Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).
Today’s word is “sully.”
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.
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This, That, and the Other 
I won’t this time Fandango 🙂
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ODE TO SULLY
Sully in Croatian is
Prijati in Croat
Today I’m thinking swine-ish
Thinking of a shoat
A young pig……
How’s about that……
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Did I sully my account so that my pingbacks don’t ping anymore? For what it is worth: https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2023/10/03/when-youre-disturbed-while-drinking-red-grape-juice/
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Probably another WordPress idiosyncrasy.
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#FOWC
The woman was outraged that someone would sully her good reputation.
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Bill Maher sullies himself [if that’s possible] by complaining about young people and kids all the time, peppering those statements semi regularly by equating his attitude in that regard with being pro-abortion, like this is a joke. I recently saw one of his April shows. He had a congresswoman on who got tired of it. He had been generalizing from one criminal in the armed forces (or one young person who became a criminal in the armed forces) to all kids. I’ll quote the whole article so you don’t have to click on it. I didn’t find the subject matter with her anywhere else (forgive the FOX’news” usage).
Subheading — The panel discussed Jack Teixeira, who was arrested last week in connection with online classified document leaks
https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-maher-torches-democrat-rep-sounds-old-grumpy-win-votes-immature
Headline — Bill Maher torches Democrat rep after saying he sounds ‘old’ and ‘grumpy’: ‘You win the votes of the immature’
Comedian Bill Maher torched Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., after she said the “Real Time” host alongside Fox Nation’s Piers Morgan sounded “old” and “grumpy” during a Friday appearance on Maher’s show, prompting a debate surrounding 21-year-olds having a certain level of maturity.
Maher declared that America’s “kids” are “not mature” while panelist Piers Morgan – who also hosts ‘Piers Morgan Uncensored’ on Fox Nation – added that they are “constantly seeking affirmation” through posting on social media.
During the Friday segment, Porter, Maher and Morgan were discussing 21-year-old Jack Teixeira, who was recently arrested in connection with a trove of classified documents that have been leaked online in recent months.
“To do something ‘for the likes’… I just think our kids are not mature,” Maher stated.
“You post something and people validate you,” Morgan agreed.
{Of course, they’re both being complete hypocrites just on that.}
“But to use national security secrets for that?” Maher questioned. “The level of bad judgment…”
“You guys sound kind of old and grumpy right now,” Porter interrupted, shocking them both. “Kids are immature; that’s why they’re kids.”
Maher continued to challenge the maturity of today’s 21-year-olds in America, with Porter pointing to the nationwide minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) being 21 as evidence to substantiate their adulthood – despite referring to the same age group as being “immature” herself.
“They can go fight, they can be in the army…” Maher maintained.
“Well, I think that’s a discussion we should have,” Porter said, before Maher continued listing age-appropriate legalities to support his claim.
“They can vote…I thought if you’re able to vote, you should be able to have a certain level of maturity. They’re deciding whether you should be in Congress,” Maher told Porter.
Porter said she wins those votes, and that she’s proud of it.
“You just said you win the votes of the immature,” Maher argued, before insisting Porter had played the “age card.” “You were like, ‘our argument sucks because we’re old.’ That’s getting so boring.”
{Putting down all young people is boring and worse to me.}
Porter insisted that she didn’t say they were old, but rather that they sounded old.
Still, Maher used her comment as grounds to make a larger point:
“Shouldn’t we critique each other on the content of our ideas, not on those identity politics? ‘You’re old, you couldn’t possibly have the right ideas,'” Maher said. “If I said that about women or something, that wouldn’t be right.”
“Your whole complaint is that this person was young,” Porter retorted.
“My complaint is that our young are immature, compared to other countries and other times in history, we raised very immature people because we coddled them, we gave them a sense of entitlement, they don’t have to learn anything in school,” Maher explained.
Maher closed his show by [showing he doesn’t want to learn about law, doesn’t think adults should have to think about law, and] warning Democrats that the indictment of former president Donald Trump could backfire.
“And as I watched the circus around our latest horny ex-president… it seems worth asking the Democrats having gone through this yourselves: what don’t you get about sex scandals don’t work on presidents?” Maher said. “Because no matter what the underlying legal reasons are that underpin a sex scandal, to the average person, it’s just always going to be about sex. Nothing can compete. Law is boring. It’s the constitutional equivalent of golf.”
{Doesn’t he sound immature?}
The whole approach served quite well
to distract from the idiocy of people who
should be very mature being willy-nilly with
national freaking security secrets. Sure; easy
to blame “kids” rather than Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Here’s what the “adults” are doing, Bill, you jackass. Grow up?
Capitalism: A Love Story
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I’ll have to watch this later.
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While this (another long video) is over a year old, it’s the first time I’ve seen it and I find it an interesting theory. I came up, in my own mind, with a sort-of “father-son” type of cycle theory (loosely held on my part) mostly though on a family level while I was very young (frustrated with my mother); the main other hypothetical cycle herein is more complex. [Disclaimer: I retain a higher level of philosophical and academic interest than most. Also in disclosure, I am very much a mix of the characteristics discussed… in part changing midlife but throughout my whole life as well. What a person is isn’t the point, though.]
The First Turning …
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https://www.thewrap.com/bill-maher-elon-musk-woke-mind-virus/
Nobody can tongue bathe a racist billionaire better than Bill Maher,” one person wrote.
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I stopped watching his show last year. I think he has become a grumpy old man.
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