What does "mansplain" mean?

2/3/26:

This sentence isn't "mansplain", but "blogsplain" instead. That means it is a reaction to what the audience is clicking on recently. Like this post, fer instance.

As for the "mansplain part, maybe there's a girlsplain, too. Uh, oh! That may have been a mansplain violation!

  Girlsplain may be defined to the guys as: "you're in a heap of trouble, boy".

  I've got another descriptive phrase in mind, but I won't go there.

  I'd get girlsplain session, I do think.

  Well, I don't know what brought it all on.  Maybe I need someone to explain what all the splaining is about.

  I know.  Here's another idee.  Maybe there's a liberalsplain.  Liberalsplain means "shut up".

  When a lib loses an argument, they will say "shut up" because that's all they know.

10/14/19:

Comment:

Quick update:

5:33 pm:

What do they call this "Bush-splaining"?

4:45 pm:

Navarro is quoted to have said "Don't mansplain me!" to Senator Paul.

I've seen the term before.  It doesn't interest me, generally, to follow their weird vocabulary.  But you have to understand the enemy.  It does look more and more like they are committed enemies.

So what does this word mean?
:: Wikipedia "wikisplains" it to me:  "the person being explained to knows more than the person explaining it."  Aah!!!  So, the only thing required is that the person being talked to is the feeling that she is being talked down to.  It is condescending, in other words.  Maybe she knows more than the guy does, maybe she doesn't.  But all she needs to feel is that she knows more, and that is all that matters, evidently.

Another jewel I'll pluck here:  New York Times labeled it as "words of the year".  Yeah, the New York Times is one helluva authority now.

When it comes to the lefties, only they can talk down to anybody, since they know so much.

The problem is to identify it as a gender item, when it doesn't have to be.  Anybody can talk beyond their knowledge level.  Yeah, I'm sure I've done it too.  Lots of times.  The world is a tough place, what can I say?  But if you hide behind something that is used as an excuse, maybe you are wrong.

I think it is shallow, and that is what determines so many things today.  Maybe shallowness has always been the way of the world.  But it never seemed to be so clear to me as it does today.

Anti-Socialism Brought Ana Navarro Into GOP. Now It’s Chasing Her Out https://t.co/A0vJyWAmpR

— Greg Meadows (@BootsandOilBlog) October 14, 2019

Dan Bongino is back

 

The video below is 1 day old, and his first program is not embedded here. It's two hours long. Nobody will watch that. Shoot, I didn't. Once he gets settled back in, maybe his videos will be reasonable in length. Even an hour is long. I watched some of the program today while it was still live. Just not enough time for this.

Rush -- "New World Man"

 

 

  Sometimes, songs just pop up in my head. When that happens, I can go to YouTube and look it up. So that is what this is. I got the notion to include a Rick Beato video about another one of Rush's songs, so that will be included below.

  There are other songs by Rush featured on this here blog.  Rush is a Canadian band, so maybe not all is bad about Canada. Just their leaders.

  The same might be said on the southern side of the border as well. At present, the possibility for positive change still exists in the USA, or I would like to think so.

  The most likely scenario for Canada is not good. If Canada doesn't fall apart, they will likely become a totalitarian state.   But this country is in danger of that as well.

The New World Man cannot get it done, although he'd like to. Will MAGA get it done in the USA? Things have turned downward, I'd say. More on that, later...

Patton and Trump

 2/2/26:  Update of post made on 8/9/15:

  There's hardly not any comments on this blog.  That's probably due to the fact that I ask people to identify themselves before posting a comment.  That idea is to discourage abusive comments.  It may have an unfortunate side-effect of no comments at all.

  But there may be another way. Some posts get more clicks than others. This one seems to have come up. Ok, I'll use that, then.

  It looks like I've changed my opinion of Trump from an earlier time. This post was written back in 2015.  It must not have been long after he came down the escalator. I was suspicious of Trump initially.

  It is probably true that there's a post somewhere on my change of opinion on Trump.  Most likely it involved how others treated him a lot worse than he is treating others.  Probably for that reason, I changed my opinion on Trump.  If others behaved towards each other the way that I indicated that Trump should've, the country would be far better off. The fact is that they don't.  The Democrats have been horrific in how they treat ALL their opponents. After all, they SHOT at Trump. They shot at Charlie Kirk too, and he didn't survive.  Whatever Trump is, he's not THAT bad.

  So there's that.  Sometimes things aren't the way they're supposed to be. Trump may seem to have too many rough edges, but that lack of quality exists in a lot more politicians than just Trump.

  George W. Bush was more of a gentleman, and look how they treated him.   As I recall, they didn't treat his father very well either.   The Dems couldn't get Reagan because he was too well-liked.  They did run Nixon out of office.  Eisenhower is the one that forced Patton to apologize.  The left would've run off Eisenhower if they could've.  You KNOW they would've.  Or maybe not.  Maybe standards have slipped a long, long way since those days.  

  I'll try to remember to look for opportunities like this to respond to the audience.
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There are those who may still remember the movie Patton, in which it showed how Patton had to apologize for the slapping incident.  He had to do it in public and in front of all the men who were present at the time, and all the men in the area at that time.

Patton may well have been the best combat general in the military during the Second World War.  Yet, even he had to humble himself to an enlisted man.  I think this was the correct thing to do.  Why?

After studying the incident a bit, I figure that Patton was in the wrong.  Actually, it was two men who were slapped, and both of them didn't do anything really wrong.  One of the men was sent to the hospital, but not by his request.  The other was definitely physically ill.  Patton just lost his composure when he jumped to the conclusion that the men were shirking their duty due to cowardice.  Slapping them and threatening to shoot them was definitely out of line.  An apology was definitely required, or he couldn't continue his command.

So, what about Trump?  Obviously Trump has something going for him.  Like Patton, he is good at what he does.  He is a successful businessman, and he may well be what the doctor ordered in terms of courage to face down an enemy.  But to steamroller someone who is asking some legitimate questions is in no way acceptable if we are going to continue as a free society.  There are no unfair questions to a politician, as far as I'm concerned.  Trump has stepped out on that stage and must play by those rules.

Although there are no unfair questions to a politician, the way in which the questions are asked these days are indeed unfair.  Democrats tend to get softball questions.  Republicans get the tougher treatment.  A complaint along those lines would be more acceptable.  Going after Megyn Kelly for asking tough questions alone is bad enough.  But to be insulting to her for being guilty of being a woman was is just way, way too much.  Trump must apologize or he must get out of the race.  He must do it the way Patton did it--- in front of the entire nation and in front of Megyn Kelly herself.

There is no other way to redeem himself.  Our system requires that politicians be responsive to and subservient to the people.  A man who considers that he is above it all is unworthy of being at the head of a free people.

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Ketosis is a state your body prefers, the lady says

Interesting video.

I've tried keto before. It works for awhile, then I reach a plateau before falling off the wagon.

A sweet tooth doesn't help. She says even if you don't eat sugar, the body will react as if you had. That means a sweet tasting snack that may seem harmless, won't be. Damn! No more keto ice cream!