What’s worse than the Ku Klux Klan?
That’s easy. People who tattoo Heil Hitler on their hand.
Trump phonebankers. Such losers.
About The Author
BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
21 Comments
Recent Posts
- Day 14: Louisiana Senator Approvingly Compares Trump to Stalin
- Day 13: Elon Musk Flexes His Muscles
- Day 12: While Elon Musk Takes Over, We Podcast With Driftglass and Blue Gal
- Day 11: Harm of Fascist Regime’s Foreign Aid Freeze Comes Into View
- Day 10: The Fascist Regime Blames a Plane Crash on Nonwhite People
Said here that Trump is the ego and his supporters the id was definitely on to something.
My one prejudice — tattoos. Still not easy suppress my impulse to cringe in the presence of tats even though they have long been fashionable.
Have to wonder if this girl could recite any facts from the Hitler era or identify where the concentration camps were and find any on an unmarked map or even the countries involved.
If the tattoo is well done and well thought out, and it fits with the person, I find them particularly attractive.
Ruby Rose, for example. Now, she’s a model so of course she’s already extremely attractive, but her tattoos make me gaga (even though she’s a lesbian…sigh).
Can almost recognize the artistry involved in some, but still fail to grasp why anyone would want to look at it everyday.
It probably reveals my age (52) to admit that tattoos make me cringe. I remember this very sweet woman who wanted to date me. She was really nice but I couldn’t move forward when she wore something revealing and I saw a tattoo on her breast, sort of winding its way down out of view. Looking back, that was shallow and stupid of me. Should have made an effort to get over it. But for me, even the best of tattoos is a desecration of the human body.
While tattoos emerged in the late sixties as hip, it sort of died out for a while after that but seem to come back into favor in the ’80s and not so rare even among older, middle-class people by the late ’90s; so maybe not an age thing for you.
But nice to know that I’m not completely alone on this one cultural trend.
I suppose we could label simply not being attracted to another person as superficial, but not something we should beat ourselves up over. Chances are good that if she were “the one,” your mind would have overridden your tattoo cringe impulse. Sometimes we just have to go with what our bodies tell us.
I agree. tattoos are bumper stickers that can’t be removed, and a sign of someone with identity / differentiation issues. major turnoff.
I am not a fan of tatoos, either. It was painful enough getting my ears pierced at 13 years old. Back then, it was one hole per ear. I’ve stayed with that tradition.
Was 21 years old when a friend dragged me to get my ears pierced. They’ve never much liked any earrings regardless of the metal.
There’s a big generational divide over them that usually seems to break around the age of 40 or 45, in my experience.
I’ve got one on each shoulder. Got them when I was 18 (in my thirties now), and I don’t regret them a bit. Wife likes them, so not terribly worried about the attractiveness aspect.
For me, whether or not it’s attractive depends mostly on design and placement. Not a big fan of anything on the neck, chest or upper back. But other people are, and good for them.
As Atrios is always saying, “People disagree about stuff.”
I look at pictures of this young woman, and I wonder – how did she get like this? She has a nice smile. Aside from the tattoos, she could be working on any campaign, like Cruz or Kucinich or Clinton or Sanders and none of us would think twice about the picture. What happened to her?
Clerk Kim Davis. The defense offered on her behalf against hypocrisy charges was that her belated (i.e., only after 2 divorces) conversion to the dogma that marriage is between one man and one woman didn’t occur until her come-to-jesus moment, so nothing before that counts.
Maybe this “lady”‘s like that: she has repented of a racist past, but tattoos are permanent dontchaknow?
OTOH, maybe she’s just a vile racist, and thus naturally attracted to Drumpf, and the appearance of what those tats say about her is perfectly accurate now.
Who knows?
Think Ockham’s Razor favors the latter hypothesis, though.
Goes along with those old school 3rd Reich-style salutes at Trump’s rallies.
Trump, Cruz vow to barricade Kasich from convention
Advisers to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz say there’s no way they’ll allow John Kasich to even compete at a contested national convention — let alone prevail.
Trump and Cruz are betting that their dual dominance in the delegate hunt will permanently box out the Ohio governor, who has no mathematical path to the nomination and is openly pursuing a floor fight at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. And their aides say Kasich won’t even make it to the floor.
“There is virtually zero chance he can even be nominated,” Saul Anuzis, a former Michigan Republican national committeeman who’s advising Cruz on his convention strategy, told POLITICO. “It’s a two-man race.”
Really? Seriously?
GOP official: The party chooses the nominee, not the voters
March 16, 2016
A member of the Republican National Committee’s Rules Committee said Wednesday that the party will decide who the GOP nominee will be, not the voters.
“The media has created the perception that the voters will decide the nomination,” Curly Haugland said in an interview with CNBC. “That’s the conflict here.”
“The political parties choose their nominees, not the general public, contrary to popular belief,” he added.
Haugland was then asked what the point of holding primaries is if the party can disregard the will of the voters.
“That’s a very good question,” he responded.
Gonna get ugly, rikyrah.
Uglier, even.
I can’t wait, myself.
The tarpits await.
Watch.
AG
The GOP should change their mascot from an elephant to a mammoth.
Careful what you wish for, clearskies. Mammoths were a fearsome beast until they went extinct. The RatPubs…and particularly their working class white Protestant base…are not extinct yet.
Trump could be their last roar.
AG
Hougland was then asked what the point of holding primaries is if the party can disregard the will of the voters.
To energize the party base voters and let them believe that they choose the nominee. Has worked every time, and only ragged once, 1964, but didn’t matter because they were going to lose that year regardless of who they nominated. Maybe they should have paid a bit more attention to Cantor’s shock primary loss.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all of you. The Celtic Cross motif is mentioned in the article. It was co-opted by white supremacists sometime ago. That angers me, being pretty much a Celt since the day I was born, and taking pride in the artwork of my peeps, not that of trashy racist tattoo goons.
I can officially celebrate since my recent DNA results indicated 3% Irish. Look at what the Nazis did with the swastika, a symbol of well-being for the Native Americans.