Seth takes a closer look at longtime Trump ally Chris Christie on a media rehabilitation tour ahead of a possible run for president in 2024, while Trump is still speaking the same unhinged lies about the election.
There was a sign on the wall just outside the dragon’s lair:
“Take only what you need.”
The thief peered around the corner. The dragon gave him a nod.
“Is this a trick?”
The dragon stretched out on his vast hoard.
“No. Your need can’t possibly be big enough to make a difference.”— Micro SF/F stories (@MicroSFF) November 13, 2021
Ah, an even better one…
“Sanctuary,” the child cried, running into the library.
“Nice try,” the guard following after sneered, “but only holy places can grant sanctuary.”
The librarians glanced at each other. A small nod.
The head librarian gave the guard a stern look.
“Sanctuary granted.”— Micro SF/F stories (@MicroSFF) November 8, 2021
Compare the coverage. pic.twitter.com/HD746n3oGB
— Lawrence Glickman (@LarryGlickman) November 18, 2021
I am shocked that people did not want to watch one of the most hated men in modern politics getting a prime time handjob.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) November 18, 2021
Watching the Frontline story about the Iowa newspaper. It’s the Storm Lake Times. The paper won the Pulitzer in 2017, and the reaction in the conservative town was people canceling their subscriptions because of the national recognition.
the fate of President Biden’s vaccine mandate will be decided by a court dominated by conservatives.The New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay against the requirement earlier this month, and further instructed the Biden administration to “take no steps to implement or enforce” it, finding that the states and businesses challenging the rule “show a great likelihood of success on the merits.”
The Biden administration will now issue its response to that order in the 6th Circuit. The Cincinnati-based court has 16 judges: 11 appointed by Republican presidents and five by Democratic presidents. Six of the judges were appointed by former President Donald Trump.
re: #7 retired cynic
Whatever. I’d still rather take my chances with them than the guarantee that the 5th Circus Court of Appeals would grant all of the injunctions and rule all in their favor.
re: #7 retired cynic
Because there’s a bunch of bass-ackward know nothing extremists who are upset that public health policy favors getting everyone vaccinated against a disease that’s already killed over 750,000 Americans, this court will figure that there’s a good chance it should uphold blocking the mandate.
That’s some bass-ackward logic and reasoning, given that the US Supreme Court has upheld vaccination mandates in past. It again shows that the GOP are a bunch of extremists who aren’t pro life. They’re anything but.
Who’s more right about things?
— Eric The Fruit Bat (@ericfruitbat) November 18, 2021
Note that Jimmy Dore appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox…
Greg Abbott can’t guarantee the most basic level of competency, and Texans are paying for it with their lives. pic.twitter.com/fFWV7lTpbN
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) November 18, 2021
uh say what now
We are excited to announce the Henry Ford Professorship in Jewish History.
— University of Austin History Department Unofficial (@UATX_History) November 17, 2021
Gaetz and Tucker both slept with the minor. There was no dinner with Tucker’s wife. Gaetz is blackmailing Tucker on live TV. pic.twitter.com/zCWkVESUSY
— abulafiana (@abulafiana) November 16, 2021
Matt Gaetz hopes to pay underage teen for services https://t.co/larBdi9whm
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) November 18, 2021
There is no bottom.
re: #10 Eric The Fruit Bat
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Note that Jimmy Dore appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox…
This is a question the James T. Kirk would use to make a computer commit suicide.
For those of you thinking Abbott is guarding the border 👇 Pass it on. https://t.co/4K5oF31PTZ
— Monica Fraker (@FrakerMonica) November 18, 2021
In Christie’s favor…
…being so vindictive he fucked up bridge traffic bad enough that someone died rather than make it to a hospital is actually a pretty baller move if he was trying to get in with Trumpists.
But instead he’s doing the whole Lady Macbeth thing.
Dumbass.
Happy to have another year subscription with LGF. Thank you, Charles!🎉
As I depart Twitterville for tonite, I’ve gotta say that as disgusted as I am w/the likes of Gosar, my evening ration of outrage is entirely directed at US Senators who are blocking the vast majority of President Biden’s ambassadorial nominees at the expense of US nat’l security.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) November 18, 2021
I would ask everyone out there who shares my outrage to let these folks know that it is time to stop playing games with U.S. national interests and to live up to their responsibility to the country.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) November 18, 2021
Maher is full of shit.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) November 18, 2021
re: #24 Belafon
Old white guy yells at cloud.
re: #24 Belafon
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Just substitute “PC” for “woke” in most statements by dickholes like Maher and what you get is the same tired arguments that they’ve been making for years, the theme of which is “Dems/liberals are being too mean to white men by not giving them a pass for being racist asshats.”
Teachers deserve a bazillion dollars a year… https://t.co/byDatco2lU
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) November 17, 2021
re: #25 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
Old white guy yells at cloud.
Unfortunately too many white guys and gals share that view. Bill Maher has been right on Trump from day one; on most other issues, not so much. But he does reflect the feeling of too many voters who we need and who are persuadable — and for that we have to improve our messaging to attract these people back into our fold.
it’s amazing how much a government can accomplish when Jared Kushner isn’t in charge of fucking everything all to hell
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) November 17, 2021
re: #28 Hecuba’s daughter
What’s the messaging?
Star Trek Discovery fans angry as new season is pulled days before launch https://t.co/1rcoHsvzPu
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 17, 2021
re: #32 Eric The Fruit Bat
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Ah, it wouldn’t be Paramount without an utter dick move at the last fraking second.
re: #32 Eric The Fruit Bat
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Can’t speak to DIscovery, but I am really looking forward to tomorrows today’s episode of Star Trek: Prodigy. Left us on a bit of cliffhanger… :)
re: #34 William Lewis
Can’t speak to DIscovery, but I am really looking forward to
tomorrowstoday’s episode of Star Trek: Prodigy. Left us on a bit of cliffhanger… :)
It’s sad that the only good Trek of late has been animated. I was more interested in the second season of Lower Decks than I’ve been at any time for Discovery.
re: #35 Targetpractice
It’s sad that the only good Trek of late has been animated. I was more interested in the second season of Lower Decks than I’ve been at any time for Discovery.
I liked Picard and am looking forward to season two but Prodigy actually got me to pay money to Paramount rather than use … alternative means… to watch it.
That Alec Baldwin on-set incide just got interesting - especially with Gloria Allred on the case:
bbc.com
re: #30 Patricia Kayden
What’s the messaging?
Sigh. I don’t know — I’m not in communications; it’s not my forte. It’s challenging when the other side has a whole set of media propaganda platforms excelling in disinformation and the MSM is happy to assist in promoting these lies.
Maybe flooding the media with ads touting the benefits from the BIF and that 94% of House Republicans objected to it. And also developing a companion negative campaign to tear down the GOP. If we could get BBB through too that would be an even stronger argument on how Democrats help ordinary people while the GOP abandons us.
Also have to have some way to tell voters that Hawley, Cruz, and Rubio are working for our enemies by interfering with government appointments — that they are malevolently stopping our ability to conduct foreign policy. Unfortunately, the Trump cult, 74 million strong, love this destruction.
re: #36 William Lewis
I liked Picard and am looking forward to season two but Prodigy actually got me to pay money to Paramount rather than use … alternative means… to watch it.
Picard wasn’t bad, but it was a bit….underwhelming is probably the best word I could use. God love Sir Stewart, but he was getting too old to play an action star in Nemesis and he’s not gotten any younger in the years since. And it’s obvious why Spiner was right to think continuing to play Data as an ageless android wasn’t going to be feasible much longer.
What is Marjorie Taylor Greene looking for? pic.twitter.com/evV3bONWtK
— Mystery Solvent (@MysterySolvent) November 17, 2021
re: #40 Eric The Fruit Bat
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I’d say “her mind,” but I think the evidence shows she never had one to begin with.
re: #41 Targetpractice
You need to click on it for my reply.
re: #39 Targetpractice
Picard wasn’t bad, but it was a bit….underwhelming is probably the best word I could use. God love Sir Stewart, but he was getting too old to play an action star in Nemesis and he’s not gotten any younger in the years since. And it’s obvious why Spiner was right to think continuing to play Data as an ageless android wasn’t going to be feasible much longer.
I enjoyed both Picard and Discovery. My practice is to sign up for the service for one or 2 months, binge watch both series, and then drop the service until next year.
re: #39 Targetpractice
Picard wasn’t bad, but it was a bit….underwhelming is probably the best word I could use. God love Sir Stewart, but he was getting too old to play an action star in Nemesis and he’s not gotten any younger in the years since. And it’s obvious why Spiner was right to think continuing to play Data as an ageless android wasn’t going to be feasible much longer.
I don’t dislike any of the new Star Trek, but I have issues with each one. Lower Decks is closest to what I expect from Trek that’s not the Enterprise crew but I really don’t need to be hit over the head with fan service and a fire-hose of references. Discovery is one minute it’s great, and the next it’s “really?”
I know Stewart refused to do Picard unless there was social commentary, but I feel like they tried to jam too much of it into a single season and it was done in a somewhat ham-fisted manner, and there was a lot of canon-be damned in service of that ham-fistedness. (Not nearly as much as neck-bearded man-children on Youtube rant about though).
I think part of the problem is all of the new Trek shows have like 15 producers listed in the credits. There’s a committee and not a Trekkie-Showrunner.
re: #12 KingKenrod
We are excited to announce the Henry Ford Professorship in Jewish History.
I assume that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion will be required reading.
re: #22 jaunte
God is Austrian.
The town has since changed its name to keep its signs from getting stolen, but there is still an Oberfucking and an Unterfucking.
re: #39 Targetpractice
Picard wasn’t bad, but it was a bit….underwhelming is probably the best word I could use. God love Sir Stewart, but he was getting too old to play an action star in Nemesis and he’s not gotten any younger in the years since. And it’s obvious why Spiner was right to think continuing to play Data as an ageless android wasn’t going to be feasible much longer.
found it too slow and repetitive and gave up after about five episodes.
Picard was fine, but I think my enjoyment of it mostly arose from nostalgia.
Didn’t like the first season of ST:D. Too much Klingon (plot and language.) Season 2 was much better. Then season 3 started and after watching the first episode I sort of gave up on it.
Have been watching Foundation. It’s ok.
All three shows suffer from the same problem. They want to be whodunnits .
Simple plots get drug out for 10 episodes simply by only telling part of plot, bit by bit, with some mystery left to late in the season that would do better just being revealed off the top.
That kind of story telling really bugs me.
It’s an easy way to build tension. But it is too easy and the writers end up not really being good mystery writers.
re: #51 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Picard was fine, but I think my enjoyment of it mostly arose from nostalgia.
All three shows suffer from the same problem. They want to be whodunnits .
Simple plots get drug out for 10 episodes simply by only telling part of plot, bit by bit, with some mystery left to late in the season that would do better just being revealed off the top.
That kind of story telling really bugs me.
It’s an easy way to build tension. But it is too easy and the writers end up not really being good mystery writers.
And it series like that are no fun to re-watch it once they have given away the kicker.
Amazon has two big-budget series coming out.
Wheel of Time, starting next month.
And then their still untitled Tolkien series, coming 22 Sep’22.
I fear they will step on each other.
A great deal of fantasy is all Tolkien-derivative anyway.
Amazon is spending a whole lot of money on their Tolkien project. But I’m afraid the fantasy genre is getting far too played-out.
Between Marvel and DC running their character arcs into the ground with who knows how many reboots over the next few years, it is hard to care about any of the long running characters (e.g. Batman.)
There is a shallowness to super-hero shows that I find quite off-putting. Of course the “comic books” were mostly all for juveniles anyway, with some later ones intended for a more adult audience.
Anyway, I’m hoping Amazon is not going to go for the cheap whodunnit route for their Tolkien series. We already know who the guilty party is (Sauron) and what he did (made magical rings and one master ring and turned kings of men to evil.) There isn’t really a mystery there. So if Amazon is going to have a whodunnit in that series they are going to have to create a subplot with new characters.
There is, and the horse’s mouth has spoken on this, a new Babylon 5 series in the works. I hope it can make it to the screen. So many good ideas die by a thousand cuts from the suits.
Superhero movies blow right past me as I was never much of a comic book fan.
I recall watching Superman, Batman and Green Hornet as TV series as a kid, but I never read much in the way of comics beyond Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.
re: #55 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Donald Duck
Be glad it wasn’t Howard the Duck, which ran in our local comics…
re: #56 Eric The Fruit Bat
Be glad it wasn’t Howard the Duck, which ran in our local comics…
I was always a big fan of Sunday color comics, a cultural tradition that Europeans for all their comics-as-an-art-form snootery, simply do not appreciate at all anywhere.
Programming note:
For what it’s worth, I just sent a massive $7 donation to LGF (don’t spend it all in one place).
It is my disbursement from a class-action lawsuit over milk price fixing in Nebraska.
The way they did the disbursements was with an on-line debit card, which when I called they say you can only download to a smartphone. For some reason (they don’t want to disburse the money) you can’t download the information to a PC, and they make it virtually impossible to get the information (it took me over an hour to donate the whole $7 on GoFundMe).
Calling the help line to the disbursement centre was no help: They would mail you a plastic card for 50% of the settlement.
I really hate how companies and such are intentionally leaving rural areas behind (or trying to screw us with massive credit card fees). Another notch in my post on why I despise libertarian capitalism.
re: #58 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Which is why they want to eliminate physical currency: although it is bulky and cannot be used for anything but in-person transactions, it cannot be centrally controlled like they do with credit/debit cards.
re: #43 Eric The Fruit Bat
In local news: State Theatre, Bijou by the Bay reopen after nearly two years
“As a thank you, all movies will be free during the weekend.
Welcome Back Weekend movies will include Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Casablanca, The Big Lebowski, The Social Network, The Dark Knight and Singin’ in the Rain!”
and now a newsmax headline is claiming that data on “thousands of missing ballots” in PA has been deleted.
They are going to beat this dead horse to a pulp…
re: #59 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Which is why they want to eliminate physical currency: although it is bulky and cannot be used for anything but in-person transactions, it cannot be centrally controlled like they do with credit/debit cards.
The effect here was everyone eliminated credit cards. Except businesses right along Interstate 80 catering to travellers, no one here takes credit cards any more.
You come here with money or cheques, or you’ll quickly be stuck. There are lots of helpful ATMs here though so you can get money from your credit card.
re: #58 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Calling the help line to the disbursement centre was no help: They would mail you a plastic card for 50% of the settlement.
I really hate how companies and such are intentionally leaving rural areas behind (or trying to screw us with massive credit card fees). Another notch in my post on why I despise libertarian capitalism.
Make sure all your neighbors know the BIF is spending billions on rural broadband. Don’t let them think your governor had anything to do with it.
re: #63 sagehen
Make sure all your neighbors know the BIF is spending billions on rural broadband. Don’t let them think your governor had anything to do with it.
Our Internet friend Beau has asked us to let him know every time a GOP politician who voted against the Infrastructure bill tries to take credit for a project funded by it.
Trump gave an agency $100 million to fight Covid. Here’s what happened.
A federal agency that was run by a college friend of Jared Kushner and assigned $100 million to spend on fixing the Covid supply chain crunch has so far failed to invest a single dime, according to a new government watchdog report.
re: #60 sagehen
“As a thank you, all movies will be free during the weekend.
Welcome Back Weekend movies will include Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Casablanca, The Big Lebowski, The Social Network, The Dark Knight and Singin’ in the Rain!”
As a student, I spent a lot of time at the Valley Art Theater in Tempe, AZ and the Temple of Music and Art in Tucson watching every sort of classic cinema from old Bogart movies to French cinema to Samurai films.
re: #65 Dangerman
Trump gave an agency $100 million to fight Covid. Here’s what happened.
“But what about Hunter’s laptop?!?”
Republicans are angrily defending a man who posted a video showing the bloody decapitation of a colleague. And promising revenge. This is what we’ve come to.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) November 18, 2021
re: #68 DodgerFan1988
Republicans are angrily defending a man who posted a video showing the bloody decapitation of a colleague. And promising revenge. This is what we’ve come to.
As someone pointed out, posting something like that that would be enough to get you fired from most any other job. They cannot “fire” an elected official but they are perfectly justified in “firing” him from his committee seats.
Remember all the GOP freakouts about how Maxine Water’s “Push back!” comments were “inciting violence”?
re: #16 jaunte
There is no bottom.
The 4Chan Party on full display. Welcome to the ashes of the Republican Party.
re: #71 Florida Panhandler
The 4Chan Party on full display. Welcome to the ashes of the Republican Party.
They will soon get to the point that no candidate who can win a GOP primary can win a general. We have already seen that even in what were once Deep Red states like Georgia.
re: #72 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They will soon get to the point that no candidate who can win a GOP primary can win a general. We have already seen that even in what were once Deep Red states like Georgia.
One would hope. The 4Chan Party is very gross. But its rise has only seemed to encourage white people nationwide to act in more and more antisocial, trollish and violent ways. The notion that more and more outrageous behavior from them peels off support I haven’t seen any evidence of yet. In fact it seems support has only grown and even encouraged white females to join in on the vulgarity and menace.
As a lot of folks know, I’m a car guy. I’ve gotten a chance to drive some pretty incredible vehicles over the years, but I never could have imagined ones like the electric vehicle I took for a spin today.
The future is electric – and it will be made right here in America. pic.twitter.com/foX0ydM6mo— President Biden (@POTUS) November 18, 2021
re: #74 Belafon
Biden promotes Made in America but face be ridicule for being an electroweeniemobile-driving wimp.
Apparently there are rumors Andy Biggs is being investigated for his participation in 1/6…
Here’s an idea, maybe the FBI counterterrorism team should investigate actual terrorism…?
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) November 17, 2021
WATCH: @ElizaDushku shares her personal story of the sexual harassment she faced at CBS and the secret arbitration process she was forced to enter. #EndForcedArbitration pic.twitter.com/ZhgoLrYVnX
— House Judiciary Dems (@HouseJudiciary) November 16, 2021
re: #75 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Biden promotes Made in America but face be ridicule for being an electroweeniemobile-driving wimp.
We were discussing electric cars the other day at work and even the Republicans know that the torque on those cars blow gas cars away.
re: #78 Belafon
We were discussing electric cars the other day at work and even the Republicans know that the torque on those cars blow gas cars away.
I like going 0 to 60 in 4 seconds…though I usually keep it closer to 6 as I don’t like having to brake when merging onto the highway.
re: #76 darthstar
Apparently there are rumors Andy Biggs is being investigated for his participation in 1/6…
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— William A Lewis (@WilliamALewis4) November 18, 2021
re: #78 Belafon
We were discussing electric cars the other day at work and even the Republicans know that the torque on those cars blow gas cars away.
I mean, the rail industry has been using electric-powered locomotives (with a diesel engine to run the electric generator) for decades. There’s a reason for that.
re: #81 Dopamine Fish
I mean, the rail industry has been using electric-powered locomotives (with a diesel engine to run the electric generator) for decades. There’s a reason for that.
I’m guessing they also use regenerative braking.
re: #78 Belafon
We were discussing electric cars the other day at work and even the Republicans know that the torque on those cars blow gas cars away.
Petroleum is manly. Windmills are wimpy.
re: #83 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Petroleum is manly. Windmills are wimpy.
Trying extra hard this morning, aren’t you?
re: #84 Belafon
Trying extra hard this morning, aren’t you?
Just quoting the talking points.
Remember, we are dealing with a mentality that equates the value of something with how much money we spend on it and how equates wealth and prosperity with how many (non-renewable) resources we consume.
The NFL is requiring players and staff to wear masks inside team facilities regardless of vaccination status for a week starting on Thanksgiving, and they must be tested twice for COVID-19 after the holiday.
https://t.co/YjI3UJOi2A— AP NFL (@AP_NFL) November 17, 2021
Looking like Texas will soon eclipse California as the worst affected state in the nation in terms of total COVID-19 deaths. We’ll get there from the 20,000 unvaccinated Texans over the summer/fall who died because they refused vaccinations.
Death by antiscience aggression— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) November 17, 2021
Evidence ivermectin doesn’t work: Pierre Kory the doctor who says ivermectin is a wonder drug was diagnosed w/ Covid. He’s a developer of the ivermectin protocol purported to prevent Covid. Diagnosis was in August & disclosed this wk by a newspaper. Quack. https://t.co/BvzJ4q3TGR pic.twitter.com/pzmKq1N8RN
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) November 18, 2021
Texas Tech football’s radio play-by-play announcer Brian Jensen and color analyst John Harris have been removed from announcing the Red Raiders’ Saturday game against Oklahoma State in response to on-air comments during their Nov. 13 game against Iowa State. The Big 12 issued a public reprimand of the announcers Wednesday evening.
Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said the comments made by the announcers “were contrary to expected levels of respect and professionalism.”
“I understand the roles of the play-by-play and color analyst,” Bowlsby said in a statement. “However as University representatives they also have an obligation to adhere to Conference policy regarding comments about game officials.
“Questioning the integrity of Conference officials and specifically calling out members of the officiating crew is well beyond appropriate and permissible behavior.”
Harris and Jensen fucked around and found out: They had denounced, and challenged, Bowlsby by name during the game. (Harris, incidentally, is known as “Wrong Yard Harris” within the business, for his consistent habit of misreading yard markers and miscalculating yardage). There is a mighty howl coming from the ever turbulent bowels of the Lubbock gentry over this, since Wrong Yard and Jensen are yokel celebrities. The masses are screaming “cancel culture” and “censorship” among other inanitities. It is amazing that people who literally worship business do not understand what it means for the Big 12 to have a contract with these goofs.
Trumps covid numbers UNDER reported because tfgs DHS tweaked the CDC reports
Trump job losses UNDER reported by 922k
Bidens jobs GAINS UNDER reported by 622k
And the BLS reports on inflation statistics..?
And the head of the CBO who will “score” the BBB is a Bush republican
re: #53 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Amazon has two big-budget series coming out.
Wheel of Time, starting next month.
And then their still untitled Tolkien series, coming 22 Sep’22.
I fear they will step on each other.
A great deal of fantasy is all Tolkien-derivative anyway.
Amazon is spending a whole lot of money on their Tolkien project. But I’m afraid the fantasy genre is getting far too played-out.
Between Marvel and DC running their character arcs into the ground with who knows how many reboots over the next few years, it is hard to care about any of the long running characters (e.g. Batman.)
There is a shallowness to super-hero shows that I find quite off-putting. Of course the “comic books” were mostly all for juveniles anyway, with some later ones intended for a more adult audience.
Anyway, I’m hoping Amazon is not going to go for the cheap whodunnit route for their Tolkien series. We already know who the guilty party is (Sauron) and what he did (made magical rings and one master ring and turned kings of men to evil.) There isn’t really a mystery there. So if Amazon is going to have a whodunnit in that series they are going to have to create a subplot with new characters.
There is, and the horse’s mouth has spoken on this, a new Babylon 5 series in the works. I hope it can make it to the screen. So many good ideas die by a thousand cuts from the suits.
Wheel of Time starts tomorrow.
re: #70 Belafon
“We can pass bills that help all Americans.”
Why Do Voters Like Democratic Policies but Dislike Democrats?
At the end of the focus groups, Barefoot asked the women if they would have changed their vote if the bipartisan infrastructure bill had passed before Election Day. Over 90% said no. One woman asked: “What does that have to do with anything?” Put in other words, for these voters, the issues aren’t so important. It’s Democrats’ attitudes, especially those of Democrats on the far left, that matter.
re: #72 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They will soon get to the point that no candidate who can win a GOP primary can win a general. We have already seen that even in what were once Deep Red states like Georgia.
Shhhhhh!
re: #72 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They will soon get to the point that no candidate who can win a GOP primary can win a general. We have already seen that even in what were once Deep Red states like Georgia.
Donald Trump became President. There is nobody too awful to win an election in America.
This holiday season remember that I am the one true God pic.twitter.com/wejnz7yz8P
— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) November 18, 2021
re: #95 Renaissance_Man
Donald Trump became President. There is nobody too awful to win an election in America.
Sanders will win gov of Arkansas
Zero experience
My Congressperson:
It was great to have @POTUS in MI yesterday to celebrate the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. We’re creating millions of good-paying jobs with investments in clean water, electric vehicles, broadband, roads, and bridges. This is how we will #BuildBackBetter. https://t.co/fdg6m0b38G
— Brenda Lawrence (@RepLawrence) November 18, 2021
re: #93 Dangerman
Why Do Voters Like Democratic Policies but Dislike Democrats?
tl;dr: “Pass something” is not gonna win us the midterms, that our messaging problem is that we’re too quick to scream “FASCIST!!!” and too slow to listen to the concerns of voters.
re: #63 sagehen
Make sure all your neighbors know the BIF is spending billions on rural broadband. Don’t let them think your governor had anything to do with it.
Like the Rural Electrification Project, when there’s no profit in the expansion (no way even to break even), the government needs to step in. The difference is that people like Eisenhower and the progressive/liberal Republicans were still part of the party and working to promote the general welfare.
Has anyone started building a plant here in the US where the chips needed for automobiles can be built?
Smyrna, Tennessee:
Outrageous… https://t.co/pi9bec5D4d— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) November 18, 2021
re: #68 DodgerFan1988
Republicans are angrily defending a man who posted a video showing the bloody decapitation of a colleague. And promising revenge. This is what we’ve come to.
Who is this “we” of whom you speak? Is he a repug now? No? And neither am I.
Everything we face was seen in two distinct events Monday: Joe Biden preaching unity at the White House and Steve Bannon preaching treason while being taken into custody.
Please read and share:https://t.co/gUDhOsGtCc— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) November 18, 2021
re: #100 Targetpractice
tl;dr: “Pass something” is not gonna win us the midterms, that our messaging problem is that we’re too quick to scream “FASCIST!!!” and too slow to listen to the concerns of voters.
It’s not really that. When every US media outlet is pushing the same message - Democrats are too woke, they think you’re racist, they’re not like you - Democrats will never be able to ‘listen to the concerns of voters’. Because the ‘concerns of voters’ are decided by CNN and the NYT, and those ‘concerns’ are that Democrats exist.
Ruhle: What specific event did Antifa commit that you think should be investigated?
Mace: We’ve all seen the destroyed cities
R: But we don’t know-
Mace: I read about Antifa organizing these kinds of events. Some of their symbols were used on my house when it was spray painted pic.twitter.com/jS9L6R7UrW— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 18, 2021
“destroyed cities”
jfc
re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“destroyed cities”
jfc
Follow up questions are easy: Name one city antifa destroyed. Really? Is that city now destroyed and gone? That may be a surprise to the people who live there.
Mock them. Shame them. Give them zero credibility.
re: #109 darthstar
Follow up questions are easy: Name one city antifa destroyed. Really? Is that city now destroyed and gone? That may be a surprise to the people who live there.
Mock them. Shame them. Give them zero credibility.
And if they say, “Minneapolis,” remind them of who it was that actually destroyed our city. Because it wasn’t the BLM protesters who were out in the streets in good faith.
The bad news? It’s raining. The other bad news? It’s 45°F and raining. The good news? The rain will be moving out this morning. The other good news? Most will see sunshine this afternoon. The bad news? Highs will be ~20° cooler today than Wed. The good news? It’s almost Friday. pic.twitter.com/14zMTcjBmD
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) November 18, 2021
re: #86 jeffreyw
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Good morning!
Western good morning!
And why they bloom in December I cannot say.
Wonder what that anonymous US Marshall “source” that is somehow inside the Kenosha courthouse with access to the jury deliberations will tell Jack Posobiec today, so he can relay the info to Steve Bannon’s listeners on his show. What an amazing journalist to have such sources!
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 18, 2021
re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“destroyed cities”
jfc
Well, obviously Bowling Green. We all remember the massacre there.
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re: #113 Backwoods_Sleuth
I think he didn’t realize that with his first post.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 18, 2021
Ummmm, who wants to tell her that this is an example of border security? https://t.co/x9X898qRc6
— Janet Johnson (@JJohnsonLaw) November 18, 2021
re: #116 Belafon
Butbutbut something something crossing state lines therefore US Marshals!
re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth
“destroyed cities”
jfc
Some of that destruction was caused by Boogaloo Boys
🔴 SECURITY WARNING 🔴
Google is warning two billion Chrome users to update the browser after discovering 25 new threats in just the past two weeks: https://t.co/k2zbTJYWjr pic.twitter.com/Ez5lqE7AEw— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) November 18, 2021
re: #110 Dopamine Fish
And if they say, “Minneapolis,” remind them of who it was that actually destroyed our city. Because it wasn’t the BLM protesters who were out in the streets in good faith.
Minneapolis is still there.
re: #121 darthstar
Minneapolis is still there.
*looks out the window* Huh. Well, I’ll be. You’re right. Guess they didn’t do such a great job of destroying it, now, did they?
18/440AM: 5 Day Forecast for SE WY and NE panhandle. Windy tonight through Friday afternoon. Then again Monday. #wywx #newx #wyoroad pic.twitter.com/UQ5iadyG7o
— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) November 18, 2021
re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Yeah, we have rain and about 42F here in NW PA. I fell asleep too early last night and was up around 2:30 this morning. Went out on front porch with cat for a smoke and it was about 61F at that time and the rain was just starting. Went back to bed and at around 6:30 this morning it was around 41F. Dropped 20 degrees in a few hours.
really? https://t.co/o3buSwOPBQ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 18, 2021
just having flashbacks to when Trump would go to a factory in the Midwest, insult the owner, and talk about how he almost banged Debbie Gibson, then cable news would be filled with people calling him a master salesman https://t.co/1fwbvZlRJ4
— supply in a chainstack (@jesseltaylor) November 18, 2021
re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth
I hate the press.
Another break with tradition was passing the infrastructure bill.
— Dale Edwards (@DaleEdw64885329) November 18, 2021
There are a lot of unbalanced people out there.
instagram dot com slash p slash CVQgvFBgW4a
re: #127 Backwoods_Sleuth
Quick! Get Chris Christie on for an interview on why the Infrastructure Bill is a big loss for Democrats!
re: #129 darthstar
There are a lot of unbalanced people out there.
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Okay - now that I see the profile for that instagrammer I realize this is a skit. Sorry about that. Editing it so one can link if they want.
re: #65 Dangerman
Trump gave an agency $100 million to fight Covid. Here’s what happened.
At least it’s a federal agency so the money didn’t disappear on buying a new personal private jet.
re: #12 KingKenrod
The Duane Gish chair of Geology.
— Autumn Deidre 🍁 (@mandalorchick) November 18, 2021
re: #83 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Petroleum is manly. Windmills are wimpy.
Illinois uses nuclear fission. What could be more manly than that? And it is green!
re: #134 Hecuba’s daughter
Illinois uses nuclear fission. What could be more manly than that? And it is green!
Like Clinton. Lake Clinton is a great place to water ski because the water is always so warm what with the plant right there. OTOH, I used work at a small window tinting business with a guy who was drawing disability after an accident at the plant; he was best friends with the owner and got paid under the table. When we went out on jobs and the screen didn’t quite fit the window he’d just say “piss on it, it’s good enough.” Again, he was welding stuff at Clinton. (Though, tbf, no accidents that I’m aware of there.)
re: #66 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I saw BB King and band play live at Temple of Music and Art in an incredible show in mid 1980’s. Building the was decrepit even then, but what sound!
When I drew this everybody asked- who was the guy with the tin foil hat? Answer: Paul Gosar. Nobody asks now. https://t.co/8ISHr7VhRN
— Michael de Adder (@deAdder) November 18, 2021
re: #93 Dangerman
Why Do Voters Like Democratic Policies but Dislike Democrats?
The Virginia race was decided by less than 2%. So this suggests that it could have made a difference in the results there.
The year before that, Americans couldn’t afford Thanksgiving dinner because all the jobs and the economy was shut down. And nobody wanted to have family dinner anyway because Grandma just died from COVID in the middle of a mismanaged pandemic
Thanks, Trump! Thanks, Republicans! https://t.co/DVTQcVnfQJ— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) November 18, 2021
re: #97 Dangerman
Watching me masturbate, as the creepy dude always does.
re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth
CBS hired her from the Daily Caller. For the hard hitting journalism, apparently.
#BREAKING The Sheriff of Clay County is behind bars after troopers with the Texas Department of Public Safety arrested him Thursday morning. https://t.co/KsqIoX5S9m
— Texoma’s Homepage (@TexomasHomepage) November 18, 2021
CLAY COUNTY (KFDX/KJTL) — The Sheriff of Clay County is behind bars after troopers with the Texas Department of Public Safety arrested him Thursday morning.
Jeffrey Clark Lyde, 54, was booked into the Clay County Jail Thursday morning.
Lyde is currently held without bond on two charges of official oppression.
He’s a Texas County’s Top Law Enforcement Official. What’s His Name Doing on an Oath Keeper Roster?
Guess he forgot to pay his dues?
re: #142 b.d. (The war is over)
Guess he forgot to pay his dues?
Wait a second, I thought the county sheriff was the ultimate authority in the country and was supposed to be empowered to prevent enforcement of all unjust/unconstitutional laws? How can anyone have the power to arrest him?
re: #143 Dopamine Fish
Wait a second, I thought the county sheriff was the ultimate authority in the country and was supposed to be empowered to prevent enforcement of all unjust/unconstitutional laws? How can anyone have the power to arrest him?
It’s probably the Jews or the Deep State or the Deep State Jews…..
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re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth
“destroyed cities”
jfc
The residents of Dresden and Coventry would like to discuss.
re: #145 Colère Tueur de Lapin
The residents of Dresden and Coventry would like to discuss.
Hamburg and Nagasaki have entered chat.
re: #144 b.d. (The war is over)
It’s probably the Jews or the Deep State or the Deep State Jews…..
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With the backup of the Space Lasers
I’m starting to think she talks this way because she can only read three words at a time. Maybe I’m wrong but here’s the clip so pic.twitter.com/0QfbOn1uIq
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 18, 2021
Here’s a newsflash that requires checking of the notes because it’s so important she had to write it down to remember it pic.twitter.com/YwPFlVGmLG
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 18, 2021
Anyways, she wants her colleagues to vote against this “montrousity” pic.twitter.com/GSKfEZme8E
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 18, 2021
All I hear is “OMG! The IRS is gonna AUDIT ME”
— 😷BLUE MAGOO😷 (@BlueDoggin45) November 18, 2021
I made this morning’s breakfast of champions, since I didn’t make a dinner for my wife’s birthday yesterday.
Hamburger Helper with an added can of chipotle peppers (for added extra heartburn).
My wife thought it was “interesting.”
re: #144 b.d. (The war is over)
It’s probably the Jews or the Deep State or the Deep State Jews…..
//
Close. The Black Deep State Jews.
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This sign hung above where Jim Jones used to sit when he would lecture. A malignant narcissist, Jones saw himself as a modern-day Jesus who said the government was trying to “crucify” him. 🙄
But I see this sign as a reminder for something else. I see it as a reminder for TODAY. pic.twitter.com/Z2MC0MDmVQ— Steven Hassan, PhD (@CultExpert) November 18, 2021
Learn about mind control.
In my 45+ years doing this work, I’ve come to understand that when people understand undue influence, they are inoculated against it and better able to help friends & families if they’ve been captured by a cult or destructive belief. Knowledge is power!— Steven Hassan, PhD (@CultExpert) November 18, 2021
re: #133 Scottish Dragon
The Rush Limbaugh School of Feminist Studies.
I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in being fair to Mark Meadows, Donald Trump, or any other one of these assholes.
And Meadows WAS elected. He was a congressman from North Carolina, before he took the job of wiping the drool off Trump’s chin and changing his diapers. https://t.co/4rYpl4uIOa— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) November 18, 2021
re: #149 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I made this morning’s breakfast of champions, since I didn’t make a dinner for my wife’s birthday yesterday.
Hamburger Helper with an added can of chipotle peppers (for added extra heartburn).
My wife thought it was “interesting.”
I’m surprised you’re still healthy enough to post that.
Good grief https://t.co/1yjX4a5FWq pic.twitter.com/Zt7LH2DvPX
— Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic) November 18, 2021
the fact that the woman making this argument is the daughter of the screenwriter for Apocalypse Now (!!!!!) is really *chef’s kiss*
— Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic) November 18, 2021
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) presses Biden’s pick for currency comptroller Saule Omarova about “you used to be a member of a group called The Young Communists.”
Omarova explains, because she was born in the Soviet Union, she was part of school youth programs mandated for students. pic.twitter.com/mYSkOounx3— The Recount (@therecount) November 18, 2021
re: #153 plansbandc
The Rush Limbaugh School of Feminist Studies.
The Ken Hamm School of Paleontology.
re: #157 Scottish Dragon
Sen. Kennedy is looking for a sound byte (eight bits) for Fox News Channel.
Every immigrant from the former Soviet Union was a member of Komsomol.
As for his assertion she belonged to the Leninist Young Communist League of the Russian Federation, the giveaway he’s trying to score points rather than seriously interview a candidate is in the name. She was not a schoolchild in the Russian Federation.
re: #159 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Omarova is under attack from many angles. Fox News is running the story of her arrest for petty theft (shoplifting) from a store.
Probably a bad pick by Biden. In today’s atmosphere nominations have to be squeaky clean.
re: #160 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Omarova is under attack from many angles. Fox News is running the story of her arrest for petty theft (shoplifting) from a store.
Probably a bad pick by Biden. In today’s atmosphere nominations have to be squeaky clean.
Bad take.
It is utterly irrelevant how clean the nominees are. The smear machine will generate a random sin to try to attach to them and it will be across the right wing talking points network in 12 hours.
re: #157 Scottish Dragon
This sort of R crap is why I have a permanent eye twitch.
A brood of 10 endangered Komodo dragons has hatched at Texas’s San Antonio Zoo. There are two males, four females, and four yet to be determined dragons: https://t.co/3XdmdwhHBP pic.twitter.com/mMeXzjTNNc
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) November 18, 2021
re: #161 Scottish Dragon
Bad take.
It is utterly irrelevant how clean the nominees are. The smear machine will generate a random sin to try to attach to them and it will be across the right wing talking points network in 12 hours.
Hillary Clinton keeps hot sauce in her purse!!!1!!2!!uno!!elventy! (gasp) !!!!
re: #157 Scottish Dragon
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re: #160 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Omarova is under attack from many angles. Fox News is running the story of her arrest for petty theft (shoplifting) from a store.
Probably a bad pick by Biden. In today’s atmosphere nominations have to be squeaky clean.
I mean, we all know that’s a lot worse than what Boebert’s husband did. //
re: #158 Florida Panhandler
The Ken Hamm School of Paleontology.
The Donald Trump Institute of Professionalism and Integrity
re: #161 Scottish Dragon
Nope.
All of life is about maneuvering around your fellow humans.
Of course the Republicans will try to besmirch any nominee.
But right now the problem in the US is that after 70+ years of constant ideological warfare (by the religious right) the American voters are programmed to respond to certain catch phrases.
Sen. Kennedy knows this of course, as do all successful politicians at that level.
Kennedy and his ilk don’t really care about the candidate’s youth activities. And they also don’t really care about her shoplifting arrest.
All they care about is triggering their base.
And unfortunate for us, we’re now looking at a scenario in which half of the US voters are on the verge of going headlong into some sort of far right dystopia.
All of American politics is a war for the muddled middle.
That the GOP Senators have successfully blocked so many Biden nominees, for example, is totally missed on the average voter. Because they don’t care about those kinds of things.
But run a headline that says BIDEN NOMINATES FORMER COMMUNIST PARTY MEMBER and all of a sudden you’ll get attention of at least some voters.
— Fred Kiesche (@FredKiesche) November 17, 2021
— Autumn Deidre 🍁 (@mandalorchick) November 18, 2021
re: #127 Backwoods_Sleuth
Why haven’t Americans seen the benefit of a multiyear infrastructure investment plan signed into law on Monday. It’s only Thursday. Where’s the completed projects?
Seriously, fuck the media - all of it. These fuckers are knowingly spreading misinformation and lying by omission all to further a narrative that enables Trump and his ilk to return to power. Why? Because they need the fucking ratings and eyeballs. Who cares what the nation actually needs, or how bills of this magnitude get implemented.
It’s why Biden should go on tv daily and call into the shows to talk about the infrastructure plan and how it works.
re: #95 Renaissance_Man
Donald Trump became President. There is nobody too awful to win an election in America.
I should have qualified, a direct election. Trump won the Electoral College.
re: #168 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Nope.
All of life is about maneuvering around your fellow humans.
Of course the Republicans will try to besmirch any nominee.
But right now the problem in the US is that after 70+ years of constant ideological warfare (by the religious right) the American voters are programmed to respond to certain catch phrases.
Sen. Kennedy knows this of course, as do all successful politicians at that level.
Kennedy and his ilk don’t really care about the candidate’s youth activities. And they also don’t really care about her shoplifting arrest.
All they care about is triggering their base.
And unfortunate for us, we’re now looking at a scenario in which half of the US voters are on the verge of going headlong into some sort of far right dystopia.
All of American politics is a war for the muddled middle.
That the GOP Senators have successfully blocked so many Biden nominees, for example, is totally missed on the average voter. Because they don’t care about those kinds of things.
But run a headline that says BIDEN NOMINATES FORMER COMMUNIST PARTY MEMBER and all of a sudden you’ll get attention of at least some voters.
You have already lost when you cede this kind of power to the far right to pre-choose your own cabinet.
The latest prairie fire in the Nebraska Panhandle (the Buffalo Creek Wildfire, south of Gering/Scottsbluff) is 50% contained. Yesterday’s high winds whipped it up to 2,595 acres (1,050 ha, or 10,501 decares, or 1.0502E+13 square millimetres).
Among those assisting are the Nebraska State Patrol, Nebraska National Guard and 27 fire departments. Firefighters have worked 16-hour shifts.
If the weather cooperates, the state expects to turn firefighting over to local departments on Thursday, Imler said. Smoke will likely be visible from the burn area for weeks or until significant rain occurs, Imler said.
re: #105 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
Who is this “we” of whom you speak? Is he a repug now? No? And neither am I.
We as a nation, in the sense of “this is what political discourse in our nation has come to”
re: #172 Scottish Dragon
You have already lost when you cede this kind of power to the far right to pre-choose your own cabinet.
There are 50 Republican Senators. Biden has already lost the ability to nominate whomever he likes. He is walking a tightrope.
re: #170 lawhawk
Why haven’t Americans seen the benefit of a multiyear infrastructure investment plan signed into law on Monday. It’s only Thursday. Where’s the completed projects?
Seriously, fuck the media - all of it. These fuckers are knowingly spreading misinformation and lying by omission all to further a narrative that enables Trump and his ilk to return to power. Why? Because they need the fucking ratings and eyeballs. Who cares what the nation actually needs, or how bills of this magnitude get implemented.
It’s why Biden should go on tv daily and call into the shows to talk about the infrastructure plan and how it works.
Harris was on GMA this morning talking to George Snufflelufugus and, even though he’s worked in the White House, his last question was “Is Biden going to run again in 2024?” She completely avoided answering that question by talking about what they are doing each day.
re: #164 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Hillary Clinton keeps hot sauce in her purse!!!1!!2!!uno!!elventy! (gasp) !!!!
She’s just ready for those taco trucks on every corner.
re: #134 Hecuba’s daughter
Illinois uses nuclear fission. What could be more manly than that? And it is green!
I have to grudgingly tolerate its continued use as a transitional aid.
re: #175 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Anyone he nominates will be hit with the exact same cookie cutter boiler plate bullshit.
re: #179 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Unless we want U.S. foreign relations to be crippled indefinitely, we have to find a better way to get Ambassadors appointed.
re: #146 Scottish Dragon
re: #145 Colère Tueur de Lapin
The residents of Dresden and Coventry would like to discuss.
Hamburg and Nagasaki have entered chat.
Berlin, Tokyo and Rotterdam seated as alternates…
re: #182 Eclectic Cyborg
Unless we want U.S. foreign relations to be crippled indefinitely, we have to find a better way to get Ambassadors appointed.
Appoint a Republican Senator? 1/2 a /s
Snowball fight from 124 years ago (1897) in Lyon, France that has been colorized and speed adjusted.. pic.twitter.com/WWDA28xGbs
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) November 18, 2021
I have a crabapple tree in my front yard. It’s very popular with the birds right now, as a plentiful source of food as winter approaches. This morning, I was sitting in my office, idly noting the crowds of birds coming and going from the tree, when all of a sudden, all the birds on the tree scatter in every direction. It looked like a feathery bomb had gone off. I was curious, but only for a second; as soon as I went to look closer, a hawk came in and parked himself on the tree. Clearly, he thought the crabapple tree was a plentiful source of food, for an entirely different reason than the other birds. After a few seconds, no doubt nursing his disappointment that he didn’t get an easy meal, he flew off again.
English uses a subject–verb–object syntactic order (‘I eat pizza’), but the most common syntactic order of all the world’s languages is subject–object–verb (‘I pizza eat’). The rarest order, found in less than 0.5% of all languages, is object–subject–verb (‘Pizza I eat’).
— Haggard Hawks 🦅 (@HaggardHawks) November 18, 2021
“Can I keep him?”
Who is cutting onions here? 🥺 pic.twitter.com/PdBMtdVLcx— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) November 18, 2021
Blueberry Muffins #breakfast pic.twitter.com/XU2onC4xpS
— Liddle Blueberry Pie 🌈🍓🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) November 18, 2021
re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth
English uses a subject-verb-object syntactic order (‘I eat pizza’), but the most common syntactic order of all the world’s languages is subject-object-verb (‘I pizza eat’). The rarest order, found in less than 0.5% of all languages, is object-subject-verb (‘Pizza I eat’).
German has the ability to flip that to stress the first word. “Ich bin müde” (I am tired) can be rendered “Müde bin ich” when you want to say that you are really tired.
re: #190 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
English uses a subject-verb-object syntactic order (‘I eat pizza’), but the most common syntactic order of all the world’s languages is subject-object-verb (‘I pizza eat’). The rarest order, found in less than 0.5% of all languages, is object-subject-verb (‘Pizza I eat’).
German has the ability to flip that to stress the first word. “Ich bin müde” (I am tired) can be rendered “Müde bin ich” when you want to say that you are really tired.
In other words, Yoda-speak.
Hhmmm… hungry I am.
I have a mad crush on Aubrey Plaza.
Aubrey Plaza (@evilhag) described her pandemic wedding as “a joke that went too far” 😂 pic.twitter.com/MMH5qlPtvS
— Late Night with Seth Meyers (@LateNightSeth) November 17, 2021
re: #157 Scottish Dragon
Kennedy has yet to resign from Klown Kollege.
re: #166 Belafon
I mean, we all know that’s a lot worse than what Boebert’s husband did. //
Yeah, maybe she should bang her hand on the table and cry like a certain supreme court nominee did at his confirmation hearing. Because youthful shoplifting is equal to youthful sexual molestation. Maybe she should mention she likes beer?
Only one party overwhelmingly refused to participate in a bipartisan investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Only one party defends members who resort to violent imagery and harass fellow lawmakers. Talk of “secession” comes from only one party. https://t.co/Zg5XunZqhk
— Jennifer ‘pro-voting’ Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) November 18, 2021
re: #196 DodgerFan1988
Only one party overwhelmingly refused to participate in a bipartisan investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Only one party defends members who resort to violent imagery and harass fellow lawmakers. Talk of “secession” comes from only one party.
Only one party lost the 2020 election and only one party insists that it did not lose the 2020 election
re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth
English uses a subject–verb–object syntactic order (‘I eat pizza’), but the most common syntactic order of all the world’s languages is subject–object–verb (‘I pizza eat’). The rarest order, found in less than 0.5% of all languages, is object–subject–verb (‘Pizza I eat’).
— Haggard Hawks 🦅 (@HaggardHawks) November 18, 2021
So this confirms Yoda was a non-conformist.
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Less mature than Sesame Street characters.
Why ban Bert & Ernie?……oh yeah, I forgot…….
Big Bird & Big Gov. Mandates?
NO 👏🏼 THANK 👏🏼 YOU 👏🏼 pic.twitter.com/JK3efVPQnK— CPAC 2022 (@CPAC) November 18, 2021
Other languages have cases and declinations that allow you to shift the subject-verb-object order around and still have those elements identified.
“Throw grandfather down the stairs his hat” does not work in English because we lack the ability to identify grandfather as the indirect object (recipient) of the action rather than the direct object (the thing being thrown) namely the hat.
re: #199 b.d. (The war is over)
Less mature than Sesame Street characters.
Why ban Bert & Ernie?……oh yeah, I forgot…….
They will be heartbroken, I assume they had already booked flights and rooms…
“pay chasers” pic.twitter.com/qpszTG6Wia
— Sir Larry Olive-Tree (@larryolivetree) November 17, 2021
re: #192 gocart mozart
I have a mad crush on Aubrey Plaza.
yes, I would forgive her most anything. Same goes for Sarah Kendzior but lately even she is pushing her limits…
re: #201 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“Throw grandfather’s hat downstairs to him.”
re: #203 The Pie Overlord!
“pay chasers”
This is how we show how much we believe in the work ethic and the dignity of labor, right? Not to mention the self-regulating, problem-solving, invisible-handed powers of the Free Market.
re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
yes, I would forgive her most anything. Same goes for Sarah Kendzior but lately even she is pushing her limits…
I have cooled considerably on Sarah Kendzior.
re: #203 The Pie Overlord!
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“Why aren’t we attracting the people who were born baristas?”
re: #206 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“pay chasers”
This is how we show how much we believe in the work ethic and the dignity of labor, right? Not to mention the self-regulating, problem-solving, invisible-handed powers of the Free Market.
Why would anyone think that someone would want a barista job other than for pay? Flexibility in schedule may be a bonus but the primary attraction has to be the pay.
re: #203 The Pie Overlord!
“Pay chasers”
My small company (under 30 people) recruited talent, paid well, rewarded autonomy, stayed flexible for anyone who needed personal time away, and has a bunch of employees who have stayed more than 20 years. Maybe they should try that.
re: #209 Hecuba’s daughter
Why would anyone think that someone would want a barista job other than for pay? Flexibility in schedule may be a bonus but the primary attraction has to be the pay.
Massive executive/sports salaries and bonuses are often justified with the argument that “we need to attract the best candidates”.
Pray tell the difference…
Whatever happened to the “burger machines” that were supposed to be installed everywhere once those human workers got too uppity with their demands for a living wage?
Well for one thing they cost $30,000 upfront and they still need a human to operate them (whose training puts those workers much higher up on the pay grade than those lowly minwage peons they are replacing)
re: #206 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“pay chasers”
This is how we show how much we believe in the work ethic and the dignity of labor, right? Not to mention the self-regulating, problem-solving, invisible-handed powers of the Free Market.
This guy sounds like another businessman who doesn’t understand how capitalism works, and needs a socialist to explain it to him.
“Pay chasers?” Sounds like another person who would really like to have slaves instead of employees.
re: #212 The Pie Overlord!
Whatever happened to the “burger machines” that were supposed to be installed everywhere once those human workers got too uppity with their demands for a living wage?
Well for one thing they cost $30,000 upfront and they still need a human to operate them (whose training puts those workers much higher up on the pay grade than those lowly minwage peons they are replacing)
and people to maintain and repair them, also a lot higher up on the pay scale
re: #212 The Pie Overlord!
Whatever happened to the “burger machines” that were supposed to be installed everywhere once those human workers got too uppity with their demands for a living wage?
Well for one thing they cost $30,000 upfront and they still need a human to operate them (whose training puts those workers much higher up on the pay grade than those lowly minwage peons they are replacing)
See also do it yourself grocery store scanners.
“You want to be wage slaves? Well what makes a wage slave? WAGES.”
re: #207 Scottish Dragon
I have cooled considerably on Sarah Kendzior.
I have too, but not my fantasy of sitting up in bed with her afterwards, smoking and discussing modes of authoritarianism…
re: #215 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
See also do it yourself grocery store scanners.
Wonder how much money stores lose due to customers deliberately not scanning all their items.
re: #209 Hecuba’s daughter
Why would anyone think that someone would want a barista job other than for pay? Flexibility in schedule may be a bonus but the primary attraction has to be the pay.
I think there are plenty of people who would be the best baristas ever and should get paid accordingly. Same for any other job. Why can’t all jobs be handled in the same way we treat physicians, scientists, or entertainers?
re: #218 Hecuba’s daughter
Wonder how much money stores lose due to customers deliberately not scanning all their items.
As long as losses work out to less than hiring a cashier, then it is seen as an acceptable cost of doing business…
re: #138 Hecuba’s daughter
The Virginia race was decided by less than 2%. So this suggests that it could have made a difference in the results there.
From the link (it’s a short article)
What Barefoot discovered is that while most of the women overwhelmingly agreed with the Democrats on policy, when asked about which party had cultural values closer to theirs, the Republicans won. And when they voted, the cultural values won out. One issue that was important to them was education. One of the women said that, after they were forced to sit at home and be de facto teachers for a year , to hear Terry McAuliffe say that they should butt out of education was a huge insult. School closures were also a big deal. They wanted their kids to go to Real School, not Zoom School, virus or no virus. Also, they were afraid of the kids being indoctrinated. That is hardly a surprise given that the remaining Koch brother was secretly funding conservative groups to push this idea hard. And then there is critical race theory.
re: #219 Belafon
It sounds like the owner doesn’t want to be a barista. Maybe she should go into business doing something she likes.
re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We as a nation, in the sense of “this is what political discourse in our nation has come to”
Nope.
re: #217 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I have too, but not my fantasy of sitting up in bed with her afterwards, smoking and discussing modes of authoritarianism…
hehehehehehehehehehe
This is such a great example of how media narratives drive everything. The collective consciousness sees the supply chain issues as “ships stalled off Long Beach” because that’s what’s in the media. You could just as well make it “our ports aren’t big enough for the Biden boom!” https://t.co/yEZVys5KOB
— Will Stancil (@whstancil) November 18, 2021
The GOP is the Troll Party https://t.co/XG3dbStQ2q
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) November 18, 2021
re: #217 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I have too, but not my fantasy of sitting up in bed with her afterwards, smoking and discussing modes of authoritarianism…
I thought you might be more of a Christine McConnell fan. Her stuff is wickedly smart and funny.
re: #226 DodgerFan1988
Trump would get bored of being Speaker after, like, three hours.
re: #218 Hecuba’s daughter
Wonder how much money stores lose due to customers deliberately not scanning all their items.
Well, considering that, for most models of self-checker, the scales in the “bagging area” seem to be calibrated to weigh items down to the molecular level, probably not much. Though I guess potential rippers-off can just revert to the classic manual backup method; i.e. just pocket stuff…
I’m definitely of two minds about self-checkout machine: on one hand, they’re handy for quickly buying a few items: OTOH, if there is anything else you have do (check coupons, do a delivery, etc.) - you still need to interact with a human. Who is usually needed to stand by to deal with problems with the self-checkers, anyway (at least at my local CVS: their machines have more bugs than Steve Bannon’s underwear)
re: #226 DodgerFan1988
Ask every Republican member of Congress and everyone running as one if they will vote for Trump to be Speaker of the House!!!
Are they for McCarthy or Trump?
re: #226 DodgerFan1988
Trump wouldn’t know anything about the job.
re: #215 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
See also do it yourself grocery store scanners.
Do it yourself scanners must be economically viable since they are basically taking over, so if that is the guide it doesn’t bode well if you are against fast food robots. The self check out is more like fast food ordering kiosks than the actual cooking robots though, and we aren’t too far from those becoming ubiquitous too.
re: #232 b.d. (The war is over)
He’d interpret the title as an invitation to talk to the chamber all day.
re: #229 Jay C
Well, considering that, for most models of self-checker, the scales in the “bagging area” seem to be calibrated to weigh items down to the molecular level, probably not much. Though I guess potential rippers-off can just revert to the classic manual backup method; i.e. just pocket stuff…
I’m definitely of two minds about self-checkout machine: on one hand, they’re handy for quickly buying a few items: OTOH, if there is anything else you have do (check coupons, do a delivery, etc.) - you still need to interact with a human. Who is usually needed to stand by to deal with problems with the self-checkers, anyway (at least at my local CVS: their machines have more bugs than Steve Bannon’s underwear)
I tried self-checkers a few times. Every time required intervention by staff, to fix something that wouldn’t scan properly, something in the bagging area that the machine accused me of not scanning, the bill clipper jamming on cash, &c.
They are not worthwhile for even one item.
The local supermarket doesn’t use them. Those in Scottsbluff and Sidney generally stand unused when I am in the store (personal observation).
re: #208 Belafon
“Why aren’t we attracting the people who were born baristas?”
Why aren’t we in control of this hiring dynamic anymore?
re: #228 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump would get bored of being Speaker after, like, three hours.
As soon as he discovers that the title of “Speaker” doesn’t mean that only HE gets to speak…..
re: #222 jaunte
It sounds like the owner doesn’t want to be a barista. Maybe she should go into business doing something she likes.
Sounds to me like that aspect of the company function is below her
re: #233 danarchy
Do it yourself scanners must be economically viable since they are basically taking over, so if that is the guide it doesn’t bode well if you are against fast food robots. The self check out is more like fast food ordering kiosks than the actual cooking robots though, and we aren’t too far from those becoming ubiquitous too.
The last time I took a plane anywhere (Regina-Toronto, first leg of European trip), we were required to use check-in kiosks for Air Canada.
After total confusion for about ten minutes, it took three different staffers to check in my wife and me. The combination of using real printed tickets from a travel agent coupled with people unused to such technology because it doesn’t exist here means they had to pay a bunch of staffers to help us use the machine that they paid metric fuquetonnes of money for so they didn’t have to use staffers.
re: #235 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I tried self-checkers a few times. Every time required intervention by staff, to fix something that wouldn’t scan properly, something in the bagging area that the machine accused me of not scanning, the bill clipper jamming on cash, &c.
They are not worthwhile for even one item.
The local supermarket doesn’t use them. Those in Scottsbluff and Sidney generally stand unused when I am in the store (personal observation).
I use the self checkout all the time and have had very few problems. It is SO much faster than waiting for a cashier it isn’t even close, and in my neck of the woods in central MA they get pretty much constant use.
Edit: even better than the self checkout is the little mobile scanner you bring with you and just scan items as you put them in your cart so you don’t have to scan anything at the register. Technology can be your friend.
re: #224 Scottish Dragon
hehehehehehehehehehe
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Ah, the Second Law of the Waffle Light:
In any discussion in which Sarah Kendzior is mentioned, Wendell shall appear to mention his crush on her and his desire to sit up smoking and discussing authoritarianism with her after attending to her waffle light.
re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth
A brood of 10 endangered Komodo dragons has hatched at Texas’s San Antonio Zoo. There are two males, four females, and four yet to be determined dragons: bit.ly
Can we assume the “yet to be determined” are trans? or non-binary? or hermaphroditic? or….
(or maybe just nobody’s been able to get close enough to check?)
re: #241 danarchy
I use the self checkout all the time and have had very few problems. It is SO much faster than waiting for a cashier it isn’t even close, and in my neck of the woods in central MA they get pretty much constant use.
When my wife and I were in Chicopee a couple years ago, we didn’t have any trouble in grocery stores.
Our problem was bank ATMs: None would take our ATM cards because they didn’t have the little embedded chip (magnetic stripe only). We had to go out to Longmeddow to find a bank which would take our cards.
(Since then, our bank replaced them with chip cards.)
re: #240 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The last time I took a plane anywhere (Regina-Toronto, first leg of European trip), we were required to use check-in kiosks for Air Canada.
After total confusion for about ten minutes, it took three different staffers to check in my wife and me. The combination of using real printed tickets from a travel agent coupled with people unused to such technology because it doesn’t exist here means they had to pay a bunch of staffers to help us use the machine that they paid metric fuquetonnes of money for so they didn’t have to use staffers.
The airline I use most does most of its business by self-check kiosk, and has a human-run line for special cases like yours.
Yay!! Oklahoma governor commutes Julius Jones sentence!! cnn.com
re: #242 A Three Hour Tour
Ah, the Second Law of the Waffle Light:
In any discussion in which Sarah Kendzior is mentioned, Wendell shall appear to mention his crush on her and his desire to sit up smoking and discussing authoritarianism with her after attending to her waffle light.
Wow
Its like lizards have back stories, personalities, and sometimes repeat stuff ad nauseam till we all see them coming. //
Too soon?
re: #241 danarchy
Also, our stores don’t take credit cards. You have to use cash or cheque. As I noted before, the bill clippers on those machines are shyte. (It would be easier to feed quarters into the machines.) You can’t use a cheque in the self-serve line.
I didn’t know that so many languages have as basic foundational grammar the Subject Object Verb structure. Japanese is one. The fun thing about Japanese is that the form of the verb (+context) often obviates the need for a subject, so it’s usually omitted.
re: #245 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
The airline I use most does most of its business by self-check kiosk, and has a human-run line for special cases like yours.
Panhandlers, er Nebraskans?
re: #241 danarchy
I use the self checkout all the time and have had very few problems. It is SO much faster than waiting for a cashier it isn’t even close, and in my neck of the woods in central MA they get pretty much constant use.
Lowe’s has a button on the self-checkout for if you are a veteran, that requires the person watching to come over and verify and enter their code.
re: #249 Barefoot Grin
I didn’t know that so many languages have as basic foundational grammar the Subject Object Verb structure. Japanese is one. The fun thing about Japanese is that the form of the verb (+context) often obviates the need for a subject, so it’s usually omitted.
That and the way the ‘r’ sound is pronounced are things that Japanese and Spanish have in common.
re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and people to maintain and repair them, also a lot higher up on the pay scale
And possibly a backup one in case one goes down your business doesn’t come to a screeching halt until the one is fixed.
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