No mincing words in this one, folks.
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Just encountered a weirdo who thinks it’s OH SO WRONG for Biden to point out that Donald Trump is a convicted felon. The gist was that anyone on the left who approves of this is a horrible hypocrite.
I was going to post a screenshot of this gibberish, but then decided to just block and go.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-17T18:04:02.000Z
A hypocrite? Why? Because many on the left don't want to treat convicts as less than human? That doesn't mean we can't refer to someone as a convicted felon, when the situation calls for it.
— thedopefishlives (@thedopefishlives.bsky.social) 2024-06-17T18:10:19.734Z
We’re supposed to be concerned that other people convicted of crimes might see the ad and have their feelings hurt.— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-17T18:16:18.000Z
It’s good. I hope it is the beginning of a whole series. People are under a lot of misconceptions and haven’t heard of the good things Biden has done or the awful things Trump has done. They need getting up to speed.
Example: my liberal but not very tuned in to politics daughter told me the other day that inflation is awful. I explained that prices stabilizing means inflation is over. They aren’t going to go down to what they used to be for the most part. A lot of people don’t know that I suspect.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
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We’re supposed to be concerned that other people convicted of crimes might see the ad and have their feelings hurt.
Maybe this could be an effective tool in our criminal justice system.
Maybe not.
Inflation is bad, but so too was supply chain disruptions and killing 2 million people through disastrous messaging throughout Trump admin and after from GOPers who wanted to attack vaccination campaigns that saved millions of lives.
Inflation rates have come down, and are among the lowest among OECD countries - we all faced inflation and supply chain disruptions, but the US did far better at managing inflation than other countries. That’s due to who is in office and the Fed policies that led to a soft landing, historically low unemployment rates (when the pundits were all saying we’d need to get high unemployment to bring down inflation), but also record profits.
It’s that last bit that people don’t want to dig into, because that’s where “inflation” resides. Corporate profits and greed meant that they’d jack up prices, and write it off as inflation, but keep the prices high even as the temporary inflationary pressures subsided. We have seen a spate of stories of late about how Target and other businesses are cutting prices on thousands of goods because inflation has declined.
Shareholders demand profits, and that means they’re fine with inflation, as long as they’re ahead of the curve and get more profit than gets eroded by inflation.
For everyone else, we saw jacked up oil prices and costs, which have stabilized over the past year. Why are they still high?
Because there’s still strong demand for goods and services, which means people want stuff - and they’re willing to pay for it.
As a user of Apple products, I found this article very reassuring. Apple is dipping a toe carefully into the AI world but is prioritizing privacy and security. The Open AI deal is that Apple users have to consent every time, and Apple didn’t pay anything for it. Ed thinks they are fending off EU monopoly penalties.
The article called “Let Tim Cook”
re: #1 Charles Johnson
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Right, the crowd that chanted “Lock Her Up!,” nodded along when their candidate argued that a candidate who might possibly be charged with a felony while in office was ineligible for the presidency, cheered when he announced on live TV during a presidential debate that if he won the presidency then she would be imprisoned, and have spent the last 4+ years eagerly following the campaign the man started to destroy his political opponent’s son…are upset at their man being (rightly) labeled a convicted felon and call it “hypocrisy”?
They can feel free to kiss my whole ass.
re: #7 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Maracas! And a bunch of other items that I don’t even know what they are!
re: #10 Charmingly Persistent
Maracas! And a bunch of other items that I don’t even know what they are!
With ‘Geritol’ on the wall, and cuff links on the guitarist.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
If any Trump-identifying rapists, tax cheats, serial fraudsters, or national defense secrets thieves get their feelings hurt over this ad, fuckem.
A Horse With No Name.
Among the dumbest lyrics ever written.
“The heat was hot.” JFC.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-17T18:48:49.000Z
Besides, how are we hypocrites for simply calling out that Donald Trump is a convicted felon for 34 counts involved in a scheme to disguise pay-offs to a porn star for a sexual affair as legal fees to his former fixer?
Is it because we’re not as eager as they are to destroy Hunter Biden, a recovering drug addict who has personally witnessed several members of his family die suddenly and brutally, acknowledged his mistakes and his illegal behavior, and was prepared to plead guilty when Trump-appointed prosecutors responded to political pressure from the GQP to put him on trial so as to make his humiliation that much worse?
Is it because we don’t label Hillary Clinton as a convicted felon because she’s not one, despite literal decades of efforts by successive Republican governments to destroy her politically because they’ve failed to do so legally?
Is it that we acknowledge Bill Clinton committed a criminal act without believing it makes him a monster that should live in shame for the rest of his life?
Just who is it that we’re not properly hating upon that makes us hypocrites?
re: #14 Charles Johnson
I’m not sure I have any song that I hate… there are a few that are highly dangerous earworm songs, but I don’t necessarily hate them. High on that list would be:
also, too:
re: #14 Charles Johnson
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The earworm is going to shrivel up from that song.
In the desert, you can remember your name
But can you forget the fucking song?
They’re totally not a cult.
CHRISTTRUMP: Persecution of a Man (by Christopher John Molluso, published May 10, 2024, 172 pages)
The cover art on the paperback of a shaft of sunlight illuminating a Latin Cross with a red necktie around it really sells this.
Rating: 1.4 out of five stars. It’s for sale on Amazon.
Top comment:
“This may be the stupidest book ever written. Oh my god.”
re: #17 wrenchwench
I had never looked up the lyrics before, so today is the first time I understood they were singing “…The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz…”
In the desert you can remember your name
FOR THERE AIN’T NO ONE FOR TO GIVE YOU NO PAIN
AAAAAHHHHH
I’ll see your A Horse With No Name, Don’t Stop Believin’, and Crash Test Dummies and raise you a Rebecca Black - Friday
[…]
Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday
Today it is Friday, Friday (Partyin’)
We-we-we so excited
We so excited
We gonna have a ball todayTomorrow is Saturday
And Sunday comes after… wards
I don’t want this weekend to end[…]
The pain rides along with the nameless earwormhorse.
re: #13 jaunte
If any Trump-identifying rapists, tax cheats, serial fraudsters, or national defense secrets thieves get their feelings hurt over this ad,
fuckemgood, they should feel bad.
re: #14 Charles Johnson
A song I hate?
So many to choose from
“Puppy Love” by Donny Osmond
“Muskrat Love” by Captain & Tennille. Remember when they sang that at a state dinner for Queen Elizabeth and she winced…
“Having My Baby” by Paul Anka which my Jesusbot sister sang while picketing abortion clinics
William Shatner “singing” Rocket Man
Barbara Streisand singing Bowie’s “Life On Mars”
and the worst of all “The Ethel Merman Disco Album”
re: #6 lawhawk
Well, even considering (IMO) that you are 100% right here, the big problem is that in the contest between reality and political advertising, reality (unfortunately more often than not) usually ends up on its ass.
Case in point; the 45th President of the US….
And like it or not, the average American voter is unlikely to have the same grasp of economics as you, I, or most Lizards; and is going to be prone to consider their vote on the most simplistic appeal they get: i.e. on econ issues, incessant yammering about “Bidenflation” blared away at every opportunity, visa every medium out there. With the absence of credible solutions being noticeably un-emphasized….
My current listening to Don’t Stop Believing always ends the same…. fading to black.
re: #14 Charles Johnson
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“The Macarena.” That fucking song was EVERYWHERE when I was in high school and you could not escape it short of jamming knitting needles through your eardrums. There are many things I miss about the 90s, the music is definitely not one of them.
re: #23 Dr. Matt
I’ll see your A Horse With No Name, Don’t Stop Believin’, and Crash Test Dummies and raise you a Rebecca Black - Friday
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On the plus side, she actually was a pretty decent singer (looking at her later efforts).
apparently Geico won't insure the Cybertruck any more
old.reddit.com/r/cybertruck...
— e.w. niedermeyer (@niedermeyer.io) 2024-06-17T18:53:31.681Z
re: #18 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
They’re totally not a cult.
CHRISTTRUMP: Persecution of a Man (by Christopher John Molluso, published May 10, 2024, 172 pages)
The cover art on the paperback of a shaft of sunlight illuminating a Latin Cross with a red necktie around it really sells this.
Rating: 1.4 out of five stars. It’s for sale on Amazon.
Top comment:
“This may be the stupidest book ever written. Oh my god.”
It just occurred to me, that’s what they’ll say to excuse his performance at the debates: “He’s not babbling, he’s speaking in tongues! He IS the new Christ!”
re: #10 Charmingly Persistent
Maracas! And a bunch of other items that I don’t even know what they are!
The fellow on the right is using long-handled castanets. The fellow on the left is using a single-tone wood block (sound is made by scraping the ridges on it).
re: #28 Jay C
Well, even considering (IMO) that you are 100% right here, the big problem is that in the contest between reality and political advertising, reality (unfortunately more often than not) usually ends up on its ass.
Case in point; the 45th President of the US….And like it or not, the average American voter is unlikely to have the same grasp of economics as you, I, or most Lizards*; and is going to be prone to consider their vote on the most simplistic appeal they get: i.e. on econ issues, incessant yammering about “Bidenflation” blared away at every opportunity, visa every medium out there. With the absence of credible solutions being noticeably un-emphasized….
part of the problem with “inflation” as an issue is that it doesn’t really stop, it just slows down to an acceptable level. and the level of freakout that would happen if we ever entered an extended deflationary period would break what few brains haven’t been broken by the first quarter of the 21st century. instead, what ends up happening is a bunch of people complaining because what used to cost a dollar now costs a dollar fifty, or whatever.
re: #32 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
On the plus side, she actually was a pretty decent singer (looking at her later efforts).
Rebecca Black’s new album released two weeks ago (“Let Her Burn” on vinyl) is available signed by her at her new on-line merchandise store for $30. Unsigned $25.
rebeccablack.co
re: #36 KGxvi
part of the problem with “inflation” as an issue is that it doesn’t really stop, it just slows down to an acceptable level. and the level of freakout that would happen if we ever entered an extended deflationary period would break what few brains haven’t been broken by the first quarter of the 21st century. instead, what ends up happening is a bunch of people complaining because what used to cost a dollar now costs a dollar fifty, or whatever.
“Back in 1978 a candy bar was a nickel and gasoline was about 65¢.”
re: #39 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“Back in 1978 a candy bar was a nickel and gasoline was about 65¢.”
“Gas prices used to be under $2 in 2000!”
“Right, and what happened between then and now that would lead to higher gas prices?
“Oh, well, there was the War on Terror…two recessions…several OPEC production cuts…war in Ukraine…but really, we all know the true answer: Taxes and regulations! We get rid of those and gas will be cheaper than the 60s in no time!”
A song I hate that most people don’t hate:
Hotel California
After three notes I am hitting the radio buttons
re: #19 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
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For a minute I thought this was your entry to “songs I hate” and I was going to be so mad and confused
(Dave Brubeck Take Five)
re: #45 Joe Bacon ✅
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And someone once actually left a cake out in the rain at Mac Arthur Park…
Where’s the sweet green icing, though?
Breakfast of Champions (tm), no photos.
Coffee with Ovaltine and leftover cornbread from last night.
The latest from Crackhead Mike
Mike Lindell claims he tried to ‘get arrested’ for Jan. 6 — even though he wasn’t there
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell claimed in a recent interview that he asked to be arrested for the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, even though he wasn’t present at the time.
During a Sunday interview with right-wing broadcaster Mike Gallagher, Lindell recounted how the FBI presented him with a warrant for his phone in 2022 connected to a case about election tampering in Mesa County, Colorado.
Lindell pointed out that he was in a Hardee’s drive-thru when the FBI confronted him to take the phone into custody.
“So we pull over, and he goes, we’re not here to arrest you; we’re gonna ask you some questions,” Lindell said of the FBI agents. “Well, I wanted to get arrested… I kept going, no, you arrest me, I want to go to the January 6th.”
“I said, well, I told them I want to go, even though I wasn’t on January 6th, I want to go there and speak out what I know and everything, right?” he continued. “And so here I am telling them I want to get arrested. I preached, I talked to them about God in my book. I mean, I kept them there for two hours, you know?”
I’ve got silence on my radio
Let the airwaves flow, let the airwaves flow
re: #44 Charmingly Persistent
A song I hate that most people don’t hate:
Hotel California
After three notes I am hitting the radio buttons
The college I went to had a men’s dorm called California Hall. That song blasted from the windows about 19 hours per day.
“…Trump spoke at Turning Point USA’s “People Convention” after his visit to 180 Church in Detroit. At that event, Trump ally Jack Posobiec and a TPUSA staffer walked out on stage and unfurled a “White Boy Summer” flag and threw out hats with the same slogan.”
Watched “The Last Broadcast.” Definitely was not anticipating the ending. Well done! I can understand why lots of folks find it kind of a snooze fest. It is definitely a really slow burner until the last 10 minutes or so.
re: #53 jaunte
So nice to see Jack took his bedsheets and hood off before he hit the stage to do his White Boy shtick.
The Biden vote will still be strong
After the white boys of summer have gone
re: #40 Vicious Babushka
Someone left the cake out in the rain.
That song always fascinated my father. Whose cake was it? Why did they take it out in the rain? Why was the park melting? What is going on?
These were the questions he would ask every time it came on the radio (which was quite frequently that summer of 1968 during our commute to Manhattan)
re: #44 Charmingly Persistent
for me THAT song is Supertramp - The Logical Song… blech
Former Israeli Knesset member Moshe Feiglin quoted Adolf Hitler as he called for Israel to resettle the Gaza Strip and create a “Hebrew Gaza.”
Feiglin, who quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party to found the right-wing Zehut Party and plans to challenge Likud in Israel’s next elections, made the comments during a panel discussion on Israel’s Channel 12 that was shared on social media on Sunday, as Middle East Eye reported.
“We are not guests in our country, this is our country, all of it…” Feiglin said, adding, “As Hitler said, ‘I cannot live if one Jew is left.’ We can’t live here if one ‘Islamo-Nazi’ remains in Gaza.”
re: #58 BeachDem
That song always fascinated my father. Whose cake was it? Why did they take it out in the rain? Why was the park melting? What is going on?
These were the questions he would ask every time it came on the radio (which was quite frequently that summer of 1968 during our commute to Manhattan)
I always liked it. Still do.
As Picard said to Geordie after showing him an antique Singer machine, “Make it sew.”
That’s the tough thing about the future. You can’t make anything work unless you transfer power from the warp engines.
re: #63 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
I always liked it. Still do.
I think he liked it—he just “had questions.”
re: #61 goddamnedfrank
All I can say is the whole world is fucked up. We’re watching a global realignment (dare I say new world order?) and it’s terrifying.
re: #70 wrenchwench
Yeah, any person who worked with Rupert Murdoch is guaranteed to be a complete asshole with a shady past.
This band is amazing but could use a guitar player. Too bad Ginger Baker fired John McLaughlin a year or two before. Imagine getting fired from a band by Ginger Baker. Perhaps JM objected too much over all the heroin Bond and Baker were doing. In any case, the rhythm section finally quit and recruited a guitarist from John Mayall’s Blues Breakers and formed Cream. Graham Bond jumped in front of a subway train in 1974.
ex-trump advisor
“Robert Morris, founding pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, which attracts an estimated 100,000 worshipers weekly, has confessed to ‘inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady’ more than 35 years ago while he was a young pastor after a woman accused him of sexually abusing her over multiple years beginning when she was 12,” the Christian Post reports.
Morris was once named a “spiritual advisor” to Donald Trump.
not a trans, athiest, dem, etc.
re: #76 Dangerman
ex-trump advisor
not a trans, athiest, dem, etc.
‘Young lady’ Also known as a pre-teen girl.
re: #62 Eclectic Cyborg
Re: Dumbest lyrics
Who let the dogs out?
Who? Who? Who? Who?
Ya want dumb lyrics? I gotcher dumb lyrics right here!
na-na-na-na
na-na-na-na
hey-hey
goodbye.
re: #72 Charles Johnson
Yeah, any person who worked with Rupert Murdoch is guaranteed to be a complete asshole with a shady past.
Well. maybe not 100%: but with a background in the British Press, the likelihood goes up, considerably.
re: #52 wrenchwench
The college I went to had a men’s dorm called California Hall. That song blasted from the windows about 19 hours per day.
And yet you didn’t firebomb it? Such restraint
There was this song while I was waiting in line at CVS
why don’t we meet in the middle
why don’t we meet in the middle
why don’t we meet in the middle
why don’t we meet in the middle
why don’t we meet in the middle
why don’t we meet in the middle
re: #1 Charles Johnson
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Dare I say it? Dare! Dare!
Sounds as though someone is a bit of a …
snowflake!
re: #78 sizzzzlerz
Ya want dumb lyrics? I gotcher dumb lyrics right here!
na-na-na-na[-na-na-na]
na-na-na-na
hey-heyJude
goodbye.
times 18 or so
re: #80 Charmingly Persistent
And yet you didn’t firebomb it? Such restraint
My peers wouldn’t even let me kill an oak tree as a political statement. Even I draw the line at human endangerment. (Two in the group of trees I was targeting have since passed on their own.)
re: #78 sizzzzlerz
Ya want dumb lyrics? I gotcher dumb lyrics right here!
na-na-na-na
na-na-na-na
hey-hey
goodbye.
It’s shorthand for the proper response upon meeting various flavors of wingnut. Genius.
re: #81 Vicious Babushka
There was this song while I was waiting in line at CVS
why don’t we meet in the middle
why don’t we meet in the middle
why don’t we meet in the middle
why don’t we meet in the middle
why don’t we meet in the middle
why don’t we meet in the middle
Were you at the head of the line? At the end? I think not….
re: #78 sizzzzlerz
Ya want dumb lyrics? I gotcher dumb lyrics right here!
na-na-na-na
na-na-na-na
hey-hey
goodbye.
My dad has long had a theory that some songs are purposely designed so they can still easily be sung by very inebriated people.
See also: Louie, Louie. And the chorus of “Sweet Caroline”
re: #76 Dangerman
ex-trump advisor
not a trans, athiest, dem, etc.
rando: irish93
You know, I see all these articles about how evangelicals have had to psychologically “compartmentalize” to accept Trump—that is, they supposedly reluctantly accept his grossly immoral character simply as a vehicle for achieving their “moral” policy ends—but I think it’s high time we acknowledge that evangelicals are just as morally depraved and disgusting as Trump himself. They’re not compartmentalizing at all; they’ve found a kindred spirit in a liar and a rapist and a hypocrite and a grifter and a guy who all signs suggest would happily have banged his own teenage daughter given a quarter of a chance. It’s just sick fucks all the way down.
re: #81 Vicious Babushka
I get Country Western at the local Walgreens.
Your lips taste like sangria
Your lips taste like sangria
Your lips taste like sangria
Your lips taste like sangria
Your lips taste like sangria
Your lips taste like sangria
Your lips taste like sangria
Your lips taste like sangria
Get a room, Blake.
MSNBC plays montage of Republicans who are now endorsing Trump calling him a “sniveling coward,” “con artist,” “never liked him,” “put our lives at risk,” and more pic.twitter.com/Z51fQTgqlr
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) June 17, 2024
re: #89 Dangerman
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If the limit were height instead of age, and 5’ made it legal, Robert Morris attacked a three footer.
re: #76 Dangerman
ex-trump advisor
not a trans, athiest, dem, etc.
And twelve isn’t a “young lady.” That’s “girl.” As in child abuser.
re: #93 wrenchwench
If the limit were height instead of age, and 5’ made it legal, Robert Morris attacked a three footer.
Oh noes I am 4’10”
Turning Point USA just kicked out racist Nick Fuentes from their Detroit Michigan event. 😂 pic.twitter.com/0voqzkxbzS
— Eugene (@Democracy1stE) June 14, 2024
re: #96 gocart mozart
He got ejected because he’s embarrassing them, not because he’s a Nazi.
I’m surprised they could still be embarrassed at this point.
re: #98 Charles Johnson
He got ejected because he’s embarrassing them, not because he’s a Nazi.
I’m surprised they could still be embarrassed at this point.
I was going to say, TPUSA is essentially the Hitler Youth, at this point. Nick Fuentes is 100% one of them.
Brian Michael Gaherty, 61, from Houston, Texas, was sentenced Monday and fined $10,000 for his crimes, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California.
The release also noted that United States District Judge R. Gary Klausner found Gaherty specifically targeted Waters, who is Black, because of her race, and therefore added a hate-crime enhancement to his sentence.
…
In the August 2022 incidents, according to the release, Gaherty threatened to “put a cap” between Waters’ eyes, “cut [her] throat,” and “stomp” her.Authorities contacted Gaherty in October 2022, and warned him to leave Waters alone, according to the release. But a few weeks later, he continued to leave threatening messages on her office phone.
Gaherty left two more voicemails for Waters in November 2022, telling Waters that she “done [expletive] up” because she reported his prior threats to law enforcement and added “this ain’t no threat. It’s a … promise,” according to the release.
In those calls, he also threatened Waters that he would meet her “on the street” and “get in [her] face,” telling her “you better watch your back,” the release states. Gaherty also repeatedly warned Waters that he had a “crowd” nearby that could harm her.
More proof that conservatism is a mental disorder.
re: #91 Dangerman
MSNBC plays montage of Republicans who are now endorsing Trump calling him a “sniveling coward,” “con artist,” “never liked him,” “put our lives at risk,” and more
Biden HQ has been coming out hard for a while. It simply gets no traction with the usual media suspects.
re: #102 ericblair
Biden HQ has been coming out hard for a while. It simply gets no traction with the usual media suspects.
Is that an official Biden account or just campaign adjacent?
Yeah, uh, I think most people who have phones in the US are already doing this, but thanks for the advice, I guess.
So phones are basically just gonna keep getting shittier is the takeaway here?
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-17T21:08:53.000Z
re: #104 Charles Johnson
What are they telling you is that your cell phone carrier is powerless to stop the spam calls, so you better learn to put up with them.
re: #105 Eclectic Cyborg
What are they telling you is that your cell phone carrier is powerless to stop the spam calls, so you better learn to put up with them.
I have a landline in my office and get spam calls there as well. On average I get several week on my landline and 1 or more a day on my cell phone. It’s ridiculous.
re: #98 Charles Johnson
He won’t use the standard GOP issued dog whistle, and keeps shouting through his bullhorn. He has to learn how to keep more than one thing on the down low.
re: #104 Charles Johnson
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To me the phone is just this seldom used app on my phone.
And if you use it on me, I am furious.
How dare you?
You call me unprovoked out of the blue?
You text me first and see if I’m even accepting phone calls today.
- Gary Gulman
Katie Hopkins: “Trump will win in an 82 Million landslide… If they try to take it from him…We will fight, we will join the militia, and we’ll fight back… The storm is coming…”
Make no mistake: This is a threat of violence pic.twitter.com/rxXXy2e3sr— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) June 17, 2024
re: #105 Eclectic Cyborg
What are they telling you is that your cell phone carrier is powerless to stop the spam calls, so you better learn to put up with them.
First world problems. /s
Landline for the win.
re: #110 DodgerFan1988
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Except it is not a “call to imminent lawless action” as defined in the exception to the First Amendment. Exactly when and where are the shenanigans going to start? Yes, she is encouraging violence, but not in such a way that she can get in trouble.
I hate, hate, hate the script that scammers use when they call you.
“Hello, this is Ermentraude calling on a recorded line. How are you doing today?”
You a total stranger ask me how I’m doing today? Fuck off!
At least with the grandma calls there is a nonzero probability that it could be one of my actual grandkids.
re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
First world problems. /s
Landline for the win.
I left my landline up in Michigan. NOTHING BUT SCAM CALLS.
re: #114 Vicious Babushka
Same here. I had one a few days ago that was supposedly an invitation to a conference. I posted the number on find who calls you and since then they have racked up at least 2 FTC complaints and over 100 people reporting them.
re: #111 wrenchwench
Snohomish.
snohomishtribe.org
re: #117 Decatur Deb
My mistake—there is also a Swinomish tribe.
The cell phone spam issue hasn’t been fixed because powerful people don’t want it to be fixed, and Americans have just gotten accustomed to being scammed everywhere they fucking go, on every connected device they own.
And as I’m typing that, I just got another spam call.
re: #21 Charles Johnson
In the desert you can remember your name
FOR THERE AIN’T NO ONE FOR TO GIVE YOU NO PAINAAAAAHHHHH
Then there’s one about “the dirty dishes.”
I’m left scratching my head.
CNN senior political data reporter Harry Enten marveled at Donald Trump’s “historic” strength with Black voters on Monday morning, suggesting that Trump was on track to perform better with the demographic than any Republican presidential candidate in the last six decades.
The segment began with John Berman asking Enten “Where does the race stand among African-American voters right now?”
“I keep looking for this to change, to go back to a historical norm and it’s, simply put, has not yet,” replied Enten. “In 2020, Joe Biden was getting 86% of the African-American vote. Look at where it is now. It’s 70%, that’s a 16-point drop, John. And more than that, it’s not just that Joe Biden is losing ground, it’s that Donald Trump is gaining ground. You go from 7%, single digits at this point in 2020, to now 21%. And again, John, I keep looking for signs that this is going to go back to normal. And I don’t see it yet in the polling of anything.”
“Right now, we’re careening towards a historic performance for Republican presidential candidate, the likes of which we have not seen in six decades,” he added.
(more)
They’re still trying to make “fetch” happen at the home of radical centrism.
‘We Are Looking At a Historic Moment’: CNN’s Harry Enten Left ‘Speechless’ By Donald Trump’s Performance With Black Voters (June 17 via Mediaite from CNN)
re: #21 Charles Johnson
In the desert you can remember your name
FOR THERE AIN’T NO ONE FOR TO GIVE YOU NO PAINAAAAAHHHHH
In America’s defense, they were tripping balls pretty hard and put that shit straight into their songs unfiltered. Alligator lizards in the air?
re: #118 Decatur Deb
My mistake—there is also a Swinomish tribe.
‘ish’ means ‘the people of’. It’s usually a river that the people are of. I used to live about a quarter mile from the mouth of the Snohomish. There are many more ishes up there, and probably not as many as there used to be.
re: #119 Charles Johnson
The cell phone spam issue hasn’t been fixed because powerful people don’t want it to be fixed, and Americans have just gotten accustomed to being scammed everywhere they fucking go, on every connected device they own.
And as I’m typing that, I just got another spam call.
The plot of The Beekeeper with Jason Statham is him going John Wick on a scammy call center outfit.
Surprised that that movie didn’t break all sorts of records. Lots of people can identify with the sentiment.
The Korean War is something that Americans care to not remember.
When Trump was bragging about being pals with the NK man-baby, a kind of man-baby clique I suppose, that was as much coverage as NK gets. Contra the coverage the Japanese of course gives Korea.
The Cold War seems so distant now… even if Putin is trying to relive it.
re: #98 Charles Johnson
He got ejected because he’s embarrassing them, not because he’s a Nazi.
I’m surprised they could still be embarrassed at this point.
It would be interesting to see a poll of TPUSA attendees listing several topics on whether they agree/disagree with Fuentes’ statements including his most alarming ones. It would be a matter of course to see the Agree option 99% or even 100% with the vast majority.
This White Power convention loves the cruelty and racial entitlement. They just want it presented with what little remains of the mask.
re: #126 wrenchwench
‘ish’ means ‘the people of’. It’s usually a river that the people are of. I used to live about a quarter mile from the mouth of the Snohomish. There are many more ishes up there, and probably not an many as there used to be.
I knew of Snohomish from the “Snohomish door”, an aircraft modification made in that town. It lets the door of a Cessna fly up against the wing so jumpers can exit easily in cold weather.
re: #36 KGxvi
The biggest problem is that inflation is regarded as a ‘problem’. In my opinion, it’s not. It’s a diagnostic reading.
Having 0% inflation would be like having a room temperature body temp. Which is more commonly known as a corpse. A high body temp will cause a doctor to start looking for an infection of some type. But since inflation is a ‘problem’ economists treat the inflation rather than look for a cause.
As a result much of our treatment for inflation is on the same level as bleeding in medicine. Yeah, it works, kinda. But it can too often lead to a corpse.
I recall about forty years ago, when we still had a Progressive-Conservative party in Canada and it formed the federal government, it was decided that inflation had to be bought down to zero. Thanks to a ‘report’ from The Fraser Institute, Canada’s version of the Heritage Foundation.
Interest rates were jammed through the roof. In excess of twenty percent. It was the equivalent of jamming a pillow over the economy’s face. We’re still paying off debts at those rates.
And the Fraser Institute is still influential among the authoritarians and barbarians masquerading as conservatives. Oh, and the Progressive-Conservatives vanished from Canadian federal politics.
re: #130 Decatur Deb
I knew of Snohomish from the “Snohomish door”, an aircraft modification made in that town. It lets the door of a Cessna fly up against the wing so jumpers can exit easily in cold weather.
There’s also a Skykomish. I’d have relocated that whole aviation operation.
re: #104 Charles Johnson
I block all potential spam numbers and anyone that calls and doesn’t leave a message, especially if the area code is nowhere near where I spend time. That helps a lot.
I hadn’t been getting spam calls for a while, but they’ve seemed to tick up now that there’s an election coming up.
re: #42 Targetpractice
Thinking of a video I saw recently on Geoffrey DeHavilland.
Got his start in 1908 with a £1,000 advance on his inheritance. That would be close to $200,000 in today’s funds.
re: #133 KGxvi
I block all potential spam numbers and anyone that calls and doesn’t leave a message, especially if the area code is nowhere near where I spend time. That helps a lot.
I hadn’t been getting spam calls for a while, but they’ve seemed to tick up now that there’s an election coming up.
Triple A has an ID monitoring service included in the membership, and it recently notified me that my phone number had been found on a “dark web” site. I immediately began getting a flood of spam calls, even with AT&T spam filters set on vaporize.
re: #61 goddamnedfrank
What you resist, you become.
re: #131 Romantic Heretic
The biggest problem is that inflation is regarded as a ‘problem’. In my opinion, it’s not. It’s a diagnostic reading.
Having 0% inflation would be like having a room temperature body temp. Which is more commonly known as a corpse. A high body temp will cause a doctor to start looking for an infection of some type. But since inflation is a ‘problem’ economists treat the inflation rather than look for a cause.
As a result much of our treatment for inflation is on the same level as bleeding in medicine. Yeah, it works, kinda. But it can too often lead to a corpse.
I recall about forty years ago, when we still had a Progressive-Conservative party in Canada and it formed the federal government, it was decided that inflation had to be bought down to zero. Thanks to a ‘report’ from The Fraser Institute, Canada’s version of the Heritage Foundation.
Interest rates were jammed through the roof. In excess of twenty percent. It was the equivalent of jamming a pillow over the economy’s face. We’re still paying off debts at those rates.
And the Fraser Institute is still influential among the authoritarians and barbarians masquerading as conservatives. Oh, and the Progressive-Conservatives vanished from Canadian federal politics.
my understanding of economics is through the prism of a political science degree and a law degree… so, grain of salt, but… i think the smart way to look at inflation is in relation to other economic indicators - particularly wage growth and unemployment. if we have low unemployment, and wage growth is keeping up or beating inflation, then we are good. it’s when unemployment and inflation go up and wage growth doesn’t keep up (the dreaded stagflation of the late 70s), that we are fucked.
re: #137 KGxvi
my understanding of economics is through the prism of a political science degree and a law degree… so, grain of salt, but… i think the smart way to look at inflation is in relation to other economic indicators - particularly wage growth and unemployment. if we have low unemployment, and wage growth is keeping up or beating inflation, then we are good. it’s when unemployment and inflation go up and wage growth doesn’t keep up (the dreaded stagflation of the late 70s), that we are fucked.
That’s the balance the Fed is tasked with keeping. Which is why the wingnuts want to destroy it.
re: #110 DodgerFan1988
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it is inconceivable that he doesn’t win
“If they try to take it from him” = if he doesnt ‘win’
re: #69 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’d argue that the world, in political terms, is returning to the 19th Century. No international legal order. Only ‘coalitions of the willing’.
All the major powers will force all the lesser ones into alliances for ‘their own safety’. Then, one day, the heir to the Austrian Throne will be murdered in Serbia and the dominoes will start falling.
I’ll be blunt. I blame George W. Bush for this state of affairs. The invasion of Iraq was specifically meant to overturn the international legal order, and it succeeded.
Sigh.
re: #114 Vicious Babushka
I hate, hate, hate the script that scammers use when they call you.
“Hello, this is Ermentraude calling on a recorded line. How are you doing today?”
You a total stranger ask me how I’m doing today? Fuck off!
At least with the grandma calls there is a nonzero probability that it could be one of my actual grandkids.
if they say is this so-and-so or just say my name outright i never, ever acknowledge it’s me
my first question is ‘who is this calling’
if i dont get a clear answer, i hang up
if i get a clear answer 99% of the time i hang up anyway
i do not accept the premise that i have to tell them anything
CNN never fails. Their headline as found on Yahoo:
Even in the text body CNN points out:
On per-capita murders, it has ranked fairly high — 19th out of 70 jurisdictions in the US — during the first half of this year, according to the Major Cities Chiefs Association. The city ranked even higher on other per-capita crime measures, such as robbery (4th), rape (8th) and aggravated assault (13th).
Of course there are too many murders - one is too many - but being 19th on a list of 70 almost puts it in the middle third.
re: #110 DodgerFan1988
Isn’t Katie Hopkins a Brit?
re: #119 Charles Johnson
The cell phone spam issue hasn’t been fixed because powerful people don’t want it to be fixed, and Americans have just gotten accustomed to being scammed everywhere they fucking go, on every connected device they own.
And as I’m typing that, I just got another spam call.
take this from last thread
“phone companies can’t do anything about spam calls” is a myth made up by phone companies so we won’t ask them to do something about spam calls.
re: #115 Vicious Babushka
I left my landline up in Michigan. NOTHING BUT SCAM CALLS.
I keep my landline because it’s more expensive to get rid of it. It’s unplugged.
re: #44 Charmingly Persistent
A song I hate that most people don’t hate:
Hotel California
After three notes I am hitting the radio buttons
My english teacher debate coach in high school was that way about “Stairway to Heaven” after working his way through college as a bar DJ.
This is a hoot. I just checked my front door and I finally got my mail for today. Another one of those mailers from Securing American Greatness. Joe has dementia.
If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-17T21:55:15.000Z
re: #142 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
CNN never fails. Their headline as found on Yahoo:
Even in the text body CNN points out:
Of course there are too many murders - one is too many - but being 19th on a list of 70 almost puts it in the middle third.
I read the article, to the point where I found what I was looking for:
It has cooled somewhat this year…
They selected a period of time to fit their agenda. It is not the most recent period.
re: #147 PhillyPretzel ✅
They have to get as much of that messaging out as possible before the 27th, when everyone witnesses the great Trump debate failure.
re: #127 JC1
I wondered why it took so long for Hollywood to make that movie.
re: #150 jaunte
Last time Biden “debated” him, Trump just ranted and babbled all over him. It’s gonna be two old dudes yelling at each other with moderators not doing shit to moderate, is my prediction.
re: #149 wrenchwench
Crime statistics as utilized in media are perhaps the best examples of the misuse of statistics for illustrative purposes.
If you do a good search for murder rates for US cities you will find an endless assortment of claims.
Digging deeper, you will find that the periods under consideration are whatever a writer wants, and rankings done by whatever the writer wishes to paint.
Is it per capita (100k) that matters most, or the change? Quarterly? Yearly?
Often manipulated then are the applications of the statistics, such as that Democratic Party dominated cities have higher crime rates.
Journalism has a long history of being dodgy, and it never fails to provide examples.
re: #152 Charles Johnson
They need a plexiglas isolation box for the disruptor.
I’m hoping Biden has a plan to push Trump’s buttons so hard his head explodes like Scanners.
re: #152 Charles Johnson
Last time Biden “debated” him, Trump just ranted and babbled all over him. It’s gonna be two old dudes yelling at each with moderators not doing shit to moderate, is my prediction.
Unless Joe brings his aviators…
re: #152 Charles Johnson
Last time Biden “debated” him, Trump just ranted and babbled all over him. It’s gonna be two old dudes yelling at each other with moderators not doing shit to moderate, is my prediction.
From I read the rules include turning off the person’t mic when it isn’t their turn. Trump can still holler but people won’t be able to hear him very well
Trump is going to feel diminished without his crowd. He’ll be reading fawning printouts until zero hour.
Asked by Peter Doocy of Fox News about report that Biden shouted and swore at negative polling over his handling of war in Gaza, Sullivan replies: “This is the when did you stop beating your wife question… I’ve never seen him do that, shout or swear in response to that.”
— David Smith (@SmithInAmerica) March 18, 2024
“The White House on Monday blasted a string of altered videos that purported to show President Biden wandering or standing in a state of confusion, calling the footage ‘bad faith’ and a sign of desperation from Biden’s critics,” NewsNation reports.
re: #23 Dr. Matt
I’ll see your A Horse With No Name, Don’t Stop Believin’, and Crash Test Dummies and raise you a Rebecca Black - Friday
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I think you are required to multiply the proportional silliness by the performer’s age to get the absolute silliness.
Coach Tommy was asked about exempting tips from taxable income.
Of course, Tommy fucks up when answering.
Putin appoints his niece, billionaire Anna Tsivileva as Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister. https://t.co/DAcGhHnDu8
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) June 17, 2024
re: #149 wrenchwench
I read the article, to the point where I found what I was looking for:
They selected a period of time to fit their agenda. It is not the most recent period.
And it’s an article originally written in 2022 (didn’t take the time to check what the updates were, but what a bunch of bullshit)
LOL dropping this here even though there’s a new thread. What a snowflake…
re: #152 Charles Johnson
Last time Biden “debated” him, Trump just ranted and babbled all over him. It’s gonna be two old dudes yelling at each other with moderators not doing shit to moderate, is my prediction.
Yep, but I guarantee you Biden could still destroy Paul Ryan in a debate.
re: #146 William Lewis
My english teacher debate coach in high school was that way about “Stairway to Heaven” after working his way through college as a bar DJ.
Obligatory:
re: #16 KGxvi
I’m not sure I have any song that I hate… there are a few that are highly dangerous earworm songs, but I don’t necessarily hate them. High on that list would be:
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I went to Pentecostal church when I was young. This song was rather meaningful for me.
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