres and VP, winners. If not, votes in House for pres, Senate for VP. Plus more shit. It's complicated.....

The 50 seats the Republicans have is NOT a firewall.

govols comments on Nov 11, 2020:

Well, this too will be subject to the result of the recount, won't it?

Tasty logic

govols comments on Nov 11, 2020:

The crazy thing about cookies is how sometime they go bad by getting real hard, and other times by getting real soft...

Propaganda

govols comments on Nov 11, 2020:

Office of the President Elect... Isn't that something Obama dreamed up in '08?

The purge is started at Youtube [youtu.be]

govols comments on Nov 11, 2020:

There's no media war against views they don't like. That's just crazy talk.....

I am having an extremely hard time doing the English version of my project on The Culture Wars.

govols comments on Nov 11, 2020:

I asked you to send me a draft if you needed help. I would need a look at the Spanish and your stab at the English to make any contribution, though. What Spanish I have relies on translation software, but I can usually make passable interpretations....

Will you be able to move on if Trump doesn't manage to retain the Presidency?

govols comments on Nov 11, 2020:

This question is so 2016...

We need to cut through the haze and get to the heart of the issue.

govols comments on Nov 10, 2020:

First striking disagreement: tribe r doesn't retain individuality because tradition, but instead is empowered to develop individuality because tradition affords a structure from which and within which to distinguish oneself.

We need to cut through the haze and get to the heart of the issue.

govols comments on Nov 10, 2020:

How does it feel when you contemplate your own apiness? Weird?

We need to cut through the haze and get to the heart of the issue.

govols comments on Nov 10, 2020:

Finally. I was wondering if you'd ever string it all together tightly enough to clearly lay it out.

How far we have fallen when a scam needs to be “massive” before it’s worth investigating

govols comments on Nov 10, 2020:

Massive, widespread, voter (rather counting or balloting) fraud, all sorts of story shifting devices being used. They certainly know their tactical and strategic linguistic usages, don't they?

What is your personal metric to conclude that Biden won?

govols comments on Nov 10, 2020:

Pretty much the same, given the cluster fu@k of it all...the certified results from each jurisdiction, the votes of the legislatures where results might be demonstrated through the courts impossible to certify, the vote of the electoral college that those results impanel (hopefully) or the the House and the Senate results if it come to that. I'll conclude the winner once it's reported by the legislative branch of the general government.

I would sincerely like to understand this better...

govols comments on Nov 10, 2020:

Well, we'd need to see whether the percentage of voters this year that only cast ballots for president differs greatly from other years. Google that and try to find an answer. Where the district by district polls vary as greatly from the result as do the presidential polls v thus far reported results? Try to find that on Bing. Anomalies might be indicated given 50 results with only a small number of deviant results that aren't as apparent among 460 different races, each with differing sets of candidates rather than just the two (realistic options) under consideration with the presidency.

I write my opinions on here as a conservative.

govols comments on Nov 10, 2020:

A fact of civilization is that governments are a necessary evil, and governments require funding. The question is, funding from what form of taxation? The taxes WILL be levied and collected, but the basic question remains, what form of taxation? Should taxation be a stand alone system of revenue, of pitched in with the overall scheme of managing civilizational necessities? I see no good reason to tax personal income, in an integrated scheme for managing basic civilizational necessities. I CAN see taxing imported goods as a means of BOTH funding government and promoting domestic production of necessary private and public goods and services. It's crazy complicated, but there needs to be a rational integrated collection of policies if it's to be imposed at all.

The Left Wants Unity [youtube.

govols comments on Nov 10, 2020:

These people seem to really believe that people don't remember YESTERDAY, much less the last 4, 5,10, 40 years.

US news: The post Election gun buying surge is underway- [bearingarms.com]

govols comments on Nov 9, 2020:

Maybe it's just the Christmas shopping surge?

Oh, fudge! 😣 😆

govols comments on Nov 9, 2020:

It's my experience that "SON of a B!TCH!" rolls off the tongue most easily in such moments.

Fuck grandma.

govols comments on Nov 9, 2020:

Did you mean to say "grandpa?"

The lady next door actually said this. 😂

govols comments on Nov 9, 2020:

I've seen the meme, but you really heard it in person?

Will the court decide or will congress?

govols comments on Nov 9, 2020:

Court cases will be heard, and it may very well be decided in many jurisdictions that while the election result is demonstrably unknowable given the level of irregularities, no reasonable remedy is available. If I were to give it a constitutional attempt, I'd toss it to the legislatures of the various unknowable States to appoint a slate of electors and see if an electoral college outcome might be available.

The more things change...

govols comments on Nov 7, 2020:

Grow up.

So I get we are mad Trump is claiming Biden cheated, I agree his tone and choice of words is strong ...

govols comments on Nov 6, 2020:

I would never claim that Biden personally cheated, but the democrat party machinery is actively doing so.

It's Always Sunny

govols comments on Nov 6, 2020:

That one might be a bit too unintentionally honest.....

Civil war is necessary

govols comments on Nov 6, 2020:

From time to time, yes. If the time IS to be soon, the sooner the better. Better us than our posterity. Our mess, our job in history.

The beginning of the end ? [youtu.be]

govols comments on Nov 6, 2020:

It must be fought to the bitter end; 70 million voters deserve to see all efforts available deployed on their behalf.

Douglas Murray reacts to US Election and second coronavirus lockdown | 2020 interview: Douglas ...

govols comments on Nov 6, 2020:

The biggest topic raised? What was the deeply rooted comprehension that Trump/Brexit/Populist/Socialist/Bernie sorts of voters SEEING about reality that the political managerial class is ignoring through determined ignorance?

Just wow! This is amazing! Twin Baby Born In Amniotic Sac In Extremely Rare Birth ...

govols comments on Nov 6, 2020:

That had to hurt so good.

A sneaky look 😜 at the other side, i.

govols comments on Nov 6, 2020:

Fun, thanks!

Populist Press | The New Drudge Report

govols comments on Nov 6, 2020:

Where did this come from, I wonder...

How does it feel to be living in a banana 🍌 republic?

govols comments on Nov 5, 2020:

Just about as I expected.

This is what happens when you do drugs, kids. Don't do drugs.

govols comments on Nov 4, 2020:

Was Minnesota especially poorly managed by the Ventura administration?

Could be a few more days yet. Patience. 😎 😉

govols comments on Nov 4, 2020:

It's all good...worst case? Massive solar flare?

Who will take the presidency now that both sides have declared victory?

govols comments on Nov 4, 2020:

I decline to bet against Trump. I feel like the Dems are better at this sort of bullshit, but through four years of it flung through the fan at Trump? I guess this is the moment to see if any of it sticks.

Fuck dammit.

govols comments on Nov 4, 2020:

Watching some of your videos, your Spanish tends to sound most English in its inflection when you slow down. Read aloud in a "cowboy" or "Southern" sort of pace...Sam Elliott...Doc Holliday...Hank Hill...and use your softer, deeper tones where possible. See how that sounds...

If America becomew the next Communist nightmare.

govols comments on Nov 3, 2020:

If America does it she'll have come to it honest. She invented the "post"-modern version to which we'll be submitting.

If you are not very nervous today then you do not understand that our freedoms in North America are ...

govols comments on Nov 3, 2020:

We'll do fine. There's no avoiding the conflicts ahead; through them is the only path forward. Stalling is merely a tactic of the weaker army, or the one most poorly prepared or positioned. Election be damned. Fix your worries over your own helplessness. There will be no Great Hero. If a Savior is to come your worries were misdirected. If no Savior emerges your worries will prove mis-allocated.

Good luck USA, you can do it!

govols comments on Nov 3, 2020:

We'll do fine...

Any suggestions as to how to emotionally prepare for the election?

govols comments on Nov 2, 2020:

Anybody who isn't yet prepared to lose an election is already lost. I suppose an advantage to a regimen of low dose "black pills" is that you build immunity to untoward levels of "hope."

Third Draft: The Culture Wars Things to keep in mind: Imagine in the very beginning a voice ...

govols comments on Nov 2, 2020:

Still making my way through it, but I commend you on the way you got the sound levels so even given the number of source videos. I just got to "gamer gate." I like the way it plays almost like a long running dialog.

Either most of the world's leaders are stupid or they are under somebody's thumb. [theduran.com]

govols comments on Nov 1, 2020:

I wish a couple of dozen countries had implemented the phone book method of choosing leadership a few decades ago so we could have a "control group" on the idea that the elitist social networks are getting dumber.

Biden Team Cancels Texas Event After Highway ‘Ambush’ by MAGA Cavalry

govols comments on Nov 1, 2020:

The SUV was the one trying to force a lane change side by side with a truck, literally half of the SUV in both lanes.

i am definitely posting the third draft today; its just that my hackintosh is being a bitch.

govols comments on Nov 1, 2020:

I doubt you change minds, but you might get one person might not have bothered to go ahead and be bothered. Good luck getting it uploaded.

so fuckin terryfing. [greatreset.com]

govols comments on Nov 1, 2020:

It's a sickness, the result of repeating their own lies so often they've come to believe them...and they're trained propagandists. There are the people who think they're competent enough to tear down civilization and "Rebuild Better."

There are loads of jokes and memes about Florida. Everyone seems to pick on Florida. Why is that?

govols comments on Oct 31, 2020:

Because it's last name is "duh!"

A few hours ago the ghouls and goblins were walking up and down my street.

govols comments on Oct 30, 2020:

How many nights do you Halloween?

We need to make this expression ''angry white male'' AS RACIST and as offensive as the N word.

govols comments on Oct 30, 2020:

Or you could embrace it. That's what I'm doing.

True.... or fake?

govols comments on Oct 30, 2020:

SFgate. Cowriten paper from time in law school.

Can somebody please, tell me what in the wide world of sports this nondescript, bland, ...

govols comments on Oct 30, 2020:

It's the face you get when @naomi posts a joke meme.

Dalai Lama says: I’m just a simple Buddhist monk but I’m trying to help others lead a happy ...

govols comments on Oct 30, 2020:

If evolutionary theory is remotely true, altruism arose probably because small parties within a species survived more reliably than other populations through a certain amount of cooperation. BUT there would still have been competition between populations and between species, and while "in-group" altruism promotes greater cooperation, it does so in part as a means by which one population out-survives the out-group in the greater competition. Altruism doesn't "scale up" because humans remain evolutionarily competitive within and between population. There is no "brotherhood of Man."

Karen gets a kicking! And, Global Flu Cases Down By 98%

govols comments on Oct 29, 2020:

!!!!

Philosophy News Network: is Philosophy Useless? 😂 [existentialcomics.com]

govols comments on Oct 29, 2020:

I couldn't come up with a way to rationalize an argument against the comic. Is philosophy a study of that which is unknowable? Yes, in part. Is such study useful given a few billions who manage without bothering? I don't know.

This group just lost 70 members, interesting.

govols comments on Oct 29, 2020:

This recalls Steve Urkle, "What'd I dooo?"

This group just lost 70 members, interesting.

govols comments on Oct 29, 2020:

I've been finding it by its number of members and last I paid attention it was at 371 a few days ago. I never noticed it above that.

SO many people constantly tell us that the reason the LGBT community has rights, is because "trans ...

govols comments on Oct 29, 2020:

WTF? That's really a thing? Projecting current Theory into the past promotes both "validation" and popularization. The current Theory can't predict anything in order to create evidence for itself, so it's made "true" in retrospect. And it works.

So, here's the plan.

govols comments on Oct 29, 2020:

Too much, too soon, too close to home....but yeah.

No major school shootings since pandemic lockdowns, how peculiar.

govols comments on Oct 29, 2020:

Well, there's that...

This is terrible! 😂 🤣

govols comments on Oct 29, 2020:

Where do you dig this stuff up?

Should individual donors to political campaigns be anonymous?

govols comments on Oct 29, 2020:

I'm suspicious of the secret ballot, much less secret political bribery and access purchasing.

What do you think?

govols comments on Oct 29, 2020:

Somebody's reading a hell of a lot into a story that says not at all what the lead post suggests.

Can Man Live with No Religion?

govols comments on Oct 29, 2020:

I think some individuals do fine, but others make a religion out of something else that oughn't be held so.

As a person with disabilities I obviously care about what politicians will do when it cones to ...

govols comments on Oct 29, 2020:

This is part of where the left is so splintered. The classical marxists keep trying to get the identitarians back to the working class, but the identitarians are convinced lifting the whole working class to better living conditions will leave the inequalities among them unchanged. It goes to that "yeah, but what have you done for me (mine)?"

The left are noisy but shallow.

govols comments on Oct 29, 2020:

numbers will win eventually, one way or anther

This is too outrageous, I can't wait until I finish my video on The Culture Wars to upload it.

govols comments on Oct 28, 2020:

His analysis IS upside down world, clown world, myopia.

This is too outrageous, I can't wait until I finish my video on The Culture Wars to upload it.

govols comments on Oct 28, 2020:

Outanding commentary. Nicely done. Let us know of the final version and I'll share as far and wide as possible.

This is too outrageous, I can't wait until I finish my video on The Culture Wars to upload it.

govols comments on Oct 28, 2020:

Please link the lecture or the college, instructor, course title. Show your text a bit longer, maybe a count of two plus read aloud. It takes a moment to go from passive to activate, and comprehension is slow as it first kicks on. Also, if you're willing to post or PM script to volunteers, little things like "most deceiving way" might be alternatively offered for your consideration "most deceptive way." I volunteer.

Here’s the real elephant in the room.

govols comments on Oct 28, 2020:

Corruption in government is like turtles, all the way down...

This is so cute! 😆 Who are you voting, have you voted, for?

govols comments on Oct 28, 2020:

I voted mostly for the entertainment value.

Is the censoring of conservative news on Twitter a form of domestic terrorism?

govols comments on Oct 28, 2020:

Twitter is evil. The fact that people use it as a source when posting what they're presenting as "news" or fact irritates me to no end. I close any story that uses tweets as its source, or as the very basis for creating/introducing yet more noise into information ecosystem.

I like that the mainstream press is promoting polls showing Biden ahead by double digits.

govols comments on Oct 28, 2020:

I don't think anyone who has strong feelings is going to miss out on voting. And I'm not sure I know anybody who doesn't have strong feelings. I usually vote on election day (because I enjoy--or used to--the emotional communal togetherness of the event), but voted early just to get it in for the count even if I find a way to die prematurely.

Trump Encourages Biden Voters To Illegally Change Vote To Him

govols comments on Oct 28, 2020:

In some states one can vote in person AFTER the voting office as received their ballot my mail, and the mail in ballot is not counted. And it isn't illegal.

I was considering something this morning.

govols comments on Oct 28, 2020:

I think in this case you're barking up a wrong tree, with the remotely possible exception of a tiny portion of those under consideration.

Trump Supporter Threatens Woman

govols comments on Oct 28, 2020:

I'm glad I live in an area that currently remains largely normal.

Yes, my cold feet are notorious. 😈😁

govols comments on Oct 28, 2020:

The cold feet don't bother me near as much a the damned blanket hoarding.

TownHall: USC pollster says their experimental polling methodology echoes the Trafalgar Group's ...

govols comments on Oct 28, 2020:

I have no idea what to make of anything regarding this election.

RedState: Putin weighs in on Trump ending the Afghan War.

govols comments on Oct 28, 2020:

Has he forgotten the 80s?

Revelation to John fucking Ward part 2 [youtu.be]

govols comments on Oct 28, 2020:

this one was great.

I would suggest for you to encourage group singing activities.

govols comments on Oct 28, 2020:

https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/CDPH-Guidance-for-the-Prevention-of-COVID-19-Transmission-for-Gatherings-10-09.aspx#:~:text=Gatherings%20that%20include%20more%20than,interact%20with%20stable%20over%20time. Rules for Singing, Chanting, and Shouting at Outdoor Gatherings Singing, chanting, shouting, and physical exertion significantly increases the risk of COVID-19 transmission because these activities increase the release of respiratory droplets and fine aerosols into the air. Because of this, singing, chanting, and shouting are strongly discouraged, but if they occur, the following rules and recommendations apply: All people who are singing or chanting should wear a face covering at all times while singing or chanting, including anyone who is leading a song or chant. Because these activities pose a very high risk of COVID-19 transmission, face coverings are essential to reduce the spread of respiratory droplets and fine aerosols; People who are singing, shouting, chanting, or exercising are strongly encouraged to maintain physical distancing beyond 6 feet to further reduce risk. People who are singing or chanting are strongly encouraged to do so quietly (at or below the volume of a normal speaking voice). Instrumental music is allowed as long as the musicians maintain at least 6-foot physical distancing. Musicians must be from one of the three households. Playing of wind instruments (any instrument played by the mouth, such as a trumpet or clarinet) is strongly discouraged.

THE LAST DAYS OF THE TRUMPIAN REICH Somewhat satirical coating on a deadly serious topic.

govols comments on Oct 28, 2020:

I hate them.

My daughter Anna was reading her English Standard Version recently and came across this translation ...

govols comments on Oct 27, 2020:

Do you have any suggestions/thoughts toward translations? I'm wading in the NIV because I like how it attempts presenting paragraphs. I'll jump on your point though... A wise man jumps on the dominant wisdom, the wisdom at hand. The dominant hand. The wisdom of Ages. The fool looks left, offhand, where options abound. But no confidence...no certainty. Is the fool wrong to look?

Patriot Church Movement?

govols comments on Oct 27, 2020:

I don't like Islam because it IS a political system as much as it is a religious one, but I'm wary of any theology when it dabbles in politics. Then again, secularism has itself become almost a mystery cult, but with a disconnect from any history that precedes it. The modern effort to separate public affairs from popular culture is a failure; that much is evident. The Christian cult brought forth the civil/cultic separation. A civil/cultic reunification might very well be necessary to national cooperation amid ongoing international competition. I'd rather a majority of us stand equally heretical among a Protestant/Orthodox coalition of atheist/nontheist/theist nationalists than individually against a universalalist cosmopolitan secular elitists who seem to wish half of us would go on and die already.

As someone with a degree in children's ministry and being a bit of a man child who loves nostalgia, ...

govols comments on Oct 27, 2020:

A degree in children's ministry is a thing?

Experts claim that we will always be required to wear a mask and not have social interactions, even ...

govols comments on Oct 27, 2020:

THAT'S what got you suspended?!?

I would suggest for you to encourage group singing activities.

govols comments on Oct 27, 2020:

Yep, Imagine was one of the most effective songs ever written. It hears and sings easy and is filled with propaganda. And it works in your guts.

When Hillary resurface... [youtu.be]

govols comments on Oct 27, 2020:

Wow.

There are only two types of people in this world. Which one are you? 😂

govols comments on Oct 27, 2020:

Oh no. There's also me, and if not for my wife all of my tools would be where ever I last laid them down after every stopping point I ever reached. And yes, I also have a "work-wife"

How much do we know about slavery in the United States?

govols comments on Oct 27, 2020:

He's describing some of what I've been running into my whole life trying to study history and various old books. Trying to get into the heads of the authors and their audiences from periods I'll never comprehend...? It's been proving impossible my whole life.

Mike Huckabee openly admits to committing voter fraud.

govols comments on Oct 26, 2020:

Humor... Have a sense.

The Honorable Amy Coney Barrett was just confirmed as a United States Supreme Court Justice! 👍...

govols comments on Oct 26, 2020:

I'm in wait and see. A good lower court judge follows the precedents of its past and from above. SCotUS judges ought to be willing to follow the law of the land, and break precedent no matter how pragmatic a prior ruling might have been. As with most things, time will tell.

Fox: VDH. COVID has changed so many things. What's next for us?

govols comments on Oct 26, 2020:

We shoo... them away when we see the grills of their Teslas?

MD uses flag laws more than most- [bearingarms.]

govols comments on Oct 26, 2020:

That reminds me: has anybody removed Biden's shotguns from his home?

“We’re not going to control the pandemic.

govols comments on Oct 26, 2020:

It's more like saying we're not going to control a hurricane, or an earthquake.

Where do you get your news?

govols comments on Oct 26, 2020:

I try to ignore it, and read old books.

Are there any more libertarian free thinkers out there? C'mon people, write something!

govols comments on Oct 26, 2020:

I was a libertarian, but started thinking more freely. As I explored other ideas, and criticisms of libertarianism, I noticed easily the blind spots in other ideologies; I pondered where my own might be. So I studied political philosophy a little and began thinking even more freely about all of the blind spots in all of the ideologies I would come across...so I step further back in time to study some ancient philosophy. So then I started thinking more freely about history, the history of philosophy, and the philosophies of history. Then I begin to realize that history, philosophy politics...all of that shit centers a hell of a lot around culture, traditions, social norms...the "cult" of each and any given society as well as those with who the one of interest interact. So we dive into some theology and mythology to better understand the "world view" of the peoples and political systems under study. Still, being a free thinker, I could no longer hold to libertarianism as a reasonable approach to reality given human behavior. Of course that lead to psychology and sociology, and a realization that the "popular versions" of those two frauds were utterly unscientific, but that the scientific versions were difficult to study because the things they reveal about human behavior are very UNpopular. So, now I'm a free thinker with an unusual position; I have no discernible world view, nor any real ideology. It would be now impossible for me to "revert to an earlier operating system," but given I'm hardly a competent cultural cartographer I find it quite difficult to draw up new maps for any but the smallest scope and lowest levels of resolution. So, after many years of free thinking I've resigned myself to the fact that it's all too fucking complicated for me to hang my assumptions and manners of being on an "ism." So now I go about living like a late blooming mid-wit Socrates, brilliantly aware of my ignorance. On some level I've free thought myself into being a fucking postmodernist traditionalist on a fools quest for the God of my youth. But, ironically, I free thought my way out of that ages ago...

Finally an update from Jordan!!! [youtu.be]

govols comments on Oct 25, 2020:

Proverbs could be a blessing to both him and his audience.

California, Orange County Health Agency Announces Student Contest to ‘Normalize Mask Wearing’ ...

govols comments on Oct 25, 2020:

Giant Meteor 2020?

Jim Crow, Neoliberalism, And The Current Fascist Backlash Against Civil Rights Movements

govols comments on Oct 25, 2020:

Well, I gave it a few minutes and then he goes for stupid name calling. Pass.

Now this, I have to say idiocy at its peak (unless I'm missing something here).

govols comments on Oct 24, 2020:

In the US, some states and/local governments did similar; the rationale here was mostly about fairness toward smaller specialty shops like book, electronic, sporting goods, etc. that were forcibly closed as nonessential. If they can't open then general stores can't sell "their" wares.

Did anyone asked for social media moderation, like, at all?

govols comments on Oct 23, 2020:

I was following right up to "and then kills himself."

I have lost friends and donors.

govols comments on Oct 23, 2020:

I'm tossing a thumbs up just because you're banging your head against some of the same walls I did for 20 years or so. I went to the dark side,where we have fresh cookies and old whisky.