Michelle Wolf: Henry Kissinger GOAT War Criminal Debate & Elon Musk Curses Out Advertisers
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re: #151 JC1
He’s not wrong. By far the deadliest common mode of transportation, isn’t it?
Passenger cars were involved in fatal crashes at a rate of 1.79 per 100 million vehicle miles traveled. For motorcycles, that number was 32.41 per 100 million miles.
Aug 4, 2023
“People keep stepping over the most obvious and continuous thesis of Donald Trump: that America must be cruel and dominating to succeed. It’s most present in how he talks about war and policing, but it’s the entire basis of MAGA: you shouldn’t just inflict the harm, you should celebrate that inflicting of harm because it gets you what you want.”
Wonderful clarifying point by Ghost at the end of the last thread. 💯
Also, I recommend the new episode of Hot Ones (celebrities eating spicy wings during an interview) with Sterling K Brown. Hilarious and inspiring.
Happy Friday! The spouse and I are off for massages at a local spa, our reset after the major NYC-to-Denver relocation in Oct-Nov.
MAGA is fuming after Desantis’s latest interview, where he said they were “listless vessels who are supposed to follow whatever comes down the pike on Truth Social every morning.” Trump demands he apologize. https://t.co/Mj4JHAnCgb
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 19, 2023
re: #6 Dangerman
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DeSantis may be a bit bitter now that he realizes he is going to lose very badly to Trump. He will be hard pressed to finish ahead of Haley in Iowa, and wouldn’t that be a humiliating way for his campaign to end!
re: #7 No Malarkey!
DeSantis may be a bit bitter now that he realizes he is going to lose very badly to Trump. He will be hard pressed to finish ahead of Haley in Iowa, and wouldn’t that be a humiliating way for his campaign to end!
It’s gonna really suck when ilDuce winds up with fewer votes than Mickey Mouse!
That Linda Yaccarino memo from #415 downstairs is (unintentionally) hilarious.
There will never be a more perfect example of “Sucking a golf ball through 10 feet of garden hose” (corporate memo version).
re: #7 No Malarkey!
DeSantis may be a bit bitter now that he realizes he is going to lose very badly to Trump. He will be hard pressed to finish ahead of Haley in Iowa, and wouldn’t that be a humiliating way for his campaign to end!
Casey’s gonna be hell to live with
re: #6 Dangerman
As if there’s a difference between MAGA fascists opening up their empty heads to receive shit from Truth Social and mainstream Republicans opening up their empty heads to receive shit from Fox News.
Republicans will put up with a huge amount of corruption and crime in their ranks, but not when it comes from an openly gay Hispanic man.
Shouting match erupts as fraud trial prosecutor loses temper: ‘Trump committed fraud!’
A screaming match erupted in Donald Trump’s $250 million civil fraud trial Friday when a New York state attorney ran out of patience with the former president’s legal team, according to a new report.
“The court has found that Mr. Trump committed fraud,” shouted Kevin Wallace, according to ABC News. “To get into the private wealth group, he committed fraud.”
Wallace lost his temper with Trump attorney Chris Kise over a lengthy objection made during the cross-examination of an expert defense witness about Trump’s relationship with Deutsche Bank, according to the report.
Kise, drawing on testimony from witness Robert Unell, argued Trump’s favorable loan terms were part and parcel of his rank as a private wealth management client, or a wealthy whale the bank had successfully harpooned, according to the report.
Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Unell out of the courtroom so the two testy lawyers could battle it out, according to the report.
“Once you are in the private bank, you are in this sort of rarified air,” Kise reportedly argued. “It is a flawed premise to say you have to compare it to the outside air.”
Wallace snapped back that Trump gained access to that “rarified air” by committing fraud, as Engoron ruled in a summary judgement before the trial began, according to ABC News.
“He lied to the private wealth group to get these loans,” Wallace said. “Therefore, we are looking at what the interest rate would have been had he not had access to the group he lied to.”
Engoron, according to the report, overruled Kise’s objection and agreed.
“I think,” Engoron said, “his explanation is correct.”
George Santos would steal the quarters off a dead man’s eyes.
re: #13 Charles Johnson
Republicans will put up with a huge amount of corruption and crime in their ranks, but not when it comes from an openly gay Hispanic man.
That was a survivor of the Titanic who later pitched fifteen perfect games after he discovered a cure for cancer.
re: #16 Ace Rothstein
That was a survivor of the Titanic and later pitched fifteen perfect games after he discovered a cure for cancer.
He’s the same guy who helped Donald Trump secure the British airbases during the Revolutionary War, right?
Nearly half of the Republicans voted to keep him.
re: #14 Joe Bacon ✅
It would be nice if this trial exposed the Trump-Deutsche Bank money laundering that was almost certainly the basis of this business relationship.
But that’s unlikely.
re: #21 Decatur Deb
They don’t embarrass easily.
Republicans have an operational definition of embarrassment. Someone is embarrassing to Republicans if and only if their crimes/scandals/whatever are beyond the power of GOP tools in the mainstream media to normalize.
re: #24 A Cranky One
Time for Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom.
re: #13 Charles Johnson
Republicans will put up with a huge amount of corruption and crime in their ranks, but not when it comes from an openly gay Hispanic man.
They didn’t really mind … until they truly realized that continuing with their support would truly threaten to reflip several House seats back to the Democrats.
I don’t have in the tank to do it…yet…but it would be instructive to contrast Kissinger as a individual phenomenon versus as a part of fucked up system. Like, the man sucked but to suck as hard as he did required uplift and support; there is a before and an after of similar callous self-serving horseshit.
re: #31 The Ghost of a Flea
I don’t have in the tank to do it…yet…but it would be instructive to contrast Kissinger as a individual phenomenon within a fucked up system. Like, the man sucked but to suck as hard as he did required uplift and support; there is a before and an after of similar callous self-serving horseshit.
Dulles brothers.
newworldencyclopedia.org
re: #1 austin_blue
Passenger cars were involved in fatal crashes at a rate of 1.79 per 100 million vehicle miles traveled. For motorcycles, that number was 32.41 per 100 million miles.
“However”, the report went on to explain, “the average pleasurability rating for car driving was 0.07 per mile travelled versus 89.6 per mile travelled on a motorcycle.”
re: #10 Dangerman
Casey’s gonna be hell to live with
Her domestic staff would be well advised to resign now.
re: #33 Nojay UK
“However”, the report went on to explain, “the average pleasurability rating for car driving was 0.07 per mile travelled versus 89.6 per mile travelled on a motorcycle.
Have to watch the terms—“fatal crashes” hides the death rate. Motorcycle crashes are usually just the rider, not as many multiple fatalities. A reasonable guess is that bikes kill about 4-6 times as many people per miles driven.
re: #31 The Ghost of a Flea
I don’t have in the tank to do it…yet…but it would be instructive to contrast Kissinger as a individual phenomenon versus as a part of fucked up system. Like, the man sucked but to suck as hard as he did required uplift and support; there is a before and an after of similar callous self-serving horseshit.
Kissinger particles exist as quantum excitations of the Blob field in this essay I will …
re: #33 Nojay UK
“However”, the report went on to explain, “the average pleasurability rating for car driving was 0.07 per mile travelled versus 89.6 per mile travelled on a motorcycle.
That big grin explains why they often die with bugs in their teeth.
re: #9 EPR-radar
That Linda Yaccarino memo from #415 downstairs is (unintentionally) hilarious.
There will never be a more perfect example of “Sucking a golf ball through 10 feet of garden hose” (corporate memo version).
She’s honestly as horrible as Elmo is.
I recall reading an article where her old peers said something like “you’re damaging you’re reputation and we know you’re not like that” and I was like, yes, that’s exactly what she’s like.
re: #13 Charles Johnson
Republicans will put up with a huge amount of corruption and crime in their ranks, but not when it comes from an openly gay Hispanic man.
Is he though? Is he anything that he said he was? I mean Hispanic ok. I’ll buy that, but anything else? Imma gonna take that with a huge silo of salt.
ah capitalism, you loveable little scamp!
‘Tis the season for transaction
Falalallala, la la, la la.
re: #35 Vicious Babushka
Always struck me as odd, and wrong, that people expect to cut down a tree just to decorate their house with it for a couple of weeks.
A tree that took several years to grow.
And then they wonder why it costs money.
re: #43 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Always struck me as odd, and wrong, that people expect to cut down a tree just to decorate their house with it for a couple of weeks.
A tree that took several years to grow.
And then they wonder why it costs money.
This is not something that I have ever given any thought to.
re: #44 Nerdy Fish
An ad campaign from 2016:
kate2carter.com
One year mom saw a pine tree cut down for Christmas and after it fell there was a birds nest still in it with a smashed egg.
Mom said no more real trees and she got an artificial tree,
re: #47 Joe Bacon ✅
One year mom saw a pine tree cut down for Christmas and after it fell there was a birds nest still in it with a smashed egg.
Mom said no more real trees and she got an artificial tree,
Various family members are allergic to real evergreens and we don’t like cleaning up after them anyway.
Plus you can get artifical ones with the lights already built in.
re: #27 goddamnedfrank
My company uses a similarly worded document to test employees for catching and reporting phishing scams.
re: #49 PhillyPretzel ✅
I do not have to worry about trees. I have this:
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We had both.
I had never seen a sanctuary so full on a Tuesday night.The people packed into FloodGate Church in Brighton, Mich., weren’t here for Bill Bolin, the right-wing zealot pastor who’d grown his congregation tenfold by preaching conspiracy-fueled sermons since the onset of Covid-19, turning Sunday morning worship services into amateur Fox News segments. No, they had come out by the hundreds, decked out in patriotic attire this October evening in 2021, to hear from a man who was introduced to them as “America’s greatest living historian.” They had come for David Barton. And so had I.
It would be of little use to tell the folks around me — the people of my conservative hometown — that Barton wasn’t a real historian. They wouldn’t care that his lone academic credential was a bachelor’s degree in religious education from Oral Roberts University. It wouldn’t matter that Barton’s 2012 book on Thomas Jefferson was recalled by Thomas Nelson, the world’s largest Christian publisher, for its countless inaccuracies, or that a panel of 10 conservative Christian academics who reviewed Barton’s body of work in the aftermath ripped the entirety of his scholarship to shreds. It would not bother the congregants of FloodGate Church to learn that they were listening to a man whose work was found by one of America’s foremost conservative theologians to include “embarrassing factual errors, suspiciously selective quotes, and highly misleading claims.”
All this would be irrelevant to the people around me because David Barton was one of them. He believed the separation of church and state was a myth. He believed the time had come for evangelicals to reclaim their rightful place atop the nation’s governmental and cultural institutions. Hence the hero’s welcome Barton received when he rolled into FloodGate with his “American Restoration Tour.”
The Bogus Historians Who Teach Evangelicals They Live in a Theocracy (Politico)
re: #35 Vicious Babushka
WAR ON CHRISTMAS!!!!!!
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Trees take several years to grow to a respectable size for a home tree - so the ones this year had to survive droughts from a few years back (or had to be irrigated to survive said droughts). That’s added costs.
We see that with trees and shrubs at the local nurseries too - the costs are higher because climate change has meant the nurseries have to do more to get the trees to market.
re: #49 PhillyPretzel ✅
I do not have to worry about trees. I have this:
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A cat can take that out too, and burn down your house.
re: #56 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
True. But I do not have pets. Allergies.
re: #57 PhillyPretzel ✅
True. But I do not have pets. Allergies.
You’ll probably survive the holiday season.
re: #38 jeffreyw
That big grin explains why they often die with bugs in their teeth.
It’s how they calculate the pleasurability rating — they count the number of bugs on their helmet and compare it to the number of bugs in their teeth. The more they’re smiling the bigger the numerical discrepancy.
Hell, even in winter I never had a problem getting on my motorbike and riding around, to college or work or over to my mate’s place or just for the heck of it. Something in my soul died when I moved over to driving cars. I never got in the car to drive just for the fun of it.
ObComics: Ogri, by Paul Sample. “Malcolm you pillock!”
re: #5 Ferdinand
I think most of the Trumpenproliat started by thinking they are the good guys, and that the bad guys are more powerful because they seem to be winning
*that white christian privilege and everything great that comes with it seemingly diminishes almost daily while they watch Faux.*
With a long enough time with that paranoid view they get to the “my tribe , my culture, and my country first! narrative and policy because otherwise I/we/it won’t survive. It’s a very binary, game theory level reflexive view.
With that thesis in their minds it becomes easy to permit doing bad to promote the good, indeed, after a while of eating that gruel, it becomes reflexive to reach for bad methods first when fighting for “your side” in that perceived existential battle because BAD methods are perceived to be more effective, and initially they are — as anyone who has watched multiple seasons of any “vote ‘em out” my alliance vs your alliance reality show will tell you. Bad for bad’s sake, power for god’s sake!
So they ally with their strong guy or girl shot caller, and power over others is the goal, with ultimately winning as the justification (because in the end they can backstab that shotcaller amirite?)
That reflexive evil-doing to win becomes pleasurable to some as Ghost points out and it becomes their psychopathic prime motivation. However others at base level recognize the evil they are doing but go along because… they might be next. Not everyone in town goes to watch that old West hanging, just as not everyone enjoyed watching excruciations in Medieval times.
When it’s large group, eventually the pitchforks, torches, or votes will be gathered; and that tyrant / reality show shot caller will go down to the villagers / secret alliance.
While Hitler’s and Mussolini’s strategy might have seemed smart and winning for a while, it was long term stupid.
Here’s the kicker: for the short term and for their own benefit, sometimes groups let that bad guy win, because fightings just too hard/dangerous/scary. Don’t let that level of moral fear and laziness sap your will to fight.
re: #10 Dangerman
Casey’s gonna be hell to live with
Casey is DeSantis’ political stage mother.
Wonder if their marriage will survive this debacle.
re: #25 Decatur Deb
Time for Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom.
This week, Jim wrestles a crocodile and a tiger while Marlin has a latte in his tent.
re: #43 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Always struck me as odd, and wrong, that people expect to cut down a tree just to decorate their house with it for a couple of weeks.
A tree that took several years to grow.
And then they wonder why it costs money.
‘But it cost $5 when I was a kid! Why is it $60 now?’
Republican leaders cited ALL sorts of lofty principles for not voting George Santos out.
The real reason? They didn’t want to lose a seat.https://t.co/oU41h8E6hb pic.twitter.com/wC5zpK8vUk— Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) December 1, 2023
What is it with these Ivy League institutions and so much antisemitism?
re: #41 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Is he though? Is he anything that he said he was? I mean Hispanic ok. I’ll buy that, but anything else? Imma gonna take that with a huge silo of salt.
I get it but he’s gay because he says he is, there’s no real point in trying to externally discern other people’s sexuality. He’s also clearly an amoral hedonist which, like currently ex-gay Milo Yiannopoulos is probably a far better way to understand how he navigates in all aspects of his life. Like, is Milo actually ex-gay now, or is that just the grift he inevitably landed on after burning every other bridge and revenue stream available? In both cases it’s the amoral hedonism behind the wheel, and everything else flows from that.
re: #49 PhillyPretzel ✅
I do not have to worry about trees. I have this:
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Forty-five years ago we bought one of these in Itaewon. The ship with Christmas trees didn’t make it in time that year. It’s our “Deployment Tree” for overseas tours, but we’re using it again this year because of scheduling.
It covers all the bases—Secular, Christian, right number of candles. It was probably made by a Buddhist, out of spent artillery brass.
re: #32 Decatur Deb
Dulles brothers.
newworldencyclopedia.org
In re mainland China, Kissinger was the emissary who un-did what John and Allen Dulles did.
re: #68 goddamnedfrank
I get it but he’s gay because he says he is, there’s no real point in trying to externally discern other people’s sexuality.
I know you get it. I don’t care at all about his sexuality. My point is that is this clown said the sky was blue, I’d have to go look for myself.
re: #67 Vicious Babushka
What is it with these Ivy League institutions and so much antisemitism?
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The Ivy League schools were the WASP nests until recently. Many of them started as high-church religious schools. They fed directly to the early XX Cent US State Department.
I would imagine that Santos will be sitting in a prison cell for quite a while after his plea agreement. I’m thinking admission of guilt to most of the charges, all money returned, a $500,000 fine that he won’t have a penny to pay, sentenced to ten years in prison but out in 4.5, and then ten years probation. When he gets out, his new gig on Fox as a congressional analyst will help pay off the hefty fines.
The economic news has been remarkably good this week, and the stock market is finishing the week strong. I believe awareness that we appear to have achieved a “soft landing” of bringing down inflation while maintaining full employment starts awakening in the voting public, and President Biden’s poll numbers improve. Based on the election cycles we have been seeing, I don’t really believe Trump has a strong shot at winning, especially if he is convicted in the insurrection trial scheduled to begin in D.C. in March.
re: #75 No Malarkey!
Here’s why that’s bad news for President Biden.
re: #74 Ace Rothstein
I would imagine that Santos will be sitting in a prison cell for quite a while after his plea agreement. I’m thinking admission of guilt to most of the charges, all money returned, a $500,000 fine that he won’t have a penny to pay, sentenced to ten years in prison but out in 4.5, and then ten years probation. His new gig on Fox as a congressional analyst when he gets out will help pay off the hefty fines.
He wont get acknowledged by Fox or any other network after this. He’s done.
re: #77 lawhawk
He wont get acknowledged by Fox or any other network after this. He’s done.
Only because they can’t spin this as him being a victim of the corrupt Democrats who hate Patriots.
re: #77 lawhawk
I will take any action you want on that. He will be back in some form.
Now that George Santos has been expelled, I hope that Governor of New York will do the right thing to unify the country by appointing a Republican to replace him. I have recently talked with a young woman named Kitara Ravache who impressed me with her gravitas and knowledge
— Jack Kimble (@RepJackKimble) December 1, 2023
re: #80 gocart mozart
Cute, but this will require a special election - Kitara should run.
re: #78 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Only because they can’t spin this as him being a victim of the corrupt Democrats who hate Patriots.
Maybe not Fox. But really, is there any GOP person so horrible or criminal who can’t actually still manage to grift money from GOP’ers. He can totally spin this on RINO’s who love Democrats more than they love “Americans”.
Comrades, I am off to fight the War on Christmas. Happy Holidays can not be tolerated.
re: #79 Ace Rothstein
I will take any action you want on that. He will be back in some form.
Selling pillows on late-night cable.
re: #59 Nojay UK
It’s how they calculate the pleasurability rating — they count the number of bugs on their helmet and compare it to the number of bugs in their teeth. The more they’re smiling the bigger the numerical discrepancy.
Hell, even in winter I never had a problem getting on my motorbike and riding around, to college or work or over to my mate’s place or just for the heck of it. Something in my soul died when I moved over to driving cars. I never got in the car to drive just for the fun of it.
ObComics: Ogri, by Paul Sample. “Malcolm you pillock!”
Even tho I had a car, a dirt bike was my most used form of transportation, spring, summer & winter, during my undergraduate years. More fun to ride and ease of parking. The knobby tires made for some interesting street riding on rainy days.
re: #86 Ace Rothstein
His book should be a best seller.
but will it be filed under fiction or non-fiction?
Fantasy, perhaps?
re: #86 Ace Rothstein
His book should be a best seller.
With its title, “The Bible”, it can’t go wrong.
re: #67 Vicious Babushka
What is it with these Ivy League institutions and so much antisemitism?
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It’s always been that way.
There’s now an excuse to show their public face.
re: #88 Decatur Deb
With its title, “The Bible”, it can’t go wrong.
An excellent seller, but a lot of them get abandoned in hotel rooms and used as rolling paper.
re: #79 Ace Rothstein
I will take any action you want on that. He will be back in some form.
He will likely not have an opportunity to do that for 9-13 years depending on good behavior.
::: pouring Champagne for the room :::
Thanks for the updings.
re: #90 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
An excellent seller, but a lot of them get abandoned in hotel rooms and used as rolling paper.
A guy in our office bought a big bed with a built-in bookcase. He complained he didn’t have any books for it, so when each of us went on travel over the next couple months we would bring him back one from the hotel. Got a nice selection of colors.
re: #74 Ace Rothstein
I would imagine that Santos will be sitting in a prison cell for quite a while after his plea agreement. I’m thinking admission of guilt to most of the charges, all money returned, a $500,000 fine that he won’t have a penny to pay, sentenced to ten years in prison but out in 4.5, and then ten years probation. When he gets out, his new gig on Fox as a congressional analyst will help pay off the hefty fines.
I keep coming back to: he’s too embarrassing.
Many of the current bloc of reactionaries are hustling for both their audience and their patrons—how do you gauge at any moment how sincere Charlie Kirk is when his incentive is millions of dollars for tickling the fancy of a few reactionary rich dudes—but there’s a minimum standard of acceptable performance and George Santos falls under it.
Santos’ crowd work is broad and obvious, his crimes are not really re-constructable as reactionary outrages, his tokenism is of decreasing value as the reaction more openly curates itself as white/straight. He’s a discount Donald Trump with artificial flavoring. He’s not a moral crisis for the reaction, he’s cringe.
He’s probably not going to disappear…you can live well in the conservative griftosphere being a bit player, there’s an audience for an off-brand tin of Vienna Sausage if it reads the script correctly…but the people with money want a better floor show and the people in the halls of politics need to keep the spectacle’s quality tight enough that it’s doesn’t become achingly obvious that they, too, are treating governance like an OnlyFans account.
re: #49 PhillyPretzel ✅
I do not have to worry about trees. I have this:
But you are in the menorah-ty
re: #96 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yeah I have heard that one before. ::: offering Champagne ::: Have a glass and enjoy. The buffet will be a bit later.
re: #97 PhillyPretzel ✅
Yeah I have heard that one before. ::: offering Champagne ::: Have a glass and enjoy. The buffet will be a bit later.
After you have served warm beverages you can give us your menorah tea report
Hamas is not even trying to deny all the war crimes they have committed, they are proud of it!
EDIT: This took place where my daughter picks up her kids from school.
re: #67 Vicious Babushka
What is it with these Ivy League institutions and so much antisemitism?
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The anti-semitism is fueled by Arabs and Palestinians (both foreign and American) on campus, and these institutions are large and prestigious enough to attract large cohorts of foreign students.
They’re also large enough to have departments like gender studies, conflict studies, ethnic studies, etc. (which are worthy of study, though not as they do it). Since these areas don’t really have facts and evidence to keep them in check, advancement rests with their peers, and dogmatic, jargon-laced garbage is the result. And there’s no nuance in what they preach — you have to be either an oppressor or a victim. So they fall right into the Palestinian/victim trap.
In local news, the Palestinian brigade continues to blockade the main entrance to the Cal campus. They seem to have been induced to leave enough space for noncombatants to get onto campus, there are no more of them than before, and people just squeeze through their ranks without engaging.
re: #69 Decatur Deb
Forty-five years ago we bought one of these in Itaewon. The ship with Christmas trees didn’t make it in time that year. It’s our “Deployment Tree” for overseas tours, but we’re using it again this year because of scheduling.
It covers all the bases—Secular, Christian, right number of candles. It was probably made by a Buddhist, out of spent artillery brass.
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That can not be used as a Chanukkiah, all the lights must be on the same level.
re: #98 gocart mozart
Stones deep cut
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We were watching “Slow Horses’ On Apple last night when I realized, wait… that’s Jagger…
re: #104 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
It’s not really a booby trap if the purported trapee 1) knows it is enemy territory and 2) is much more capable than the trappers.
re: #106 EPR-radar
It’s not really a booby trap if the purported trapee 1) knows it is enemy territory and 2) is much more capable than the trappers.
Basically a reverse Home Alone.
re: #104 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Meanwhile, DeSantis stumbled up to a house with all the windows and doors open, with all the money and valuables sitting out on the kitchen table, and tripped on the front steps, hit his head on the porch railing and lay unconscious until the paramedics carried him away.
re: #41 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Is he though? Is he anything that he said he was? I mean Hispanic ok. I’ll buy that, but anything else? Imma gonna take that with a huge silo of salt.
He has a husband, that would be a long way to go for some kind of con.
re: #109 danarchy
He has a husband, that would be a long way to go for some kind of con.
So is running for congress…
re: #66 lawhawk
You can tell it’s a heavy flow day….
Elad Nehorai:
“Unfortunately, Sorkin tried to move on instead of realizing what it was: Musk doubling down on antisemitism.”
“…Musk’s comments were essentially an attempt at a more “acceptable” version of saying that Jews are the funders behind the minority groups trying to destroy the Western world. This is, in fact, the Great Replacement conspiracy theory — the same one that he supposedly apologized for backing. Musk’s latest version is more qualified, and an attempt to be more specific, but it’s still a conspiracy theory based on the idea that Jews are manipulating world affairs in order to destroy white civilization.”
msnbc.com
If George Santos was really smart he’d have been secretly recording all these orgies and affairs and drugs he says other Republicans are into. Because unless his weird egotism blinded him to it, he had to know he couldn’t keep up these scams forever.
Lawdy, those would be some tapes!
re: #107 Mattand
Basically a reverse Home Alone.
Not fair. The Wet Bandits were way more competent than most Republicans.
re: #106 EPR-radar
It’s not really a booby trap if the purported trapee 1) knows it is enemy territory and 2) is much more capable than the trappers.
and 3) is more than willing to give a black eye to the trappers.
Way too many Democrats want to be seen as “civil” instead landing a good right cross where it’s needed.
re: #104 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
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And the dog. It likes him better now than it liked its previous human.
re: #116 gwangung
Way too many Democrats want to be seen as “civil” instead landing a good right cross where it’s needed.
This. Fortunately, there don’t seem to be too many prominent younger Democrats that are useless squishes.
Bill Maher tonight:
David Mamet - James Carville - Dave Rubin
re: #95 The Ghost of a Flea
I keep coming back to: he’s too embarrassing.
Many of the current bloc of reactionaries are hustling for both their audience and their patrons—how do you gauge at any moment how sincere Charlie Kirk is when his incentive is millions of dollars for tickling the fancy of a few reactionary rich dudes—but there’s a minimum standard of acceptable performance and George Santos falls under it.
Santos’ crowd work is broad and obvious, his crimes are not really re-constructable as reactionary outrages, his tokenism is of decreasing value as the reaction more openly curates itself as white/straight. He’s a discount Donald Trump with artificial flavoring. He’s not a moral crisis for the reaction, he’s cringe.
He’s probably not going to disappear…you can live well in the conservative griftosphere being a bit player, there’s an audience for an off-brand tin of Vienna Sausage if it reads the script correctly…but the people with money want a better floor show and the people in the halls of politics need to keep the spectacle’s quality tight enough that it’s doesn’t become achingly obvious that they, too, are treating governance like an OnlyFans account.
In the words of Col Tom Parker, “he dropped his hotdog on the floor.”
re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
DeSantis walked up to a house with all the windows and doors open, with all the money and valuables sitting out on the kitchen table, and tripped on the front steps, hit his head on the porch railing and lay unconscious until the paramedics carried him away.
He took a dump in the toilet and didn’t realize that there was no water in the tank…
re: #113 Randall Gross
First there was snakes on a plane, then sharknado,…
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re: #105 Randall Gross
The Beekeeper Trailer, in which Jason Stathams:
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Thought the summer was the time to release action films that had no basis in reality!! And the winter was designed for serious thoughtful movies. Won’t be seeing those at the theater.
re: #113 Randall Gross
First there was snakes on a plane, then sharknado,…
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“I have had it with these motherfucking sharks on this motherfucking plane!”
re: #112 jaunte
During the sit-down, interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Musk about his post agreeing with an X user’s accusation that “Jewish communities” push “hatred against whites.” After ostensibly expressing regret for the post, which led to companies like Disney and Netflix pulling ads from X, Musk effectively reversed course. “Prominent people in the Jewish community,” he claimed, helped fund “demonstrations for Hamas in every major city in the West.”
He added: “If you generically, without condition, fund persecuted groups … some of those persecuted groups, unfortunately, want your annihilation.”
Musk is just doing a variant of what conservative Jews like Ben Shapiro do; say antisemitic things but include the qualifiers that it’s only *liberal* Jews.
Like, at some point the discussion can’t step around that this language is available, is readily used by conservatives to advance their political objectives in both the United States and Israel by simply excluding from Jewish-ness anyone that disagrees. Not to get all Sartre about this, but the point of antisemitism is not to accurately ascertain who is Jewish, it’s to label acceptable targets with an established stigma…which is why antisemitic tropes are the base block from which so many other excuses-for-power-abuse are fabricated.
Musk is working an angle that’s already being worked, that’s a part of conservative discourse used every single day, and is pointedly put out by one of the most visible Jews in conservative commentary. This is not mysterious or radical, and he can get away with it not because people aren’t paying attention but because the language has been normalized. About of third of the country accepts the rough framework of “Soros Conspiracies” and the like, millions listen to Shapiro daily, and Musk is saying nothing they haven’t heard before.
His only extension is fully mating two conspiracist standards: Great Replacement and the “Soros-style” antisemitism in which only *some* Jews fulfill all the terrible qualities antisemites invented…but those two strands have already been travelling in tandem for years.
Conservatism and reaction don’t become something different in different cultural contexts: imposing hierarchy and position above universals, committing to inequality whether that’s driven by feudal means or capitalist means, the play book of rhetoric to excuse and explain why other types of people cannot have validity remains the same.
My brother (only knows one language, is disinterested in learning more and hates watching subtitled movies) and his longtime buddy from high school (same) went and saw Godzilla Minus One today and they LOVED it. Even with the subtitles. He says there’s a lot of homages and Easter eggs in the movie to other films and tropes in the Godzilla franchise.
Apparently, the physical action of “Oh no, there goes Tokyo” overcomes monolingual prejudice to subtitled movies. His recommendation is everyone should see it.
There is no suitmation though.
A film in which a polar vortex storms picks up bears and drops them on downtown Alberta: Grizzlard
re: #125 mmmirele
I sat down today to watch Destroy All Monsters, which I first saw (in a dubbed version) as a kid when it came out.
I am greatly enjoying the original with subtitles.
re: #33 Nojay UK
“However”, the report went on to explain, “the average pleasurability rating for car driving was 0.07 per mile travelled versus 89.6 per mile travelled on a motorcycle.”
250k+ miles over 40+ years attest to that
you dont put 110k on a bike if riding it sucked
re: #43 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Always struck me as odd, and wrong, that people expect to cut down a tree just to decorate their house with it for a couple of weeks.
A tree that took several years to grow.
And then they wonder why it costs money.
we have a cousin who owns an xmas tree farm in W. Va.
re: #59 Nojay UK
It’s how they calculate the pleasurability rating — they count the number of bugs on their helmet and compare it to the number of bugs in their teeth. The more they’re smiling the bigger the numerical discrepancy.
Hell, even in winter I never had a problem getting on my motorbike and riding around, to college or work or over to my mate’s place or just for the heck of it. Something in my soul died when I moved over to driving cars. I never got in the car to drive just for the fun of it.
ObComics: Ogri, by Paul Sample. “Malcolm you pillock!”
i did when i drove this:
re: #130 PhillyPretzel ✅
Probably not a link, more likely a lack of a space and it embedded as a link.
re: #74 Ace Rothstein
I would imagine that Santos will be sitting in a prison cell for quite a while after his plea agreement. I’m thinking admission of guilt to most of the charges, all money returned, a $500,000 fine that he won’t have a penny to pay, sentenced to ten years in prison but out in 4.5, and then ten years probation. When he gets out, his new gig on Fox as a congressional analyst will help pay off the hefty fines.
he’ll run again
knowing he doesnt have a chance
as a fundraisingscamming tool
cant stop him
re: #92 PhillyPretzel ✅
::: pouring Champagne for the room :::
Thanks for the updings.
im waiting for the cocktail weenies
re: #135 Dangerman
The buffet will be open at 6 PM.
re: #102 Vicious Babushka
That can not be used as a Chanukkiah, all the lights must be on the same level.
it’s a bitch to manage that after they’re lit.
especially on the later nights
re: #113 Randall Gross
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Goliath Awaits, with wings
Bluesky devs just announced some welcome new features…
We’ve been working on some new safety tooling — here’s a status report on what you can expect soon and what we’ve recently released: 🧵
This week, we’re deploying more advanced automated tooling to flag content that violates the Community Guidelines to our moderation team.
We’ll iterate on this so that mods can review offensive content, spam, etc. without any user seeing it first. That said, your reports help keep the network safe!
We’re also adding back the ability to report your own posts for mislabeled content. This will help the moderation team fix incorrect labels.
In the meantime, other accounts can submit reports on your behalf. Please add details to the report for a wrong label. We will be improving this in-app copy.
Another in-progress feature coming soon is reply controls, so users can set who can reply to their posts — for example, only people you follow, users on a certain list, etc.
Some features that we’ve recently released:
• User Lists and Moderation Lists — add users to generic lists, or add them to moderation lists that you can easily mute or block.
• Sync Moderation Preferences between devices
• Remove adult content labels on posts that do not contain images
re: #125 mmmirele
Memories when Pittsburgh’s Chilly Billy Cardille had a morning radio show on WPEZ and he opened his show playing Blue Oyster Cult’s Godzilla song every morning.
re: #139 Charles Johnson
Bluesky devs just announced some welcome new features…
We’ve been working on some new safety tooling — here’s a status report on what you can expect soon and what we’ve recently released: 🧵
This week, we’re deploying more advanced automated tooling to flag content that violates the Community Guidelines to our moderation team.
We’ll iterate on this so that mods can review offensive content, spam, etc. without any user seeing it first. That said, your reports help keep the network safe!
We’re also adding back the ability to report your own posts for mislabeled content. This will help the moderation team fix incorrect labels.
In the meantime, other accounts can submit reports on your behalf. Please add details to the report for a wrong label. We will be improving this in-app copy.
Another in-progress feature coming soon is reply controls, so users can set who can reply to their posts — for example, only people you follow, users on a certain list, etc.
Some features that we’ve recently released:
• User Lists and Moderation Lists — add users to generic lists, or add them to moderation lists that you can easily mute or block.
• Sync Moderation Preferences between devices
• Remove adult content labels on posts that do not contain images
I’ll be honest here. What I like about Mastodon is that I never see accounts I don’t want to see. I don’t get baited into arguments. And I never feel like I have to flag posts or respond to my posts being flagged. I also (almost) never feel the urge to tell anyone to fuck off. It’s just a better community.
Blue Sky will just grow into the same hellscape that most social media does, and eventually the moderation team will employ poor people in some foreign land to screen out videos of child rape.
I fear it’s a broken media that can’t be fixed.
re: #102 Vicious Babushka
That can not be used as a Chanukkiah, all the lights must be on the same level.
If anyone used that in any kind of ceremony, there would be serious smiting.
re: #8 Joe Bacon ✅
It’s gonna really suck when ilDuce winds up with fewer votes than Mickey Mouse!
and then, to make matters worse, he’s even shorter.
re: #85 BeenHereAwhile
Even tho I had a car, a dirt bike was my most used form of transportation, spring, summer & winter, during my undergraduate years. More fun to ride and ease of parking. The knobby tires made for some interesting street riding on rainy days.
I always felt at risk on a motorcycle, but I deeply, truly miss the “dancing with my car” known as “driving with a stick.” I’m trying right now to find one locally.
re: #50 Belafon
Plus you can get artifical ones with the lights already built in.
That’s what we have. If it wasn’t for the grandkids I wouldn’t even bother with that.
re: #106 EPR-radar
It’s not really a booby trap if the purported trapee 1) knows it is enemy territory and 2) is much more capable than the trappers.
It’s episode 3 of Blue Eye Samurai, “A Fixed Number of Paths.”
re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Meanwhile, DeSantis stumbled up to a house with all the windows and doors open, with all the money and valuables sitting out on the kitchen table, and tripped on the front steps, hit his head on the porch railing and lay unconscious until the paramedics carried him away.
Sideshow Ron
re: #116 gwangung
and 3) is more than willing to give a black eye to the trappers.
Way too many Democrats want to be seen as “civil” instead landing a good right cross where it’s needed.
He joins Raskin and the others in Congress who are calling out Republicans when it matters and not backing down.
re: #148 Belafon
It’s episode 3 of Blue Eye Samurai, “A Fixed Number of Paths.”
Now I know what I’m watching this evening. I’ve just seen episode 1 so far.
re: #118 EPR-radar
This. Fortunately, there don’t seem to be too many prominent younger Democrats that are useless squishes.
I suspect that’s because the younger Democrats have reasons for going to Congress other than, ya know, just going to Congress. They have things they want to accomplish and they don’t worry so much about losing their jobs because they are doing what they were elected to do.
Older Democrats, and Republicans for that matter, have been playing the game for so long that playing the game is all they know. I imagine them starting each day checking focus groups to see what they should say on camera today. ‘What should we do to piss off the least number of people?’
::: pouring another round of Champagne for the room :::
Thanks to everyone here who recommended Blue Eyed Samurai. I had to convince my reluctant family into watching it, and then they got so fascinated they watched more episodes after I went to bed, and then watched them again with me the next night
OOPS ANOTHER RAT JUMPS OFF THE SHIP!
DeSantis’ Super PAC Suffers Yet Another Brutal Staff Loss
A day after Ron DeSantis debated California Gov. Gavin Newsom in Georgia, The New York Times revealed that the primary super PAC supporting the Florida governor suffered its second major departure in as many weeks. Adam Laxalt, a friend and former roommate of DeSantis, told the PAC’s board this week that he was stepping down as chairman of Never Back Down, the Times reported, citing a letter. Laxalt wrote that his resignation was to allow him to return his “time and attention to my family and law practice,” adding that he’s still backing DeSantis’ increasingly shaky presidential run. Laxalt’s departure comes on the heels of Never Back Down’s chief executive, Chris Jankowski, abruptly resigning on the eve of Thanksgiving over unspecified issues that he said went “well beyond” strategic arguments. Adding salt to the wound for DeSantis was the billionaire Koch Brothers endorsing Nikki Haley earlier this week, much to the governor’s dismay.
re: #142 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
All the great scams in history involved some place far away from the scammed that they knew nothing about.
::: pulling the curtains aside :::
Ladies and Gentlemen the buffet is open
re: #152 Romantic Heretic
I suspect that’s because the younger Democrats have reasons for going to Congress other than, ya know, just going to Congress. They have things they want to accomplish and they don’t worry so much about losing their jobs because they are doing what they were elected to do.
Older Democrats, and Republicans for that matter, have been playing the game for so long that playing the game is all they know. I imagine them starting each day checking focus groups to see what they should say on camera today. ‘What should we do to piss off the least number of people?’
Self defense is a powerful motivator, and the Republican Menace is a clear and present danger.
re: #158 PhillyPretzel ✅
::: pulling the curtains aside :::
Ladies and Gentlemen the buffet is open
I’M ON THE WAY!!!!!!!!
re: #125 mmmirele
My brother (only knows one language, is disinterested in learning more and hates watching subtitled movies) and his longtime buddy from high school (same) went and saw Godzilla Minus One today and they LOVED it. Even with the subtitles. He says there’s a lot of homages and Easter eggs in the movie to other films and tropes in the Godzilla franchise.
Apparently, the physical action of “Oh no, there goes Tokyo” overcomes monolingual prejudice to subtitled movies. His recommendation is everyone should see it.
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There is no suitmation though.
This account posts lots of block cuts and art from old Japan, you might enjoy it:
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