Just A Couple Normal White Guys Talking About Boning And Breeding
TUCKER CARLSON: I mean the urge to have sex and to procreate is, after breathing and eating, the most basic urge. How has it been subverted?
Because now people know they can fuck without procreating, and for a lot of people that is like the deluxe model of fucking, a major improvement over the dumb first version.
ELON MUSK: Well it's just, in the past we could rely upon, you know, simple limbic system rewards in order to procreate. But once you have birth control and abortions and what not, now you can still satisfy the limbic instinct but not procreate. So we haven't yet evolved to deal with that because this is all fairly recent in the last 50 years or so before birth control.
Elon likes to say "limbic." He thinks we need to "evolve" to live with a situation where you can fuck without breeding. He needs to say "limbic" again.
Also SHOCK SURPRISE, he has some weird garbage thoughts about abortion and birth control.
ELON: I'm sort of worried that — hey, civilization, if we don't make enough people to at least sustain our numbers perhaps increase a little bit, then civilization's going to crumble.
Uh huh, wank wank wank.
Now look. Everybody now understands that Elon Musk is not some crazy genius. He's an abject fucking moron who's bought other people's hard work and innovation. He's one of the richest people in the world, and he's got this breeding fetish. He really stupidly thinks there's an "underpopulation crisis." (There is not.) He's been on this for a long time.
And for some reason, Elon Musk apparently thinks his genes are really awesome and his jizz should be turned into as many babies as possible. He has 10 children, that we know of, including a transgender daughter who's estranged from him presumably because he's a piece of transphobic shit.
Reminder, we are talking about this guy, who looks like if Lady Elaine from "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" got drunk and figured out how to reproduce asexually. He thinks the world needs his sperm.
In the same clip above, before the weird breeding discussion, there is a weird alien discussion. Elon says that "if anyone would know about aliens on earth, it would probably be me," and he said it really serious, like we are supposed to take for granted that because he has a rocket company he really has the inside track on aliens.
"I'm, you know, very familiar with space stuff," he added, we swear to God.
He also added that if he did find aliens, he would tweet it out, because it would be the "top tweet of all time."
Twitter execs wouldn't even have to rig the platform to make sure everybody saw that Elon tweet first!
"Jackpot! Eight billion likes!" he added, because he couldn't stop talking.
And Tucker was giggling really loudly and high-pitched, you know how he does.
The rest of Tucker's two-night interview with Elon was pretty much like this five-second clip:
And this conversation about people are smart but chimpanzees are fast but what if something is smarter than humans and chimpanzees:
Cool.
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Texas Wingnut Says Dirty Book Ban Would Include 'Lonesome Dove.' Not A Good Move In Texas.
At a House Public Education Committee hearing on the bill, Peterson proclaimed that it was really simple: "There should be no sexually explicit books” in any high school library, period.
State Rep. James Talarico (D) came to the hearing prepared with a simple question about his favorite book, Larry McMurtry's 1985 epic of the fading frontier, Lonesome Dove. We'll confess we haven't read it ourselves, but we understand It's the official favorite novel of Texas. But it's also very frank about the realities of the Old West: one of the main characters is a prostitute, and the book includes both consensual sex and a terrible sexual assault and its aftermath. Plus, a whole lot of nonsexual violence.
So Talarico asked Peterson at the hearing, would Lonesome Dove have to be removed from every school library in Texas?
Patterson admitted he had never read Lonesome Dove — My San Antoniocolumnist John DeVore wondered if that might not actually disqualify Patterson from being in the Lege altogether — and proceeded to what might be Lone Star blasphemy:
“I don’t care if it’s ‘Lonesome Dove’ or any other novel — if it has sexually explicit material, I would view that as an incredible win for the students of the state to not have that material in the library.” said Patterson. [...]
Patterson told members of the House Public Education Committee that the aim of his bill is simple: If a book has sexually explicit content, it has no home on any bookshelf in any of Texas’ nearly 9,000 K-12 campuses.
As DeVore points out, Lonesome Dove is the Great Texas Novel, "the closest thing to a holy text in Texas, except for actual holy texts." He suggests newly-elected Texas office-holders could be given the option "to swear on a copy of Lonesome Dove instead of the Bible," although we'd add that plenty of allegedly Christian politicians don't seem terribly familiar with the contents of the latter book, either. The Bible has a lot of sex stuff, too, but we hear it's necessary for the plot.
The story went viral, helped by another Republican's attempt to insist that Lonesome Dove would surely not face removal because according to her extensive research, there wasn't anything dirty in it.
That ally was Christin Bentley, a member of the State Republican Executive Committee and occasional blogger for the rightwing "Texas Freedom Coalition," which started as an anti-mask group during the pandemic, and has expanded into a rightwing cultural grievance clearinghouse. Bentley's research consisted of buying Lonesome Dove as an ebook on Amazon, only without the link that gives Yr Wonkette a small cut.
As Bentley explained on Twitter, she did a keyword search for four dirty words — fuck, vagina, sex, and pussy — which she found are not in the book, and therefore. Rep. Talarico "should be relieved to know that this book is not sexually explicit." Because Yr Wonkette is committed to the spirit of free scholarly inquiry, we reproduce Bentley's findings for you here, cropped and edited into a single image:
But Bentley also went the extra mile, searching for at least one other dirty word and proclaiming, "Sh*t... as in rat sh*t, bear sh*t, and cow sh*t is as bad as it gets. It's NOT sexually explicit."
So that pretty much settles the question: Christin Bentley has not read Lonesome Dove, as many many replies pointed out.
At Texas Monthly, Christopher Hooks says Bentley's research protocols were simply ill matched to the subject:
Of course, Lonesome Dove is set in the 1870s: Bentley was searching for the wrong words. Twitter users helpfully suggested she search for the word “poke.” (Hard to picture Gus yelling “p—y” across the range.) But even a better search would have been of limited value. With a short summary, you can make Lonesome Dove sound like smut or a wholesome novel. The only way to evaluate it properly, as with any book, is to read it and think about it in its totality. That’s the point of books: You can step into the lives of characters unlike you. You can think about what it’s like to be a woman or a man, consider issues you had never given thought to, and step back into your life at the end of it, your horizons a little wider.
Now hold on here, mister smartypants intellectual! The point of reading is not to encounter the wider world or people different from you, the point of reading is to never be indoctrinated by ideas that the Texas Freedom Coalition says are dangerous, particularly if those thoughts involve LGBTQ people or the ridiculous notion that America has ever been an unpleasant place to live for people who are not white suburban Texan Christians (preferably Babtist or Methodist, at that).
The Great Texas Library Purge has focused in particular on books by or about LGBTQ+ people and racism, and as Hooks notes,
Patterson has put rhetorical emphasis in his pitch for his bill on books that have “sexual indoctrination,” a euphemism for ones about gender-nonconforming or gay kids. The fear he and allies are stoking seems to be that by reading these books, formerly immaculate daughters and sons will become transgender.
The problem, though is that if you try to hide the anti-gay bigotry by a ban on all descriptions of sex, you won't just be banning YA novels that have LGBTQ characters, you'll also be getting rid of books that include smut like this:
In that respect, Gus was unusual, for most men didn't talk. He would blab right up until he shoved his old carrot in, and then would be blabbing again, before it was even dry. Generous as he was by local standards—he gave her five dollars in gold every single time—Lorena still felt a little underpaid. It should have been five dollars for wetting his carrot and another five dollars for listening to all the blab. Some of it was interesting, but Lorena couldn't keep her mind on so much talk. It didn't seem to hurt Gus's feelings any.
Hooks also notes that most adults haven't heard of, much less read, many of the books that end up on the banners' lists, such as Gender Queer, so what the hell, few of them will care if they're removed from libraries. They may have a constituency, like queer young people or graphic novel nerds, but those people are weird and easily dismissed too.
But when it comes to something like Lonesome Dove, enough Texans have read it "to know that while the book is challenging, it is enriching, and being able to make sense of its challenges is part of growing up, especially in this state."
And maybe, just maybe, that will give people pause when the censorious bigots come after other books. One can hope, at least; Patterson's stupid bill passed out of committee this week — with three votes from Democrats (!) — and is headed to the full House.
[Texas Monthly / My San Antonio / Texas Tribune / Texas HB 900 / Lonesome Dove (Wonkette gets a tiny cut)]
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