34 thoughts on “Playpen 8.27.25”

  1. I’m a Democrat, and every year I fly a US flag to celebrate 4th of July. If some idiot burned my flag, I’d be pissed. However, I’ve never had a problem with somebody burning thier personal US flag or any flag they own. That would fall under free speech, IMO.

    I think that a person burning their flag is no more disrespectful than flying it upside down for political purposes. To me, it says more about the idiot doing the burning (or upside down flying) than it does about the flag’s home country. Good God, do we want to be like the Muslims that want to kill people for drawing a picture of Muhammed?

    • Agree. I have the American flag out on the front of my house and fly it pretty much daily. What scares me more than a law against burning it (which is unconstitutional), would be a law telling me I HAVE to display it or else.

  2. Speaking of distractions, has Auburn claimed Swift Taylor’s engagement ring as a Natty, yet?

    • The consolidation of farms, especially by private equity firms, is putting us on a dangerous path. PEs have already screwed up home ownership by buying up all the new homes. Now they seem like they’re going to push agriculture over the edge.

      Additionally, we need to help farmers grow crops suitable to the actual climates they live in. Growing cotton in the desert works great as long as you can find water. But when you’re competing with Los Angeles, or Phoenix, or, Las Vegas for water, it’s tough to make a living with it.

      • Wealth concentrated in too few hands is problematic?

        Why can’t we just be happy serfs serving the needs of the billionaire tech bros?

        America was great when it was 12th century Europe.

        Feudal lords, royalty and the Church run everything just as God intended.

        Democracy and a middle class are way overrated.

  4. Burn the flag as free speech. Go to jail for inciting a riot. Those laws are on the books. Funny how destroying rainbow painted crosswalks upset the left more as a hate crime, not freedom of expression.

    You know nothing about farming. The count is down because of Boomer farmers retiring and consolidation by corporations (and Chinese investors buying the land) who are implementing greater efficiencies. However, left wing dominant city politicians are passing such extreme regulations on environmental issues it’s driving small farmers out of business. Denver soccer moms led by our Governor’s First Husband insisted on saving wolves and jammed a reintroduction program through. Ranchers in western Colorado have not only lost hundreds of thousands in livestock but the promised reimbursement fund is not paying out and being raided to cover the State’s budget shortfall for having provided so much sanctuary services to illegal immigrants in Denver. And you wonder how flyover folks can support Trump? These people who put food on your table feel financially, emotionally and with the wolves literally physically threatened by misguided policies like this. Are they going to be let down by the Right? Of course but what choice do they have? Democrats gerrymandered Colorado to nullify the rural voters but “Texas!” has your ire.

    Keep hating Trump, his administration and his policies all you want in this forum but for once try acknowledging the large stones you’ve throwing through your own glass house. There is a middle ground but you actually have to move towards it, not further away.

    • A fact gifted in spite of the imperviousness:

      https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/aug/21/gavin-newsom/california-texas-independent-redistricting/

      One group wanted to end gerrymandering and another group didn’t. Perhaps the national scourge of trannies or the once, but no longer, very important “Epstein list” distracted you.

      Today’s post isn’t about hating anyone or anything. Its about superficial silliness not solving any real problems. Problems that truly do exist and need addressing. That you are reflexively defensive about that is no one else’s problem.

        • We can always count on our most conservative of readers to raise the level of discourse.

          Thank you for your thoughtful contribution.

          By your example, you undermine the very need for a forum which allows for the vulgar, immature and those lacking in both discipline and self-control to void their prodigious mental bowels on a non-football related setting.

          Finally, and forgive me my ignorance for asking, are you quoting from Gladstone or Burke?

    • “The count is down because of Boomer farmers retiring and consolidation by corporations.”

      I grew up in rural South Georgia. I enlisted, got the GI Bill, got a degree, got work and never returned home. It was a solid plan but now the family farm has been sold and parceled into a subdivision and all the capital has been dispersed through wills and trusts. I moved my retired parents away to be closer to me for senior caregiving so sadly life in Tifton/Omega are just happy memories from the 80’s. Very few of my childhood classmates stayed home and continued farming. We were all sold on going to college and getting “good” jobs. Nature abhors a vacuum and unintended consequences led to a consolidation of farmland and the neglect to address subsidies from decades and decades ago have rigged agribusiness. I think of this often when I hear left of center voices screech and ree about the “oligarchy.” I don’t know if it’s a hate Trump thing but when election denier Stacey Abrams fundraised from morbidly obese, dim witted, childless women, drowning in student debt that don’t live in Georgia on the “people shouldn’t have to go into agriculture (and hospitality)” mentality. Which she tried to clarify, but ultimately, it ended up foreshadowing a divide in the electorate that will take decades to undo.

      • GI Bill??

        What lefty came up with that?!?!

        Here is the truth:

        Big fucks small.

        Big bought the GOP. The GOP rigged the Supreme Court.

        The Supreme Court called corporations people and called money political speech and now everyone but a few are suffering the consequences.

        There may not be a perfect choice out there but choosing tariffs as a way to offset budget shortfalls while cutting taxes for the people who bought the government is not helping the vast majority of us, period.

        The failure to understand basics like the GI Bill was a good thing despite its redistributive nature, while being distracted by the trivial is killing us.

        • “GI Bill?? What lefty came up with that?!?!”
          Lol, it was an expansion on Ronald Regan’s watch! USA USA USA

          “The failure to understand basics like the GI Bill was a good thing despite its redistributive nature.”
          Or we cloak it in the flag as some magical thing different from other opportunities for assistance. Ultimately, it’s the only way to get a rebate on the taxes you pay (or the deficit spending) that go to the Department of Defense. The joke is them, the GI Bill (and VA Home loan) were nice add-ons because I was always going to enlist (family tradition, being Scots-Irish, wanted to get away, etc, etc). I only ended up in the Navy because they had the biggest GI Bill bonus and guaranteed me West Coast recruit training. December in San Diego, baby! The Marine recruiters were amazingly honest about the Navy being the best deal and the Army recruiters gave off a turd vibe (all they had to do was guarantee me a Ranger training billet, I probably woulda washed out, lol, but the Army woulda owned me for a while). It’s just a shame for people that don’t serve (which I totally respect that decision) get trapped in Student Loans (instead of Pell Grants and junior college/tech schools) and it doesn’t work out as well as the GI Bill did for me and several contemporaries.

  5. Yes, you can burn the American flag, however do not do it to a pride flag. Thats illegal.

    The news also told me that flag prices were fine under Bidenomics, but Tariffs are really what made things expensive.

    Im also old enough to remember that Obama’s Healthcare idea was ok because it was a tax.

    Its ok when we “D”o it.

  8. Derek, going sideways for a moment while I try to recall the name for the system of government where the government owns part or all of an industry. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5469740-gop-criticizes-trump-intel-deal/

    Saw a cartoon the other day of a MAGA hat with the caption MAKE GERMANY GREAT AGAIN, with the Donald in a little brown suit goosestepping under the brim of the hat. “Cute,” I thought, but a little obvious. Later I reflected for a while on the news that I had an opportunity to earn a $50,000 bonus by becoming an ICE officer, I’m sure this is more a result of the fact that ICE is being funded at 75 billion for 4 years, rather than my abilities to enforce the law. “The recent funding surge means ICE’s budget is now larger than all other federal law enforcement functions combined, including the FBI and DEA.”

    The “Whitening of America” is getting expensive, some might say too expensive when one considers that the FBI is lowering standards of qualification to compete in the enforcement job market.

    But getting back to the cartoon. Maybe it wasn’t pre-war, or WWII Germany that is really the punchline. Maybe it’s East Germany after WWII; the wall, the repressed homogenous population that is the goal, the similarity.
    We know that in 1990, less than 5% of East Germany’s population was foreign. We know that emigration was nearly impossible. We know the communist SED party maintained control over all public communication, including literature, art, and media. Criticism of the administration or discussion of topics considered harmful to the regime was forbidden. This included any negative portrayal of the GDR, such as pollution or the act of fleeing the country.

    We know that there was a preponderance of Stasi( state police), whether in uniform or working covertly to spy on their neighbors. Could we make an argument that the mobilization of the Guard is an act of defining the Guard as a private police force rather than as private citizens being mobilized to help out in emergencies? Surely picking up trash in D.C. was not what the Guard thought was their mission statement. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/27/trump-national-guard-beautification-dc

    Meanwhile, there’s “still four dead in Ohio.” Have we learned nothing?

  9. And still President Pedophile hasn’t released the Epstein Files and instead sent his BFF’s accomplice to Club Fed.

    • But she said he was innocent and she had no motivation or bias in saying so!

      In fact, it would appear that the whole thing was a travesty of justice and two innocent folks were prosecuted and publicly maligned!

  10. I had to make a comment about growing up on a farm. I’ve talked to a bunch of people who grew up on a farm and every one of them said couldn’t wait to get away from that farm. I got work grew up on a dairy farm and he said: the day I turned 18 I joined the US Army. I knew nothing about the army, but I knew it couldn’t be worse than living on that fucking dairy farm

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