To balance the scales we must sandblast Stone Mountain it's the only way.
— zeddy (@Zeddary) July 6, 2022
Elsewhere, in Those Krazy Konserva-Kids Antics:
The most probable interpretation is that @DebbieLesko meant she would shoot someone to PROTECT her grandchildren and garbled it. However, it's the GOP, and it's 2022. So . . . /1 https://t.co/KVWir9t8te
— CyborgSlavesOfPopehat (@Popehat) July 6, 2022
Sorry, what did she say? https://t.co/Jw9KzbKg3E
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) July 6, 2022
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*Pogo reference. The ever-scheming, ever-failing Mole passes through the first panel, chuckling with glee over his latest cunning plan. Deacon Muskrat tells Porkypine that Mole has ‘lost his meagre moiety of marbles’, to which Porky replies ‘Yeeeears ago.’
lollipopguild
“We have met the enemy and they are us.”
Starfish
I got caught up in an @armandoNDK megablock on Twitter, and I am not sure who I am following that annoyed Armando.
Baud
I recently went to the original Stonehenge. It was much more interesting than I expected.
Steve in the ATL
@Baud: you know that the NSA can track your cell phone and confirm whether you were in Elberton, so don’t lie to us!
bbleh
Now by damn that is a REPRESENTATIVE Congress if I ever saw one!
Tell me there is not a SUBSTANTIAL number of Americans who are that dumb. And thank our Founding Fathers, THEY have representation TOO!
Gods of all faiths, living and dead, bless America!
Starfish
@Baud: So what happened after you were abducted by aliens there?
Alison Rose
Lesko on some Jonestown shit there. GOP family values = LEMME MURDER MY FAMILY IF I DAMN WELL WANT TO.
Yes, I’m sure she didn’t mean that. Or…I’m like mostly sure. Maybe half-sure. Maybe.
Suzanne
Every time you wonder why Arizona voted for Sinema, please remember that 4 of their 9 Congresscritters are Debbie Lesko, Paul Gosar, Andy Biggs, and David Schweikert.
Baud
@Steve in the ATL: Ah, the good old days when we were tearing ourselves apart over NSA tracking.
@Starfish: I conducted medical experiments on them.
Gin & Tonic
@bbleh: That you, Sen. Hruska?
raven
Alison turned us on to this earlier but don’t miss John Oliver on the insane idiot Kandiss!
HumboldtBlue
Fuck it, here’s Harpo the cat bringing you a gift.
different-church-lady
Y’know, the really sad thing is that if Lesko keeps a lot of guns around the house there’s half a chance she will shoot one of her grandkids by accident…
different-church-lady
FYI, I’m now 29 hours past booster #2 and still feel like I want to die.
zhena gogolia
@different-church-lady: My thoughts exactly.
CarolPW
Aside from the shooting-the-grandkids part she also said that when the Republicans were in the majority they passed legislation that was signed into law that would have prevented mass shootings. So what legislation was that and why are we still having mass shootings?
Gin & Tonic
@different-church-lady: Spoiler: you won’t.
Baud
@CarolPW:
Tac cuts solve everything.
different-church-lady
@Gin & Tonic: Dang. I was hoping the change would be refreshing.
Baud
@different-church-lady:
It will be, one day. But today is not that day.
zhena gogolia
This LP video is quite something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUNoUU-XzhY
different-church-lady
@Baud: well can you narrow it down a little? I gotta know how much toothpaste to get.
Baud
@different-church-lady:
May 24, 2058
different-church-lady
@zhena gogolia: How can you not be proud of what the internet has become after seeing that?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Ali Velshi just opened his hour with this story on MSNBC
Michael S. Schmidt @nytmike
different-church-lady
@Baud: Okay, so at least three tubes.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
That’s nothing. The IRS is constantly auditing Trump’s tax returns.
Soprano2
@Baud: That place is weird – big stones in the middle of nowhere.
Baud
@Soprano2:
It wasn’t always nowhere.
Poe Larity
@Suzanne: Veritable rocket scientists of the party.
@different-church-lady: I have a baking soda box from college you can borrow.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: and they refuse to finish!
mrmoshpotato
@Baud:
Pulled the old switcheroo on the alien bastards, eh?
raven
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: This is way more important.
Soprano2
@Baud: True, but it is now. It was January 1980 when I went there. You couldn’t walk among the stones because people wrote on them! Geez….
different-church-lady
I don’t understand why she’d go through the trouble of shooting her own grandchildren when she could just send them to a public school instead.
Baud
@Soprano2:
It wasn’t even legally protected until 1911 or so. So amazing.
Baud
@different-church-lady:
Maybe this is her way of home schooling.
Anotherlurker
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4198
Here is a good run down on the Guidestones. They were not without their controversial content.
The Moar You Know
The guidestones are reasonable ideas; therefore the American Taliban had to destroy them.
There’s nothing these people won’t do. I hope America figures this out before it’s too late.
Baud
Balloon Juice should have guidestones.
mrmoshpotato
@Soprano2:
I’m sure they were too big to put anywhere else!
“How about…?”
“Nope! Won’t fit!”
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: What would be written on them? Rotating tags?
different-church-lady
@Baud: Good working with you! :-)
Suzanne
That shit is almost as weird as Touchdown Jesus. Met a similar end as Touchdown Jesus, too.
I don’t believe in signs, but I think it’s a sign.
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
“A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.”
Steve in the ATL
@different-church-lady: this is high quality work!
Jackie
@HumboldtBlue: My cat is now VERY suspicious of my phone…
Sister Golden Bear
@The Moar You Know:
Not exactly. The man believed to be behind the guide stones was a white supremacist who hung out with eugenists.
The language about guiding humanity’s breeding was a bit of a tip off.
pat
There was a lengthy report on those Georgia guidestones and it was very interesting and for the life of me I don’t remember where I saw it. Must have been MSNBC, but whose program? Must have been yesterday because I can still remember it.
Inscribed in four languages, 10 “commandments” and designed by some right-wing crank.
Probably googleable.
HumboldtBlue
Richard Nixon explains some of what is happening in British politics at the moment.
Poe Larity
@Baud: The Holy Subaru is still out in the field. Have you not done the pilgrimage and made mustard offerings?
Steve in the ATL
@Baud: “thou shall not post ‘first!’ or ‘Frist’”
billcinsd
Scott Adams, the Dilbert idiot recently said that you have two options if you have teenage boys, 1. accept deaths or 2. kill them. His teenage step-son died of a fentanyl overdose.
@Baud: I recently went to Carhenge, it was about what I expected. Not quite up to the biggest ball of twine, but it definitely was cars in the shape of Stonehenge
Raoul Paste
@billcinsd: Only two options if you have teenage boys? That doesn’t show much imagination
NotMax
Walt Kelly addressing the RWNJ bubble well before we called it that.
:)
planetjanet
@pat: The scary thing about the guidestones is that a Republican candidate, Kandiss Taylor, running for governor has been campaigning on demolishing them claiming they are satanic. Sounds like stochastic terrorism to me.
zhena gogolia
@different-church-lady: It’s terrifying.
zhena gogolia
@different-church-lady: Oh, you are bad!
Alison Rose
@raven: I’ve watched it three times since they put it up and each time it’s hilarious and batshit crazy
Ken
Scream of anguish from a father who will spend the rest of his life thinking he failed his son? Or ravings of a sociopath who lacks normal human emotions? You be the judge.
Rocks
Rather than sand blasting Stone Mountain, several years ago somebody had the brilliant suggestion to add a carving of 2 Live Crew in a low riding Cadillac follow right behind Lee, Jackson and what’s his face the president of the Confederacy. Wish I could find the picture – it was inspiring.
persistentillusion
@Gin & Tonic: As a youth, I watched the Watergate hearings from his summer home, which my family had rented. That’s my only fond memory of that crusty old bastard.
Ohio Mom
@Suzanne: Sorry to tell you this but Touchdown Jesus was replaced soon after he burned down. He’s just north of Cincinnati, we drove by him just last week.
The replacement is just as big as the old one, pretty much the same but his arms are now stretched out in front of him, rather than straight up. The church isn’t so stupid that they didn’t know the sculpture in its old form was the butt of many jokes.
Another change is that he now has a lightening rod sticking out of the top of his head. Makes him look a little like My Favorite Martian.
Brent
I mean, the thing is that the explanation that she garbled what she was saying doesn’t really make any sense. The entire thrust of her statement is that shooting would be an undesirable last resort in the circumstance she imagines. Why, in her mind, would shooting someone who threatened the lives of her children be such a dire and unthinkable result? I am quite certain she doesn’t mean to represent herself as some sort of pacifist.
Steeplejack
@Soprano2:
With my family I visited Stonehenge in the late 1950s. Somewhere there is a photo of my RWNJ brother as a toddler sitting on one of the horizontal stones.
Another Scott
@Rocks: Looks like it (or a version of the idea) was Outkast.
Hehe.
A recent story I heard on the radio about the sculptor pointed out that it was a huge grift and the first organizers blew up the first carving of Lee because they didn’t want to pay the sculptor any more. (He wanted something like 500 figures on the relief, because he got paid a percentage of the total cost…)
Blowing up the rest of it again seems like a decent solution…
Cheers,
Scott.
Steeplejack
@Baud:
We have ley lines, I think.
Amir Khalid
@billcinsd:
Wait. Carhenge isn’t the one that Springsteen wrote song about, is it?
debbie
Name one goddamn bill that the GOP passed that has saved (born) childrens’ lives. Just one.
Suzanne
@Ohio Mom: Evangelicals have terrible taste in art. It’s upsetting.
Ken
@Suzanne: I assume it was replaced with the insurance money, but I do wonder if there were any congregants who said “Wait a minute, we got this free lump of money and we’re putting up a statue instead of, oh, feeding the hungry and clothing the naked?”
Steve in the ATL
@Steeplejack: is it time for Balloon Juice After Dark already?!
Suzanne
@Ken: More like, “We got this pile of money and we’re not giving it to the pastor for another boat?!”.
Am I cynical?
Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)
Last time I saw the Guidestones was at the end of May. It was a weird roadside attraction with just enough of that special WTF factor that I enjoy so much, and the trip there and back makes for a nice afternoon on the motorcycle.
Oh well. Crackpots giveth, and crackpots taketh away.
billcinsd
@Amir Khalid: Well, it is in Nebraska
Ryan
I mean, sometimes you have to burn the village in order to save it.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Accidental truth telling with Lesko, all this culture war nonsense is they want to control their grand kids lives.
Ohio Mom
@Ken: Touchdown Jesus faces an interstate. They think they are spreading their faith, that’s all they care about.
Mai Naem mobile
@Alison Rose : I have driven around Lesko’s Metro Phx area. Quite a few TFG/blue lives/let’s go Brandon bumper stickers/flags etc. And I am not even talking about the white wingnut retirement areas where she probably gets 70 percent of the voters.
Kent
@Ohio Mom: There is a touchdown Jesus in Ohio? I thought you guys were talking about the one behind Notre Dame Stadium. It is like a 10 story Jesus mosaic on the Notre Dame Library building. I used to study there sometimes long ago
That would be something else to see the Notre Dame library get blown up.
Urban Suburbanite
In the Qanon world, the Georgia Guidestones are part of some complex, ginormous conspiracy they’ve been building up for years. Or it’s a Satanic thing. (The Satanic Panic wasn’t all that long ago) One of the lunatics who washed out in the primaries (she was the one with the guns and babies bus, I believe) made a lot of noise about that sculpture.