CNN: We Support Mehdi Hassan Calling Every Right-Leaning Person a "Nazi" but When a Guest Responds In Kind By Saying "I Hope Your Beeper Doesn't Go Off," That's Worth a Lifetime Ban

He also does the crybully thing of claiming that Ryan Girdusky said that he should die.

He didn't.

He said "I hope your beeper doesn't go off."

It's a well-taken, well-sourced joke about Mehdi Hassan being a straight-up terrorist propagandist.

You can say that all Republicans are Nazis, but when you call an actual agent of foreign terror-supporting regimes a terror-supporter, well, CNN can't allow that.

Mehdi Hasan is a terror apologist who calls half of Americans, including @RyanGirdusky, Nazis, and then received a throwaway joke about beepers in response. And CNN's response is to ban Girdusky while begging Hasan to return to their airwaves. Sounds about right. https://t.co/v8xxGTNooE
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 29, 2024

Max Abrahms
@MaxAbrahms
It is fine to call anyone on the political right a Nazi.
It is not okay to call an antisemitic Qatar agent who runs PR for terrorists a terrorist.

Even this liberalish libertarian gets it:

Robby Soave
@robbysoave
Last time I was on TV with Ryan Girdusky, he said I don't care about victims of migrant crime and I told him to go fuck himself. It was spicy!
That said, I have a hard time understanding why Mehdi Hasan--a bad faith debater if ever there was one--gets to insinuate that everyone he disagrees with is a Nazi, but a (tasteless, to be clear) joke about him supporting terrorism is beyond the pale.

He's not a liberal, I should say. But I think he's definitely liberalish. He tends to worry about the checklist of Luxury Worries of liberals, even though he chides them for being silly.

Noah Pollak
@NoahPollak
Mehdi Hassan is probably not an actual terrorist in the sense of having participated in a terrorist attack. But he is funded by a terrorist regime and he has devoted his entire career to promoting terrorism and hatred and the fact that CNN has him on the air is the real scandal.

CNN is now defaming Girdusky as a "bigot" and "racist," while pleading with the terrorist-supporting, terror-regime-funded Mehdi Hassan to please come back to their network to propagandize for Hamas some more.

And of course: Please come on CNN to defame anyone who disagrees with you, the guy who wants to murder all Jews in Israel and drive them into the sea, a "Nazi."

Delete your pager account https://t.co/3uGz6gG22u
— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) October 29, 2024

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:14 PM

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1 I'll call 'em

Posted by: IrishEi at October 29, 2024 03:13 PM (3ImbR)

2 Yeah, but the next story on CNN is fine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 03:14 PM (GBKbO)

3 Thanks for the nood, IrishEi.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024 03:15 PM (O7YUW)

4 First!

Posted by: Michael the Texan at October 29, 2024 03:15 PM (vTZlU)

5 th

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2024 03:16 PM (V13WU)

6 So Gidursky bombed on CNN?

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 03:16 PM (QAK8m)

7 That's the best CNN banning line since Clay Travis "I believe in the 1st Amendment and Boobs"

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 03:16 PM (CIS44)

8 Jeepers, another ghetto bitch slapping contest.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 29, 2024 03:17 PM (AdHga)

9 Isn't it refreshing to have people on the right who are willing to push back?

Trump as the leader of the party is the greatest thing to happen to Republicans since Reagan decided to run for Gov of California.

Posted by: Shenanigans at October 29, 2024 03:17 PM (pZ0Mr)

10 this one pisses me off

Mehdi was being VERY aggressive; Ryan responded gently to it, if anything.

I guess anything other than bending over for them is not allowed?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2024 03:17 PM (s3qiR)

11 That's a great line.

Thanks ace for making me laugh before I go back to mowing leaves.

I'm pulling a Kamala and having beer, water and coffee to get me through this.

Posted by: Stateless at October 29, 2024 03:17 PM (jvJvP)

12 The left has no sense of humor. Totally devoid.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2024 03:17 PM (Aqu9a)

13 Wait a moment. CNN banned someone for life? From what may I ask? Is that person somehow going to miss out on something valuable? No? Then what?

Posted by: Ciampino - I don't get it. at October 29, 2024 03:18 PM (i0xsb)

14
No harm done. No one was watching anyway.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2024 03:18 PM (EsZUh)

15 It is getting sporty.

Not quite to walking sticks on the Senate floor, but we're getting closer.

Posted by: Sifty at October 29, 2024 03:18 PM (3AnWq)

16 >>>I guess anything other than bending over for them is not allowed?

correct.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 03:19 PM (KRtlO)

17 LMAO.

I'll be bummed if they manage the steal a second time, because this next four years is proving out to be glorious, if this is any indication.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2024 03:19 PM (D3+QX)

18 Yeah, I'm not going to take civility lectures from people who've been calling me a white supremacist and neo-nazi for my entire adult political life. They may instead suck dicks in hell, like their whore ancestors.

Posted by: Fuck Them and Their Cunt Children at October 29, 2024 03:19 PM (y+Syu)

19 I guess anything other than bending over for them is not allowed?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2024 03:17 PM (s3qiR)

Scott Jennings is walking the thin line right now. He was told to shut up the other day when he brought up Dougie "I'll Slap a Bitch" Emhoff.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 03:20 PM (CIS44)

20 Willowed, the tweet is too god not to share:
>>> Kamala Harris
Earlier this week, I challenged Donald Trump to take a cognitive test. Knowing he is too much of a coward to put his money where his mouth is -- all those bankruptcies do add up! -- I took the lead. Today we received the results. On the standard Mensa IQ test I scored a 95, which is an A+. Your move, Donald.

Snopes can't prove one way or the other if the rumor she scored a 78 on an IQ test while attending Howard is false. Snopes, of all groups! So it's just as true as her now claiming she's scored a 95 on an IQ test.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/harris-iq-score-78/

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 03:20 PM (QAK8m)

21 They may instead suck dicks in hell, like their whore ancestors.
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Snort. Join the club.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 29, 2024 03:20 PM (AdHga)

22 Hoping my bieber doesn't turn state's evidence.

Posted by: P Diddy at October 29, 2024 03:20 PM (5NvDA)

23 >>> Kamala Harris
Earlier this week, I challenged Donald Trump to take a cognitive test. Knowing he is too much of a coward to put his money where his mouth is -- all those bankruptcies do add up! -- I took the lead. Today we received the results. On the standard Mensa IQ test I scored a 95, which is an A+. Your move, Donald.

wait that's a joke right

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2024 03:21 PM (s3qiR)

24 Never heard of this Girdusky guy, but I was immediately disappointed by the way he backpedaled and apologized. Fuck that. Smash the gas pedal and meet their feigned outrage attack head-on.

Posted by: PabloD at October 29, 2024 03:21 PM (tShuD)

25 A 95 isn't much of a bragging right. I scored 130 and I consider myself high average.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 29, 2024 03:22 PM (pohLc)

26 >>> .CNN: We Support Mehdi Hassan Calling Every Right-Leaning Person a "Nazi" but When a Guest Responds In Kind By Saying "I Hope Your Beeper Doesn't Go Off," That's Worth a Lifetime Ban

====
What?!
He said he hopes it doesn't go off.
Sheesh,

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 29, 2024 03:22 PM (/lPRQ)

27 24 Never heard of this Girdusky guy, but I was immediately disappointed by the way he backpedaled and apologized. Fuck that. Smash the gas pedal and meet their feigned outrage attack head-on.
--------------
Pulling their entrails out on TeeVee would get some ratings.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 29, 2024 03:22 PM (AdHga)

28 As we said when we were teens " What a burn"

or "Molded"

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 29, 2024 03:22 PM (NtVYv)

29 Awww, Teri Garr is mort at 79.

Film Society is showing "Young Frankenstein" tonight.
That will be bittersweet.

Posted by: sal at October 29, 2024 03:22 PM (f+FmA)

30 >That said, I have a hard time understanding why Mehdi Hasan--a bad faith debater if ever there was one--gets to insinuate that everyone he disagrees with is a Nazi, but a (tasteless, to be clear) joke about him supporting terrorism is beyond the pale.
---

easy
it's CNN's court and CNN's ball

CNN's rules

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2024 03:22 PM (/7KEl)

31 I'd say getting banned from CNN is a low price to pay for getting off a bon mot like that. I'd leave grinning.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 29, 2024 03:23 PM (wzAuc)

32 Mehdi Hassan is probably not an actual terrorist in the sense of having participated in a terrorist attack.

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You mean, like, Osama bin Laden?

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 03:23 PM (THzoa)

33 "CNN is now defaming Girdusky as a "bigot" and "racist," while pleading with the terrorist-supporting, terror-regime-funded Mehdi Hassan to please come back to their network to propagandize for Hamas some more."

---

CNN, just like the neocons, knows you can't criticize Qatar. You can celebrate Sinwar's death, you can laugh about the beepers, but Qatar is off limits.

Gee, I wonder why.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 29, 2024 03:23 PM (dGCAG)

34 The left has no sense of humor. Totally devoid.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Incorrect. They have a sense of anti-humor; aka bathos. Their religion demands reacting to an inverted reality and character.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 29, 2024 03:23 PM (IG4Id)

35 From weft-cut loop:
JUST IN - Irish President signs Helen McEntee's "Hate Offences" bill into law, recognizing infinite genders and imposing criminal penalties for "hatred" against ethnic, sexual, and gender groups.

Can Conor McGregor just get voted in president of Ireland now, and clean up his country? I hope he's serious about running.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 03:23 PM (QAK8m)

36 The Devil cannot stand to be mocked.

Is it any surprise that his children share a similar weakness?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2024 03:23 PM (N1DT3)

37 Willowed:

Kamala Harris
@KamalaHarris
3h

Earlier this week, I challenged Donald Trump to take a cognitive test. Knowing he is too much of a coward to put his money where his mouth is -- all those bankruptcies do add up! -- I took the lead.

Today we received the results. On the standard Mensa IQ test I scored a 95, which is an A+.

Your move, Donald.

Unfortunately Kamala didn't take the Mensa Test, -

She took The Mensuck Test..

The upside?

She did indeed score an A+.

Willie Brown called to congratulate her on this accomplishment.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2024 03:23 PM (eDfFs)

38 Alternate Response -

If I really was a NAZI you'd love me.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 29, 2024 03:23 PM (/lPRQ)

39 The left has no sense of humor. Totally devoid.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2024 03:17 PM (Aqu9a)

Well, when you're convinced that this crummy world is all there is, and you fundamentally misunderstand your fellow humans in your frustrating push for utopia, what's there to laugh about?

Posted by: pookysgirl, always philosophical at October 29, 2024 03:24 PM (dtlDP)

40 Betcha everyone who comments here is WELL above the national IQ average…

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2024 03:24 PM (PCK5/)

41 Was Terri Garr the one with the great knockers?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 29, 2024 03:24 PM (kTd/k)

42 Mehdi Hassan is probably not an actual terrorist in the sense of having participated in a terrorist attack.

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You mean, like, Osama bin Laden?
Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 03:23 PM (THzoa)

Stalin didn't actually shoot any of his political opponents in the head, but.....

Posted by: BurtTC at October 29, 2024 03:24 PM (dGCAG)

43 Afternoon.

Posted by: Robert at October 29, 2024 03:24 PM (Nyvo6)

44 Betcha everyone who comments here is WELL above the national IQ average…
Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2024 03:24 PM (PCK5/)

Well besides Mary and BEN..

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 03:24 PM (CIS44)

45 Who is Mehdi Hassan? I mean, I know who this goat-raping, terror-adjacent, deodorant-less, little shart of a man is. But does anyone else? The best thing that ever happened to him was being told that his pager might go off.

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at October 29, 2024 03:25 PM (iFTx/)

46 I am astounded that anyone with that level of humour was even allowed on CNN. I am even more astounded that anyone still watches CNN.

Posted by: Decaf at October 29, 2024 03:25 PM (unUNN)

47 The double standard is this easy.

1. You have to have 100% proof that a Democrat could have done no other than lie about something. (They might not have known it wasn't true!)

2. The argument against somebody expressing that Trump might have lied is: "C'mon! You KNOW he did!"

C'mon is their argument.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 03:25 PM (krQz2)

48 Rashida Talib (D)
Representative for House District 666:
Gaza Strip

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2024 03:25 PM (wrmXa)

49 95 is an A+?!?!

wow

um

really?!?

I've been tested many times (in person not by Mensa)

what am I like a super genius?!?!

I'm not going to say b/c it would seem weird

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2024 03:25 PM (s3qiR)

50 Mehdi Hassan is probably not an actual terrorist in the sense of having participated in a terrorist attack.

--------------

You mean, like, Osama bin Laden?
Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 03:23 PM (THzoa)

Stalin didn't actually shoot any of his political opponents in the head, but.....
Posted by: BurtTC at October 29, 2024 03:24 PM (dGCAG)

Goebbels didn't actually gas anyone.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 29, 2024 03:25 PM (dGCAG)

51 Hamas put babies in ovens; 80 years earlier Nazis put babies in ovens. Sounds like Hasan, the Hamas cheerleader, is the true Nazi.

Posted by: EveR at October 29, 2024 03:25 PM (Z/h4+)

52 Very apropos....

Kill Tony Questions Muslim Comic....

https://tinyurl.com/23kv4vft

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2024 03:25 PM (XV/Pl)

53 Where's Hassan's chin?

Dude looks like a fucking Simpson's character.

Posted by: Robert at October 29, 2024 03:25 PM (Nyvo6)

54 Was Terri Garr the one with the great knockers?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 29, 2024

***
If you take Dr. Fronk-en-shteen's word for it!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 03:26 PM (J2vNu)

55 Betcha everyone who comments here is WELL above the national IQ average…
Posted by: tubal

I just farted.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 29, 2024 03:26 PM (IG4Id)

56 >Betcha everyone who comments here is WELL above the national IQ average…
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I dunno
I once pointed my truck key fob at my front door and pushed the button

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2024 03:26 PM (/7KEl)

57 >>Was Terri Garr the one with the great knockers?

There Wolf.

There Amazing Knockers.

Posted by: Marty Feldman at October 29, 2024 03:26 PM (wrmXa)

58 "All of Gaza is on brink of famine."

Yet, somehow, I just can't seem to care...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2024 03:26 PM (7fElN)

59 CNN is the Doug Henning of Siegfried and Roys.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at October 29, 2024 03:26 PM (pIfcn)

60 >>> >>> Scott Jennings is walking the thin line right now. He was told to shut up the other day when he brought up Dougie "I'll Slap a Bitch" Emhoff.

Oh, I need to see that...link?

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 03:26 PM (QAK8m)

61 You can say that all Republicans are Nazis

We don't just say, we believe!

Posted by: Denizens of Democratic Underground at October 29, 2024 03:26 PM (a3Q+t)

62

Very stable genius

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 29, 2024 03:26 PM (NtVYv)

63 40 Betcha everyone who comments here is WELL above the national IQ average…

holy hell - what is the average?

my one kid is teased by the other two b/c tested only as high as 135

I thought they had a point?!?! if it were 95 I would have not paid for college!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2024 03:26 PM (s3qiR)

64 YouTube is totally censoring Rogan's interview with Trump.

When I typed in "Rogan Trump", it wouldn't be able to find clips of the podcast. As if that's an accident.

Trump better go after Tech companies (if he wins).

Posted by: Lacra at October 29, 2024 03:26 PM (4pwAx)

65 He apologized on air. Bad form.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 29, 2024 03:26 PM (/U5Yz)

66 IQ 95 is an A+ ? For Idiots right? I would like a president who was a bit more intelligent than the average person.

Posted by: Ciampino - I still don't get it. at October 29, 2024 03:26 PM (i0xsb)

67 Teri Garr was a sweetie
Phoebe's mom!

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2024 03:27 PM (/7KEl)

68 I own the air. You need to be fined for using more than your share of air.
Also there's liar's tax.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at October 29, 2024 03:27 PM (J8LnB)

69 The left is on a razor's edge as far as mental health goes.

We've all seen the TDS videos.

Lots of them are older white women but there is enough insanity to go around.

Be careful out there.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2024 03:27 PM (jyAD3)

70 And they banned him without so much as a threatening phone call from Brennan.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 29, 2024 03:27 PM (U/yhi)

71 Wait a moment. CNN banned someone for life? From what may I ask? Is that person somehow going to miss out on something valuable? No? Then what?

You meanie! You're saying that to hurt me, personally!

Posted by: CNN Plus at October 29, 2024 03:27 PM (1Idb6)

72 63 40 Betcha everyone who comments here is WELL above the national IQ average…

holy hell - what is the average?

my one kid is teased by the other two b/c tested only as high as 135

I thought they had a point?!?! if it were 95 I would have not paid for college!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2024 03:26 PM (s3qiR)

========

Median IQ is definitionally 100. Mean should be right about there, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

73 Goebbels didn't actually gas anyone.
------------
This is true.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 29, 2024 03:27 PM (AdHga)

74 Trump better go after Tech companies (if he wins).

Posted by: Lacra

Fat chance.

Posted by: Jim Jordan's Wife Beater at October 29, 2024 03:27 PM (/U5Yz)

75 I just farted.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 29, 2024 03:26 PM

* fistbump *

Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA & Cuck-CCP) at October 29, 2024 03:28 PM (a3Q+t)

76 >>> 65 He apologized on air. Bad form.

I apologize...that you are so thin skinned you can't even take a joke.

Posted by: Correct Answer at October 29, 2024 03:28 PM (QAK8m)

77 Willowed, the tweet is too god not to share:
>>> Kamala Harris
Earlier this week, I challenged Donald Trump to take a cognitive test. Knowing he is too much of a coward to put his money where his mouth is -- all those bankruptcies do add up! -- I took the lead. Today we received the results. On the standard Mensa IQ test I scored a 95, which is an A+. Your move, Donald.

Snopes can't prove one way or the other if the rumor she scored a 78 on an IQ test while attending Howard is false. Snopes, of all groups! So it's just as true as her now claiming she's scored a 95 on an IQ test.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/harris-iq-score-78/
Posted by: LizLem
====

If that tweet is real then her IQ really is closer to 78.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 29, 2024 03:28 PM (/lPRQ)

78 "All of Gaza is on brink of famine."

Yet, somehow, I just can't seem to care...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2024 03:26 PM (7fElN)

Gaze, ye, upon this vast field of fucks for it is barren.

Posted by: Robert at October 29, 2024 03:28 PM (Nyvo6)

79 And of course: Please come on CNN to defame anyone who disagrees with you, the guy who wants to murder all Jews in Israel and drive them into the sea, a "Nazi."

--------------

BREAKING: Al Jazeera Offers to Purchase CNN for one Qatari riyal. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 03:28 PM (THzoa)

80 Scott Jennings is walking the thin line right now. He was told to shut up the other day when he brought up Dougie "I'll Slap a Bitch" Emhoff.

Oh, I need to see that...link?
Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 03:26 PM (QAK8m)

I don't have X so can't search it. It was floating around here last week I think.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 03:28 PM (CIS44)

81 I saw the video of the hostess prostrating herself before the audience who had to endure the horrific thing that was said, with of course no hint whatsoever of what was said. I assumed it wasn't as horrible as she was insinuating, but I also had no way of knowing it was so boss.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 29, 2024 03:28 PM (wzAuc)

82 Muslims have this habit of cutting off heads. This may have affected the decision.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at October 29, 2024 03:28 PM (Z8Yh2)

83 TJM I am clearly out of touch on this stuff

I still aver that sub 100 there's no need for college - trade school sure, maybe nursing school or something technical? no one under 100 should be getting a law degree

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2024 03:28 PM (s3qiR)

84 I once pointed my truck key fob at my front door and pushed the button

Did it work? Please tell me it worked.

Lie if you have to.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at October 29, 2024 03:28 PM (1Idb6)

85 Mensa is gay. It's basically a coed pseudo academic frat for maladjusted social tards who want to congratulate themselves on what towering intellects they are while they lead mediocre, nondescript lives like everyone else in the burbs.

Posted by: I'm Special and Have a Test to Prove It at October 29, 2024 03:28 PM (y+Syu)

86 So calling someone a member of Hezbollah is worse then calling someone a NAZI?

That's interesting math right there since they also wouldn't let a NAZI on the air does that mean they will also ban Hezbollah/Hamas supporters?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2024 03:28 PM (oZhjI)

87 72

Median IQ is definitionally 100. Mean should be right about there, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah. Protip.. do NOT check out the national IQ averages of our uninvited guests…

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2024 03:29 PM (PCK5/)

88 The pager joke was funny too.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at October 29, 2024 03:29 PM (Z8Yh2)

89 Kamala charging an electric vehicle asks "how do I know it's actually working?" because she can't hear the "guzzling sound."

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 29, 2024 03:29 PM (/U5Yz)

90 1. You can't accuse Obama of a lie (and even if he "sort-of" lied, it was for your own good!)

2. Every Republican lies. It's what they do. Why are you such a cultist you don't think Republicans CAN LIE! THEY LIKE ALL THE TIME!

Also, it is proof because they believe a conservative lied, they could have only done it FOR THEMSELVES. There is no other reason--just like there can be no other reason to hold a rally at NYC Nazi building 85 years from the last Nazi Rally (in a different season, in a different segment of the election cycle) than to say YAY HITLER!

You KNOW it, you just CAN'T ADMIT it.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 03:29 PM (krQz2)

91 83 TJM I am clearly out of touch on this stuff

I still aver that sub 100 there's no need for college - trade school sure, maybe nursing school or something technical? no one under 100 should be getting a law degree
Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2024 03:28 PM (s3qiR)

=======

You don't serious believe that Kamala is bragging about a 95 IQ, right?

I mean, her campaign is terrible, but it's not that terrible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 03:29 PM (GBKbO)

92 Perhaps they could offer Hassan the position of CNN Bureau Chief for Beirut.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at October 29, 2024 03:29 PM (Vyll1)

93 80 Scott Jennings is walking the thin line right now. He was told to shut up the other day when he brought up Dougie "I'll Slap a Bitch" Emhoff.

Oh, I need to see that...link?
Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 03:26 PM (QAK8m)

I don't have X so can't search it. It was floating around here last week I think.
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 03:28 PM (CIS44)

Saw the clip. He wasn't specifically told to shut up, they all just acted indignant as if he had made the whole thing up. Typical lib bullshit.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 29, 2024 03:29 PM (KbCG3)

94 "I hope your beeper doesn't go off."

LOL

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 29, 2024 03:30 PM (gDlxJ)

95 "if it were 95 I would have not paid for college!"

Apply at any HBCU, as a minority.

With that score and and sat above room temp, it's a shoo-in.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 29, 2024 03:30 PM (a1415)

96 >Today we received the results. On the standard Mensa IQ test I scored a 95, which is an A+.
---

all jokes aside, why would we believe this even happened

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2024 03:30 PM (/7KEl)

97 I can't not-watch CNN any harder than I already am.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024 03:30 PM (O7YUW)

98 You don't serious believe that Kamala is bragging about a 95 IQ, right?

lol ok that was my first thought that it was parody!!!

whew

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2024 03:30 PM (s3qiR)

99 I guess anything other than bending over for them is not allowed?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2024 03:17 PM (s3qiR)

What, was Mehdi convinced Ryan was a goat?

Posted by: pookysgirl with the early 2000s jokes at October 29, 2024 03:30 PM (dtlDP)

100 Girdusky was banned by CNN for being offensive, the same CNN that insults more than half of all Americans by calling them sexists, racists, fascists, Nazis simply for disagreeing with the CNN-approved politics.

CNN has not had a thoughtful debate on anything since 2001.

Posted by: Decaf at October 29, 2024 03:30 PM (unUNN)

101 War crimes?

Posted by: Oven-roasted babies at October 29, 2024 03:30 PM (w9Wax)

102 96 >Today we received the results. On the standard Mensa IQ test I scored a 95, which is an A+.
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all jokes aside, why would we believe this even happened
Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2024 03:30 PM (/7KEl)

Because she framed the test results and hung it right next to her first paycheck from McDonald's.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 29, 2024 03:30 PM (KbCG3)

103 Yeah. Protip.. do NOT check out the national IQ averages of our uninvited guests…
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How low can you go?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 29, 2024 03:31 PM (AdHga)

104 no one under 100 should be getting a law degree
Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2024 03:28 PM

This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Hawaiian Judges at October 29, 2024 03:31 PM (a3Q+t)

105 If Israel starts blasting off the dicks of American journalists - for any reason, or no reason - I will have nothing to say about it?

Does CNN think human beings give a shit if their swinish employees are murdered?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2024 03:31 PM (7oYYI)

106 Is it possible to spam Tlaibs X page with ads from pager companies. I'd live that.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2024 03:31 PM (0qcUc)

107 A couple more f months ago I saw a video of Mehdi Hasan giving a talk a few years back to an Islamic group. In he said that infidels must be destroyed and Islam must rule. Standard Koran stuff but CNN protecting him is like keeping a fox in the henhouse

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2024 03:31 PM (aRslG)

108 Mehdi Hassan is probably not an actual terrorist in the sense of having participated in a terrorist attack.

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You mean, like, Osama bin Laden?
Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again!

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OBL was not on the plane(s). So, yes, just like OBL really was not a terrorist-terrorist. Just Number One Fan.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 29, 2024 03:31 PM (/lPRQ)

109 Given the viral clips I’ve seen of Ryan Gidursky scooping the rest of the panel, they no doubt jumped at any excuse to get rid of him.

There’s one of him mentioning the Floyd Effect and the whole panel mocks him, then he’s lectured he can’t just make up stuff on the fly. He keeps saying “I didnt make it up,” dumbfounded that they have never heard of this.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2024 03:31 PM (Hkcdp)

110 98 You don't serious believe that Kamala is bragging about a 95 IQ, right?

lol ok that was my first thought that it was parody!!!

whew
Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2024 03:30 PM (s3qiR)

I am enjoying the opportunity for mocking and reviling the evil bitch..

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2024 03:31 PM (PCK5/)

111 Stalin didn't actually shoot any of his political opponents in the head, but.....
Posted by: BurtTC
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Actually he did back when he was a bankrobber for the Cause before the Revolution. Stalin was a pretty cold blooded reptile type that in more normal times would have still found some way for the reptile within him to come out.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 03:31 PM (ctrM5)

112 Heh.
I've used a similar pager line in several conversations already with much humor.

If I had a lot of money, I'd buy a bunch of old pagers.and start sending them to these assholes.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2024 03:31 PM (W/lyH)

113 CNN is the Msnbc Of die sturmers.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 29, 2024 03:32 PM (lvw4a)

114 Mensa is gay. It's basically a coed pseudo academic frat for maladjusted social tards who want to congratulate themselves on what towering intellects they are while they lead mediocre, nondescript lives like everyone else in the burbs.

Posted by: I'm Special and Have a Test to Prove It at October 29, 2024 03:28 PM (y+Syu)
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As somebody who passed every Mensa test I've taken, I'm kinda dubious of what earrings Kamala might have had on when she "passed" this test.

Besides, there are no "A+" of a Mensa test. It's not for school. It's like "9 out of 10" or "10 out of 10".

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 03:32 PM (krQz2)

115 @56/Don Black: "I once pointed my truck key fob at my front door and pushed the button"

'I'm sorry Don, I'm afraid I can't do that.'

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024 03:32 PM (O7YUW)

116 Does CNN think beeper explosions are motivated by race?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 29, 2024 03:32 PM (6U1c2)

117 Is Harris honestly bragging about having a below mean IQ ? That seems stupidish.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 29, 2024 03:32 PM (kTd/k)

118 Today we received the results. On the standard Mensa IQ test I scored a 95, which is an A+.

Your move, Donald.

You scored a 95 on an IQ test? I don't know how to break this to you, Kamilla...

Posted by: t-bird at October 29, 2024 03:32 PM (gf6mn)

119 If Israel starts blasting off the dicks of American journalists - for any reason, or no reason - I will have nothing to say about it?

Hamas murdered a bunch of Americans and the Alphabets are cheering them on. If Israel decided to get rid of Hamas's media arm I'd give them exactly as much sympathy as they have given those hostages

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2024 03:32 PM (oZhjI)

120 >>78 "All of Gaza is on brink of famine."

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Let them eat fucks. Wait -- aw, shucks.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 29, 2024 03:33 PM (wzAuc)

121 Just based on video clips, I think an IQ of 95 is generous.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 29, 2024 03:33 PM (U/yhi)

122 "All of Gaza is on the brink of famine."

Didn't they say this last year when the IDF first fought back? And continually since then? This is like the 476th Ukrainian offensive that's always just around the corner.

Footnote: I don't give a shit if all of Gaza in full-on in the middle of a famine and all the goat-fuckers are starving to death. I'd mourn the death of a street dog more than 100 dead Gazan scumbags.

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at October 29, 2024 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

123 * POUND POUND POUND *

Hey! Let me back in!

I'm not DEAD YET!

Posted by: Zombie Geddy Lee (On the Wrong Side of the Door) at October 29, 2024 03:33 PM (krQz2)

124 There’s one of him mentioning the Floyd Effect and the whole panel mocks him, then he’s lectured he can’t just make up stuff on the fly. He keeps saying “I didnt make it up,” dumbfounded that they have never heard of this.
Posted by: Lizzy
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This generation of journalists are so profoundly dumb and proud of their ignorance that even Ben Rhodes, Bammy aide, made fun of how easy they were to manipulate.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 03:33 PM (ctrM5)

125 That clip is on his X feed,

Worth it for the entertainment vale of Lefties completely puzzled how the Floyd riots ( and Michael brown riots before that) have made their communities more dangerous.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2024 03:33 PM (Hkcdp)

126 Is it possible to spam Tlaibs X page with ads from pager companies. I'd live that.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2024 03:31 PM

Not if you got paged.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 29, 2024 03:33 PM (a3Q+t)

127 Everyone who goes on CNN from now on should try to get banned for life.

May I suggest some classics:

"Sphincter says what?"
"That's what your Mom said."
"I'm not letting you suck my dick with that attitude."
"Your wife needs to do a better job ironing my shirts."

Posted by: Sifty at October 29, 2024 03:34 PM (MDmHU)

128 122 "All of Gaza is on the brink of famine."

Didn't they say this last year when the IDF first fought back? And continually since then? This is like the 476th Ukrainian offensive that's always just around the corner.

Footnote: I don't give a shit if all of Gaza in full-on in the middle of a famine and all the goat-fuckers are starving to death. I'd mourn the death of a street dog more than 100 dead Gazan scumbags.
Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at October 29, 2024 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

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How about a mandatory buyback of weapons in exchange for food?

Good enough for Americans according to Kamala.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

129
And of course: Please come on CNN to defame anyone who disagrees with you, the guy who wants to murder all Jews in Israel and drive them into the sea, a "Nazi."

Pretty funny coming from a mohammedan, when pali hero Yassir Arafat was trained by Hitler's favorite Waffen SS commando Otto Skorzeny

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2024 03:34 PM (y9nCu)

130 Mensa is gay. It's basically a coed pseudo academic frat for maladjusted social tards who want to congratulate themselves on what towering intellects they are while they lead mediocre, nondescript lives like everyone else in the burbs.
Posted by: I'm Special and Have a Test to Prove It at October 29, 2024 03:28 PM (y+Syu)

I hate the fact the word "narcissist" is so misused.

There are actual narcissists in this world, and the Venn diagram area between narcissists and Mensa members would be thick and luxurious.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 29, 2024 03:34 PM (dGCAG)

131 I don't give a shit who says it or what proof they have, Kamala is a low IQ individual.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2024 03:34 PM (jyAD3)

132 Yeah. Seems way over the top since no one died. I can think of many cases where people walk after shooting people in broad daylight. Like that immigrant who stole a cops gun and shot a woman on the san francisco pier.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at October 29, 2024 03:17 PM (uBBbP)

These guys would probably make more cash and influence by just doing a response on a YT page of their own and having a funding page. CNN gets crap ratings.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 03:34 PM (n7h9X)

133 124 This generation of journalists are so profoundly dumb and proud of their ignorance that even Ben Rhodes, Bammy aide, made fun of how easy they were to manipulate.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 03:33 PM (ctrM5)

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Fun thought:

We're actually almost a full generation on from that, and reporters have gotten even dumber.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

134 >>> >Today we received the results. On the standard Mensa IQ test I scored a 95, which is an A+.
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all jokes aside, why would we believe this even happened

Because Pocahontas actually posted her DNA results. Libs are thin skinned, and I think the rumor of her scoring a 79 HAS gotten under Kamala's skin. It just reinforces, with enough people passing it on, that people think she's stupid.

Whether or not the IQ test tweet is real, it's too funny not to share.

Posted by: Correct Answer at October 29, 2024 03:34 PM (QAK8m)

135 "All of Gaza is on the brink of famine."

It's a big brink. Lasts for years.

Call Sally Strothers and STFU.

Posted by: Sifty at October 29, 2024 03:35 PM (MDmHU)

136 And here is Kill Tony roasting black people and Muslims...

https://tinyurl.com/4f7dv3ya

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2024 03:35 PM (XV/Pl)

137 Today we received the results. On the standard Mensa IQ test I scored a 95, which is an A+.
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all jokes aside, why would we believe this even happened
Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2024 03:30 PM (/7KEl)
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There is no "standard Mensa IQ test." Mensa does proctored tests using Stanford-Binet and/or Minnesota Multiphasic, but will also accept results from any other standardized test, such as the SAT.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 29, 2024 03:35 PM (U1w17)

138 Everyone who goes on CNN from now on should try to get banned for life.

May I suggest some classics:

"Sphincter says what?"
"That's what your Mom said."
"I'm not letting you suck my dick with that attitude."
"Your wife needs to do a better job ironing my shirts."
Posted by: Sifty at October 29, 2024 03:34 PM (MDmHU)

Saying you love boobs gets the job done.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 03:35 PM (CIS44)

139 “Let them eat cement and weapons” because that’s what all the millions in aid were spent on.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2024 03:35 PM (Hkcdp)

140 https://tinyurl.com/2jhx2hzw

Bannon released.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at October 29, 2024 03:35 PM (Rbu5d)

141 140 https://tinyurl.com/2jhx2hzw

Bannon released.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at October 29, 2024 03:35 PM (Rbu5d)

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And next: the kraken!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 03:35 PM (GBKbO)

142 Do you see the sexy mule heels on the moderator?
WOW! Now THAT is newsworthy!

Posted by: a sock at October 29, 2024 03:36 PM (RqMDa)

143 Bulldoze all of Gaza.

Leave not one stone upon another.

Then, turn it into an Israeli paradise. No arabs allowed.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2024 03:36 PM (0KjzH)

144 Didn't they say this last year when the IDF first fought back? And continually since then? This is like the 476th Ukrainian offensive that's always just around the corner.

Footnote: I don't give a shit if all of Gaza in full-on in the middle of a famine and all the goat-fuckers are starving to death. I'd mourn the death of a street dog more than 100 dead Gazan scumbags.
Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at October 29, 2024 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

They could end this famine by sending boats to carry off these Gazans to their fancy resort islands and feeding them. The NGOs and UN could have prevented it by not conniving in arming and letting terrorists store weapons under hospitals and schools.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 03:36 PM (n7h9X)

145 Flux: CNN's Ryan Girdusky fiasco is part of a much bigger problem in mainstream media. By obsessively trying to have ‘balanced’ discussions, mainstream television news keeps platforming extremists.

Before I started Flux, I was a writer and producer for The Hill...we were constantly trying to have balanced panel discussions. But we always had a problem: It was very difficult to find Republicans who weren’t crazy.

Gidursky, a known racist who previously wrote articles for the white nationalist activist Richard Spencer and gave friendly interviews with the Proud Boys hate group, has been actively working to ban Black and LGBT authors from school curricula. He should’ve never been on CNN.

The media's normalizing of fascist/racist behavior & offensive language. Their sane washing of the Con is part of what enabled the fascist right's rise.

Ryan looked stunned when the rest of the panel took him to the woodshed! The US is in desperate need of mass deprogramming from this hate cult.

I stopped watching CNN since they have deplorable and bat-shit-crazy panelists like Ryan Girdusky, Scott "head up his ass" Jennings, and David "penis head" Urban.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 29, 2024 03:37 PM (JCZqz)

146 With the passing of Sheila Jackson-Lee the IQ of the entire country went up 5 pts. Congress only went up 2 pts.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 29, 2024 03:37 PM (/U5Yz)

147 My pet Chihuahua just got it's IQ test score.

It scored a 97 !! Is that good for a dog ????

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 29, 2024 03:37 PM (Qfk4E)

148 A lifetime ban from CNN? That's like a lifetime ban from a shuttered ghetto sex shop that takes only 15th century drachmas.

How is anyone even gonna know Girdusky was banned? Nobody watches CNN.

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at October 29, 2024 03:37 PM (iFTx/)

149 I'm not going to say that Kamala Harris could not have passed a Mensa test.

I can't know that. But one thing Mensa tests test is analysis and problem solving.

And you think if she had that kind of talent, she could thin her way through an interview going badly.

Who knows though, maybe she has allowed herself to become so managed that she has hobbled that ability, and allows handlers to take her out of interviews, like the fight they stopped with Baier.

Having an innate sense of analysis is no key to confidence and expression.

But, I'm still rather skeptical.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 03:37 PM (krQz2)

150 Standard Koran stuff but CNN protecting him is like keeping a fox in the henhouse
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Intel asset for back channels placed at CNN is my guess.

Always watch for who is protected in an organization from any consequences. Tells you that they have external help. Chinese have a word for it but it means connections. Guanxi or something like that.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 03:38 PM (ctrM5)

151 CNN banned someone for life...

50 quatloos says they live longer than CNN does.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2024 03:38 PM (W/lyH)

152 Kamala Harris
Earlier this week, I challenged Donald Trump to take a cognitive test. Knowing he is too much of a coward to put his money where his mouth is -- all those bankruptcies do add up! -- I took the lead. Today we received the results. On the standard Mensa IQ test I scored a 95, which is an A+. Your move, Donald.
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1. How is that an A+ ?
2. She was given the questions beforehand right? (par for the course with Dems)
3. How many retakes to get that 95?

Posted by: Ciampino - That's why she was a useless lawyer at October 29, 2024 03:38 PM (i0xsb)

153 OT a bit, the GA judge who made a recent ruling that ballot drop boxes may not be surveilled.
They are in public places, for crying out loud.
It's akin to having a stripper out in public and telling people to not look at her. Or him. Or xer.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at October 29, 2024 03:38 PM (MeG8a)

154 Also, it is proof because they believe a conservative lied, they could have only done it FOR THEMSELVES. There is no other reason--just like there can be no other reason to hold a rally at NYC Nazi building 85 years from the last Nazi Rally (in a different season, in a different segment of the election cycle) than to say YAY HITLER!

You KNOW it, you just CAN'T ADMIT it.
Posted by: Axeman
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Not that it matters, but iMSG is in a different building/location now.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 29, 2024 03:38 PM (/lPRQ)

155 The evolution of CNN is astounding, they started off as a flash new medium that delivered news and opinion 24/7/365 to the entire world when no other news outlet did to finally end up being a mouthpiece for the Democrats, a fascist political party bent on destruction of freedom.

Posted by: Decaf at October 29, 2024 03:38 PM (unUNN)

156 >>> Bannon released.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at October 29, 2024 03:35 PM (Rbu5d)

I saw the 3 am pic of his release...this is shallow, but he might be the first guy to GAIN weight in prison? But kudos on his release.

Supposedly he said the black and latino inmates he talked to in prison all despite Kamala, haha. And yet she wants them to vote!

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 03:39 PM (QAK8m)

157 A lifetime ban from CNN?
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Al falling tree in the depths of an old-growth forest has a bigger audience.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 03:39 PM (krQz2)

158 Re Mensa, I know they accept standardized test results like SAT, ACT, and I think the LSAT.
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Kamala should release her scores on those if she is seriously arguing about her intelligence.

My guess is she was an indifferent nepot student that was lazy in school.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 03:39 PM (ctrM5)

159 And here is Kill Tony roasting black people and Muslims...

https://tinyurl.com/4f7dv3ya
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2024 03:35 PM (XV/Pl)

I've only seen a few of his vids, but if he's not a flamer, then I don't know who is.

I'm sure it's been noted, he got "in trouble" with the cancel nazis some time ago, and basically everyone in the comedy world came to his defense.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 29, 2024 03:40 PM (dGCAG)

160 Teri Garr was a sweetie
Phoebe's mom!

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2024 03:27 PM (/7KEl)

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Always remember her in the role of Roberta Lincoln in the Star Trek: The Original Series second-season episode “Assignment: Earth” (196

with Robert Lansing as Gary Seven.

She ended up walking off the set of Star Trek::TOS when Gene Roddenberry wanted her skirt to be even shorter than it already (considerably) was ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 03:40 PM (3VPky)

161 Ka-boom.

Almost literally.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2024 03:40 PM (uLfN1)

162 15 years as a degenerate drunk knocked a few dozen points off my IQ top end. Bet I could still think rings around Lady Suck-Suck.

I read smart military blogs to work my intellect.

Posted by: Sifty at October 29, 2024 03:40 PM (MDmHU)

163 You don't serious believe that Kamala is bragging about a 95 IQ, right?

I mean, her campaign is terrible, but it's not that terrible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 03:29 PM (GBKbO)

KAMALA HARRIS 2024

Now Only 5% Retarded!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2024 03:40 PM (eDfFs)

164 There’s one of him mentioning the Floyd Effect and the whole panel mocks him, then he’s lectured he can’t just make up stuff on the fly. He keeps saying “I didnt make it up,” dumbfounded that they have never heard of this.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2024 03:31 PM (Hkcdp)
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He flew too near the sun.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2024 03:40 PM (RIvkX)

165 Elric, seconded!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at October 29, 2024 03:41 PM (gY0JQ)

166 I'm pretty sure the Kamala 95 IQ thing is fake. For one, it's too high - she's rumored to have hit 78 on one in a psych class at Howard University, which feels more like her speed.

But Michael Malice was reposting it and I laughed way too hard so I had to bring it here.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2024 03:41 PM (2ocoG)

167 https://tinyurl.com/2jhx2hzw

Bannon released.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at October 29, 2024 03:35 PM (Rbu5d)

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And next: the kraken!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 03:35 PM (GBKbO)
_______

"Dude, can you leave me alone? I'm tired. Release some other sea monster, ok? You got Bakunawa, Leviathan, the fucking Loch Ness Monster -- just pick one!"

--- The Kraken

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at October 29, 2024 03:41 PM (iFTx/)

168 Bannon released.
Posted by: Question Authority
________

Trump picked him up out front like Elwood Blues.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2024 03:41 PM (OIg9i)

169 Not that it matters, but iMSG is in a different building/location now.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 29, 2024 03:38 PM (/lPRQ)
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I know. New Yorkers love Nazism so much they couldn't just let the old one rot. They had to build another building to name Nazi central.

It's funny because MSDUMB said it was "the same place".

I mean how incompetent is your journalism when you can't get the first couple of facts right?

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 03:41 PM (krQz2)

170 Its simple, CNN is afraid of Hassan and his connections. They are correct in this self preservation maneuver.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 29, 2024 03:41 PM (q1ZgM)

171 >>> The evolution of CNN is astounding

James Earl Jones' voice gave them far more class than they ever deserved.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 03:42 PM (QAK8m)

172 Looking at the range of mensa scores.
Kamala, sweetie, you need to sit down for this. This score of yours. It's not what you think.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2024 03:42 PM (W/lyH)

173 BREAKING: JD Vance will sit down with Joe Rogan ahead of Election Day.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 29, 2024 03:42 PM (/U5Yz)

174 So did KH's "Mensa score" reveal an IQ of 95? or did she score in the 95th percentile? There's a world of difference between the two.

A Mensa scholar would know that.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2024 03:42 PM (7fElN)

175 117 Is Harris honestly bragging about having a below mean IQ ? That seems stupidish.
Posted by: Northernlurker
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Maybe her argument is white supremacy stole her intellect. Sort of a corollary to the stolen lands I guess.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 03:42 PM (ctrM5)

176 >>> >Today we received the results. On the standard Mensa IQ test I scored a 95, which is an A+.
--
all jokes aside, why would we believe this even happened

Because Pocahontas actually posted her DNA results. Libs are thin skinned, and I think the rumor of her scoring a 79 HAS gotten under Kamala's skin. It just reinforces, with enough people passing it on, that people think she's stupid.

Whether or not the IQ test tweet is real, it's too funny not to share.
Posted by: Correct Answer at October 29, 2024 03:34 PM (QAK8m)

you have to be pretty stupid to think anyone cares about your standardized test score as an adult. I've always done well on them myself, and I don't even care about them. If IQ is a real thing, then you can't even take credit for it, its your parents and ancestors. It would be like trying to bully people with your red hair or freckles.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 03:42 PM (n7h9X)

177 Trump picked him up out front like Elwood Blues.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2024 03:41 PM (OIg9i)
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Does he have a new Bluesmobile?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 29, 2024 03:42 PM (U1w17)

178 Bannon released.
Posted by: Question Authority
________

Trump picked him up out front like Elwood Blues.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2024 03:41 PM (OIg9i)
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Or Oceans 11. Where Donnie revealed his plan for Las Vegas.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 03:42 PM (krQz2)

179 Mehdi Hadan was at Al -Jazeera for years before breaking into US news channels.

THAT’s why the beeper comment scored a direct hit.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2024 03:42 PM (Hkcdp)

180 176 you have to be pretty stupid to think anyone cares about your standardized test score as an adult. I've always done well on them myself, and I don't even care about them. If IQ is a real thing, then you can't even take credit for it, its your parents and ancestors. It would be like trying to bully people with your red hair or freckles.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 03:42 PM (n7h9X)

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Yeah, why would anyone care about my IQ when I scored four touchdowns in one game at Polk High?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 03:42 PM (GBKbO)

181 BREAKING: PUERTO RICO SENATOR ZORAIDA BUXO TO ENDORSE PRESIDENT TRUMP TODAY IN ALLENTOWN PA

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 29, 2024 03:43 PM (/U5Yz)

182 Trump picked him up out front like Elwood Blues.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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In an ex cop car!!!!????

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 03:43 PM (ctrM5)

183
We're actually almost a full generation on from that, and reporters have gotten even dumber.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell

"This is your brain stem. Every morning you should get down on your knees and thank your Creator that you have one, for if you did not, you would be unable to both breathe and walk. Yes, you are that dumb."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 29, 2024 03:43 PM (qWj72)

184 OT a bit, the GA judge who made a recent ruling that ballot drop boxes may not be surveilled.

If they're genuinely not surveilled then expect more arsons. But I noticed that on the one in Nevada the second the arson happened they admitted it actually was being surveilled.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2024 03:43 PM (2ocoG)

185 Trump picked him up out front like Elwood Blues.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2024 03:41 PM (OIg9i)
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Do they have half a pack of cigarettes? Is it dark and they're wearing sunglasses?

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 03:43 PM (krQz2)

186 Harris releasing a score of 95 on an IQ test has got to be a Monty Python Skit.

Really, Proud of that score... Who are her assistants and aids running this campaign???

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 29, 2024 03:43 PM (Mig/N)

187 Their dozens of viewers hardest hit.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 29, 2024 03:43 PM (aD39U)

188 So did KH's "Mensa score" reveal an IQ of 95? or did she score in the 95th percentile? There's a world of difference between the two.

A Mensa scholar would know that.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2024 03:42 PM (7fElN)
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The post really doesn't make sense. In any case, the cutoff for Mensa membership is 98th percentile.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 29, 2024 03:43 PM (U1w17)

189 Trump picked him up out front like Elwood Blues.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2024 03:41 PM (OIg9i)
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He's on a mission from Gad.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 03:44 PM (krQz2)

190 Fuck him. I hope his beeper does go off.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 29, 2024 03:44 PM (IcSrz)

191 Newsmax has carried Steve Bannon's press conference live.

He's been worth listening to. Huge kudos to him for his strength and commitment to this country.

Posted by: old chick at October 29, 2024 03:44 PM (F3Dlr)

192 63 40 Betcha everyone who comments here is WELL above the national IQ average…

Duh!

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein, the flower of the Brattleboro Public School System at October 29, 2024 03:44 PM (PiwSw)

193 Harris releasing a score of 95 on an IQ test has got to be a Monty Python Skit.

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 29, 2024 03:43 PM (Mig/N)
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I'm not braindead yet!

Posted by: Harris Over Cleese's Shoulder at October 29, 2024 03:45 PM (krQz2)

194
BREAKING: PUERTO RICO SENATOR ZORAIDA BUXO TO ENDORSE PRESIDENT TRUMP TODAY IN ALLENTOWN PA
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Trash talking!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2024 03:45 PM (63Dwl)

195 no one under 100 should be getting a law degree
Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2024 03:28 PM

There are ways to make up for lack of intelligence

Posted by: Huge Tits at October 29, 2024 03:45 PM (NtVYv)

196 Leftists believe that believing precisely the same things they think are true is proof of intelligence.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 29, 2024 03:45 PM (kTd/k)

197 @182/whig: "In an ex cop car!!!!????"

They'll have to fix the lighter.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024 03:45 PM (O7YUW)

198 If IQ is a real thing, then you can't even take credit for it, its your parents and ancestors. It would be like trying to bully people with your red hair or freckles.
Posted by: Oldcat
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It is pretty real but it does not guarantee success in life. In many cases, it can lead to all sorts of problems socially because IQ does not equate to wisdom and experience. Simply something like having a lot of horsepower in a car engine, doesn't guarantee the person in the seat is a good driver.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 03:45 PM (ctrM5)

199 Well Trump and Vance do have a mission from God, those DC Nazis...

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2024 03:45 PM (uLfN1)

200 I think the A+ was a clue that it's not real.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 03:45 PM (hmOfI)

201 A Mensa scholar would know that.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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This.

Posted by: scampydog at October 29, 2024 03:45 PM (2bFN5)

202 Trump picked him up out front like Elwood Blues.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Were they being trailed by American Neo-Nazis? Because that would be ironic.

*I would prefer a zombie Carrie Fisher....

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 29, 2024 03:45 PM (w9Wax)

203 There are ways to make up for lack of intelligence
Posted by: Huge Tits at October 29, 2024 03:45 PM (NtVYv)

No gag reflex.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at October 29, 2024 03:46 PM (aD39U)

204 Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein, the flower of the Brattleboro Public School System at October 29, 2024 03:44 PM (PiwSw)

Insty had an article over the weekend about how Brattleboro had turned into a San Francisco-like hellscape with homelessness, poop, drugs, and crime.

Mary Cloggenstein is doing a hell of a job!

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2024 03:46 PM (2ocoG)

205 They'll have to fix the lighter.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
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Love that whole scene and the movie in general.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 03:46 PM (ctrM5)

206 138 Everyone who goes on CNN from now on should try to get banned for life.

May I suggest some classics:

"Sphincter says what?"
"That's what your Mom said."
"I'm not letting you suck my dick with that attitude."
"Your wife needs to do a better job ironing my shirts."
Posted by: Sifty at October 29, 2024 03:34 PM (MDmHU)

Saying you love boobs gets the job done.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2024 03:35 PM (CIS44)
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Man you guys are good. Do you have a newsletter?

Posted by: Ciampino - I particulaely like the ironing at October 29, 2024 03:46 PM (i0xsb)

207 PR Senator Zoraida Buxo is a MILF.

https://tinyurl.com/vpm8r2zz

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 29, 2024 03:46 PM (/U5Yz)

208 * POUND POUND POUND *

Hey! Let me back in!

I'm not DEAD YET!
Posted by: Zombie Geddy Lee (On the Wrong Side of the Door) at October 29, 2024 03:33 PM (krQz2)

Sorry, Geddy.

You sing like a bag full of dying cats.

You stay on that side.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2024 03:46 PM (eDfFs)

209 CNN is now defaming Girdusky as a "bigot" and "racist...

Never apologize. Hit , 'em with both barrels, reload, and hit 'em again.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2024 03:46 PM (W/lyH)

210 Today we received the results. On the standard Mensa IQ test I scored a 95, which is an A+. Your move, Donald.

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That has got to be a joke account.

Posted by: Decaf at October 29, 2024 03:47 PM (unUNN)

211 You don't serious believe that Kamala is bragging about a 95 IQ, right?

I mean, her campaign is terrible, but it's not that terrible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 03:29 PM (GBKbO)

KAMALA HARRIS 2024

Now Only 5% Retarded!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2024 03:40 PM (eDfFs)

95 is not retarded. If I recall retarded is below 60. But IQ has always been a dark matter kind of garbage concept. We all know there are differences in brains, but who is to say that whatever IQ tests are measuring is better than those who know everything about baseball, or tv shows, or woodworking?

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 03:47 PM (n7h9X)

212 176

...you have to be pretty stupid to think anyone cares about your standardized test score as an adult...

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 03:42 PM (n7h9X)
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Nonsense! I scored a 98 on the ASVAB as a high schooler back sometime during the Reagan Administration, and it's just as effective at catching tail now as it was back then!

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at October 29, 2024 03:47 PM (QdGJh)

213 @187/G'rump928(c): "Their dozens of viewers hardest hit."

That'd account for their viewers from DU (who are now threatening to stop watching.) Who will be left to turn off the lights?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 29, 2024 03:47 PM (O7YUW)

214 Carrie Fisher with an M-16 and a bazooka.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2024 03:47 PM (uLfN1)

215 211 95 is not retarded. If I recall retarded is below 60. But IQ has always been a dark matter kind of garbage concept. We all know there are differences in brains, but who is to say that whatever IQ tests are measuring is better than those who know everything about baseball, or tv shows, or woodworking?
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 03:47 PM (n7h9X)

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Yeah, Kamala would probably be a better woodcarver than president.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

216 I am having a Campaign Rally tonight at a WWC event in Alabama tonight.

Free 16 Oz PBRs on me and I will challenge anyone to a Beer Chugging Contest also !!!!!

Long live General Lee !!!!!!!!

Posted by: Kamal Harris at October 29, 2024 03:47 PM (w1kF3)

217 CNN is now defaming Girdusky as a "bigot" and "racist...

Never apologize. Hit , 'em with both barrels, reload, and hit 'em again.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2024 03:46 PM (W/lyH)

Girdusky should just start attacking them for having a bigot and racist on their network.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 03:48 PM (n7h9X)

218 IIRC, my SAT would qualify me for MENSA but NERDS!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 29, 2024 03:48 PM (aD39U)

219 Ace's Tapper files front page on Twitchy right now

https://tinyurl.com/3f8x3frj

Posted by: DJ at October 29, 2024 03:48 PM (uosPt)

220 Ace gets top billing on Twitchy.

https://is.gd/Buk3YY

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at October 29, 2024 03:48 PM (L/fGl)

221 Kamala Harris
Earlier this week, I challenged Donald Trump to take a cognitive test. Knowing he is too much of a coward to put his money where his mouth is -- all those bankruptcies do add up! -- I took the lead. Today we received the results. On the standard Mensa IQ test I scored a 95, which is an A+. Your move, Donald.

She would have gotten 100 but she misspelled her name. Say what you will about Kamala Harris, she is dead on accurate about the sounds a cow, dog, and duckie make.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2024 03:49 PM (ExV1e)

222 https://tinyurl.com/5acu2v5p

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2024 03:49 PM (uLfN1)

223 ----
1. How is that an A+ ?
2. She was given the questions beforehand right? (par for the course with Dems)
3. How many retakes to get that 95?
Posted by: Ciampino"

The curve they graded her on is a circle.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2024 03:50 PM (vFG9F)

224 correction, it's OAN carrying Bannon live.

A few hours out of prison and he's standing there taking on the press like a champion.

Posted by: old chick at October 29, 2024 03:50 PM (F3Dlr)

225 On the standard Mensa IQ test I scored a 95,

==

Correction, that was blood alcohol level.

---Mendoza Winery

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2024 03:50 PM (V13WU)

226 >OT a bit, the GA judge who made a recent ruling that ballot drop boxes may not be surveilled.

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So the judge has ruled that I must not look at a thing
I must avert my eyes and keep walking

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2024 03:50 PM (/7KEl)

227 OT a bit, the GA judge who made a recent ruling that ballot drop boxes may not be surveilled.
****
You can bet this prick has state paid surveillance from his home to the courthouse.

Posted by: torabora at October 29, 2024 03:50 PM (slx38)

228 There are actual narcissists in this world, and the Venn diagram area between narcissists and Mensa members would be thick and luxurious.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 29, 2024 03:34 PM (dGCAG)
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It would be. Because the chief thing I learned about Mensa as a provisional (non-paying) member was they love them some population control and--for some weird reason--think that people with high IQs ought to have more political say than people at the other end.

Which any Democrat would recognize as "Our Democracy", no doubt.

There's just too many people making too many problems and not enough euthanasia to go around!

Posted by: Harris Over Cleese's Shoulder at October 29, 2024 03:50 PM (krQz2)

229 202 Trump picked him up out front like Elwood Blues.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Were they being trailed by American Neo-Nazis? Because that would be ironic.

*I would prefer a zombie Carrie Fisher....

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 29, 2024 03:45 PM (w9Wax)
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Getting picked up from release reminds me of the hilarious opening to the film "The Hot Rock".
BiL steals a car to pick him up!!!

Posted by: Ciampino - The LP with freeway sounds at October 29, 2024 03:50 PM (i0xsb)

230 184 OT a bit, the GA judge who made a recent ruling that ballot drop boxes may not be surveilled.

Unconstitutional on its face. Caselaw in GA and the US in general indicate that in public, you have no expectation of privacy on a street and that includes people like the police trying to stop people taking pix or video of them.

Anyone charged under that judge's ruling is likely to own the friggin county and be granted individual damages from any knuckleheads stupid enough to try to enforce it.

That is what happened in multiple cases where higher courts ruled that it is a settled issue, qualified immunity does not count, and anyone trying to enforce the unconstitutional law is at risk personally for liability.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 03:50 PM (ctrM5)

231 On the standard Mensa IQ test I scored a 95, which is an A+.
__________________

So ... she's slightly below average IQ. Not the sort of thing most people would crow about.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 29, 2024 03:51 PM (YqDXo)

232 what am I like a super genius?!?!

I'm not going to say b/c it would seem weird
Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2024 03:25 PM (s3qiR)

you and Wiley E Coyote....?

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at October 29, 2024 03:51 PM (nXhwP)

233 Does Kamala think IQ tops at 100 - or is that a different test from the standard IQ test?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2024 03:51 PM (Hkcdp)

234 A lifetime ban by CNN.

A lifetime ban by CNN

A lifetime ban by CNN

How 'bout those Lions?!

Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2024 03:52 PM (rj6Yv)

235 Kamala is like that chick in the group that all took IQ tests and stated she was in the top 3 while the Marine was in the bottom three. Marine was in top 3, while leftard genius chick was at the bottom of the group.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 29, 2024 03:52 PM (pohLc)

236 214 Carrie Fisher with an M-16 and a bazooka.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Peak Carrie Fisher. Bet she had fun with the part.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 03:52 PM (ctrM5)

237 You don't serious believe that Kamala is bragging about a 95 IQ, right?

I mean, her campaign is terrible, but it's not that terrible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 03:29 PM (GBKbO)

KAMALA HARRIS 2024

Now Only 5% Retarded!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2024 03:40 PM (eDfFs)

95 is not retarded. If I recall retarded is below 60. But IQ has always been a dark matter kind of garbage concept. We all know there are differences in brains, but who is to say that whatever IQ tests are measuring is better than those who know everything about baseball, or tv shows, or woodworking?
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 03:47 PM (n7h9X)

*whispers quietly*

It was a joke, a jest, a jape.

Not a statement of scientific fact.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2024 03:52 PM (eDfFs)

238 And now . . .

These influencers refused to wear life jackets on a yacht because it would ruin their selfies. They drowned when their boat sank.

https://is.gd/q2n0cd

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at October 29, 2024 03:52 PM (L/fGl)

239 There was that MENSA member in Florida who tried to poison a whole family by spiking their Coca-Cola bottles with Thallium.

He still wasn't smart enough.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2024 03:52 PM (uLfN1)

240 I don't know how she got a "95".

I've never seen a MENSA test over 10 questions. And if I remember correctly, you get 1 point per question.

Maybe they have increased the amount of questions on them? ¯\_(ツ )_/¯

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 03:53 PM (krQz2)

241 On the standard Mensa IQ test I scored a 95,

==

Correction, that was blood alcohol level.

---Mendoza Winery

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2024 03:50 PM (V13WU)
_______________

I thought it was STD titer.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 29, 2024 03:53 PM (YqDXo)

242 >> correction, it's OAN carrying Bannon live.
A few hours out of prison and he's standing there taking on the press like a champion.

It would have been hilarious if he'd pulled Tony Stark and ate a McDonald's cheeseburger on air during his presser. But it's still all good.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 03:53 PM (QAK8m)

243 There was that MENSA member in Florida who tried to poison a whole family by spiking their Coca-Cola bottles with Thallium.

He still wasn't smart enough.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2024 03:52 PM (uLfN1)
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But it appears that he absorbed the principal of fewer people on the Earth.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 03:53 PM (krQz2)

244 Ok, good, a joke.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2024 03:54 PM (Hkcdp)

245 What if he had said, "I hope your beeper goes off"?

Posted by: m at October 29, 2024 03:54 PM (VnUSN)

246 OT a bit, the GA judge who made a recent ruling that ballot drop boxes may not be surveilled.

----

So the judge has ruled that I must not look at a thing
I must avert my eyes and keep walking

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2024 03:50 PM

It's kind of like the person who goes to jail for silently praying inside of their house where no one can see them when their house happens to be within 1,000 feet of an abortion counselor or clinic.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 29, 2024 03:54 PM (QNSds)

247 1. How is that an A+ ?
2. She was given the questions beforehand right? (par for the course with Dems)
3. How many retakes to get that 95?
Posted by: Ciampino"

The curve they graded her on is a circle.
Posted by: fd at October 29, 2024 03:50 PM (vFG9F)

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"And the circles they go round and round
And the yellow busses go up and down
I'm an A+ on the Venn Diagram of time ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 03:55 PM (cpDEu)

248 Actually, applying for membership in MENSA implies narcissism to me.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 29, 2024 03:55 PM (pohLc)

249 Ghost Busters: Gaza the Gazarian

Posted by: Marooned at October 29, 2024 03:55 PM (kt8QE)

250 222 https://tinyurl.com/5acu2v5p

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2024 03:49 PM (uLfN1)
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Do they also have ears in the normal place then? 4 ears.
"The better to hear you, my dear".

Posted by: Ciampino - The Big Bad Wolf at October 29, 2024 03:55 PM (i0xsb)

251 say that whatever IQ tests are measuring is better than those who know everything about baseball, or tv shows, or woodworking?
__________________

Properly designed IQ tests do not test knowledge, but rather reasoning ability. E.g., "complete the series" questions, that measure the ability to reason abstractly.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 29, 2024 03:55 PM (YqDXo)

252 My main question is: was she seen talking into some earrings at the time?

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 03:55 PM (krQz2)

253 I don't know how she got a "95".

I've never seen a MENSA test over 10 questions. And if I remember correctly, you get 1 point per question.

THE JOKE IS THAT SHE'S BRAGGING ABOUT A 95 IQ, WHICH IS BELOW AVERAGE.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at October 29, 2024 03:55 PM (2ocoG)

254
Didn't CNN fire that guy for saying "from the river to the sea"?

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 29, 2024 03:55 PM (+oR7L)

255 Never apologize. Hit , 'em with both barrels, reload, and hit 'em again.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2024 03:46 PM (W/lyH)

That's right... Say "I'm sorry. I'm sorry I only said I hope you don't get bombed to death. That was just because I hope every one of you Mohammedan pigs gets raped to death by dogs."

Ain't nobody gonna care, except that more people will like you than the day before.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2024 03:56 PM (7oYYI)

256 I can't keep this shit straight. I thought the Evil Joooioos kkilled everyone in Gaza. What difference does it make if famine comes in the land?

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at October 29, 2024 03:56 PM (Vvh2V)

257 LizLem, did you find your phone?

Posted by: Wenda at October 29, 2024 03:56 PM (FeMyX)

258 There was that MENSA member in Florida who tried to poison a whole family by spiking their Coca-Cola bottles with Thallium.

He still wasn't smart enough.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2024 03:52 PM

I thought that was a female.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2024 03:57 PM (ZANHd)

259 My Mr Coffee has died. 🪦

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2024 03:57 PM (/7KEl)

260 I was playing with the prompt and thought, how about elf meets cat-girl.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2024 03:57 PM (uLfN1)

261 215 211 95 is not retarded. If I recall retarded is below 60. But IQ has always been a dark matter kind of garbage concept. We all know there are differences in brains, but who is to say that whatever IQ tests are measuring is better than those who know everything about baseball, or tv shows, or woodworking?
Posted by: Oldcat
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IQ measures potential for analytical and rational thought. Not actually having knowledge, experience, or wisdom. It is more the capacity to exercise those.

Which traditionally was the difference between the ACT and SAT before lines became blurred via achievement tests, etc.

H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy sf story has an interesting discussion about just what sapience is and how is it to be measured. IQ arguments are sort of like that.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 03:57 PM (ctrM5)

262 Properly designed IQ tests do not test knowledge, but rather reasoning ability. E.g., "complete the series" questions, that measure the ability to reason abstractly.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 29, 2024 03:55 PM (YqDXo)

What does this mean ?!

Posted by: Klamala at October 29, 2024 03:57 PM (NtVYv)

263 255 Ain't nobody gonna care, except that more people will like you than the day before.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2024 03:56 PM (7oYYI)

========

"People that we don't want any association with!"
-Mitch McConnell...'s chief of staff

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 29, 2024 03:57 PM (GBKbO)

264 Properly designed IQ tests do not test knowledge, but rather reasoning ability. E.g., "complete the series" questions, that measure the ability to reason abstractly.

IQ tests are consistent enough that they're considered racist. That's pretty much the gold standard for if something is scientific and The Science tells you something the Democrats don't want people to know nowadays.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2024 03:57 PM (2ocoG)

265 And now . . .

These influencers refused to wear life jackets on a yacht because it would ruin their selfies. They drowned when their boat sank.

https://is.gd/q2n0cd
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at October 29, 2024 03:52 PM (L/fGl)
______

That and I'm sure they were drunk and high as fuck. If you read the story at the link, it's very very strange and almost certainly not the full story. It's not even clear whether the "yacht" sank or the speedboat they were taking from the yacht sank. Very fishy.

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at October 29, 2024 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

266 It would be. Because the chief thing I learned about Mensa as a provisional (non-paying) member was they love them some population control and--for some weird reason--think that people with high IQs ought to have more political say than people at the other end.

Which any Democrat would recognize as "Our Democracy", no doubt.

There's just too many people making too many problems and not enough euthanasia to go around!
Posted by: Harris Over Cleese's Shoulder at October 29, 2024 03:50 PM (krQz2)

The world is full of 'elite' organizations that cheerfully want to wipe out groups of people wholesale. Never their group, though. And somehow they imagine that an opponent of theirs won't be the one deciding who gets wiped out someday.

And this is supposed to convince me of their superiority? You could drive a dumptruck through the holes in that logic.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 03:57 PM (n7h9X)

267 >> correction, it's OAN carrying Bannon live.
A few hours out of prison and he's standing there taking on the press like a champion.

-----------------

Bannon for Reconciliation & Executions -- But Mostly Executions -- Czar!

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 03:57 PM (cpDEu)

268
Marc Lamont Hill. He got fired from CNN for his "From the river to the sea" garbage.

That was pre- October 7th though, so I'm surprised they haven't hired him back.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 29, 2024 03:57 PM (+oR7L)

269 259 My Mr Coffee has died. 🪦
Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2024 03:57 PM (/7KEl)

Condolences

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 29, 2024 03:58 PM (pohLc)

270 My Mr Coffee has died. 🪦
Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2024 03:57 PM

Crisis, Baldrick! Crisis!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2024 03:58 PM (ZANHd)

271 >Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at October 29, 2024 03:56 PM (Vvh2V)

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I know right?
with so many dead, the survivors should have a smorgasbord

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2024 03:58 PM (/7KEl)

272 243 There was that MENSA member in Florida who tried to poison a whole family by spiking their Coca-Cola bottles with Thallium.

He still wasn't smart enough.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2024 03:52 PM (uLfN1)
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But it appears that he absorbed the principal of fewer people on the Earth.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 03:53 PM (krQz2)
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I remember seeing that on Forensic Files. Good series.

Posted by: Ciampino - Not clever enough at October 29, 2024 03:58 PM (i0xsb)

273 259 My Mr Coffee has died. 🪦

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2024 03:57 PM

Terri Garr, Now Mr Coffee?

Who's next? Mr Clean? Dick Van Dyke?

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 29, 2024 03:59 PM (+oR7L)

274 I remember one time when one of my aunts forgot to pack my uncle's Thallium prescription when they came to the family reunion. Not comfortable for anyone.

Fortunately my Mom, who was an RN, "knew a doctor" and after she described the "situation", he wrote out an emergency prescription. Thank God.

Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2024 03:59 PM (rj6Yv)

275 say that whatever IQ tests are measuring is better than those who know everything about baseball, or tv shows, or woodworking?
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When I was younger, I used to pick up trivia like lint.

People would ask me "How do you know that?"

And I couldn't answer other than I had heard it before and it has stuck with me.

The thing about having a somewhat eidetic memory (I no longer do) is that you actually make tests easier for you than people who have to actually learn stuff, because you can pull up the text book page in your head during the test.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 03:59 PM (krQz2)

276 189 Trump picked him up out front like Elwood Blues.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2024 03:41 PM

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Nah, Bannon is on his way to that rock fence to find the tin can full of cash that Trump left under the chunk of lava stone.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 29, 2024 03:59 PM (wzAuc)

277 Present history. Goth and vampire. Like in South Park. These fake Marxist and their language usage seems to reflect a fantastical sci-fi reality.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at October 29, 2024 03:59 PM (J8LnB)

278 There was that MENSA member in Florida who tried to poison a whole family by spiking their Coca-Cola bottles with thallium.
_________________

Stupid to use a heavy metal. Easily detected, if you suspect its presence, and it'll be there until Doomsday.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 29, 2024 03:59 PM (YqDXo)

279 "Today we received the results. On the standard Mensa IQ test I scored a 95, which is an A+.
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all jokes aside, why would we believe this even happened
Posted by: Don Black"

What? Are you an IQ denier?!

Posted by: Ripley at October 29, 2024 03:59 PM (GUOwU)

280 Properly designed IQ tests do not test knowledge, but rather reasoning ability. E.g., "complete the series" questions, that measure the ability to reason abstractly.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2024 03:57 PM (2ocoG)

I have explicitly heard IQ boosters say the exact reverse, that pretty much any questions are valid and result in the same 'thing'.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 04:00 PM (n7h9X)

281 THE JOKE IS THAT SHE'S BRAGGING ABOUT A 95 IQ, WHICH IS BELOW AVERAGE.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at October 29, 2024 03:55 PM (2ocoG)

You are the hero we need but don't deserve apparently

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2024 04:00 PM (hmOfI)

282 259 My Mr Coffee has died. 🪦
Posted by: Don Black

RIP

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 29, 2024 04:00 PM (/U5Yz)

283 Vote for me! MENSA low average IQ, not that doodyhead Trump!

/kammy

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 29, 2024 04:01 PM (pohLc)

284 269 259 My Mr Coffee has died. 🪦

Mr Coffee and Terri Garr.

Who's the third?

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 29, 2024 04:01 PM (wzAuc)

285 I believe this will be the first time that I use "sapience" in a sentence.

This place is good for my IQ ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 04:01 PM (cpDEu)

286 You guys, stop hating. Kumswala did indeed get an A+ on her MENSA test ... the Mensuck test.

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at October 29, 2024 04:01 PM (iFTx/)

287 Isn't the Klam having her farewell speach today ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 29, 2024 04:01 PM (NtVYv)

288 95 out of 100 is not an A+.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2024 04:01 PM (jyAD3)

289 Mr Coffee and Terri Garr.

Who's the third?
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 29, 2024 04:01 PM

*looks around nervously*

Posted by: Mr. Clean at October 29, 2024 04:02 PM (ZANHd)

290 That and I'm sure they were drunk and high as fuck. If you read the story at the link, it's very very strange and almost certainly not the full story. It's not even clear whether the "yacht" sank or the speedboat they were taking from the yacht sank. Very fishy.

Unfortunately, the speedboat passengers still hadn't put on the safety vests, and when the boat sank, there was little they could do.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2024 04:02 PM (ExV1e)

291 Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2024 03:58 PM (/7KEl

Exactly!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at October 29, 2024 04:02 PM (Vvh2V)

292 Trump picked him up out front like Elwood Blues.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2024 03:41 PM (OIg9i)
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Does he have a new Bluesmobile?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 29, 2024 03:42 PM (U1w17)

"Fix the cigarette lighter"

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2024 04:02 PM (ik452)

293 THE JOKE IS THAT SHE'S BRAGGING ABOUT A 95 IQ, WHICH IS BELOW AVERAGE.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at October 29, 2024 03:55 PM (2ocoG)
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No. She's not. 95% on a MENSA test is not 95 IQ. It's actually closer to the end of the other side.

I don't believe her. But I don't learn anything by simply doubling down on initial beliefs.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 04:02 PM (krQz2)

294 I recall taking what the public schools called "aptitude tests." Finishing patterns, some simple math, maybe some reasoning problems. Not sure what the scores were... numbers, or pass/fail or what.

Long time ago.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 29, 2024 04:03 PM (Q4IgG)

295 Properly designed IQ tests do not test knowledge, but rather reasoning ability. E.g., "complete the series" questions, that measure the ability to reason abstractly.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 29, 2024 03:55 PM (YqDXo)

Yeah, my understanding is the proper IQ tests are basically the same sort as what you would give a dog or an ape or a pigeon. Just a bit more sophisticated.

Language or education or culture doesn't particularly come into it at all.

So, if you score low....well...yeah...you're kind of a dumbass. Though on the other side, a high score doesn't necessarily mean you're going to have a great successful life...lotsa factors in that mix.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2024 04:03 PM (eDfFs)

296 Just thought of a good alternative for "gaydar:" homo sapience.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 04:03 PM (cpDEu)

297 My Mr Coffee has died. 🪦
Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2024 03:57 PM (/7KEl)

You had your own Joe Dimaggio??

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2024 04:03 PM (ik452)

298 So JD is going on Rogen now

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2024 04:04 PM (IyPmt)

299 Just thought of a good alternative for "gaydar:" homo sapience.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 04:03 PM

Stealing that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2024 04:04 PM (ZANHd)

300 When I was younger, I used to pick up trivia like lint.

People would ask me "How do you know that?"

And I couldn't answer other than I had heard it before and it has stuck with me.

Same here. I used to say that the less relevant a piece of information was, the more likely it was that I knew it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2024 04:04 PM (ExV1e)

301 What's Obama's IQ?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 29, 2024 04:04 PM (kTd/k)

302 What's Obama's IQ?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 29, 2024

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I'd be surprised if it's much over 105.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 04:05 PM (J2vNu)

303 I would never take an IQ test.

Lawyers advise never ask a question unless you already know the answer.
Plus I'd flunk the math part. I'd ace the spelling test.

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2024 04:05 PM (/7KEl)

304 "My Mr Coffee has died. 🪦
Posted by: Don Black "

Call the coffee coffin dancers.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2024 04:05 PM (vFG9F)

305 So JD is going on Rogen now
Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2024 04:04 PM (IyPmt)

That's what I hear.

Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2024 04:05 PM (rj6Yv)

306 I don't believe her. But I don't learn anything by simply doubling down on initial beliefs.
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 04:02 PM (krQz2)

I don't believe her either.. My guess is someone else took the test.. If she is soooo smart why did she fail the Bar exam the first time ?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2024 04:05 PM (IyPmt)

307
Tim Young
@TimRunsHisMouth
Whoopi now says Trump is going to break up interracial marriages...

deport the wives...

And 'put the white guy with someone else'

This is certifiably insane.

They're losing, and it's making them go nuts.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 29, 2024 04:06 PM (TGPs7)

308 "These influencers refused to wear life jackets on a yacht because it would ruin their selfies. They drowned when their boat sank.

https://is.gd/q2n0cd
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks"

Sounds like they were more yacht girls than influencers. Maybe that is the same thing anymore.

Posted by: Ripley at October 29, 2024 04:06 PM (GUOwU)

309 What's Obama's IQ?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 29, 2024

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I'd be surprised if it's much over 105.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 04:05 PM (J2vNu)
_____________

"Keep that to yourself or you'll end up like me!"

-- Obama's Murdered Chef

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at October 29, 2024 04:06 PM (iFTx/)

310 IQ tests are consistent enough that they're considered racist. That's pretty much the gold standard for if something is scientific and The Science tells you something the Democrats don't want people to know nowadays.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2024 03:57 PM (2ocoG)
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The real measure of an IQ is its ability to predict intellectual potential. [Insert pointless obligatory rant from somebody who they knew a guy who had a genius-level IQ, but never did anything with it.]

It's like the NFL Combine, which doesn't measure football prowess, but rather athletic potential that may or may not be developed by the individual. If you can run a 4.0 sec 40-yard dash, you might never become a great football player, but you've got the potential to be one.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 29, 2024 04:06 PM (YqDXo)

311 95 is not retarded. If I recall retarded is below 60. But IQ has always been a dark matter kind of garbage concept. We all know there are differences in brains, but who is to say that whatever IQ tests are measuring is better than those who know everything about baseball, or tv shows, or woodworking?
Posted by: Oldcat
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Never discard knowledge in the social sciences. Unlike the natural sciences, social science concepts are always harder to measure but IQ is actually pretty well grounded with over a century worth of refinement and demonstrations of a genetic trait via twin studies.

There is also a nurture component and socialization that can determine how a particular individual's iq score might play out but it is in essence no different than people thinking taller people (within a limit) are more attractive, beauty via symmetry which can also be genetic, and so on.

Ask any experienced(non indoctrinated) teacher about intelligence as how it plays out in school. They deal with realities of some that cannot learn, others that can with effort, and some where it comes naturally and easily.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 04:06 PM (ctrM5)

312 My spelling is worse than shameful, but I'm an engineer.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 29, 2024 04:06 PM (pohLc)

313 I don't get the A+ part.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2024 04:07 PM (jyAD3)

314 Yeah, my understanding is the proper IQ tests are basically the same sort as what you would give a dog or an ape or a pigeon. Just a bit more sophisticated.

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My father had me take an IQ test around age 6 -- when I obviously had very little knowledge or experience.

IIRC, it was all verbal -- and basically puzzles, complete series of shape and color patterns, with some testing of the ability to memorize (perhaps screening for idedic memory).

He never told me how I fared ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 04:07 PM (cpDEu)

315 So JD is going on Rogen now
Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2024 04:04 PM (IyPmt)

Rogan's first question will be: for the benefit of the Harris campaign, in case they're tuned in, could you explain how you were able to travel all the way to Austin.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2024 04:08 PM (ExV1e)

316 "I recall taking what the public schools called "aptitude tests." Finishing patterns, some simple math, maybe some reasoning problems. Not sure what the scores were... numbers, or pass/fail or what.

Long time ago.
Posted by: Martini Farmer"

I took one in High School. When I got the report, it said I would not make a good pilot, which is what I wanted to be. It did say though that I would make a good flight instructor.

I am not making that up.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2024 04:08 PM (vFG9F)

317 how many races are there ?

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2024 04:08 PM (V13WU)

318 IQ average is 100 - so she is slightly below average but within the range of average.

Mensa requires a score at the 98th percentile. Depending on which IQ test you use the minimum mensa eligible test score is 130.

Putting out a tweet that you are slightly below average would be stupid. It must be a fake.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 29, 2024 04:08 PM (GZYu7)

319 What's Obama's IQ?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 29, 2024

***
I'd be surprised if it's much over 105.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 04:05 PM (J2vNu)
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I've guessed 115, and that was being very charitable, to lean into the wind of my own prejudices. 105-110 sounds about right.

Btw, 115 was historically the average IQ of college graduates. Of course, that was in the before times ...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 29, 2024 04:08 PM (YqDXo)

320 I bet they put an ear piece in, they have a drone operations room that Obama uses on his puppets.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at October 29, 2024 04:08 PM (J8LnB)

321 I will never take an IQ test.

I already know I am not as smart as I think I am. Ignorance is...something... (waves hand vaguely) ... you know, the thing.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Balding American at October 29, 2024 04:08 PM (xPJvm)

322 Makes no sense. 95 is well within a standard deviation, and we've seen what sort of deviations the Democrats specialize in, they're all non-standard...

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 29, 2024 04:09 PM (OUMaO)

323 317 how many races are there ?
Posted by: runner at October 29, 2024 04:08 PM (V13WU)

two - the human one and the progressives one.

Posted by: Roy at October 29, 2024 04:10 PM (z+ik4)

324 IQ is bogus anyway.

The numerical scenario behind it is that a

20 year-old with a 200 IQ ~=~ a 40 year-old with a 100 IQ.

However, 20 yos with a 200 IQ can gather a lot more knowledge than an average 40 yo with a standard IQ.

And besides natural depletion plays a role that cannot be captured. If a 200 IQ gent gets to be 50 years old, what is the capability of an average 100-year old?

As a quotient, it sucks. So, now we've only got a number that gives some sort of relative measure of what knowledge you have picked up so far in your life and makes a guess at how competent you will be in the future.

It's only partially useful and only as a relative measure.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 04:11 PM (krQz2)

325 IQ is overrated….. although his books are overrated I think Malcolm Gladwell got it about right in his book Outliers…. Exceptional outcomes are the result of multiple factors: a threshold level of intelligence (not an IQ in the stratosphere), opportunity/circumstances (right place, right time) and good old fashioned effort and hard work…. I’ve very little doubt Obama possesses the minimum threshold IQ… he’s no genius but not a retard either. No sense underestimating opponents

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2024 04:11 PM (6RwsA)

326 IQ measures potential for analytical and rational thought. Not actually having knowledge, experience, or wisdom. It is more the capacity to exercise those.

Which traditionally was the difference between the ACT and SAT before lines became blurred via achievement tests, etc.

H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy sf story has an interesting discussion about just what sapience is and how is it to be measured. IQ arguments are sort of like that.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 03:57 PM (ctrM5)

Well I guess I'd counter that by definition nothing can measure potential. If I sit at the test and grok everything about it perfectly, even to what the test maker had for dinner, but put nothing on the paper, I certainly won't get a good score.

Little Fuzzy's world at least is looking for the definition of sapience as opposed to animal mentation in order to avoid persecution of discovered aliens. And in the end the Fuzzies were able to talk and build a fire if you had the right equipment

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 04:11 PM (n7h9X)

327 At age seven, almost eight, I had to go down to the School Board office and take some tests to see if I belonged in third grade. Since I could read when I started first grade, my teacher gave me a field promotion to second, where I finished my first year. The public school admin had to be sure I was qualified to do third.

I guess I passed; they didn't hold me back.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 04:11 PM (J2vNu)

328 CNN is a joke.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 29, 2024 04:11 PM (+H2BX)

329 Barry is smart enough to keep his college records top secret, so, for a Democrat, he's a genius.

Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2024 04:12 PM (rj6Yv)

330 NOOD

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2024 04:12 PM (IyPmt)

331 My father had me take an IQ test around age 6 -- when I obviously had very little knowledge or experience.
______________

That's a bit young, as young children develop at considerably different rates. I believe they usually shoot for 12-year olds, because their cognitive development starts to level off at that age.

Which, of course, is why IQ was originally defined as apparent cognitive age/actual chronological age.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 29, 2024 04:12 PM (YqDXo)

332 Ace's next post needs to clear up this Kamala's 95 IQ business.

Or not.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 29, 2024 04:12 PM (wzAuc)

333 Just a final note on the Mr Coffee:

The appliance passed peacefully. I pressed the rocker switch to ON, and nothing happened. It was over.

I think I broke it's heart, though. I ordered a new coffeemaker two days ago. Maybe, in a way, Mr Coffee knew.

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2024 04:12 PM (/7KEl)

334 Things have got to be getting real bad for the Harris campaign. Pulling money from WI and NC, the newspapers not endorsing her, the media disintegrating before our eyes and now you have lots of stuff coming out from whistleblowers about government malfeasance. She's doomed and people are trying to run away and others are trying to get out in front of the retribution. It's a beautiful thing

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2024 04:12 PM (aRslG)

335 Putting out a tweet that you are slightly below average would be stupid. It must be a fake.
Posted by: Black JEM at October 29, 2024 04:08 PM (GZYu7)

Ignorance is a powerful thing. Most people in this country have no idea what the range of IQ is. Saying she got a 95 doesn't register as stupid with her voters, just the opposite. Saying she registered a 140, stop laughing, would have been taken as a lie. My guess is that they're hoping Trump would post his actual number.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2024 04:12 PM (ExV1e)

336 I don't think IQ is bogus. It supposedly measures reasoning ability. And that obviously varies. But you won't ever mistake a retard for a rocket scientist.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 29, 2024 04:12 PM (pohLc)

337 Noodus Bannon-time

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2024 04:13 PM (J2vNu)

338 An IQ of less than 83 means you are too cognitively impaired to be in the US Army. IQ is mostly genetic. If both parents are high IQ, your IQ will be lower than the average between them -- ie you are regressing to the mean. Finally, IQ goes down with old age -- ie cognitive ability.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 29, 2024 04:13 PM (wBaIH)

339 RMBS

The Poison Mind by Jeffrey Good and Susan Goreck.

George Trepal

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2024 04:13 PM (uLfN1)

340 >>> LizLem, did you find your phone?
Posted by: Wenda at October 29, 2024 03:56 PM (FeMyX)

Aww, thanks for asking Wenda! I did. In a stupid place, which makes sense as it wasn't in the normal places.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 04:13 PM (QAK8m)

341 Putting out a tweet that you are slightly below average would be stupid. It must be a fake.
Posted by: Black JEM at October 29, 2024 04:08 PM (GZYu7)

On the other hand, since she has sent out plenty of stupid things under her name, it might not be a fake.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 04:13 PM (n7h9X)

342 259 My Mr Coffee has died. 🪦
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My wife broke my electric drill. Life sucks.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 29, 2024 04:14 PM (AdHga)

343 I don't think IQ is bogus. It supposedly measures reasoning ability. And that obviously varies. But you won't ever mistake a retard for a rocket scientist.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 29, 2024 04:12 PM (pohLc)
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That's what I said. It sucks as it's term "Quotient".

The ideologues that dreamed it up actually believe it there could be a quotient. Which is why the name comes from Intelligence Quotient.

As if there are simple multipliers to the function of time for intelligence.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 04:15 PM (krQz2)

344 don't believe her either.. My guess is someone else took the test.. If she is soooo smart why did she fail the Bar exam the first time ?

Bar exam is all prep. So either she didn't prep because she's lazy AF or she's so stupid she didn't know to prep or she tried to prep but was too dumb. My guess is that we know she used dei to GET IN to Hastings law school that she slid through, didn't know she needed prep, and her mom took her to task and hired tutors to do serious prep second round.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at October 29, 2024 04:16 PM (slJFB)

345 the fact that CNN has him on the air is the real scandal.
......

CNN has all kinds of assholes on the air, see Jake Tapper.

Posted by: wth at October 29, 2024 04:16 PM (v0R5T)

346 I think I broke it's heart, though. I ordered a new coffeemaker two days ago. Maybe, in a way, Mr Coffee knew.

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2024 04:12 PM (/7KEl)
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Had you purchased an ice floe?

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 04:16 PM (krQz2)

347 Mehdi makes Don Lemon look like Albert Einstein.

Posted by: Kamala's Throat at October 29, 2024 04:16 PM (W+TLY)

348 IQ is overrated….. although his books are overrated I think Malcolm Gladwell got it about right in his book Outliers…. Exceptional outcomes are the result of multiple factors: a threshold level of intelligence (not an IQ in the stratosphere), opportunity/circumstances (right place, right time) and good old fashioned effort and hard work
___________________

The point of IQ testing is to identify people (kids, in particular) who may fly under the radar in school but who have potential. Again, consider the NFL Combine. If someone crushes the 40 yard dash, can long jump into next week, can high jump over buildings, etc. he might look like a fat slob, but he has athletic potential nonetheless.

Nothing to do with outcomes whatsoever.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 29, 2024 04:17 PM (YqDXo)

349 I don't get the A+ part.
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2024 04:07 PM (jyAD3)

As far as I know these sort of standardized tests never use letter grades, just percentiles above. So that is likely a lie, even if the 95 is a percentile and would be an A+

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 04:20 PM (n7h9X)

350 95 was an A- when I was going to school. A+ was 100 or better.
I don't get what test she took. Is it a percentile thing.
"You're in the top 95%" which gives her about a max 114 IQ.
I'd like to see what she scores on the DLAB. I took that fucking thing and got a 91 but still have no idea what the hell I did.
Supposedly it was a fantastic score but I'm dumb enough to have turned down the offer that came with it.
Stupid teenager that wanted to party in Germany and not do more school.

Posted by: Reforger at October 29, 2024 04:20 PM (xcIvR)

351 Teri Garr was a sweetie
Phoebe's mom!

Posted by: Don Black
......

Now THAT would have been a tag team!

Posted by: wth at October 29, 2024 04:22 PM (v0R5T)

352 Mehdi makes Don Lemon look like Albert Einstein.
Posted by: Kamala's Throat at October 29, 2024 04:16 PM (W+TLY)
......

...with a tan.

Posted by: wth at October 29, 2024 04:26 PM (v0R5T)

353 LizLem, I'm glad! There are enough stupid things to worry about without adding one.

Posted by: Wenda at October 29, 2024 04:32 PM (FeMyX)

354 Well I guess I'd counter that by definition nothing can measure potential. If I sit at the test and grok everything about it perfectly, even to what the test maker had for dinner, but put nothing on the paper, I certainly won't get a good score.

Little Fuzzy's world at least is looking for the definition of sapience as opposed to animal mentation in order to avoid persecution of discovered aliens. And in the end the Fuzzies were able to talk and build a fire if you had the right equipment
Posted by: Oldcat
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Part of that argument stemmed on the lack of language because the Fuzzies communicated at higher frequency range beyond human ability to hear. It is more about whether language or pure mentation could determine sapience.

Mental boiling point was a good analogy. I was using the sapience argument not in regards to iq as much as another difficult to measure concept. In our context, it would pertain to whether or not a person was a genius or a moron (old psych defn)

That being said, any experienced teacher that is not an ideologue can notice even from small assignments writing assignments to be able to rank most students as far as ability even starting grade school

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 04:33 PM (ctrM5)

355 There is also a nurture component and socialization that can determine how a particular individual's iq score might play out but it is in essence no different than people thinking taller people (within a limit) are more attractive, beauty via symmetry which can also be genetic, and so on.

Ask any experienced(non indoctrinated) teacher about intelligence as how it plays out in school. They deal with realities of some that cannot learn, others that can with effort, and some where it comes naturally and easily.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 04:06 PM (ctrM5)

Taller people are considered more attractive because they can beat the hell out of smaller people in the tribe, and have had enough food in their life to be healthy. Good bet for a woman. Similar for symmetry for the woman, its a signal of good health, better babies.

But there are so many contradictions of what IQ is even on this thread - it measures a hard and fast intelligence, or potential, or it has social aspects and changes with age....I am not confident that there is a real there there.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 04:35 PM (n7h9X)

356 That being said, any experienced teacher that is not an ideologue can notice even from small assignments writing assignments to be able to rank most students as far as ability even starting grade school

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 04:33 PM (ctrM5)

There have been experiments where they told teachers that person X was brilliant or person X was a troublemaker and their results were very widely different.

But I have never said that there aren't differences in ability, just that there are many abilities. Doing well on a standardized test is an ability. The ability to read fast and accurately gives you more time to think, for one.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 04:39 PM (n7h9X)

357 Exceptional outcomes are the result of multiple factors: a threshold level of intelligence (not an IQ in the stratosphere), opportunity/circumstances (right place, right time) and good old fashioned effort and hard work

IQ is not a linear system which is where Gladwell gets it wrong.

Simply put, there is a quantitative difference between a 'genius' and the relatively linear progression of iq from about 90-130. Those that are geniuses and those that are below normal demonstrate very different thinking patterns and behaviors as a result of that.
Simply put, it is a myth that all people are created equal in all attributes, some are taller, some are shorter, smarter, less smart, etc. etc.

It is more that all people are worthy of being respected as a person and be treated equally by a democratic government unless their actions or reasons exist via due process of law to treat them differently.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 04:39 PM (ctrM5)

358 “Whatever Democrats are accusing you of, you can be certain they are doing it themselves. Write it down, stick it on you refrigerator.”

-Tucker Carlson

Posted by: Marcus T at October 29, 2024 04:42 PM (q8rok)

359 But I have never said that there aren't differences in ability, just that there are many abilities. Doing well on a standardized test is an ability. The ability to read fast and accurately gives you more time to think, for one.
Posted by: Oldcat
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The many different iq model has been disproven by actual research pretty thoroughly now. Due to my profession, I tended to track such things as it affected my ability to teach plus I read a lot of empirical research of all types in order for me to teach senior research projects in a seminar. Research papers are almost a pure test of a student's ability to reason analytically and produce results. I also used plagiarism detectors, made them produce written work by hand throughout the semester, etc.

More a factor of socialization. Regarding the Dr. Fox effect, it does exist for some but generally that fades with teaching experience. I learned pretty quickly what happens when I pushed analytic concepts like rational choice theory to a class that simply does not have the mental horsepower to handle it.

That requires teaching more like jazz than pouring out knowledge as the sage on the stage for students to lap up.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 04:47 PM (ctrM5)

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