The Goat Pen

Religion should never get in the way of good chicken. Nor politics. Yet, when you're desperate...

So I am out last night with my wife, her best friend, and her best friend's two daughters. Both girls are in their mid and late 20s, both of them "broke." They are broke because they have over six figures of student loan debt that they are currently making monthly payments on, almost entirely interest only. They are telling me that they love POTUS Biden because he is going to find a way to have all that debt "forgiven" so they wont be broke anymore. I am biting my lip hard, but I just couldn't resist. I had to educate them. I asked them where all that money that they borrowed to pay for their educations, came from? They just looked at me and asked me if that mattered? One was smiling, pretending I wasn't there, and whispering into the ear of the other, something about me being a CIS-male and "racist" for asking that question. I could see that their mother was getting visibly upset and my wife was kicking me under the table to "stop."

Well, I didn't stop. They weren't hearing it from their father, so they had to hear if from me. It was time for these two girls to get a patriarchal slap upside the feminist heads.

I told them that the money came from banks and that Biden was trying to get congress to craft a bill to make the TAXPAYER reimburse the banks all the money that they borrowed for their education because you can't welsh on money you owe to the bank. They will get you. So the debt would not be forgiven, it would just be paid by TAXPAYERS. And that is he couldn't do that (and he can't) that he is trying to get some kind of executive order written to force the TAXPAYERS to reimburse the banks for the debt they incurred. The two of them stopped smiling, just looked at me right in the eye, deer in the headlights. No one had ever spoken to them like that before and I could see that the two of them were craving some kind of "safe space" because they no longer had that at the lunch table.

But I didn't stop. I asked the two of them how is it fair that Joe-Schmoe-truck driver, who has been driving his own truck for 20 years, driving A truck for the last 30 years, driving a truck since he was 19 years old with not a single college credit to his name, how is it fair that his tax dollars pay for your student loans when your education will eventually mean that you will make more money than him? One girl got up from the table, told her mother I was being "abusive" and she left the restaurant. Her mother chased after her and the older one, she stopped looking me in the eye and kept calling me a "racist" because she didn't have any response to that. How could I be racist I asked, you are both white? Do you have any idea what you are saying? She just kept looking at her plate and said "I think I'm going to be sick" and she ran to the bathroom. That was the last I saw of the two of them.

A couple hours later my wife gets into it with me about how awful that was, and I need to be a better judge of what kinds of conversations I am allowed to enter, to "read the room" so to speak. And I ask her why should I do that when you know that I am correct and you know that the those two girls needed to be told what I told them? She said it was not my place and most likely, she just lost a lifelong friend. I told her no, if your friend doesn't want to speak to you again because her best friend's husband told her two daughters the truth about life, did the job that SHE was supposed to do as their mother, then that is NOT a friend. not 5 minutes later she calls my wife and asks if she could speak with me? I said sure and this woman thanked me profusely for reading her two daughter's the riot act. Obviously, I can't come over to their house while the two of them are there because they wont feel "safe" with me around, but she thanked me because she could never speak to her children the way that I did. She agreed with everything I said and she feels that those kinds of conversations need to be had with our children when they are still young and impressionable and adjustable not when they are in their mid to late 20s and their minds are brainwashed. I told her she was welcome and I was happy to help and that I was perfectly okay with not ever being around the two girls ever again. And that I hope this didn't ruin her friendship with my wife and she assured me that it didn't. Her husband heard what happened and he wanted to take me out for beers!

I don't see much hope for these kids. I don't see much hope for the future of our country. If being "safe" is more important than being "correct", more important than the ability to "think", then you can't be a civilized human being. But it perfectly demonstrates how fucked up our kids are when they can't even enter a simple, logical conversation, if that conversation threatens their brainwashing at the hands of higher education.

See. You really can write good fiction when you put your mind to it. Get back on that Cruisn Mike story. Slacker.

at cost...do it now...I said so

Are you sure that’s not a fake?

I'm being quiet

eCat wrote: ↑Sat Jul 02, 2022 9:30 am interesting that for 8 years in a row Chick-Fil-A is Americas favorite restaurant.

I guess those progressives like good chicken more than protesting gay rights

They're not as preachy as folks make them out to be. Yeah, they'll send some donations to here, there and yonder, but they're not trying to throw everything in your face.

The CFA by my house is staffed with enough gay guys to do three broadway musicals.

Newsom vs DeSantis 2024

Jungle Rat wrote: ↑Sat Jul 02, 2022 7:33 pm

Under Trump taxes, tax receipts are at an all-time high. I guess the issue was spending…

Jungle Rat wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 2:20 pm

DeSantis has democrats shitting their pants already

In October 2020, just 20 days before the contentious presidential election, a startling article appeared in The New York Post detailing shady business dealings and influence peddling by Joe Biden’s family members, particularly his son Hunter.

The legacy media, which for four years had sensationalized countless conspiracy theories about President Donald Trump and his family, faced a choice: report the Biden allegations or circle the wagons in the Bidens’ defense in the election’s run-up. They chose the latter.

NPR told its audience, “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories.”

Big Tech joined in. Twitter blocked users from posting links to the few news stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop contents; it even locked The Post’s account for refusing to take down the article. Facebook manipulated algorithms to limit the spread of laptop stories. One of the nation’s largest newspapers was effectively shut out of the digital public square.

The Post published an article in October 2020 detailing suspicious business activity by Biden’s family, particularly his son Hunter.
Hunter Biden's laptop

Soon 51 former intelligence officers circulated an open letter casting doubt on the information’s authenticity. They claimed without evidence that The Post’s article had all the classic earmarks of a Russian disinformation operation. These signatories misused the imprimatur of their former titles to discredit evidence that raised serious questions about the access granted to Joe Biden during his last time in office.

The Biden campaign then used Big Tech’s censorship and the intel officers’ letter to dismiss the allegations out of hand and smear others as peddlers of disinformation. In short, these entities colluded to hide details about The Post’s article just as Americans were making up their minds about the presidential election.

Nearly two years later, most news outlets have quietly admitted the article’s authenticity.

Congressional Republicans’ investigations to date have found Biden family members used their connections with Joe to enrich themselves through expectations of access and promises about what a Biden administration might do.

We’ve pursued these threads despite Democrats’ refusal to cooperate. We’ve made almost 100 requests for information relating to Biden family schemes. Many, including every request made to the Biden administration, have been ignored. But with the help of witnesses who have documentation of their dealings with the Biden family, some answers are becoming clear.

First, Joe Biden’s family members profited in foreign regions where he had influence as vice president. Hunter Biden sat on the board of a Ukrainian company in an industry in which he had no experience. His only qualification was that his father ran point on US Ukraine policy.

When Joe Biden was vice president, he hosted Hunter’s business partners at the vice-presidential residence and the White House.

Hunter Biden possibly used his father’s influence to sit on the board of a Ukrainian company without any prior experience in that industry.

Second, Bidens have used their connections with Joe to promise access to the highest levels of government. While Joe was vice president, Hunter promised Mexican business partners access to his father, and Joe Biden obliged by hosting them at the vice-presidential residence and the White House.

“If I say it’s important to me, then he [Joe] will work a way in which to make it a part of his platform,” Hunter said.

Third, these practices continued during Joe Biden’s four-year government hiatus. In 2018, in the 2020 campaign’s run-up, Hunter Biden boasted privately, “If I say it’s important to me, then he [Joe] will work a way in which to make it a part of his platform.” Biden family members increasingly targeted foreign ventures, including multiple deals with the Chinese Communist Party.

Fourth, Bidens were paid hundreds of thousands — if not millions — despite performing no discernible work. Joe’s brother James boasted to foreign and domestic business partners that Joe would become president and they would reap the rewards in profits and US government endorsements. American banks flagged questionable transactions involving James and Hunter Biden and filed more than 150 Suspicious Activity Reports with the Treasury Department.

Finally, contrary to Joe Biden’s statement that he never spoke to Hunter about his foreign business dealings, associates state that he was fully aware of his family’s business dealings and influence peddling. There is evidence of a direct sum of money set aside for “the Big Guy” — who witnesses have identified as Joe Biden — from foreign nationals. This raises significant questions about our national security and the role foreign nationals were allowed to play when he was vice president.


We have uncovered some answers, but many questions remain. In November, the American people will decide whether they accept being told what information they are allowed to know by a colluding media, including who is making policy decisions for this country and for whose interests. A Republican majority will be committed to uncovering the facts the Democrats, Big Tech and the legacy media have suppressed.

But....but....HUNTER!!

hope you guys enjoy the holiday where we celebrate Americans with guns who started an insurrection

Leave it to E to dumb up the 4th.