How Americans reacted to the rioting at the U.S. Capitol | Pew Research Center

govols comments on Jan 17, 2021:

Is it really just me? Am I really the ONLY American who was laid back in their recliner pointing and laughing at the mainstream commentary?

Nothing To See, Move Along... What A Grin!

govols comments on Jan 15, 2021:

The photo is from a 2017 announcement of reducing regulations and cutting red tape. I have no idea what else it's been attached to.

Do you people think this Website will also get closed like Parler?

govols comments on Jan 15, 2021:

I don't know. My expectation is that it will work its way down to food chain until people just shut the hell up. That's all they want. Shut down dissident voices across the board, no matter the political tilt. There will be the official Party line and maybe the approved opposition (positions of which will also come from the Party.)

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govols comments on Jan 14, 2021:

I'll bite.

I've put my foot in it again! 😅

govols comments on Jan 14, 2021:

I'm in the stage of life when I can leave things unsaid. There's enough years behind me that I understand consequences, usually spot them in advance, and enough years statistically yet before me that I still give a shit about being shunned. For now.

The message received loud and clear. 🤣

govols comments on Jan 14, 2021:

I judge dive bars on their wings and tacos. And world class restaurants.

1/6 is just the latest in a long line of coup attempts by the business interests that dominate the ...

govols comments on Jan 14, 2021:

Oh, fuck off. These god-damn motivated interests don't just control one political "party" or another and you fucking well know it.

I was watching a crime drina last night and if course like many others they tackled the black cop ...

govols comments on Jan 14, 2021:

I was in the room with that same show. My wife love those and freaking hospital dramas. Part of why I read so much. Quite happily, those are very easy to tune out.

The klan and Nazi side ? [youtu.be]

govols comments on Jan 14, 2021:

Dumb and Dumber

HA!!! The Mean Girl’s Group known as the House of Representatives (aka the People’s House) has ...

govols comments on Jan 14, 2021:

I think in the fullness of time this will go into the win column for Trump.

Okay, here's my first post on Slug.

govols comments on Jan 14, 2021:

Is it even possible to steal a meme?

Here's a list that Amazon submitted in support of their shutdown of parler.

govols comments on Jan 13, 2021:

The excerpts aren't distinguishable from fabrications...lies. Reconstitute and republish the source texts--the whole of parler--and we'll view it all in almost proper context. Reconstitute and republish all of the canceled and deleted Facebook, Twitter, youtube.... Replatform the whole of the conversation and we can continue the conversation. Any less and you're rejecting the possibility of real conversation. You're dictating the narrative.

My favorite Peterson clip. [youtu.be]

govols comments on Jan 13, 2021:

Him spotting the blush, and being well enough loved that he could call it out in good humor, without converting mild embarrassment into shame or humiliation? Priceless.

Global Worming! Here comes the next disgusting idea by the globalists .

govols comments on Jan 13, 2021:

"Eat the bug, bigot!"

Is it okay psychologically to get a kick out of all of the madness we're experiencing?

govols comments on Jan 13, 2021:

Depression might be the more sane, but it feels like sickened humor might be healthier.

AOC wants to "liberate" red states.

govols comments on Jan 13, 2021:

Oh, shit!

Let me be the first to congratulate president trump on being the first president in american history...

govols comments on Jan 13, 2021:

It just sort of seems unbecoming...

And he thinks he could trick her the same way next day. Well, good luck. 😂

govols comments on Jan 13, 2021:

That would piss me off so bad...it would be a flash and gone, but it would be burning hot rage for an instant.

That's why short people walk tall, me included. 😂 (What excites tall people, I wonder...?)

govols comments on Jan 13, 2021:

Tall people get excited by a random unknown short person bewilderedly staring at the top shelf in the grocery store.

That's why short people walk tall, me included. 😂 (What excites tall people, I wonder...?)

govols comments on Jan 13, 2021:

That's wrong... Dang. But pob'ly true.

You wish? 😂

govols comments on Jan 13, 2021:

No! I laughed my ass off at their coverage on the day of the "mostly peaceful" MAGA protest on the 6th. It was glorious, the (fake) outrage and indignation. You could tell it was the answer, in real time, to their earlier morning prayers to the ratings gods.

Glad I've always worked from home. 😂

govols comments on Jan 13, 2021:

I feel like I resemble that remark...

What did Trump do, if anything, to incite violence?

govols comments on Jan 13, 2021:

I think the five years of democrat and media shenanigans that Trump has spent five years standing up against, along with the success of their election shenanigans, has roused passions on both sides to a point that violences is necessarily incited even still.

What did Trump do, if anything, to incite violence?

govols comments on Jan 13, 2021:

Totally off topic: I utterly loath the half-Windsor knot. Carry on....

Fight! Guns vs Hackers.

govols comments on Jan 13, 2021:

I think it depends on the ends. (As an example only) If one's people are threatened with genocide? Yes, salvation by any means necessary. Is the US under a threat as dire? That depends on your perspective. I'm pretty the answer is "yes" to enough people that we're going to enjoy some horrors... My point is that so long as the game remains, the rules must be followed no matter who wins each iteration. If the game itself is up for grabs you might have to step outside of the rules in order to save the game.

This one is too good to pass grin

govols comments on Jan 13, 2021:

Too much.

Parler leak - they've mapped the location of every parler user.

govols comments on Jan 13, 2021:

Bummer; I'm not on the map.

This can't be real, if it perchance it is, I'd never use it

govols comments on Jan 12, 2021:

Never say never.

I'm starting to see a lot of posts that are implying, or outright stating violence, in support of ...

govols comments on Jan 12, 2021:

I just don't see how calling for violence against government is bad or harmful. If the calls raise enough rabble to actually pose a threat to the systems and structures of sovereign power, then by very American standards that would be the consent of the governed being withdrawn, and the fundamental sovereignty of the People being asserted.

Africans Have “Ghost” DNA – Tony Odarg – The White Gentleman

govols comments on Jan 12, 2021:

So yet another ancestor to be discovered. It's funny we have other human species with which our ancestors interbred, but who are considered different species. But they can't be, because they interbred? They must be because their genetics differs by"x" %?

Truth or Consequences

govols comments on Jan 12, 2021:

Well, not Truth, so I guess it'll be Consequences. Time will tell.

Something is off here, and it suggests that the media industry does not work according to a simple ...

govols comments on Jan 11, 2021:

Outstanding piece. A must read...

It's where we are

govols comments on Jan 10, 2021:

I never realized that I participated in the being of Joker, but for years it's been true.

I'm sure this meme of a Republican won't upset anyone.

govols comments on Jan 9, 2021:

Yep, it's time. Let it begin here and now so that our children don't suffer the struggle we have sown and deserve to harvest. Let's go on and do this, get it over with.

Google Play store suspends Parler as Apple threatens to follow suit within hours [independent.co.uk]

govols comments on Jan 8, 2021:

The next move will be to the dark web...the one with the really bad stuff most of us would never want to look at. After that it will be little local underground networks like early Christian house churches during the Roman persecutions. Great fun, eh?

Apple has deactivated Parler from my phone.

govols comments on Jan 8, 2021:

https://www.businessinsider.com/parler-social-media-experience-outage-users-report-2021-1 Gab and parler both effected and maybe not just by Apple. I just check parler using android and it just times out.

It's been 152 years since a living president has not attended his successors inauguration

govols comments on Jan 8, 2021:

Do you really think Trump would be wanted at a Biden inauguration?

The American Revolution: Was it Biblical?

govols comments on Jan 8, 2021:

I think you must rely a tad less on the Bible for this question, and a tad more on English law as the English themselves would have considered it were it being applied to themselves in their own land rather than upon Englishmen in a land beyond representation within the governing structures in place.

Did you join the pro-Trump rally at the Capitol yesterday? If you decided not to, why not?

govols comments on Jan 7, 2021:

I didn't go because I don't think right tilted activism is effective at moving current reality away from the brink. I'm resigned to watching everything burn, but I'm rather repulsed by the activity of splashing flamables and tossing matches.

With advance apologies... 😂😂😂

govols comments on Jan 2, 2021:

Is this a contest?

..........

govols comments on Jan 2, 2021:

Ouch.

Hours before The New Year, Vancouver restaurants, fully stocked and staffed were ordered to halt ...

govols comments on Jan 1, 2021:

I have a few haunts that are ignoring all restrictions. One, today, told me he would go to jail before he'd close on command again. Some of us have finally said, "Enough."

Pastor: "Zoom Church is a Joke" [youtube.

govols comments on Jan 1, 2021:

I'm pretty sure pub worship is closer to Christ than Zoom worship.

I'm looking for anyone over 18 who knows English to fill-out a 20 question survey on Childhood ...

govols comments on Jan 1, 2021:

Easy and painless; help a brother out, y'all.

I bought myself a digital piano! Do you play any musical instrument?

govols comments on Jan 1, 2021:

I used to play guitar, mandolin, and fiddle, long ago and poorly.

Monty Python Philosophy Football 😂 [youtube.com]

govols comments on Dec 31, 2020:

Sometimes the only way to win is to give the deceiver a point and walk away. The Truth might not be in Athens, or Jerusalem or the deep South or the East, but it damned sure isn't in Germany. I'm guessing maybe it's in Ireland, or Iceland. Or Antarctic.

Are you changing the format again?

govols comments on Dec 31, 2020:

Let's see if it works on android...

Beautiful Celtic Christmas Music. Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Krause. [youtu.be]

govols comments on Dec 25, 2020:

Thank you so much.

Cappella Sistina, Vatican City (1508/1512 ) Michelangelo (1475-1564), fresco The Sistine Chapel ...

govols comments on Dec 23, 2020:

I'd love to see the documentary. He must have been the art director/ project manager, right?

Biden.... wishful thinking?

govols comments on Dec 22, 2020:

It's gone too far. The Democrats and the anti-liberal left HATE millions of Americans...and millions of us have learned to hate them back...

I was wondering.

govols comments on Dec 20, 2020:

Whether what happens in the US in the near term is of great concern to the wider world depends on what's actually going on in the US, and in the wider world. If America ever actually gets bent the whole of the earth will quiver. America is presently seriously considering getting bent and taking the ultimate pissed. The world has every reason to prepare and witness.

Took a keen eye to find this dog within a dog, yet someone did

govols comments on Dec 15, 2020:

Was it Hong Kong Phooey?

I read coronavirus has mutated to more serious; so my question to Christians is how does ...

govols comments on Dec 14, 2020:

The most meaningful thought I find in Scripture is "have you no faith?" Over and over it's joined with a person of faith embodying "hold my beer..." or failing to.

Really folks, DO NOT do this...

govols comments on Dec 14, 2020:

I flushed that from my mind's eye years ago with whisky, yet here it floats up again? Excuse me while I wipe sufficiently.

2020 will soon be gone. Not that 2021 is going to be any better. Anyway, I chuckled

govols comments on Dec 14, 2020:

Saw one saying You think 2020 was bad? Wait til it turns 21 and starts drinking!

I wonder what so-called the perfect man looks like... 🤨

govols comments on Dec 14, 2020:

I'd post a picture but I'm kinda private in that regard.

This is the time to come together as a nation, especially under the virus threat and stop bickering ...

govols comments on Dec 13, 2020:

Joe Biden didn't get 80,,000,000 votes or win the election. Trump should exhaust every available option; Democrats would...and have been.

Just gonna shake/mix some paint here...Crap

govols comments on Dec 12, 2020:

I spilled epoxy on brand new shoes at work yesterday... Not like that but every bit as irritating!

Pandemic lockdown battles offer glimpses of political conflicts to come- [reason.

govols comments on Dec 11, 2020:

Across the country and throughout the country are very different things. Most of America is open, and has been all along.

Do you consider this website to be "far right"?

govols comments on Dec 11, 2020:

I consider the site to be merely OPEN, and myself to be more open--and more to the right--than the overall membership.

So you are frustrated by YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

govols comments on Dec 11, 2020:

I've been avoiding posting because I have very little good to say. I'm trying to figure out what little ol' me and people like me might do about the negative slope I believe we're on, but I'm drawing nothing but blanks. But, I do try to avoid being debbie downer so I'm quiet. I'm beginning to think that's going to be my strategy on politics. I'm about to withdraw consent by walking away from a crap collection of institutions. Why participate in systems under the control of people who don't give a shit about my interests and concerns? The US, at least, is spiraling down. The quality of candidates has been in decline my entire adult life. The Parties just keep nominating toward their fringes with the exception of the shocking Trump supporter rebellion against the GOP establishment that tried so hard to give conservatives first JEB!, then Rubio, and finally begged their former base to accept Cruz in place of the horrible Orange meanie. Screw 'em. The GOPe is dead to me again. On the other hand I'm about ready to rejoin the conversation at least over in philosophy and religion....

Half of Holland does not wash hands after going to the bathroom.

govols comments on Dec 10, 2020:

Early in the year I noticed the water in public restrooms was far more often primed for quick hot water. The water now runs cold. Although, a joke from childhood... Two men in the bathroom and one is washing his hands as the other finishes up and heads for the door. The one washing says, "Where I grew up we were taught as children to wash hand after using the bathroom." The other guy says, "Where I grew up we figured out as children not to piss on our fingers."

Looks like We’re going to have to start getting Our Information from Alternate Sites .

govols comments on Dec 10, 2020:

I've given up on the idea of information. There are simply too many lenses deployed to any longer imagine reality even exists.

I discovered Uncle Bob only several months ago.

govols comments on Dec 10, 2020:

I watched once in a while as a kid.

From John HINDERAKER: Texas Throws a Hail Mary.

govols comments on Dec 9, 2020:

Thanks.

I have finished my new website.

govols comments on Dec 8, 2020:

Wait. You're opening move is going to be one of the densest collections ever written?

I have finished my new website.

govols comments on Dec 8, 2020:

On android phone the header blocks half the screen as soon as you begin to scroll.

Yeah, don't do this at home (or anywhere)

govols comments on Dec 4, 2020:

if real, deserved far worse.......

Cat Map...

govols comments on Dec 4, 2020:

I don't see it....

Michael Flynn calls for Trump to suspend the constitution and declare martial law to re-run election...

govols comments on Dec 3, 2020:

https://wethepeopleconvention.org/articles/WTPC-Urges-Limited-Martial-Law

Can you believe all of these are paintings?

govols comments on Nov 29, 2020:

Link to artist?

Could we avoid this happening somehow?

govols comments on Nov 22, 2020:

I don't attempt to avoid it, but it does irritate me too.

I have lost track of all of the rioting that was promised to happen after the election. What's up?

govols comments on Nov 20, 2020:

They're confused.

Allies = Alloys Bad joke alert! 😆

govols comments on Nov 20, 2020:

Good grief....

Duly noted.

govols comments on Nov 19, 2020:

I tried that excuse. The swelling seems to be going down.

I'm going to take a small detour from logic because there is something that everyone asks that is ...

govols comments on Nov 19, 2020:

The meaning of life is abstraction, maybe? This is a word I have no trouble with, but an idea that I haven't quite fully figured out. Like, tool for example. Move thing: push, shove, pound, hurt hand, pick up rock, hammer, tool... I get that sort of idea, but I really have trouble figuring out where is the "form" of the thing begins and the particular thing ends. Your post above is in many ways fully comprehensible for me, but my difficulty with grasping hold of "abstraction" renders it simultaneously very difficult understand. Tips?

Waiting Waiting waiting for Trump to get this to the Supreme Court.

govols comments on Nov 19, 2020:

Start now. The shortages are coming with or without Biden. The ever-war is ongoing no matter who wins each battle. Eat cheap if the budget requires it, but start laying in non-perishables as money allows.

Time to leave FB... [youtu.be]

govols comments on Nov 19, 2020:

My only regret about never having facebooked is that it leaves me unable to leave.

So, you are a decent adult; well, at least you behave like one, especially around your children and ...

govols comments on Nov 19, 2020:

I think I would defend my occasional swearing as colloquial usage acceptable in small doses among familiers, and admit that I, too, fail in my manners from time to time and ask that they take note of how petty and/or immature I look on those occasions. I might show them some examples of gloating and poor sportsmanship just to broaden the lesson...

These are uncomfortable thoughts and feelings I'm having right now.

govols comments on Nov 18, 2020:

Yep.

A Direct Threat to Christian Education—The Human Rights Campaign Demands that the Biden ...

govols comments on Nov 18, 2020:

This is them going too far too fast. Bring it, you secular humanist fundamentalists.

Bravo! 👏 👏 👏

govols comments on Nov 18, 2020:

I got nothin'....

What is the "Great Reset"?

govols comments on Nov 18, 2020:

All of the above?

Your next move will be crucial. 😂

govols comments on Nov 18, 2020:

Weep.

DailyWire: Pollsters listed 27 races as 'tossups.

govols comments on Nov 18, 2020:

There is SOOOO much weird stuff within the various elections this time, one can't help but wonder how deep and how far into history it runs.

DailyWire: Leftists all aflutter about the sudden rise of Parler.

govols comments on Nov 18, 2020:

The mediums and the elites and the globalists don't want the lower classes to have effective networks.

A very Persuasive ad

govols comments on Nov 18, 2020:

Wow.

Should the U.S. lock down again to stop the coronavirus? [news.yahoo.com]

govols comments on Nov 17, 2020:

No.

I recently told this story to a friend who didn't believe me so I had to send this as proof ...

govols comments on Nov 17, 2020:

Nature is miraculous sometimes.

Let’s see it pains me to say this but what industries do you think we’ll see finally come to an...

govols comments on Nov 17, 2020:

Many such things, though not exactly those things, are what my wife and I have been supporting and participating in these last several months, intentionally, to help ensure they remain into the new year. We've been trying like hell to support local markets, cultural institutions, whatever we can manage. In small ways locals venues seem strengthened of late. Flourishing, even. Many of us are taking comfort from various form of public ritual celebrations ranging from churches to pubs to parks to club activities. There is a public commons movement arising amidst this governmental imposition period. Will it hold up? No idea. But hope abides...

Welcome readers of The Unz Review! We are happy to have you as part of our community.

govols comments on Nov 17, 2020:

Welcome...and interesting invite.

Pentagon Says it Shot Down Unarmed Missile in Sea-Based Test [newsmax.com]

govols comments on Nov 17, 2020:

A bullet with a bullet...BS. Can't be done......

Is it possible to talk about Jewish political influence without being called anti-Semitic?

govols comments on Nov 16, 2020:

I'm not terribly concerned, but no. You can't dive in without being accused of NAZI.

AmericanThinker: Jay Valentine: It's a coup, just say it.

govols comments on Nov 16, 2020:

What's amusing me right now is that the article is talking about me the last two weeks. I called bullshit Wednesday morning. I was at coup BEFORE the election, as I read story after story through which they explained exactly what it was going to look like and exactly how it was being conducted. So, here I am, watching history in real time and wondering what hell can possibly be done about it besides enjoy it? I've had a few dozen pissed off demons inside me for a few weeks and the little part of me that manages their moods has no idea what to do with them. It part of why I'm so quiet right now.....

This is going to seem like a taunt, it is not.

govols comments on Nov 15, 2020:

You're not allowed to speak so of a text without naming it, and its author.

Predictive programming?: [youtube.com]

govols comments on Nov 15, 2020:

Dear God, they no longer care even to hide it.

Apparently, I'm awesome. 😂

govols comments on Nov 12, 2020:

All language is sign language, isn't it? It's why we war over words.

So, I'm still patiently waiting for the 2020 election to play out.

govols comments on Nov 12, 2020:

I'm with you on the election, sort of. I'm certain some fraud was committed but have no clue how it plays out. Nor any control. So I point and laugh and wait.... I still decline to join the twits, though, no matter what fun might come of it.

Philly saying Covid spikes due to Halloween.

govols comments on Nov 11, 2020:

Links, maybe? So many places banned trick or treat, and they're now going to blame children for the second coming of the plague? Really?

In these times, it can be very easy to think: well, we ARE actually acting the same.

govols comments on Nov 11, 2020:

Outstanding presentation. Well done!