Seth takes a closer look at Attorney General Merrick Garland appointing a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department’s investigations of Trump while Trump responds by spending the last few days whining that he’s a “victim” of political persecution.
Little known fact: Lewis and Clark, in the final leg of their expedition into Washington state, came across the last living flying mammoth, and sketched it in one of their journals, here enlarged:#truthinproboscidea #AIart pic.twitter.com/LnUj5TNAgZ
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) November 22, 2022
Yeah, that’s the real problem with Twitter, all those “far left accounts spouting utter lies.”
The dude he’s agreeing with is a raving right wing crackpot I blocked years ago. pic.twitter.com/OxC5HVjqs6— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2022
Good grief. Look at this guy agreeing with the worst liars on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/Al9msaWo5E
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2022
And there was a kerfuffle in the White House Press Briefing Room…
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre demanded order in the briefing room on Tuesday after New York Post reporter Steven Nelson shouted questions at Dr. Anthony Fauci.
During what was billed as Fauci’s last White House Covid-19 briefing, Nelson shouted a question without being called on. According to reports, Nelson wanted to know what Fauci personally did to investigate the origins of the pandemic.
“We have a process here,” Jean-Pierre interrupted. “I’m not calling on people who yell and you’re being disrespectful to your colleagues and you’re being disrespectful to our guest. I will not call on you if you yell and also you’re taking time off the clock because Dr. Fauci has to leave in a couple of minutes.”
“I’m done!” the press secretary exclaimed to shut down the reporter’s objection. “I’m not getting into a back-and-forth with you.”
The thing about these right-wing idiots going on and on about the sexualization of children is that for the drag queens, nothing about what they do is sexual. They’re just dressing for an ordinary day, as far as they’re concerned. The only reason a “drag queen story hour” or similar is different for them is because they’re going to go read to people (which they probably don’t do every day) and show off drag culture to traditionally dressed people (which they DEFINITELY do every day, just not in a dedicated setting). It’s not like they’re walking in there expecting to start an orgy or anything. Fuck’s sake, do these brain-dead morons even THINK about the shit they make up?
They will. https://t.co/eDCOFhW6EE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2022
Musk’s Twitter is stiffing vendors as the billionaire cuts costs. One of his lieutenants has advised employees to tell suppliers that if they do not give bigger discounts, Musk’s companies would not do business with them in the future.
w/ @MikeIsaac https://t.co/l98OQr7Pgr— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) November 22, 2022
re: #3 Joe Bacon
I just watched the video and holy shit, what a mess.
I don’t blame Karine for being pissed but you just know conservatives are going to come after her with the “angry black lady” memes.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
The fucker is becoming more and more like Trump every day.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
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re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg
The fucker is becoming more and more like Trump every day.
He’s another narcissist who desperately needs praise and is getting it from trash.
Now he’s hinting that he’d like to ban the Associated Press. pic.twitter.com/xcHjVXoSxR
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2022
re: #2 Charles Johnson
Elmo has a clear plan to turn twitter into parler/truth social/8kun 2.0+.
IMO, as hard as it is, good people need to walk away from the platform and let it go down in flames like those hellholes. Deny him the credibility of our participation.
re: #4 Dopamine Fish
They don’t have to think about it. Like calling an opponent a commie egghead in the 1950s, it’s just the latest lazy fashion in agitation.
re: #11 Charles Johnson
Is there any substance to Lone Smuk’s beef about the AP?*
Even leaving aside the simpleton crap about “escalating”, to the best of my recollection, AP’s initial reportage on the Polish missile casualties *speculated* that the missiles *might* have been Russian (not exactly a wild guess from left-field, and a view which was, AFAICR, shared by almost everybody), and, in any case, (again, as I recall) clarified their reports as soon as better info was available. Being that AP is a real news organization and all; though Elon seems to accord Gateway Pundit, et. al. the same credibility ….
*doubtful
re: #15 Jay C
It IS true that the AP put a report on the wire that was later proven incorrect. IIRC, the reporter responsible for filing that story was actually fired, and of course the AP issued a retraction. Whether the consequences of that false report were as dire as Sir Elon the Smart made them out to be is highly debatable.
re: #13 RoJo Must Go!
Elmo has a clear plan to turn twitter into parler/truth social/8kun 2.0+.
IMO, as hard as it is, good people need to walk away from the platform and let it go down in flames like those hellholes. Deny him the credibility of our participation.
It’ll happen as the service starts to fail or if Apple pulls it from the store. I think that there’s a good chance that either or both happen before the end of the year.
Elon is also doing a great job alienating the people that buy most of his cars. These are shockingly self destructive moves by someone who’s been in a bubble for too long.
re: #15 Jay C
Is there any substance to Lone Smuk’s beef about the AP?*
Even leaving aside the simpleton crap about “escalating”, to the best of my recollection, AP’s reportage on the Polish missile casualties *speculated* that the missiles *might* have been Russian (not exactly a wild guess from left-field, and a view which was, AFAICR, shared by almost everybody), and, in any case, (again, as I recall) clarified their reports as soon as better info was available. Being that AP is a real news organization and all; though Elon seems to accord Gateway Pundit, et. al. the same credibility ….
*doubtful
AP fired the reporter who ran with the story because he violated their rules of having at least 2 anonymous sources, or some such. It was careless and dangerous reporting that had real implications. But the AP acted quickly; right wing disinfo peddlers are rarely fired for BS.
re: #4 Dopamine Fish
The thing about these right-wing idiots going on and on about the sexualization of children is that for the drag queens, nothing about what they do is sexual. They’re just dressing for an ordinary day, as far as they’re concerned. The only reason a “drag queen story hour” or similar is different for them is because they’re going to go read to people (which they probably don’t do every day) and show off drag culture to traditionally dressed people (which they DEFINITELY do every day, just not in a dedicated setting). It’s not like they’re walking in there expecting to start an orgy or anything. Fuck’s sake, do these brain-dead morons even THINK about the shit they make up?
Bigotry is functional: it provides an answer—a wrong answer—about where the problems and complications of society come from.
Racism generally “solves” the problem of cheap labor or property ownership: that’s not a real person, that’s an almost person that you can use and mistreat…you can also steal their shit. “Savage” and “uncivilized” have the same function as racism, but free you up to exploit the labeled-inferior that are compliant, willing to “assimilate.” Antisemitism “solves” the problem of pointed questions about why the base assumptions of modern society—nationalism, capitalism—don’t actually produce the results they promise: it’s not that your patriotism is being used in bad faith, it’s not that the capital holders always take all the money—even when there’s tons of money because you’ve stolen property and labor from racial inferiors and the uncivilized—it’s that there’s a secret hypercompetent bad person group…that are definitely not just rich people!…that are taking your patrimony.
All these interrelated moral panics about sex and gender, but most especially the “groomer” thing, “solves” two different problems.
The first is incredibly simple: it takes people with reasonable doubts about society and makes them depraved and thus non-people undeserving of a voice, a perspective, or a free life. Gayness, tran-ness, and any gender-ambiguity by existing challenge traditional roles that don’t actually make anyone happier or lives better, but exist as the backbone of a power structure that does not want to be seen. .
If gayness is okay, you can’t use shame and homophobic coercion to make men and women do what you want. If trans-ness is okay, then people might get the idea that they’re in control of their own bodies and their own self-definition, and therefore also can’t be coerced into performing designated function that serve the powerful’s appetites. You are supposed to perform manliness so that you stoically die laboring or in a trench; you are supposed to perform femininity because you’re supposed to be an ornament bestowed on powerful men. The key thing is…you are supposed to accept that your body is not your own, and will be policed by a certain kind of person that is entitled to some or all of your body.
All of the above means that reactionaries have fundamentally anti-social and dangerous views of sex and they’re bad at hiding it: there’s a too-obvious pattern in which old powerful men see themselves as entitled to fuck how they want, whether that’s the Epstein crowd, any of a number of church elders, or manosphere types who just think rape is natural. The traditions that create authority, and thus license, to do abusive shit were never built for open discussion of abuse of power, nor open discussion of how shame and community standards are used to hide abuse of power.
Hence the secondary purpose of grooming accusations, bathroom panics, and drag queen panics—they have to construct a worse threat—preferably people that look very different and are very open—to act as concealment.
Bigotry bends to serve rhetorical ends—racists have not only altered their racial hierarchies as needed, but also changed the “immutable” traits of lesser races as needed (for example, blacks went from docile, and thus suitable for slavery, to hyperaggressive and hyper sexual and thus required enslavement), and what we’re watching is a shiny new model, customized for the current day.
Most of the people creating this know they’re lying about the specifics, but they feel it’s true on a deeper level because the alternative would be that they’re wrong—immoral and incorrect—and that is fucking impossible.
re: #17 JC1
It’ll happen as the service starts to fail or if Apple pulls it from the store. I think that there’s a good chance that either or both happen before the end of the year.
Elon is also doing a great job alienating the people that buy most of his cars. These are shockingly self destructive moves by someone who’s been in a bubble for too long.
For his next 27-dimensional marketing chess move, Elmo will claim that the Apollo Moon landings were faked.
re: #17 JC1
He probably thinks he can run both sides of the table by getting progressives to buy his cars and wingnuts to go all in on Twitter.
I don’t like Herschel Walker but I do feel some kind of way about watching a broken black man get used up by white men in college, by white men in the NFL, and then by white men in the GOP and not be there to pick up the pieces once they’re done with him. Vote for Warnock though.
— I Smoked Twıtter (@BlackKnight10k) November 19, 2022
Judge Grant asks what’s different here from every other criminal case except that Trump is the former president.
Trusty blows her off.
Judge Pryor jumps in and says “That’s not responsive” and restates the question.
Trust pretty clearly knows he’s hosed here.— Liz Dye (@5DollarFeminist) November 22, 2022
re: #22 Dangerman
To top it off, they put him up to this because they think black people in GA are as dumb and broken as Walker is but without all the touchdowns. But black people are acutely sensitive to these kinds of games and white people just further embarass themsevles with their vote.
— I Smoked Twıtter (@BlackKnight10k) November 19, 2022
re: #26 RoJo Must Go!
What’s next? A picture of Richard Pryor on a story about John Cleese?
re: #23 wrenchwench
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Is that Schrader? Or?
Kittehs gotta kitteh. https://t.co/aGlv2GA74V
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2022
re: #25 Dangerman
The ‘riding in an elevator to see Satan’ story didn’t work.
The bull getting 6 cows pregnant story was ill-advised.
The werewolves killing vampire story was bizarre.
Warnock canceling Archie Bunker was a mess.
What will Herschel come up with today to prove he is unfit?— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) November 22, 2022
re: #18 JC1
AP fired the reporter who ran with the story because he violated their rules of having at least 2 anonymous sources, or some such. It was careless and dangerous reporting that had real implications. But the AP acted quickly; right wing disinfo peddlers are rarely fired for BS.
Yeah, this.
I’d like to see some examples of what Lord Twit thinks are “the most far left account spouting utter lies“. Mind you, I’m sure there likely are *some*on Twitter (online whackaloons cover the whole ideological spectrum): but I’m sure Musk is referring to the New York Times, or someone similar…
re: #28 HRH Stanley Sea
Is that Schrader? Or?
It is! Or, as I told him this morning, the Schraderiest Schrader of all the Schraders, everywhere. He likes to hear his name.
re: #31 Jay C
Yeah, this.
I’d like to see some examples of what Lord Twit thinks are “the most far left account spouting utter lies“. Mind you, I’m sure there likely are *some*on Twitter (online whackaloons cover the whole ideological spectrum): but I’m sure Musk is referring to the New York Times, or someone similar…
Russia Hoax! No collusion!
a decorated war hero disarmed a mass shooter in Colorado Springs and saved countless lives. Republicans responded by criticizing him for being at a drag show. these ghouls have some fucking nerve
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) November 22, 2022
re: #24 Dopamine Fish
Its not going well for Trump.
Pryor, re: Trusty questioning scope of warrant/seizure: I don’t think it’s necessarily the fault of the govt if someone has intermingled classified documents and all kinds of other personal property…
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) November 22, 2022
Musk knows that the CEOs of the companies he needs help from if he wants Twitter to survive can read his disgusting public tweets. But he continues. It’s either a monumental self-destructive impulse, or it’s all deliberate and he wants Twitter to die.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2022
Either way it will end up in the same place.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2022
The end. Just a total humiliation for Trusty.
Weird that Kise didn’t show, although these arguments were dumb AF, and he already got the $3 million, so …— Liz Dye (@5DollarFeminist) November 22, 2022
re: #31 Jay C
Yeah, this.
I’d like to see some examples of what Lord Twit thinks are “the most far left account spouting utter lies“. Mind you, I’m sure there likely are *some*on Twitter (online whackaloons cover the whole ideological spectrum): but I’m sure Musk is referring to the New York Times, or someone similar…
Sure, the NYT traffics in lies, but not the kind of lies Musk is thinking of.
The lies the NYT and the rest of the mainstream US political media traffic in all follow from the Great Both Sides Lie, where the pretense is upheld that the Republican Party is legitimate.
But precisely because the rejection of Trump is a matter of political interest and not principle, it’s easy to imagine all of these Republican elites reversing themselves once again if circumstances demand, and returning to their previous role as loyal Trump sycophants, if that perception changes.”
And hard on the heels of Trump’s “elite legal team” getting thrashed in the 11th Circuit - in front of three Republican-appointed judges, two Trump appointees, no less - comes this, from his so-called “friends” on the highest court in the land. Translation: You got what you really wanted from us, now go fuck yourself.
BREAKING: Supreme Court permits House to obtain Trump’s tax returns. https://t.co/evu9H8vFCd pic.twitter.com/PpxH2Ki1NK
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) November 22, 2022
re: #37 Charles Johnson
Either way it will end up in the same place.
Underneath the coop, with the rest of the chickenshit.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Musk’s Twitter is stiffing vendors as the billionaire cuts costs. One of his lieutenants has advised employees to tell suppliers that if they do not give bigger discounts, Musk’s companies would not do business with them in the future.
Sounds very Trumpish of him. So are the only differences between Musk and Trump:
1. Musk is not a native-born American so he can’t become President.
2. Musk is a real billionaire (for now)
3. Musk is a generation younger.
So much winning for Trump. We’re overwhelmed with the winning.
It’s just that they’re not losing fast enough for it to matter. Trump knows what it takes to run the clock, and he’s done just enough to string things out and let wheels of justice grind so slowly that he can stay ahead of justice.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, defended the egalitarian legacy and aspirations of public education on Monday after former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused her of being “the most dangerous person in the world.”
So Mike, let me make it easy for you. We fight for freedom, democracy, and an economy that works for all. We fight for what kids & communities need. Strong public schools that are safe and welcoming, where kids learn how to think & work with others. That’s the American Dream!
— Randi Weingarten 🇺🇦🇺🇸💪🏿👩🎓 (@rweingarten) November 22, 2022
re: #41 Dopamine Fish
And hard on the heels of Trump’s “elite legal team” getting thrashed in the 11th Circuit - in front of three Republican-appointed judges, two Trump appointees, no less - comes this, from his so-called “friends” on the highest court in the land. Translation: You got what you really wanted from us, now go fuck yourself.
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Tomorrow’s Wordle was okay with the jump to the left, the step to the right, and so on, but when it got to the pelvic thrust, it put its back out.
It jumped right out in front of me, guvna. I couldn’t stop it.
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re: #19 The Ghost of a Flea
Oh yeah, I should say this as explicitly as possible.
Conservatives and reactionary are obsessed with the sexuality of young people in ways that just throw open the doors for abuse and noncing, and have led to abuse and noncing.
They have to call everybody else groomers because they do grooming, they just think their grooming is good. It’s moral and correct in their eyes, in the case of stuff like abstinence-only sex education, but they also think their 100% creepy rapey grooming is an earned privilege and, as I repeat often, conservative morality always accounts for hierarchical position.
The only division is between the libertine, who see no need for further justification and just say it out loud—and they are numerous—and the closeted libertine that require some kind of minimal ritual language to feel they are permitted (child brides) or can be forgiven (I was tempted).
It’s impossible to overstate how much the big tech CEOs and VCs are being radicalized by living within their own bubble. The level of paranoia and contrived victimization is off the charts, and they increasingly only consume media that they have funded, created by acolytes.
— anildash (@anildash) November 22, 2022
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Setting more tires on fire to feed the pyre.
Burn baby burn.
re: #45 Joe Bacon
Way too deferential to Pompeo’s toxic agenda.
Need to be blunt.
How dare we have an educated populace that can think for themselves.
Right wing extremists like yourself would rather burn books and ban them than read and understand/comprehend them.
That’s why GOPers hate public education. The GOP hates educated people.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) November 22, 2022
re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg
He probably thinks he can run both sides of the table by getting progressives to buy his cars and wingnuts to go all in on Twitter.
He’ll lose both sides. He’ll realize sooner or later that Twitter as 4chan won’t be successful. He’ll either change direction (this pissing off all the wingers), or the site will die. He really painted himself into a corner with this. I don’t think that he’ll be the world’s richest man a year from now. This will end up being painful.
re: #44 lawhawk
So much winning for Trump. We’re overwhelmed with the winning.
It’s just that they’re not losing fast enough for it to matter. Trump knows what it takes to run the clock, and he’s done just enough to string things out and let wheels of justice grind so slowly that he can stay ahead of justice.
In all likelihood, assuming he gets indicted in D.C., Fulton County, and/or Manhattan next year, he’ll be able to get the judge(s) to agree that a criminal trial can’t be allowed to interfere with the 2024 presidential campaign. If he is then successful in seizing power after the 2024 election, he’ll never face justice.
re: #31 Jay C
Yeah, this.
I’d like to see some examples of what Lord Twit thinks are “the most far left account spouting utter lies“. Mind you, I’m sure there likely are *some*on Twitter (online whackaloons cover the whole ideological spectrum): but I’m sure Musk is referring to the New York Times, or someone similar…
Musk is angry because the press covered his “horse for sex” settlement.
That’s it. There’s no deeper level to how he’s assigning the quality of truth to online journalism: the honest are those that kiss his ass.
So I gather there’s some sort of kerfuffle about a Biden wedding? Hmm. This seems unusual.
If correct, what appears to be going on is that @AshleyRParker HERSELF LIED to cover up WaPo fucking up a story. https://t.co/GQP9PscPgv
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) November 22, 2022
re: #51 lawhawk
Pompeo is part of our theocratic fascist problem, doesn’t understand civilized people, and thinks that rejecting bigotry is toxic. The man is a mess.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) November 22, 2022
re: #31 Jay C
Yeah, this.
I’d like to see some examples of what Lord Twit thinks are “the most far left account spouting utter lies“. Mind you, I’m sure there likely are *some*on Twitter (online whackaloons cover the whole ideological spectrum): but I’m sure Musk is referring to the New York Times, or someone similar…
Occupydemocrats is pretty awful and still around. Though I blocked them years ago.
Pro-Trump intellectuals think voters are ‘too far gone’ — and they must discard democracy to save America: analyst
re: #43 Hecuba’s daughter
Sounds very Trumpish of him. So are the only differences between Musk and Trump:
1. Musk is not a native-born American so he can’t become President.
2. Musk is a real billionaire (for now)
3. Musk is a generation younger.
Musk actually accomplished some remarkable things and seems to have a generally good relationship with his siblings and his mother. Trump pissed away the fortune he inherited, stole inheritance from his family, etc.
re: #51 lawhawk
Way too deferential to Pompeo’s toxic agenda.
Need to be blunt.
The giveaway is Pompeo’s use of the phrase “real American history”: I.e. the stock RW version where American can do no wrong (and never has, ever!), and that any mention of prejudices, discrimination, white-supremacism, etc. is Hideously Wrong And Un-American, and not to be allowed.
re: #55 The Ghost of a Flea
Musk is angry because the press covered his “horse for sex” settlement.
That’s it. There’s no deeper level to how he’s assigning the quality of truth to online journalism: the honest are those that kiss his ass.
A lot of the early Tesla model S reviews were BS, and media really played up the ‘range anxiety’ angle. I might have a chip on my shoulder over that for a while too.
re: #31 Jay C
Yeah, this.
I’d like to see some examples of what Lord Twit thinks are “the most far left account spouting utter lies“. Mind you, I’m sure there likely are *some*on Twitter (online whackaloons cover the whole ideological spectrum): but I’m sure Musk is referring to the New York Times, or someone similar…
There is literally no generalizable episteme at work here.
The point is that Musk dictates what is a lie to his preference.
If the NYT kisses his ass they’re the paper of record today; tomorrow they’re liberal liars because they don’t say what he wants.
I say this because you can watch him lie—or at least not know things and bluff—and just never concede he’s wrong. You can also watch him interact with liars and never call them out, and watch him re-circulate lies and simply never acknowledge corrections.
re: #62 JC1
A lot of the early Tesla model S reviews were BS, and media really played up the ‘range anxiety’ angle. I might have a chip on my shoulder over that for a while too.
You don’t need to make excuses for an abusive narcissist who seems to see white nationalist dipshits as his online friends.
Artistry
Artist and portrait info in comments.
re: #65 Crush White Nationalism
You don’t need to make excuses for an abusive narcissist who seems to see white nationalist dipshits as his online friends.
I think that he’s being a total jackass, but I’m just trying to be accurate.
So Lindsay and Mikey Flynn are testifying before the Fulton County Grand Jury.
Which one will take the 5th more times?
re: #51 lawhawk
Let’s be clear what “woke” teaching really is:
It’s teaching children to be tolerant, to embrace our differences, to be inclusive, and teaching them that loving your country means understanding (and working towards fixing) its flaws as well as being proud of its strengths.— ((MRW))🇺🇸 (@marcyrw) November 22, 2022
re: #72 Joe Bacon
So Lindsay and Mikey Flynn are testifying before the Fulton County Grand Jury.
Which one will take the 5th more times?
Yes.
re: #63 The Ghost of a Flea
There is literally no generalizable episteme at work here.
The point is that Musk dictates what is a lie to his preference.
If the NYT kisses his ass they’re the paper of record today; tomorrow they’re liberal liars because they don’t say what he wants.
I say this because you can watch him lie—or at least not know things and bluff—and just never concede he’s wrong. You can also watch him interact with liars and never call them out, and watch him re-circulate lies and simply never acknowledge corrections.
Did he every apologize for promoting that lie about the attack on Paul Pelosi? Or did he just delete the tweet?
Signed into Twitter for the 1st time in a while just to keep the account alive.
I found it suspended……
Oh well.
Maybe it was the “Eat Shit and Die” comment that did it.
re: #26 RoJo Must Go!
Lol, this just appeared in my MSN/Edge news feed. I’m still laughing…
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Hey, Charles, or anyone with an answer:
I went to load a linked Tweet on the previous thread and it dumped me back to the LGF homepage. I’m guessing that’s some of Twitter’s infrastructure starting its inevitable tumble into San Francisco Bay?
re: #78 Dave In Austin
Signed into Twitter for the 1st time in a while just to keep the account alive.
I found it suspended……
Oh well.Maybe it was the “Eat Shit and Die” comment that did it.
It’s the “die.” Calling for death in any way no matter how absurdly overbroadly interpreted is the path to quick suspension. Had you told them to enjoy a tasty bowl of shit, you would have been fine.
re: #83 Mattand
Hey, Charles, or anyone with an answer:
I went to load a linked Tweet on the previous thread and it dumped me back to the LGF homepage. I’m guessing that’s some of Twitter’s infrastructure starting its inevitable tumble into San Francisco Bay?
That’s usually Javascript not loading. Try refreshing the page.
Got ze par.
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re: #85 Crush White Nationalism
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Thanks. It was the tweet about the journalist getting ratio’d/curbstomped for both siding Biden and Trump, and I really needed the laugh.
Not a joke, but how many people is the bare minimum needed to keep Twitter going as a functioning global platform.
Because it looks like they’ve blown past that minimum and all the safeties have been pulled.
Sure, the platform is still working, if just barely. There’s signs of fraying edges all over, and most importantly, the advertising staff has been gutted and fileted, which means that there’s no one doing customer service on accounts and helping maintain existing business or expanding business opportunities.
If you lose advertising, how is everything paid for? If you can’t bring in new business, how do you keep what you have going?
There are some dumbasses (Dinesh d’Felon for one) who thinks everything is working great despite Mush firing thousands across the country and worldwide. Apparently, he doesn’t notice that things are not great, and that the platform is unstable and functionality is starting to come undone.
So have just finished writing 100 letters for the runoff. And now have to write 100 postcards today and tomorrow for a different organization — but I’m not sure my wrist can handle this. After reading about the various ailments people have developed with their hands (some of which may be genetic in origin), I’m thinking that I maybe causing myself serious grief. Before the midterms, I did 800 postcards (started writing way too late) and 200 letters in a compressed period and now beginning to suffer from the excessive stress on my hands.
It’s pretty insane what you can get away with when you are a privileged white guy with a family in government.
If the American justice system was rigged for people like this there would be a lot of people still alive today. pic.twitter.com/njJwDK5dUH— 🥀_Imposter_🕸️ (@Imposter_Edits) November 22, 2022
re: #46 wrenchwench
They can release the tax returns in the middle of their audit?!?//!?/////
shall means shall
it always did, ffs
re: #88 lawhawk
If you lose advertising, how is everything paid for? If you can’t bring in new business, how do you keep what you have going?
Musk’s “big plan” is to become independent of the advertisers by making We The People (tm) pay to play. His grand scheme is to implement this Twitter Blue thing to basically force anybody who wants to actually get reach on the platform to buy it. He doesn’t seem to realize that users aren’t going to take kindly to being asked to pay for the privilege of generating content for a site, and more importantly, the people I’ve noted who plan to pay for their blue checks to retain their Twitter audiences will all STOP paying as soon as their Twitter audiences can be found somewhere else. Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty of users there so the plan seems sound on paper, but the practicalities are doomed from the get-go.
re: #91 Dangerman
shall means shall
it always did, ffs
It needs to arrive NOW before the House comes under GOP control. Because as Trump said, he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose any supporters — and he certainly can commit any crime with impunity under a GOP Congress.
re: #54 No Malarkey!
In all likelihood, assuming he gets indicted in D.C., Fulton County, and/or Manhattan next year, he’ll be able to get the judge(s) to agree that a criminal trial can’t be allowed to interfere with the 2024 presidential campaign. If he is then successful in seizing power after the 2024 election, he’ll never face justice.
i am not so sure
anyone could (hell, every criminal would) declare for the presidency and who’s to say who is ‘legitimate’ / viable and who isnt?
It would be interesting if this site would have at least one comment thread that did not include twitter links.
re: #95 Moe Avattar
I resemble that remark (as I will often post tweets). Maybe we can do a Tweet free thread just to remember how it used to be in the old times?
Pick me up and carry right now! I’m tired pic.twitter.com/SLcMW4UELy
— B&S (@_B___S) November 22, 2022
re: #96 lawhawk
I resemble that remark (as I will often post tweets). Maybe we can do a Tweet free thread just to remember how it used to be in the old times?
hang on while i pull out my 9600 baud telephone coupler and dial phone
Literal evil. If I met you in person it would not end well… for you. Sicko
Trolls who have never done a thing in their life pretend to be patriots and laugh at real warriors. pic.twitter.com/NrAhC4eAfW— Adam Kinzinger #fella (@AdamKinzinger) November 22, 2022
All greenies
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re: #94 Dangerman
i am not so sure
anyone could (hell, every criminal would) declare for the presidency and who’s to say who is ‘legitimate’ / viable and who isnt?
Trump will never face justice because he is Trump — another in a long line of “wealthy”, famous, and powerful individuals (usually white and male) who escape justice on a regular basis. As Rachel’s Ultra series demonstrates, the same thing happened to most of those (including Washington elected officials) who worked on behalf of Hitler in the 30’s and early 40’s. Very few suffered any legal consequences for their outright treason; court cases became circuses (think of OJ trial x 10) which fell apart for various reasons, including the death of the presiding judge because he was driven to a heart attack by the uproar in the trial before him.
Twitter Nazis find a new “enemy”:
So let me get this straight: a bunch of transphobe, cis. incel men are going to #BoycottTampax? Good luck with that, boys. I’m sure you’ll do them lots of damage. Didn’t know you even needed tampons until today.
— Shannon the Shenanigator (@ShannyGasm) November 22, 2022
re: #97 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Awww…
I’d pick puppeh up and carry him just for the tail-wags….
So it finishes, perfectly, with a save by Hugo Lloris.
France 4, Australia 1.
A good start.
re: #101 Hecuba’s daughter
Trump will never face justice because he is Trump — another in a long line of “wealthy”, famous, and powerful individuals (usually white and male) who escape justice on a regular basis. As Rachel’s Ultra series demonstrates, the same thing happened to most of those (including Washington elected officials) who worked on behalf of Hitler in the 30’s and early 40’s. Very few suffered any legal consequences for their outright treason; court cases became circuses (think of OJ trial x 10) which fell apart for various reasons, including the death of the presiding judge because he was driven to a heart attack by the uproar in the trial before him.
i dont disagree with any of that
it’s true rich people have a different legal system
OJ got off, in part because he was rich
he got convicted later for the break in because he was no longer rich and couldnt buy or bargain his way out
i don’t believe this particular mechanism (running for prez) / argument by itself would work. at least im hoping it wouldnt
“White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday that he’s ready to face Republicans in Congress next year as they gain control of the US House and have pledged renewed COVID-19 oversight,” Insider reports.Said Fauci: “I absolutely will cooperate fully and testify before the Congress if asked. I have testified before the Congress a few hundred times over the last 40 years or so, so I have no trouble testifying. We can defend and explain and stand by everything that we’ve said. I have nothing to hide.”
go ahead
try and intimidate this man
re: #105 Dangerman
i don’t believe this particular mechanism (running for prez) / argument by itself would work. at least im hoping it wouldnt
Well, there’s always the precedent of Eugene Debs, who was on the national ballot in 1920 despite being actually in Federal prison at the time (though that’s probably not the example the Trumpers would prefer….).
re: #105 Dangerman
i dont disagree with any of that
it’s true rich people have a different legal system
OJ got off, in part because he was rich
he got convicted later for the break in because he was no longer rich and couldnt buy or bargain his way outi don’t believe this particular mechanism (running for prez) / argument by itself would work. at least im hoping it wouldnt
It wouldn’t — except if you have sufficient Aileen Cannons cluttering the courts. It’s not because he’s running for President, but because he is a former GOP President running for President, and he’s a racist who wants an autocracy, just like too many Federalist Society appointments.
re: #107 Jay C
Well, there’s always the precedent of Eugene Debs, who was on the national ballot in 1920 despite being actually in Federal prison at the time (though that’s probably not the example the Trumpers would prefer….).
Beat me to it :)
Just in from the SCOTUS public information office: Cecilia Marshall, widow of Justice Thurgood Marshall, died this morning at 94 pic.twitter.com/4ua7OOC5mA
— Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie) November 22, 2022
Pick me up and carry right now! I’m tired pic.twitter.com/SLcMW4UELy
— B&S (@_B___S) November 22, 2022
re: #106 Dangerman
go ahead
try and intimidate this man
And Aqua Buda is still unreachable in the Senate.
Can you imagine the dismay if/when House Republicans make fools of themselves.
It’ll be interesting to see if Randy feeds Gym Jorden ta medical questions he won’t be able to ask.
re: #113 Dave In Austin
And Aqua Buda is still unreachable in the Senate.
Can you imagine the dismay if/when House Republicans make fools of themselves.
It’ll be interesting to see if Randy feeds Gym Jorden ta medical questions he won’t be able to ask.
Ronny Jackson is right there — he’ll be able to provide the questions.
re: #113 Dave In Austin
And Aqua Buda is still unreachable in the Senate.
Can you imagine the dismay if/when House Republicans make fools of themselves.
It’ll be interesting to see if Randy feeds Gym Jorden ta medical questions he won’t be able to ask.
Fauci:
- “Do you even understand the question you’re asking?”
- “You do understand that your question is medical nonsense?”
@NasaWebb continues to break new ground:
The @NASAExoplanets data hint that WASP-39 b, aka “Bocaprins,” a hot Saturn orbiting a star 700 light-years away, may have skies full of broken clouds. https://t.co/dJRONwyLnL
— NASA (@NASA) November 22, 2022
“…In so precisely parsing an exoplanet atmosphere, the Webb telescope’s instruments performed well beyond scientists’ expectations - and promise a new phase of exploration among the broad variety of exoplanets in the galaxy.
“We are going to be able to see the big picture of exoplanet atmospheres,” said Laura Flagg, a researcher at Cornell University and a member of the international team. “It is incredibly exciting to know that everything is going to be rewritten. That is one of the best parts of being a scientist.”
Maybe we’ll get to see some other planet’s city lights.
re: #120 jaunte
Maybe we’ll get to see some other planet’s city lights.
That would be both amazing and scary as hell.
THIS is the most explosive allegation, and we need to know about this *everywhere in Missouri.*
Apparently a Missouri judge approved Agape staff LEGALLY ADOPTING their abuse victims.
Such as this wretch accused of 215 charges of child sex abuse media possession. pic.twitter.com/9jFzAZKkOs— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) November 22, 2022
re: #119 Dangerman
Dangermom fighting the odds, though somewhat unwillingly and not thrilled about it
grandma-danger (dangermom’s mom) lived to 105. totally coherent through about 104.
Once you beat the odds, the odds of your death aren’t that bad. Less than 50% chance of dying in the following year if you’re 104. That’s almost double the risk of a 95-year-old, but considering how incredibly old 104 is for a person, that’s still pretty low. .6% of us can expect to reach that age.
re: #74 Crush White Nationalism
Like the earlier “political correctness” was just a twisted way of saying “politeness”.
These kids today don’t know how good they have it. Why, back in my day we had to drive to a dangerous part of town and pretend to hang out with weird people just to buy some weed. Now you just make a phone call and it’s delivered to your door. And it costs less.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2022
Tragic news to share… former Lexington meteorologist Jason Myers was killed after a helicopter crash in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Our thoughts are with our colleagues at @ABC36News during this difficult time. https://t.co/4ACmWhGh3R— LEX 18 News (@LEX18News) November 22, 2022
Update: A WBTV news staff member has confirmed the Sky 3 helicopter was in the crash on Interstate 77. https://t.co/NkB5VdAUwZ
— The Charlotte Observer (@theobserver) November 22, 2022
re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth
Rusty spikes need to be involved. Many rusty spikes.
The Department of Education is extending President Biden’s pause on student loan payments and collections until June 30th.
re: #129 jaunte
The Department of Education is extending President Biden’s pause on student loan payments and collections until June 30th.
Is that an Executive Order or can the GOP kill it when they take control of the House?
re: #130 Dr. Matt
And the current options are so much more potent.
And level of potency is on the label.
#Avatar2 Is So Expensive It Must Become the ‘Fourth or Fifth Highest-Grossing Film in History’ With Over $2 Billion Just to Break Even https://t.co/egUbIDJv1b
— Variety (@Variety) November 21, 2022
re: #132 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m not sure if they’ll try to kill it in the House while they have the Supreme Court trying to kill it.
Bath time.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/pKtkJXP8ZM
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) November 22, 2022
re: #138 Joe Bacon
They should make those taste like dried apricots.
re: #140 jaunte
They should make those taste like dried apricots.
Mike made them in a cherry flavor…
re: #141 Dr. Matt
Anyone else craving to smoke right now?
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It’ll be bong-o-clock in about an hour…
re: #107 Jay C
Well, there’s always the precedent of Eugene Debs, who was on the national ballot in 1920 despite being actually in Federal prison at the time (though that’s probably not the example the Trumpers would prefer….).
Also Debs was a decent person unjustly imprisoned for political reasons.
And he’s working on the other half.
Get ready for the MyPillow ads. https://t.co/U39FiTTbcY— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2022
re: #132 Eclectic Cyborg
Is that an Executive Order or can the GOP kill it when they take control of the House?
I’m confident that our student debt relief plan is legal. But it’s on hold because Republican officials want to block it.
That’s why @SecCardona is extending the payment pause to no later than June 30, 2023, giving the Supreme Court time to hear the case in its current term. pic.twitter.com/873CurlHFZ— President Biden (@POTUS) November 22, 2022
This is Sam. He hopes you’re doing okay. Wanted to bring you his bear just in case you’re not. 14/10 (IG: sam_thegolden_boy) pic.twitter.com/9OFmucjQYJ
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) November 22, 2022
re: #134 Dr. Matt
I love a lot of Camerons work, but I’ve never had much interest in Avatar. I watched the first one for about 30 minutes, got bored, turned it off and never had any inclination to try watching it again.
re: #141 Dr. Matt
Anyone else craving to smoke right now?
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Yes, and the bong is in front of me, so I don’t think that’ll be a problem.
re: #97 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
What is wrong with you? Pick that puppy up RIGHT NOW! Can’t your see he needs a ride? Monster. 😂
Borrowers are drowning under student loan debt, and the Biden admin is throwing them a lifeline as we fight MAGA Republicans in court@POTUS’s action gives millions of borrowers needed breathing room
The law is on our side
We’ll keep fighting to get student debt relief done— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) November 22, 2022
re: #106 Dangerman
go ahead
try and intimidate this man
If more republicans want to kill themselves, who are we to intervene?
Carry on.
Knock Knock!
Who’s There?
Apple with your new Ultra Apple Watch.
COOL
re: #149 Eclectic Cyborg
I love a lot of Camerons work, but I’ve never had much interest in Avatar. I watched the first one for about 30 minutes, got bored, turned it off and never had any inclination to try watching it again.
I actually saw Avatar for the first time in 2020 (during lockdown). It was good, but not great IMO.
re: #156 Dr. Matt
I actually saw Avatar for the first time in 2020 (during lockdown). It was good, but not great IMO.
I saw it in the local IMAX theater when it released. The graphics were state of the art for the time, but the storyline was pretty old and tired. It was entertainment, but probably not worth what we paid for it. It was absolutely not worth what Cameron paid to produce it.
re: #155 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
TBH, I’m not even sure I want to make it to that age.
I’m pretty confident that I wouldn’t allow myself to get that old because of the terrible quality of life, but I might surprise myself if I make it to old age.
re: #120 jaunte
Maybe we’ll get to see some other planet’s
city lights[ clouds of smog ].
re: #156 Dr. Matt
I actually saw Avatar for the first time in 2020 (during lockdown). It was good, but not great IMO.
It featured the best implementation of 3D I’ve ever seen. He’s said that he wanted to do the same for underwater filming for Avatar 2.
re: #155 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
TBH, I’m not even sure I want to make it to that age.
I wouldn’t mind so long as I did so and was relatively healthy and mentally intact for most of my life. I had a great grandmother who lived to 93 but had serious health issues from 80 onward.
Of course, it would be the early 2070s by the time I’m in my 90s, so the planet may be burned to a crisp by then (slight exaggeration of course, but…)
re: #161 Eclectic Cyborg
I wouldn’t mind so long as I did so and was relatively healthy and mentally intact for most of my life. I had a great grandmother who lived to 93 but had serious health issues from 80 onward.
Of course, it would be the early 2070s by the time I’m in my 90s, so the planet may be burned to a crisp by then (slight exaggeration of course, but…)
I’m hoping for technological solutions, but we might be reaching the end of the time where this planet feels like a paradise to life that evolved here and instead feels like a hostile alien environment. The bacteria overgrowing the petri dish moment. I definitely want to die before it comes to that.
He won’t stop.
Trump wages war against family of special counsel
This is just a small amount of information from the wife of the hard-line radical left special counsel (prosecutor), an acolyte of Eric Holder and Barack Hussein Obama,” Trump posted on his Truth Social website.
Trump did not supply any evidence that Jack Smith is a “hard-line radical left special counsel,” but he did post screengrabs about documentary filmmaker Katy Cevigny.
Trump tried to smear the investigation by noting the prosecutor’s wife was the producer of the Emmy-nominated 2020 documentary “Becoming” on former first lady Michelle Obama.
Former Kentucky governor John Y. Brown Jr. has died. He served as the 55th governor of the commonwealth from 1979-1983. Prior to the governorship, he was known as a successful businessman who turned KFC into one of the largest fast-food operations https://t.co/2rlZVpQENO
— WCPO 9 (@WCPO) November 22, 2022
re: #139 Backwoods_Sleuth
All capybaras should move to Japan *now*.
re: #157 Dopamine Fish
but the storyline was pretty old and tired
An accurate description of most of the shit Hollywood has put out in the last 5 years…
Dotard is going scorched earthed on the wife of Jack Smith . His TruffSocial TL is a shit show: truthsocial.com
He’s going to get that family hurt with this behavior.
re: #140 jaunte
They should make those taste like dried apricots.
WW2, British 4th army, the desert rats, a batallion gets some R&R around Cairo. One young squady gets a surprising offer in the souk.
He comes back to his unit and shows his prize to the grizzled old sergant.
“Look Sarge, look what I got!”
Sarge: “wot you got, son?”
Squady: “****s! Dried ****s, sarge, just add water and you can do what you want to do!”
The wise old sergant looks at the wrinkly dried things, sort of like dates but with a few twisty hairs sticking out.
Long pause.
Sarge: “Sorry mate, but you’ve been had. Some of these are arseholes”.
re: #165 John Hughes
All capybaras should move to Japan *now*.
At some point there’s going to be a Cabybara vs. Macaque showdown at a hot spring.
re: #166 coin operated
An accurate description of most of the shit Hollywood has put out in the last 5 years…
I hate how all the big movies are more about bombastic CGI now than actually telling good stories.
re: #169 Barefoot Grin
Macaques got the dexterity, capybaras got the phlegmatism.
re: #171 Eclectic Cyborg
A friend of mine wrote and co-directed the Disney movie that’s opening this weekend, STRANGE WORLD.
We’ll see how that fits the narrative. (I feel I’ll probably like it, and I feel it’s sure to be a better movie than Avatar).
re: #173 gwangung
A friend of mine wrote and co-directed the Disney movie that’s opening this weekend, STRANGE WORLD.
We’ll see how that fits the narrative. (I feel I’ll probably like it, and I feel it’s sure to be a better movie than Avatar).
Still a better love story than Twilight.
Wait what the FUCK
Trump Finally Describes How FBI Injured Him: By Taking his Celine Dion Picturehttps://t.co/Gk0TrhAcUH
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) November 22, 2022
re: #175 Dopamine Fish
Just waiting for Celine to sue him.
re: #173 gwangung
A friend of mine wrote and co-directed the Disney movie that’s opening this weekend, STRANGE WORLD.
We’ll see how that fits the narrative. (I feel I’ll probably like it, and I feel it’s sure to be a better movie than Avatar).
re: #177 William Lewis
I’m hopeful the rest of the country thinks so. (I think I’m OK here hawking a friend’s work; not every day they get to co-direct a big budget Disney movie….).
re: #178 gwangung
I’m hopeful the rest of the country thinks so. (I think I’m OK here hawking a friend’s work; not every day they get to co-direct a big budget Disney movie….).
Same friend that did the last dragon?
re: #22 Dangerman
He’s choosing to be used. Sorry but no sympathy from me for a man who deliberately allows himself to be used by White Supremacists against a qualified Black politician.
Looks like the JFK Assassination Conspiracy industry has run out of time to demand “justice” for the various perpetrators, since nobody who was powerful enough and well enough connected to engineer such a thing is still alive.
Oh.
Wait.
Henry Kissinger
From 1956 to 1958, Kissinger worked for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund as director of its Special Studies Project. He served as the director of the Harvard Defense Studies Program between 1958 and 1971. In 1958, he also co-founded the Center for International Affairs with Robert R. Bowie where he served as its associate director. Outside of academia, he served as a consultant to several government agencies and think tanks, including the Operations Research Office, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Department of State, and the RAND Corporation.
Keen to have a greater influence on U.S. foreign policy, Kissinger became foreign policy advisor to the presidential campaigns of Nelson Rockefeller, supporting his bids for the Republican nomination in 1960, 1964, and 1968.
re: #180 William Lewis
Yup.
I think he’s a free agent at the moment; hope this does well enough so he gets more work.
(Though he mentioned he’s just BUSTING to use more…adult…language in his dialogue right now…)
The whole dust-up over Ashley Parker and WaPo not getting access to Naomi Biden’s wedding is, at base, about the fact that they don’t get a juicy scandal or rumor every single hour from this WH as they did during the dumpster’s administration.
re: #183 gwangung
Yup.
I think he’s a free agent at the moment; hope this does well enough so he gets more work.
(Though he mentioned he’s just BUSTING to use more…adult…language in his dialogue right now…)
Well, avoiding Disney might help with that. This is the company that makes “clean language” versions of pop hits for their kiddy radio ;) I melt with you had the line “Making love to you was never second best” changed to “Being friends with you” :LOL:
re: #185 William Lewis
Well, avoiding Disney might help with that. This is the company that makes “clean language” versions of pop hits for their kiddy radio ;) I melt with you had the line “Making love to you was never second best” changed to “Being friends with you” :LOL:
The funny thing is….one of his best theatre plays is just CHOCK full of four letter words, sexual innuendo and pretty raunchy stuff.
But it was only after he wrote a squeaky clean version (and I’ve read both) that this became one of the five most produced plays in America for the last five or six years.
Maybe he just ought to let it rip, write what comes our, and then see if he can clean it up….
This is why the US-trained Ukrainians are kicking the shit out of Mike Pompeo’s manly, macho Putinpizda Russians. Mike Pompeo is a Putinpizda and a Trunt himself, of course. https://t.co/VLUoIMbzVg
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) November 22, 2022
You didn’t know you needed this today but you totally did… https://t.co/DGCRLfeo6B
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) November 22, 2022
My zip code is divided into 2 different US Rep. districts. My building is divided into two different zip+4 numbers. The floor I live on has two different zip+ 4s. There are only 4 apts. on each of the 3 floors.
re: #186 gwangung
The funny thing is….one of his best theatre plays is just CHOCK full of four letter words, sexual innuendo and pretty raunchy stuff.
But it was only after he wrote a squeaky clean version (and I’ve read both) that this became one of the five most produced plays in America for the last five or six years.
Maybe he just ought to let it rip, write what comes our, and then see if he can clean it up….
I am reminded of Coolio and “Gangsta’s Paradise”. In order for Stevie Wonder to sign off on the sample he used, he had to use clean language. No one will say it wasn’t an amazing and adult lyric that he wrote under that constraint.
Unearthed: Herschel Walker claimed the “teachers who didn’t take the time out to help” him, later “tried to take the credit” when he became class valedictorian, one of the academic achievements he has been exposed for lying about. pic.twitter.com/iwYdVcIEBV
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) November 22, 2022
re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth
You drank your way across West Germany to do your minimum time in service then lied about “fighting on the border.” Later as Secretary of State you took military housing that should have gone to an active duty family for your fantasy of being a general. Sit your lying ass down.
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) November 22, 2022
They were released publicly and you can Google them. https://t.co/htEs3t7om1
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) November 22, 2022
By the way, did re: #189 wrenchwench
Embrace the schizoid life. The signs are clear.
re: #191 Backwoods_Sleuth
How in the fuck could anybody have believed Herschel Walker was Valedictorian?
I mean, come on…
re: #195 Eclectic Cyborg
How in the fuck could anybody have believed Herschel Walker was Valedictorian?
I mean, come on…
He was the only student in his high school class.
re: #167 Dr. Matt
Dotard is going scorched earthed on the wife of Jack Smith . His TruffSocial TL is a shit show: truthsocial.com
He’s going to get that family hurt with this behavior.
Pretty sure that’s his goal.
You can take the mobster out of the mob, but you can’t take the mob out of the mobster.
re: #196 austin_blue
He was the only student in his high school class.
Well, he probably earned that spot by being there for three years….
re: #195 Eclectic Cyborg
How in the fuck could anybody have believed Herschel Walker was Valedictorian?
I mean, come on…
I mean, he could have been smart, before his brain had the living daylights pounded out of it playing running back.
re: #102 Dr. Matt
Wtaf, did you follow this to the original tweet (supposedly) from Tampax? Is this real:
“We’re in them”? Uh?
re: #195 Eclectic Cyborg
How in the fuck could anybody have believed Herschel Walker was Valedictorian?
I mean, come on…
Well this guy graduated with honors from Grambling before he became the 8 time Mr. Olympia—Ronnie Coleman..
re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The other side of that is when some common song from the ’70s like a Fleetwood Mac song comes on in the supermarket, lots of very old people around me start to sing to themselves. It offends me because I totally had the album first.
re: #173 gwangung
That movie is currently being attacked by Breitbart, “One Million Moms”, and Ben Shapiro, so it must have something going for it.
re: #203 Moe Avattar
That movie is currently being attacked by Breitbart, “One Million Moms”, and Ben Shapiro, so it must have something going for it.
Badge of approval! He’d be delighted by that!
We talked here about the board game Diplomacy a few days ago. Meta is training AI using it. Just great, lol
For those who are blissfully ignorant of this goblin, he blamed feminists for men who commit mass murder.
These are the people you should associate with Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX going forward: https://t.co/6nCMA85tKD— Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) November 22, 2022
re: #205 JC1
Buried at the bottom of the article:
At the same time, this technology could be used to manipulate humans by impersonating people and tricking them in potentially dangerous ways, depending on the context. Along those lines, Meta hopes other researchers can build on its code “in a responsible manner,” and says it has taken steps toward detecting and removing “toxic messages in this new domain,” which likely refers to dialog Cicero learned from the Internet texts it ingested—always a risk for large language models.
Do you trust Mark Zuckerberg and Meta to not use this thing for nefarious means (or efficiently prevent others from doing so?
(rhetorical question)
re: #207 Eclectic Cyborg
Buried at the bottom of the article:
At the same time, this technology could be used to manipulate humans by impersonating people and tricking them in potentially dangerous ways, depending on the context. Along those lines, Meta hopes other researchers can build on its code “in a responsible manner,” and says it has taken steps toward detecting and removing “toxic messages in this new domain,” which likely refers to dialog Cicero learned from the Internet texts it ingested—always a risk for large language models.
Do you trust Mark Zuckerberg and Meta to not use this thing for nefarious means (or efficiently prevent others from doing so?
(rhetorical question)
It really doesn’t matter. The tech is easily available. It’ll be used for both good and ill.
Who broke the deal first, Elon? Do you really want to go there?
Ummmmmmmmm wut? pic.twitter.com/2hULyXctig
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) November 22, 2022
re: #134 Dr. Matt
The first one was at the number one position for blockbuster of all time so I assume this one will do just as well. Looking forward to it.
re: #209 Dopamine Fish
Who broke the deal first, Elon? Do you really want to go there?
Dude is insanely deep in right wing brain rot. He really thinks he’s persecuted; so do a bunch of rich VC types.
They’ve sold themselves this idea that they are a better kind of person that deserves to heard out: anything less than praise and deference is persecution. If they got their way the world would be better.
re: #211 The Ghost of a Flea
Dude is insanely deep in right wing brain rot. He really thinks he’s persecuted; so do a bunch of rich VC types.
They’ve sold themselves this idea that they are a better kind of person that deserves to heard out: anything less than praise and deference is persecution. If they got their way the world would be better.
Peter Thiel is the most blatant example of this.
McCarthy: “After January 3 … we will hold our hearings at the border so the Democrats can no longer hide” pic.twitter.com/VnYsexp2g0
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 22, 2022
“We never do impeachment for political purposes … we know exactly what Sec. Mayorkas has done” — McCarthy dissembles when asked what specifically House Republicans want to impeach Mayorkas for, then wraps up his border news conference pic.twitter.com/1GgrgVD1Rp
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 22, 2022
re: #201 Joe Bacon
Well this guy graduated with honors from Grambling before he became the 8 time Mr. Olympia—Ronnie Coleman..
I went to high school with this guy…
He was a linebacker at Stanford, then a 49er for 8 years while attending Stanford Medical School in the off-season. He asked the team to trade him to the Raiders (then in LA) when he got an internship in LA.
He’s a full-scale doctor now, with 2 Super Bowl rings. He’s a family medicine specialist. His father, a now-retired orthopedic surgeon, put himself through med school playing for the Bears. It will surprise no-one that in our high school yearbook, he was voted most likely to succeed.
My favorite pie pic.twitter.com/7Jo7L0f9t3
— Liddle Pecan Pie 🌻🌈🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) November 22, 2022
re: #215 The Pie Overlord!
That looks delicious. I like the mushrooms. :)
re: #212 EPR-radar
Peter Thiel is the most blatant example of this.
The secret is that all these guys like power more than any ideology. They hang around bigots because their base assumption is that they’re better; they’re willing to sample any hierarchical scheme that confirms this assumption.
It’s why they always go hard right regardless of what they say their politics are, because that’s where the belief that power is of matter of kinds of people dwells. They love the idea that they’re a type, a priori a superior kind.
Conspiracy—and these guys love conspiracies, need them because they explain why the world isn’t a utopia run by techbros, why people disagree with them and mock them—is about there being a kind of person that makes things bad solely to obstruct the natural goodness of the hierarchy. If only X were identified and punished, then there wouldn’t be a problem. The world should have an order and that order should be a pyramid shaped caste system.
Challenge or question that premise, point out that the premise hasn’t created the outcomes it’s supposed to, then you’re not a skeptic, you’re a rebel, a Miltonian Satan.
Musk’s grudges are, in his mind, proof that the world opposes him and people like him out of malice: it has to be malice, a desire to hate and unmake, because obviously he is a smart guy and nobody could or should contradict him. He’s always going to sympathy with the reactionary occult, the secret world in which the status quo didn’t happen for obvious reasons but is instead the product of perfectly-wicked hidden actors. He’s always good to see it as good and natural to punch down on lesser kinds of people, and will side with people that do this as long as he enjoys their version of it. It’s not an ideological commitment, it’s overindulging at buffet.
Somewhere in here this is about a rejection that sowing leads to reaping: they can’t fail, they can only be betrayed.
I want to engage this question earnestly, b/c it’s a legit question. The answer is yes, I do look at left, too.
Left-wing activists are responsible for 2% of murders committed by political extremists in the US over the past decade; right-wing activists are responsible for 74%. https://t.co/eOzXog3vZT— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) November 22, 2022
re: #220 Dopamine Fish
The right wing will still think it’s all made up….
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