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Right Angle: Backstage (12-20-2022)
It’s a Christmas tradition, like Scrooge and Die Hard. Enjoy this nostalgic episode of Backstage.
16 replies on “Right Angle: Backstage (12-20-2022)”
Who needs farmers? We can just get our food from the grocery store. LOL
By the time the Scott Otts of the world accept the reality we are currently living in, it will be too late to save our selves. The mushy middle will get us all killed.
Did you have a particular statement with which you disagreed, Chad?
Hi Scott, your statement from 1:23:10 – 1:25:10. I used to believe much the same. Now I believe the totality of evidence over the last twelve years or so, demonstrates that the “fourth branch” (unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy) of government has become “self aware”. The fourth branch will not stop their march to acquire absolute power because the majority of people within it have either rejected God and therefor have no self control or they go along to get along, and just do what they are told to do. If the forth branch was filled with “good” people it wouldn’t be killing, destroying and stealing from law abiding citizens while unleashing evil lawbreakers from prison to torment us. I’m sure your “middle of the road” demeanor is great for your “other job” but (there’s always a but) the line between good and evil is no longer anywhere near the middle. I enjoy your videos immensely and they help quell the despair I feel, watching the society I live within commit societal and cultural suicide.
I think you may have missed a story a little. (I agree in general with your assessments though)
What I saw was this “caring” grandfather type person who was taking the time to understand make up application so he could do a good job for his grandson. It not that granddad was a groomer or himself a perv.
I agree it is a terrible corrupted vision of being kind and loving, and J&B will not be anywhere near my person at anytime now nor into the future.
Funny about the Scotch being a manly drink. I always thought it Bourbon.
I got the same thing you got from the story the commercial ad is telling. I think it’s just hard for most normal people to get past the grotesque image of that old man in makeup and get to the even worse greater evil beyond.
The other side, the side this ad targets, gets that the old man went to extremes to learn the art of feminine makeup so that he could show his grandson and the rest of this family that he “cares so much” about his grandson that he wants him to “be himself”. The other side gets this, and applauds it.
Which is balderdash. The family is applauding a deviant fetish. It’s a lot easier for that kid to just be the male he was born as than to get all painted up so he can display his fetish in public. Public gratification of his fetish makes the whole thing even more deviant.
That kid isn’t ever going to be a woman and that’s not who he is. What he puts on his face, what clothes he wears or how many parts of his body he has butchered does not change anything and only does him harm. “Who he is” done up like that is actually a mortal insult to womanhood. He wounds the very thing he seeks to be and that’s not ‘love’ in anyone’s book.
Painting his face and putting a dress on does not all-of-a-sudden make him the same sex as his mother, aunts and grandmas. They are the ones who should be protesting loudest, btw.
If you can somehow negotiate the mental and moral gymnastics to applaud that kind of thing, there’s something wrong with you. When a family does such a thing, there’s something gravely wrong with that family. When a society not only tolerates a twisted family like this one but encourages it to the point where such a thing is believed so positive that it can even sell a brand name — It undermines nuclear families and destroys the society.
All in the name of “loving someone”.
That’s not love, grandpa doesn’t love that kid. This is de facto obvious because what grandpa is doing is not anywhere near the best thing for that kid. What grandpa did by literally and figuratively grooming that young man was to encourage him in a life of frustration, heartbreak, alienation, despair, unfulfillment and grave danger from or to others who are like him.
Basing your entire existence on a sexual fetish is not conducive to a good life. Doing that causes sexuality to be the main pivot in your life, the thing all else revolves around. It is dehumanizing. It doesn’t really matter if the sexuality it hetero (which the majority of transvestites are) or homo. We’ve all known a heterosexual man who thinks and talks about nothing but sex. Moreso among other men because of social taboos against that kind of thing in ‘polite company’. Those are the same social taboos under attack in this ad and most of us find that every bit as disgusting as the guy who works every topic around to sex when he’s with other guys.
Magical thinking is not a manifestation of love, giving a child poison isn’t love. Even when that’s what the child mistakenly thinks he wants.
Notice that the kid in question is “25 años”, he’s twenty-five years old. He didn’t become the abomination that he is in a day. Everyone saw this coming, grandpa was just the one who needed to be convinced because in a real family grandpas (like me) are not going to fall for that sort of horrible mistake. Grandpa was so convinced that he painted up his grandson like a woman and that by inference means grandpas like me are monsters for not going along with that drek.
Grandpa wants to be socially virtuous and he’s willing to sacrifice the lives and wellbeing of a grandson or two to achieve that. Grandpa has been told that doing this ‘good thing’ is proof of his own ‘goodness’. Grandpa is no fool, he can read the handwriting on the wall. Grandpa’s downfall isn’t stupidity, it’s abandoning the traditions and faith of his forefathers to become this ‘new good’ and forsaking the old good. There’s nothing new about this, it’s an old bad.
There’s a lot deeper Evil in this ad than just an old man in makeup. You’re right, that wasn’t the story.
Excellent overview ACTS.
Off topic of Groompa and J&B, but Steve, where does Scotch get that medicine…ey..taste? Love me some Bourbon, but anytime someone goes on and on and on….and on…about 15, 18, whatever year aged Scotch, and I taste it, while I can’t describe it well, I know I don’t like the taste. Steve, is it my unrefined palate which simply cannot understand and appreciate this taste called….Scotch?
Taste, as in the perception of flavor, is purely subjective. You will never know exactly how something tastes to me and vice versa. I can describe the taste of something with words but words are not flavor. Everyone has a relatively unique body chemistry and flavor is a function of body chemistry.
I like both Scotch and Bourbon. To my taste they are completely different flavors but I like them both. Scotch has a lot of malt flavor (again, to me) which I love. That’s the biggest difference between the two types though there certainly are other differences too. That is likely though not absolutely certainly the flavor you taste as “medicine-ey”.
I have a friend who (also like me) enjoys a flavored Bourbon now and then. I prefer flavored Bourbon to things like Peach Schnapps or Blackberry Brandy on a cold winter’s day. My buddy likes the same stuff as I do with one exception. He cannot tolerate Cherry Bourbon. He says it just reminds him too much of the cough syrup his mom gave him as a kid.
My son is not a fan of Bourbon or Scotch. To his taste he prefers the flavor of high-end Rum. Neat. To me that’s a big bleccchhh. Emphasis on the ‘eck’.
That you, or my buddy, or my son do not like exactly the same things I do casts no aspersions on any of us. Our perception of flavors is unique to each of us and that’s just the way life goes.
Life is too short to drink something you don’t like, so don’t. Stick with what you like and leave all that tasty Scotch for us who really love it. We don’t mind. Really. 🙂
You’re probably right. Could be the malt I’m picking up. One of the nice, and I mean, really nice things about the comments function is that while other members are possibly watching/reading, it’s the back and forth between individual members where ideas are exchanged, and learning or at least understanding happens.
Trust me, you guys are never going to be short of scotch whisky on my account…:)
Flavor and smell are intricate to each other and both are heavy memory triggers. So it’s possible that the flavor you don’t like in Scotch is tied to something unpleasant that you just don’t remember. Like the flavor of Cherry Bourbon triggers a memory in my friend of medicine. A lot of children’s medicines are cherry flavored and mixing cherry and alcohol gets you to basically the same place.
A while back I came upon a smell that for reasons completely unknown to me, and I can’t identify what exactly that smell was, but it took me right back to Edson Range facility in USMC boot camp. It wasn’t a weapons smell, like gun oil or fired weapons components, it just triggered a memory that had been buried for about 50 years.
But I’m kind of ‘weird’ in a lot of ways. I’m generally hyper-aware of my surroundings so I notice things like that memory-smell and remember that they happened. Most people would go through the experience and just forget about it. Which they should, it’s not anything important. It’s not them, it’s me.
So that could always be a part of your aversion to Scotch. Or it could be that you just don’t like it because you just don’t like it.
I too enjoy and appreciate the conversational aspects here on BWC. It’s usually quite pleasant talking with interesting and knowledgeable people like yourself and there are a lot of that sort here. There are also plenty who think they’re interesting and knowledgeable but are really just raging apoplectics and it’s a blast pulling their strings too. It’s a win-win situation for me.
When Bill was talking about childhood memories and magic, I remember the start of his Essay titled “magic” when he described seeing a leprechaun.
I remember the cartoon about the conspiracy of Santa Claus as well, and thought it was quite insightful.
Agree with Steve on the two separate holidays both named Christmas, which I call the Santa Christmas as the Nativity Christmas. There is some bleedover on the gift giving especially. There is a smaller overlap on Easter as well, but while that is the number one Christian holiday, it isn’t as big in the secular world.
Wandering the neighborhoods looking at lights is a thing my family has done as well. With more of the off the shelf programmed controls with radio broadcasting becoming more popular and common, the displays are getting more interesting.
It sounds like this scotch is the kind of drink the Monty Python Lumberjack would drink.
In Steve’s topic, Scott’s comment about parents needing to protect their kids, and then Bill’s nanny state comment I think mesh together. The govt types think they are the parents of the childish citizens and need to protect us.
Scott’s question to Steve… until we get electric tractors that farmers can recharge on the farm, we’re gonna be using gas in the country. On the other hand, the animal (and not just feed) farms will have a good supply of methane they can use to fuel generators.
Thank you for tweaking your new process. You might have seen me mention I wasn’t too thrilled with it. But your tweaks better define where the episodes start. Although, Scott’s blooper last week was a tad more than I needed…lol. jk Scott.
Bill hit the mortal nail on the head. “Morality eroding”. It’s Universal Entropy…just as the Biblical account of Creation describes.
Oh what wonderful memories of Christmas past. Remembering how my parents lied to me about a fat gray bearded man, and how we didn’t have a chimney…lol.
what Bill said