Wat’s Carbon Water-N-Stuff Thread - Concepts In Iron And Wood!!!

[Wat_Tyler]

Entertaining, and what Wat said last November is beginning to take some kind of shape. Mostly an amorphous blobs, but it's a shape, which is more than was beforehand, and faster than if the other possibility had happened.

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“If you think Trumpism will simply end in three years,” David Brooks writes for The Atlantic, “you are naive.”

In his article, which appears in The Atlantic’s special issue on the unfinished American Revolution, Brooks claims that Donald Trump’s dominance—over politicians, higher education, the judicial system, and the American psyche—won’t be broken while thinking in conventional political terms. Instead, he argues that a mass “political-cultural-social movement” will be necessary to reverse the global tide of populism that has propelled not just Trump, but also figures like Viktor Orbán, Narendra Modi, and Vladimir Putin.

“Conventional politicians don’t have the vision or power to reverse a historical tide,” Brooks writes. “Chuck Schumer is not going to save us.” To beat the culture of Trumpism, he argues, you need a counter vision about where America should be heading, a different set of values dictating what is admirable and what is disgraceful. This movement is possible. And there are examples from the past to lead us there.​

 

[Rebel5soul]

Entertaining, and what Wat said last November is beginning to take some kind of shape. Mostly an amorphous blobs, but it's a shape, which is more than was beforehand, and faster than if the other possibility had happened.

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“If you think Trumpism will simply end in three years,” David Brooks writes for The Atlantic, “you are naive.”

In his article, which appears in The Atlantic’s special issue on the unfinished American Revolution, Brooks claims that Donald Trump’s dominance—over politicians, higher education, the judicial system, and the American psyche—won’t be broken while thinking in conventional political terms. Instead, he argues that a mass “political-cultural-social movement” will be necessary to reverse the global tide of populism that has propelled not just Trump, but also figures like Viktor Orbán, Narendra Modi, and Vladimir Putin.

“Conventional politicians don’t have the vision or power to reverse a historical tide,” Brooks writes. “Chuck Schumer is not going to save us.” To beat the culture of Trumpism, he argues, you need a counter vision about where America should be heading, a different set of values dictating what is admirable and what is disgraceful. This movement is possible. And there are examples from the past to lead us there.​

And did he mention who would be articulating these values? Mao Zedong? Josef Stalin?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

And did he mention who would be articulating these values? Mao Zedong? Josef Stalin?

He references a book which has an assload of grassroots kinds of protest movements in it and I haven't gotten that far to find out who he thinks could/can make something happen. I find it interesting that he refers to current events as a populist movement and refers to the solution to it as another populist movement. I kind of think that the world has kind of outstripped humanity's ability to process how to "manage" it, and because of its size and complexity, it needs some kind of management, somehow.

 

[Rebel5soul]

He references a book which has an assload of grassroots kinds of protest movements in it and I haven't gotten that far to find out who he thinks could/can make something happen. I find it interesting that he refers to current events as a populist movement and refers to the solution to it as another populist movement. I kind of think that the world has kind of outstripped humanity's ability to process how to "manage" it, and because of its size and complexity, it needs some kind of management, somehow.

It all falls under, "There's nothing new under the Sun."

 

[Wat_Tyler]

It all falls under, "There's nothing new under the Sun."

Of course there isn't. However, the application evolves as things move along, sometimes well and sometimes poorly.


Here's one that sucks:

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/1...timore_sun-breaking_news-nl&utm_content=alert

Baltimore seniors wait years for assistance on unaffordable home repairs

The heat in Vernoy Coleman’s house hasn’t worked for five years.

After a carbon monoxide leak in his West Baltimore home, the fire department shut off his furnace, and he hasn’t used it since. One contractor told him it would cost $20,000 to replace, while Coleman, 72, lives on an income of $1,700 per month. In the winter, he keeps to his bedroom with two space heaters, and an additional space heater in his bathroom.

“I’m in need of a furnace bad,” he told The Baltimore Sun.

Coleman is one of thousands of older adults in Baltimore who have applied and are still waiting for help from the city with repairs on their homes. City-approved contractors are used to make repairs. Sometimes, residents wait months or even years for help, according to city officials speaking at a hearing on Thursday about home repair assistance programs.


Wat has personal experience with these kinds of programs and the agencies through which they are administered. He was given a chance to bid to go on a Preferred List. He was accepted. First job and the "contract administrator" asks for a bid. He was told, the bid is hourly - cost plus. It's in the contract. He wants a quote. A couple more questions and it becomes apparent, he wants to know what his cut is going to be.


Guess who got told to go fuck himself. Guess who was promptly removed from the so-called Preferred List.

 

[Rebel5soul]

Of course there isn't. However, the application evolves as things move along, sometimes well and sometimes poorly.


Here's one that sucks:

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/16/baltimore-seniors-wait-years-for-assistance-on-unaffordable-home-repairs/?lctg=A52224A1B4FFC5E5A4BC55D3B5&utm_email=A52224A1B4FFC5E5A4BC55D3B5&active=no&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/16/baltimore-seniors-wait-years-for-assistance-on-unaffordable-home-repairs/&utm_campaign=trib-baltimore_sun-breaking_news-nl&utm_content=alert

Baltimore seniors wait years for assistance on unaffordable home repairs

The heat in Vernoy Coleman’s house hasn’t worked for five years.

After a carbon monoxide leak in his West Baltimore home, the fire department shut off his furnace, and he hasn’t used it since. One contractor told him it would cost $20,000 to replace, while Coleman, 72, lives on an income of $1,700 per month. In the winter, he keeps to his bedroom with two space heaters, and an additional space heater in his bathroom.

“I’m in need of a furnace bad,” he told The Baltimore Sun.

Coleman is one of thousands of older adults in Baltimore who have applied and are still waiting for help from the city with repairs on their homes. City-approved contractors are used to make repairs. Sometimes, residents wait months or even years for help, according to city officials speaking at a hearing on Thursday about home repair assistance programs.


Wat has personal experience with these kinds of programs and the agencies through which they are administered. He was given a chance to bid to go on a Preferred List. He was accepted. First job and the "contract administrator" asks for a bid. He was told, the bid is hourly - cost plus. It's in the contract. He wants a quote. A couple more questions and it becomes apparent, he wants to know what his cut is going to be.


Guess who got told to go fuck himself. Guess who was promptly removed from the so-called Preferred List.

That's how they roll.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Entertaining, and what Wat said last November is beginning to take some kind of shape. Mostly an amorphous blobs, but it's a shape, which is more than was beforehand, and faster than if the other possibility had happened.

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“If you think Trumpism will simply end in three years,” David Brooks writes for The Atlantic, “you are naive.”

In his article, which appears in The Atlantic’s special issue on the unfinished American Revolution, Brooks claims that Donald Trump’s dominance—over politicians, higher education, the judicial system, and the American psyche—won’t be broken while thinking in conventional political terms. Instead, he argues that a mass “political-cultural-social movement” will be necessary to reverse the global tide of populism that has propelled not just Trump, but also figures like Viktor Orbán, Narendra Modi, and Vladimir Putin.

“Conventional politicians don’t have the vision or power to reverse a historical tide,” Brooks writes. “Chuck Schumer is not going to save us.” To beat the culture of Trumpism, he argues, you need a counter vision about where America should be heading, a different set of values dictating what is admirable and what is disgraceful. This movement is possible. And there are examples from the past to lead us there.​

David Brooks, for those that don’t know, is the milquetoast go-to “conservative,” on PBS shows and other alphabet soup networks. He’s never met a liberal he didn’t like though. Famously saying he “liked the cut of his jib,” when asked on live teevee about the Dalai Bama…(peace be upon him)…which was roundly mocked by Rush and others.

Having said all that, I’ve read several of his books, not politically related, and have enjoyed them. I’ve I were the left. I’d listen. He does have his finger on the pulse of the social issues.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

That's how they roll.

I was kinda surprised when it happened to me. I never ratted on the guy, altho' maybe I should have. Maybe better he find his way to retired or something. I think that whole agency has crapped out by now. It was a mite poorly run. I quit doing work for them a few months after all that bullshit went down. There was honest business elsewhere.


https://forum.literotica.com/search...get+stitches&c[users]=Saint+Peter&o=relevance

 

[Wat_Tyler]

David Brooks, for those that don’t know, is the milquetoast go-to “conservative,” on PBS shows and other alphabet soup networks. He’s never met a liberal he didn’t like though. Famously saying he “liked the cut of his jib,” when asked on live teevee about the Dalai Bama…(peace be upon him)…which was roundly mocked by Rush and others.

Having said all that, I’ve read several of his books, not politically related, and have enjoyed them. I’ve I were the left. I’d listen. He does have his finger on the pulse of the social issues.

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I'll buy his mass movement idea, and I'll buy that it needs to be unified, or based on unity. We don't have that now. I just don't think a mass movement will look like what he thinks it will is all.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

I'll buy his mass movement idea, and I'll buy that it needs to be unified, or based on unity. We don't have that now. I just don't think a mass movement will look like what he thinks it will is all.

I didn’t get to read the whole article, just the blurb you posted. I see what you’re saying though and I don’t see it either…not the way the dems are constituted at present.

 

[Rebel5soul]

I was kinda surprised when it happened to me. I never ratted on the guy, altho' maybe I should have. Maybe better he find his way to retired or something. I think that whole agency has crapped out by now. It was a mite poorly run. I quit doing work for them a few months after all that bullshit went down. There was honest business elsewhere.


https://forum.literotica.com/search...get+stitches&c[users]=Saint+Peter&o=relevance

Same goes when dealing with the Trade Unions in some locals.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I didn’t get to read the whole article, just the blurb you posted. I see what you’re saying though and I don’t see it either…not the way the dems are constituted at present.

Constituted in unbridled hostility. And it has been going on for awhile, too.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Same goes when dealing with the Trade Unions in some locals.

The NYC Housing Authority windows job late last century was a classic. I think it was a union guy who wasn't on board took a header out a 56th floor window.


That had to hurt for a fraction of a second.

 

[coati]

Entertaining, and what Wat said last November is beginning to take some kind of shape. Mostly an amorphous blobs, but it's a shape, which is more than was beforehand, and faster than if the other possibility had happened.

Those "amorphous blobs" you heralded last November are called chaos and fascism. You personally celebrated it throughout the months following the election, and now it is the fulfillment of the right-wing cult gospel.

The ammosexual community who post on this thread thought that electing the Pig was truly the Second Kumming.

You wanted it. You got it. Now wait for an even deeper crash in Amerikan society. Since you get upset over a silly shipment delay, I expect lots more whining from the likes of you.

 

[Rightguide]

Got the scope mounted on the .338 ARC. That with the high velocity cartridges should be a hoot at 300 yards or so.

You could give the .30-338 a try.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

You could give the .30-338 a try.

I bought a 300 Weatherby last year and I want to rebarrel it into something with a threaded muzzle to manage/tame a bit of recoil. I could get the new barrel in 30-338 Weatherby for added fun-n-games . . . .

 

[Wat_Tyler]

https://www.bearcreekarsenal.com/bl...ource=dotdigital&dm_i=7VEL,20S1,3MD8PI,9JL7,1

The Best AR-15 & AR-10 Calibers for Hunting​

The caliber of your firearm is more than the size of the bullet, it’s the reason for your firearm’s existence. Most guns are designed around cartridges, not the other way around. And many exist solely to chamber and fire a single specific cartridge. Not for the trusty AR.

While initially designed around the 5.56 NATO cartridge, the AR platform is unique in that it has been evolved to employ a wide variety of cartridges, each with specific characteristics. If you’re wondering what caliber or AR to buy, there is no one-size-fits-all. Each different cartridge available on the platform has unique characteristics, making them better or worse suited for specific applications.

Calibers vs. Cartridges​

First, let’s clarify terms. Cartridge refers to the overall ammunition – case, bullet, propellant, primer – the whole pew pew. Caliber refers to the size of the bullet. The higher the number, the larger the bullet. Although the terms are often used interchangeably, caliber is just one characteristic of the cartridge. And the cartridge is what you put in the gun. (If it’s the right caliber.)

Determining which caliber of firearm is best for you depends on the type of game you’re after. Generally speaking, the larger the bullet caliber, the larger the game. If you’re using too small of a bullet caliber, you may not have the energy to take down your prey. Too large of a bullet, and you may ruin the hide or meat of what you’re shooting, not to mention wasting energy. Some hunters believe in a “less is more” approach, using a relatively low-power ammo for as big an animal as they can down with it. While others prefer “more is more,” pumping as much energy into a beast as they can bring to bear.


And so on . . . .

 

[LLCox]

Macho man

 

[Wat_Tyler]

 

[Wat_Tyler]

When we realize that we are forced to change positions because of pain, we should question further to find out if there are other reasons. If the answer is that we change because we want to be comfortable, this is incorrect. It is incorrect because it is a distortion of happiness. The correct answer is that we change in order to "cure" the pain. We do not change to acquire happiness. The wrong answer comes from misunderstanding, and if we do not have the right comprehension when we change positions, defilements can and will spring up.

Changing positions to "cure" pain indicates that we have to remedy the situation at all times. We should not misjudge and think that the reason is to attain happiness, since the curing of pain all the time is the same as having to take medicines constantly. It is like nursing a continuous sickness. Thus, we should not look upon nursing sickness and curing pain as being happiness at all.

~ Achaan Naeb




I follow four dictates:
face it,
accept it,
deal with,
then let it go

~ Sheng Yen

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Groupthink is a terrifying concept.


67% of 53% is 35% (more or less), which leaves 65% who had a different idea, and a big chunk of those have given up on their chickenshit system.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Another day at Wat's with those damned defective weapons what ain't killt nobody.


Go figure.

 

[Brains_N_Boobs]

 

[Wat_Tyler]

IIRC, making a false statement on the federal form is a 5 year felony - fed time. I'm not sure how stringently it is enforced. That would be an excellent place to start. Bust those people and let the word get out - pull a fast one and pull some time. There was a felon-with-a-gun program here last century where they got 5 years and got to pull it way away from home, so no family-n-friends visits. I have no issue with that. It seemed to help. I don't know why it went away.