Don Lemon: When I Was Laughing Uproariously at Borderline Racist Attacks on Low-Status Whites, I Was Only Laughing Because... <i>I Couldn't Hear the Jokes I Was Laughing At?!!</i>

Don Lemon: When I Was Laughing Uproariously at Borderline Racist Attacks on Low-Status Whites, I Was Only Laughing Because... I Couldn't Hear the Jokes I Was Laughing At?!!

Oh.

I see.

Yesterday, when you started laughing like someone with a mental problem at Rick Wilson's Rebus-puzzle Dad Joke, I thought you were just borderline retarded.

But now that you're claiming you were only laughing at the jokes because you couldn't hear the jokes you were laughing at, I now think you're all-the-way-home retarded.

Don Lemon is a black hole of ignorance and lies.

The guy who wondered if a free-roaming black hole was eating airplanes out of the sky is having a laugh about profound ignorance?

CNN's Don Lemon responds to outrage over his segment where he and others mocked Trump supporters as rednecks

Lemon: “I didn’t catch everything that was said. … I was laughing at the joke and not at any group of people”

The joke was mocking a group of people: Trump supporters pic.twitter.com/21NOtCjTPT
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) January 29, 2020

Note that Wajahat Ali, who was on that panel crackin' jokes about the Working Class White Rubes (but don't you dare point out the backwardness of Muslims -- that's racist!), has a different explanation: Yes, he was making fun of the despised non-urban whites, and he's not sorry about it.

We did. Not going to apologize for it either. If you're willing to believe and promote these absurd and dangerous lies, well, you deserve to be mocked for it: "CNNs Don Lemon Cracks Up As Rick Wilson, Wajahat Ali Trash Trump Supporters As Ignorant Rubes" https://t.co/gK3s42yj6c
— Wajahat "Some Muslim...I've Never Heard Of" Ali (@WajahatAli) January 27, 2020

This clip from the Dave Rubin show, interviewing cultural commentator (and... living tribute to Tulsi Gabbard) Michael Malice, is very, very good.

If you don't feel like watching it, he makes two major points:

1, What Don Lemon, Rick Wilson, and Wajahat Ali are doing is taking the speech patterns and stereotypes formerly used to mock poor, low-status blacks and applying them, untransformed, to attack the left's designated racial scapegoat, poor, low-status whites.

2, Don Lemon and Rick Wilson are what he calls "mid-wits," which is dangerously stupid sort of person that I'm always warning about, although I don't call them "mid-wits."

Mid-wits, he explains, are average intelligence people or just slightly above-average intelligence people who belong to a cult which valorizes -- fetishizes, even -- high intelligence. So they're always desperate to prove that they're high intelligence, which is a major problem, because they're not even close.

That results in absurdities like Rick Wilson claiming that being able to locate Ukraine on a map is a useful virtue signal of his (falsely imputed) high intelligence, and the degenerate moron Don Lemon thinking that this is hi- (as in high intelligence) -larious.

I've made this analogy recently -- this is like a guy putting on a Blue Hat and then solemnly informing you that people who wear Blue Hats are genetically superior to those who don't. These are the sorts of people who look something trivial up -- on Wikipedia -- and then tell you they're your Natural Order Betters for knowing the thing they just looked up on Wikipedia.

People with large-but-brittle egos -- large, because they're narcissists, but brittle because their egotism is based on an entirely false belief that they are remotely "elite" in any way -- are venomously psychologically damaged are are always lashing out hatefully when the world reminds them that they're not that smart. They can't stand that reminder, so they have to immediately reassure themselves they're Actually Super-Smart by putting on a Blue Hat of Superiority or looking up the "Madchester sound" on Wikipedia and then berating people for not knowing what Madchester is.

They also fetishize youth but are themselves largely old as fuck -- resulting in very sad, pathetic attempts to appear young on Twitter, aping the lingo and stupid jokes they see The Young People repeating. That's a different but closely associated psychological defect.

That's how you get risible attempts to "dress young," as below:

"Elite." This is the p.o.s that belittle trump supporters? Lol pic.twitter.com/QFZ1OhZ6OH
— The Farting Cow (@CowFarting) January 29, 2020

That's Rick Wilson, of course. 285 pounds of Rompin'-Stomplin' Sex.

He's young. He's wearing dungarees, as George Will would say. (Thanks to Jane D'oh for the correction on that.)

Posted by: Ace at 01:46 PM

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1 st

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 29, 2020 01:46 PM (1CjJc)

2 lolgf

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 29, 2020 01:47 PM (1CjJc)

3 yeah, he's a black hole alright.. a black asshole!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 29, 2020 01:47 PM (so+oy)

4 5 new sequences added.
Hmmmmmmm.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/ 2019-ncov-seqs/

Posted by: Ahwoo Flu at January 29, 2020 01:48 PM (sdctx)

5 We'll get to the center of this.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at January 29, 2020 01:48 PM (a/dOO)

6 At least we found some middle ground.

Posted by: 6to4to3 at January 29, 2020 01:48 PM (ilTjN)

7 So a variation of the Chewbacca Defense?

Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 29, 2020 01:48 PM (0keV9)

8 not first

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 01:48 PM (q80AH)

9 Is CNN going to keep having Wilson on?

Then they're fine with it.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 29, 2020 01:48 PM (oVJmc)

10 dumbass

Posted by: an actual lemon at January 29, 2020 01:48 PM (VMPS/)

11 Just like when I threw my ribbons- not my medals- over the WH fence.

Posted by: John Kerry-Heinz at January 29, 2020 01:49 PM (LxhKk)

12 Lemon is sour and putrid.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 29, 2020 01:49 PM (sy5kK)

13 I take a more centrist approach.

Posted by: Guzalot at January 29, 2020 01:49 PM (prSvo)

14 i feel like this is going to center me for just a little bit...

Posted by: SturmToddler at January 29, 2020 01:49 PM (8D42x)

15 Does this mean that there are "high-status" whites?

Posted by: deplorable unperson - King Ranch Edition at January 29, 2020 01:49 PM (nfcV2)

16 The Center cannot hold!

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 01:49 PM (NgKpN)

17 Asshat Ali says what?

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 01:49 PM (XN+hF)

18 I laughed when the geese laughed. You don't cross those bitches.

Posted by: Lemony Sniffit at January 29, 2020 01:49 PM (sN9mD)

19 Middle me this, Batman!

Posted by: Riddler at January 29, 2020 01:49 PM (sy5kK)

20 Smell my finger - Dom Lemonhead

Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 29, 2020 01:49 PM (M+Lyo)

21 Go suck your dyck, in .357 calibre you useless piece of flesh.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2020 01:49 PM (Ut2e7)

22 Don needs to speak to Wajahat so that they communicate their excuses better. Instead, he wasted a perfectly good groveling.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at January 29, 2020 01:49 PM (a/dOO)

23 I aint no ways tarded.

Posted by: The Don Lemon at January 29, 2020 01:50 PM (VMPS/)

24 >>>like a guy putting on a Blue Hat and then solemnly informing you that
people who wear Blue Hats are genetically superior to those who don't.

Starbelly Sneeches.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 29, 2020 01:50 PM (1CjJc)

25 I've made this analogy recently -- this is like a guy putting on a Blue Hat and then solemnly informing you that people who wear Blue Hats are genetically superior to those who don't. These are the sorts of people who look something trivial up -- on Wikipedia -- and then tell you they're your Natural Order Betters for knowing the thing they just looked up on Wikipedia.

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Like the difference between being informed on something specific and being intelligent overall.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 01:50 PM (q80AH)

26 I's jus' a happy idiot.

Posted by: BignJames at January 29, 2020 01:50 PM (X/Pw5)

27 Sight alignment, sight picture, center mass.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - Not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at January 29, 2020 01:50 PM (HU45H)

28 "I wasn't laughin *at* you...I was laughing WITH you!"

-Don Lemonparty

Posted by: kallisto at January 29, 2020 01:50 PM (DJFLF)

29
There's a dead skunkIn the middle of the road

Posted by: a dead skunk at January 29, 2020 01:50 PM (VMPS/)

30 I'd like to know: those minutes while he was laughing: given his salary and the number of hours he works, how much did he rack up there?

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 01:50 PM (ghFVE)

31 Does Wajahat mean that he WASN'T making fun of Trump supporters? Has he listened to himself on that video?

Look pal, when you lie to yourself and believe it, it's time to get help.

Posted by: bluebell at January 29, 2020 01:51 PM (/669Q)

32 Stuck in the middle with mid-wits.

Posted by: dantesed at January 29, 2020 01:51 PM (88xKn)

33 Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 01:51 PM (XN+hF)

34 Shut up, Le'Mon.

People like you give white people justification to hate me by proxy.

Posted by: Allie at January 29, 2020 01:51 PM (UnA8+)

35 When I signed the Send Republicans To Camps order I thought I was signing up for my lunch.

Where's my Cobb salad?

Posted by: Elizabeth Pol Pot Warren at January 29, 2020 01:51 PM (NVYyb)

36 The post is middling, like a midwit.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for Your Souvenier Impeachment Gear! at January 29, 2020 01:51 PM (ldR/a)

37 The shirtless sportcoat look will be huge in 2119.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - King Ranch Edition at January 29, 2020 01:51 PM (nfcV2)

38 "Don Lemon is a black hole of ignorance and lies."

Only the first 5 words are meaningful.

The rest is just Lemon glitter.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 29, 2020 01:51 PM (sy5kK)

39 The infamous exchange is already a RNC campaign ad.

Posted by: kallisto at January 29, 2020 01:51 PM (DJFLF)

40 I think Dr Seuss wrote a book about that....

Posted by: Euro at January 29, 2020 01:51 PM (sxYKO)

41 Seriously, who's paying Rick Wilson? Surely no GOPer is paying him for campaign services.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 29, 2020 01:51 PM (oVJmc)

42 >>>Mid-wits, he explains, are average intelligence people or just slightly above-average intelligence people who belong to a cult which valorizes -- fetishizes, even -- high intelligence. So they're always desperate to prove that they're high intelligence, which is a major problem, because they're not even close.

I have an alternate theory. They are just three jagoffs.

Posted by: Roy at January 29, 2020 01:51 PM (SUJyY)

43 Centered

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 29, 2020 01:51 PM (jWC3i)

44 It's apparent the GOPs questions are going to be anodyne process questions and not go anywhere to illuminating the corruption of the Obama administration and it's Ukraine policy.

This is not even worth watching at this point.

Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 29, 2020 01:51 PM (0keV9)

45 They should fire him for being divisive.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 01:51 PM (ghFVE)

46 An assmuncher, an asshead and an asshat walk into a bar...

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 01:51 PM (XN+hF)

47 centrist, just like Don Lemon

Posted by: henry at January 29, 2020 01:52 PM (JMDly)

48 At this point Green Helmet Guy is more trustworthy than CNN.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2020 01:52 PM (Ut2e7)

49 https://www.lotsofessays.com/
viewpaper/2000409.html

Remove space after .com/

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 01:52 PM (NgKpN)

50 This centered text is pretty funny, it's like every comment is a letterhead.

Posted by: kallisto at January 29, 2020 01:52 PM (DJFLF)

51 Don Lemon is a black hole of ignorance and lies.
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It was the bullet point on his resume that got him the interview.

P.S. Dan Rather wasn't exactly a sooper genius.

Posted by: CNN Personnell Department at January 29, 2020 01:52 PM (Rhhue)

52 What kind of idiot is this guy?

Posted by: The Pakleds at January 29, 2020 01:52 PM (Izzlo)

53 the ad...

link the ad...

EXCLUSIVE--WATCH: GOP Launches Campaign Ad, Fundraiser Off CNN's Don Lemon Mocking Trump Supporters
https://tinyurl.com/tankjva

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 01:52 PM (vEIlU)

54 Lemon is not worthy to shine Philbin's shoes.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 01:52 PM (ufFY8)

55 I totally believe him. And I'd be willing to appear on every CNN show for the rest of the week to defend him against the rubes.

Posted by: The Rev. Colonel David French, A Xantastic Guy! at January 29, 2020 01:52 PM (NVYyb)

56 When does Miss Mona Lisa Vito take the stand?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 29, 2020 01:52 PM (q1Pj5)

57 In the middle of the road.

Posted by: The Pretenders at January 29, 2020 01:52 PM (ldR/a)

58

Wajahat Ali sounds like a character on a re-booted Barney Miller.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 29, 2020 01:53 PM (aKsyK)

59 This stinks to high heaven.

Posted by: a dead bull frog at January 29, 2020 01:53 PM (VMPS/)

60 "Mid-wits" is a great term. Very apt for near-on every single MSM "personality."

Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at January 29, 2020 01:53 PM (hdzef)

61 That's the most effective campaign ad Rick Wilson ever made.

Posted by: Guzalot at January 29, 2020 01:53 PM (prSvo)

62 very Centered

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 29, 2020 01:53 PM (BqBId)

63 52 What kind of idiot is this guy?
Posted by: The Pakleds at January 29, 2020 01:52 PM (Izzlo)

You could be more specific?

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 01:53 PM (ghFVE)

64 Ace of Spades HQ

You bring the lumber, we make the shelves.

1-800-MY-VESPA

Posted by: kallisto at January 29, 2020 01:53 PM (DJFLF)

65 Someone should ask Don which exact jokes he heard and laughed at, and which ones he "didn't" hear, so that we can be clear what exactly he finds funny or not. I would love to see an interviewer read out the jokes one by one and ask, "Did you find that funny?" Because I think LeMon's squirming and weaseling to try to avoid answering those questions would be funny as hell.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at January 29, 2020 01:53 PM (a/dOO)

66 Saw nood lemon, almost didn't show up. But I would have missed the centering.

Posted by: FrodoB,
because hobbits don't wear socks at January 29, 2020 01:53 PM (veJcn)

67 56 When does Miss Mona Lisa Vito take the stand?

Trump's phone call was dead-on balls accurate.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 01:53 PM (XN+hF)

68 40
I think Dr Seuss wrote a book about that....

Posted by: Euro at January 29, 2020 01:51 PM (sxYKO)

Starbelly Sneeches. The highly intelligent never progressed in intellectual development beyond that.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 29, 2020 01:53 PM (1CjJc)

69 We're all feeling very centered, it seems.

Posted by: DocJ at January 29, 2020 01:54 PM (DU2N9)

70 Philbin destroying the House claim that the President is wrong for 'defying' his staff.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 01:54 PM (ufFY8)

71 Journalists are Low-Wits

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2020 01:54 PM (Ut2e7)

72 An assmuncher, an asshead and an asshat walk into a bar...
Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 01:51 PM

Bartender says "What can I get you, Mr. Lemon?"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 29, 2020 01:54 PM (ejd/p)

73 @realDailyWire

Lemon vs Lemon

https://tinyurl.com/ttw34dw

Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2020 01:54 PM (cF8AT)

74 Lemon is a fool, so, naturally, he's got a huge contract with CNN.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 29, 2020 01:54 PM (Mc5lZ)

75 41
Seriously, who's paying Rick Wilson? Surely no GOPer is paying him for campaign services.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 29, 2020 01:51 PM (oVJmc)

IIRC, it was Qatar. And he'll get some support cash from some Lefty group to be their trained and domesticated conservative.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for Your Souvenier Impeachment Gear! at January 29, 2020 01:54 PM (ldR/a)

76 THAT'S what I love about AoS:

Balance.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at January 29, 2020 01:54 PM (C+We0)

77 An assmuncher, an asshead and an asshat walk into a bar...

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 01:51 PM

Was it a blue asshat?

Posted by: Diogenes off site at January 29, 2020 01:54 PM (zkt/z)

78 Romney tweeted his questions for the trial:

https://bit.ly/36Ekd4N

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed[/c] at January 29, 2020 01:54 PM (N39Ws)

79 Canada is literally lecturing the public not to be racist and xenophobic as their suspected cases double every day.
Demographics to the south of me. Retarded Leafs worried more about isms than a bioweapon to the north of me.

Posted by: Ahwoo Flu at January 29, 2020 01:54 PM (sdctx)

80 Hey let reenact the Battle of Midway.

Posted by: a dead bull frog at January 29, 2020 01:54 PM (VMPS/)

81 I refuse to call these barely average intelligence nitwits "elites" even sarcastically.

There is nothing elite about them and they know they are losing their fake status.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2020 01:54 PM (ZLI7S)

82 I wish Trump's team would take a few jawbones of asses and smite every Democrat there.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2020 01:54 PM (Ut2e7)

83 Centered!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at January 29, 2020 01:55 PM (SRRAx)

84 Deplorable. hic.

Posted by: Hillary in Chappaqua at January 29, 2020 01:55 PM (LxhKk)

85 Don LeMon couldn't find an audience if it was labeled with a an "A" next to a giant crowd picture.

Posted by: TheRickWilson at January 29, 2020 01:55 PM (NVYyb)

86 Buying tip: Free roaming black holes are not necessarily organic.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 29, 2020 01:55 PM (Boy/L)

87 Zod was laughing because even though he couldn't hear the lamentations, he could hear the lamentations.

Posted by: Zod at January 29, 2020 01:55 PM (u4/yY)

88 I'm saving my laughter for when Rick Wilson dies and has to be buried in a box that once contained a large piece of furniture.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 29, 2020 01:55 PM (k8ebL)

89
That's the most effective campaign ad Rick Wilson ever made.

lol

Posted by: deplorable unperson - King Ranch Edition at January 29, 2020 01:55 PM (nfcV2)

90 A lack of confidence prevented me from becoming a mid-wit, I guess. Self doubt kinda sucks but it does engender self awareness, so it has it's uses.

Posted by: Max Power at January 29, 2020 01:55 PM (q177U)

91 Aaack, I can't take the centered stuff for too long because it makes my head hurt. Back to the impeachment and pretending to clean my kitchen.

Posted by: bluebell at January 29, 2020 01:55 PM (/669Q)

92 Starbelly Sneeches. The highly intelligent never progressed in intellectual development beyond that.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 29, 2020 01:53 PM (1CjJc)

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My g-babies love that story.

Posted by: SMH at January 29, 2020 01:55 PM (RU4sa)

93 I don't understand all this fuss about some foreign crane rental company.

Posted by: Bubba. at January 29, 2020 01:55 PM (LWu6U)

94 Romney tweeted his questions for the trial:

https://bit.ly/36Ekd4N
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Question One: Who shall be my lucky Pierre?

Posted by: Mitt Rombley at January 29, 2020 01:55 PM (KB/FD)

95 Philbin would do himself a huge favor if he would avoid the fairly complicated statements that contain a negative.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 01:56 PM (ghFVE)

96 We don't generally let TheRick out of his box, and now you all know why.

Posted by: Mrs RickWilson at January 29, 2020 01:56 PM (NVYyb)

97 70
Philbin destroying the House claim that the President is wrong for 'defying' his staff.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 01:54 PM (ufFY

I am certain every Senator there is thinking "That is correct, I hire staff to control my actions - said no one ever."

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for Your Souvenier Impeachment Gear! at January 29, 2020 01:56 PM (ldR/a)

98 And I would wager, that I have seen more of the world, than all three of them combined.

But, just a rube, I guess.

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 01:56 PM (NgKpN)

99 78 Romney tweeted his questions for the trial:

https://bit.ly/36Ekd4N

Why, it's like the DNC and the MFM collaborated on writing those for him. Oh, wait...

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 01:56 PM (XN+hF)

100

Mid-wits sounds like a TV game show.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 29, 2020 01:56 PM (aKsyK)

101 So this is the latest from the MSNBC Network and Artisanal PB&J on White Bread Association?

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at January 29, 2020 01:56 PM (C+We0)

102 This idiot Shaheen just described everything Obama did to his political enemies.

Thanks for reminding everyone, dumbass.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2020 01:56 PM (ZLI7S)

103 Aaaaand Hugh Hewitt has already accepted Don LeMons apology.
Like a CUCK.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2020 01:56 PM (bDqIh)

104 Testing

Posted by: Rutabaga at January 29, 2020 01:56 PM (LilNs)

105 Shorter Don Lemon:

"You know, there's a... uh.. passage from the, uh... book of.... Michael? I think. Yeah, Michael. That says. Do... do others. It's something about Doing to others. Oh, Do with others as you do to you. Yeah. So just think about that."

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 29, 2020 01:56 PM (KUaJL)

106
Middle of the road posts give me the fan tods.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (pNxlR)

107 Its clear the Dem questions are scripted.

Schiff even had slides ready.

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (NgKpN)

108 It's Don LeMon!

Posted by: It's me donna at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (6XlcD)

109 this guy in a clip from the Daily Caller says he thinks something is physically wrong with Lemon

ummm

Reporter REACTS To CNN Mocking Middle America
https://tinyurl.com/r8ex7f7

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (vEIlU)

110 I thought Dagan McDowell (southern woman) was going to come to blows with elitist Obama tool bag Marie Harf over this earlier.

Dagan has experienced up close and personal what it's like to be looked down on in NYC because she "talks funny.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (ptqGC)

111 My hash changed which is odd because I have a static address. Anybody else's change?

Posted by: freaked at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (VMPS/)

112 Being condescended to wouldn't enrage me so much if the people doing the condescending were actually smarter than I am.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (RD7QR)

113 And yaaaayy!! Coronavirus is next to EUCOM

Posted by: Euro at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (sxYKO)

114 30%+ of the voters @ last nights Trup rally were dems,...in Jersey.....ruh roh!

Posted by: BignJames at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (X/Pw5)

115 Thisclose to making it to 100 still centered.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (XN+hF)

116 88
I'm saving my laughter for when Rick Wilson dies and has to be buried in a box that once contained a large piece of furniture.
you spelled "throw pillow" wrong

Posted by: henry at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (JMDly)

117
Democrats, again, admit the president committed no "statutory crime."

How are we losing to these people??

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (byl2g)

118
"Rick Wilson, Republican consultant".

I heard that the last Republican candidate Rick Wilson got a paycheck from was Rudy Giuliani.

He is a paid hack.

However, it keeps him out of garbage cans and gloryholes.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (sy5kK)

119 We need Pam Bondi up next as a palate cleanser for this bint.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (ufFY8)

120 Don Lemon couldn't find an "ask" even if there was a hickory haft with a steel head sharpened on one end.

Posted by: Zod at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (QgtlX)

121 @HughHewitt
Just played the apology from@DonLemon @CNN last night. Apology accepted. Move on.#CancelCulture is absurd and often destructive of free speech on left and right.

*types*
*deletes*

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (bDqIh)

122 I ain't listening to this tedious female House Manager.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (ghFVE)

123 Mitt's questions are fair and the answers would be very helpful.

Still hate him.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - King Ranch Edition at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (nfcV2)

124 Someone pointed out how it was pretty funny that it no one in particular got upset when this mid-wit banter was originally broadcast ... presumably cause hardly anyone actually saw it.

It took a twitter account with ~20k followers to make it "a thing" a couple of days later by posting a clip.

Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at January 29, 2020 01:58 PM (hdzef)

125 103 Aaaaand Hugh Hewitt has already accepted Don LeMons apology.
Like a CUCK.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2020 01:56 PM (bDqIh)

And just who the Fuck does Hugh Hewitt think he is to accept for ME?

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 01:58 PM (NgKpN)

126 Hmmmm...Wajahat.
I have a couple of muzzies in my class. Great students and good men. Also fairly conservative. Mind if I pass them your name...and address? You know, so they can look you up for a beer one day.

Posted by: Diogenes off site at January 29, 2020 01:58 PM (zkt/z)

127 Okay, THE Rick Wilson. Now mock a swishy gay man.

I'll wait.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2020 01:58 PM (ptqGC)

128 Please explain to me how the President can defy his staff.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 29, 2020 01:58 PM (Boy/L)

129 I just saw the ad for the first time. Previously I'd only heard it. Lemon is actually wiping his eyes with a hankie. His attempt to laughsplain doesn't fly.Dumb AF clownass.

Posted by: kallisto at January 29, 2020 01:58 PM (DJFLF)

130 But for the soft bigotry of low expectations, both Don LeMon and Barry Soetoro would still be bringing towels to naked men in the bath houses on Branson or Pedo Island ... and fetching the Clintons coffee.

Posted by: ShainS, Club Gulag > Club Gitmo at January 29, 2020 01:58 PM (ijM9e)

131 Now I'm getting motion sickness.

Posted by: freaked at January 29, 2020 01:58 PM (VMPS/)

132 Democrats, again, admit the president committed no "statutory crime."

How are we losing to these people??
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Because most of the people you think are on your side, really aren't on your side.

Posted by: uniparty at January 29, 2020 01:58 PM (Mctw3)

133 @HughHewitt
Just played the apology from@DonLemon @CNN last night. Apology accepted. Move on.#CancelCulture is absurd and often destructive of free speech on left and right.

Leave it to Cuck Cuckitt to accept a non-apology.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 01:58 PM (XN+hF)

134 Test

Posted by: josephistan at January 29, 2020 01:58 PM (Izzlo)

135 Trump's phone call was dead-on balls accurate.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 01:53 PM (XN+hF)

And how do you know it was dead-on balls accurate?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 29, 2020 01:59 PM (q1Pj5)

136 Gonna split that pea right down the middle!

Posted by: Pea Soup Guy at January 29, 2020 01:59 PM (Vy7tf)

137 "Uh, and let me make this perfectly clear" Richard Nixon or Don Lemon?

Posted by: mrp at January 29, 2020 01:59 PM (Pqytn)

138 102
This idiot Shaheen just described everything Obama did to his political enemies.

Thanks for reminding everyone, dumbass.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2020 01:56 PM (ZLI7S)

That thought crossed my mind too.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 01:59 PM (ufFY8)

139 -------------------------------------------------------------------- I refuse to move left!

Posted by: FrodoB,
because hobbits don't wear socks at January 29, 2020 01:59 PM (veJcn)

140 I live in Northern California. The local Chinese New Year celebration was CANCELED due to fears of the Corona virus. These are expats and visitors and extended family of Chinese immigrants. What do they know?

Posted by: Max Power at January 29, 2020 01:59 PM (q177U)

141 111 My hash changed which is odd because I have a static address. Anybody else's change?
Posted by: freaked at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (VMPS/)
-

Nope. Static address still the same.

Did you get a new modem? That is what changed mine.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 29, 2020 01:59 PM (sy5kK)

142 Went from center to left to center again.

Next we will be a right-justified blog.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2020 01:59 PM (Ut2e7)

143 Duck Fon Lemon
Ruck Fick Wilson
Wuck Fajahit Ali

Posted by: RICO aka msm/DNC/msm at January 29, 2020 01:59 PM (x6XkS)

144 An assmuncher, an asshead and an asshat walk into a bar...
Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 01:51 PM (XN+hF)
---------------

Who are: Rachel Maddow, Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper?

What do I win?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 29, 2020 01:59 PM (Mc5lZ)

145 Wajahat

"Waja" means "Ass", so...

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 01:59 PM (XN+hF)

146 I knew that Lemon was of a higher intellect than most when I saw videos of him drunk on NY Eve broadcasts, and read about him shoving his hands down his shorts, rubbing his genitalia, and then thrusting his fingers in someone's face. He is definitely our better and not at all like us deplorables.

Posted by: Cheri at January 29, 2020 01:59 PM (oiNtH)

147 Somebody hit the carriage return.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at January 29, 2020 01:59 PM (xPJvm)

148
91 Aaack, I can't take the centered stuff for too long because it makes my head hurt. Back to the impeachment and pretending to clean my kitchen.
Posted by: bluebell at January 29, 2020 01:55 PM (/669Q)

Desultory wiping at scorched food in your stovetop's burner pans is really low grade pretending, bb.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 29, 2020 02:00 PM (pNxlR)

149 How are we losing to these people??
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM

Paging Mitt Romney...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 29, 2020 02:00 PM (ejd/p)

150 It's just a post to the left, and then a step to the riiiiiight.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 02:00 PM (XN+hF)

151 This is awkward

Posted by: FrodoB,
because hobbits don't wear socks at January 29, 2020 02:00 PM (veJcn)

152 Wejet is something completely unrelated to Waja.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2020 02:00 PM (Ut2e7)

153 "I was laughing at the joke" THIS. IS. CNN.

Posted by: mrp at January 29, 2020 02:00 PM (Pqytn)

154 CNN: Racist News

Posted by: Chris M at January 29, 2020 02:00 PM (eAZVt)

155 "Rick Wilson, Republican consultant".

When Marie fkn HARF has to argue with the panel on Outnumbered that "Wilson is a REPUBLICAN!!" ....

Posted by: deplorable unperson - King Ranch Edition at January 29, 2020 02:00 PM (nfcV2)

156
Promenade!

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 29, 2020 02:00 PM (byl2g)

157 Oooooohhhhhhhmmmm

Oooooohhhhhmmmmmm

On The Twats (shut up, I'm not addicted, I just need dopamine and constant validation from people on the Twats in addition to the people who live in the gray box), there was a discussion about geniuses and the interplay between IQ and achievement that veered off into a discussion about those of us who are, say, 2-3 deviations above standard talking to people who are 4+ deviations above.

Look, God blessed me with being really good at taking tests so I'm above average in intelligence. I have friends who are actual geniuses. When they talk about the various subjects in which they are knowledgeable, I'm not playing the same game. I'm not even in the same stadium. Hell, one of them is a mathematician who studied under Hawking and I'm not sure I'm in the same solar system as she is.

But I know this. It is humbling to be reminded that what tiny little academic gifts I have are nothing compared to what people who are truly gifted can do. And thus I try to keep my freaking mouth shut around them to limit the humiliation.

These midwits think they are Patriots when they're really the Browns.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at January 29, 2020 02:00 PM (mf5HN)

158 This centering is making me a tad nauseous.

Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2020 02:00 PM (cF8AT)

159 This centering is mesmerizing

Posted by: It's me donna at January 29, 2020 02:00 PM (6XlcD)

160 I have no fucking clue what the Madchester Sound is.

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 29, 2020 02:00 PM (xPl2J)

161 Don Fruit is articulate, bright, clean and a nice looking guy.

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 29, 2020 02:00 PM (LxhKk)

162 Mid wits, half wits, what's the difference?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targeting at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (xkSJa)

163 Any Gabbard fan would be a mid-wit, at best. She's an uninteresting standard-issue lightweight.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (El6T/)

164 This is now a centrist blog. A STRONG centrist blog.
So strong that whatever this blog is, that's now the center.

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (Eg9+v)

165 "Did you get a new modem? That is what changed mine."
No just figured out dummy me left the computer connected to a customer's VPN all night.

Posted by: freaked at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (Tnijr)

166 A couple of minutes ago, the text in gray boxes reverted to starting at the left margin. I swear it did.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (ghFVE)

167 THE Rick Wilson is actually playing 6th dimension chess. See, he is a Trump strategist, playing nevertrumper, making fun of MAGA, to make people despise people like him and vote for trump. He is just too far ahead of you for you to get it!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (dNzKv)

168 You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around

Posted by: deplorable unperson - King Ranch Edition at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (nfcV2)

169
Someone needs to have their blog editing privilege card pulled.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (pNxlR)

170 Things sho goin crazy round here.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (ZLI7S)

171
Do Sa Do!

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (byl2g)

172 Don't you hate when you got a big interview and all your dress shirts and underwear are in the wash?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (LWu6U)

173 The Rubin clip is really good.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (NWiLs)

174 152 Wejet is something completely unrelated to Waja.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2020 02:00 PM (Ut2e7)

The Wedjet Eye?

Posted by: Allie at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (UnA8+)

175 I wonder if every centering joke has been done and which one was the most used.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (r+sAi)

176 33 Hugh Hewitt -when has a Democrat/lefty been cancelled from this so called "culture"?

Posted by: Rutabaga at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (LilNs)

177
I ain't listening to this tedious female House Manager.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (ghFVE)

Somewhere, a '67 Volkswagen Beetle is missing it's seat covers

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (q1Pj5)

178 65 Someone should ask Don which exact jokes he heard and laughed at, and which ones he "didn't" hear, so that we can be clear what exactly he finds funny or not. I would love to see an interviewer read out the jokes one by one and ask, "Did you find that funny?" Because I think LeMon's squirming and weaseling to try to avoid answering those questions would be funny as hell.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at January 29, 2020 01:53 PM (a/dOO)

And get the humorous hag in HR to run it.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (sy5kK)

179 MItt Romney is proof the Douchebag Razor is true.

Douchebags should not be multiplied without necessity.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, Direct Fire! at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (F5pj+)

180 Somebody hit the carriage return.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at January 29, 2020 01:59 PM (xPJvm)

With a buggy whip.

Posted by: DR.WTF at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (aS1PU)

181 Ahwya, gee. wowzer. Um huh.. Apologiy? That's some big word going on .

Not sure I reckon' what that Mr. Guy on Tee Vee means. I"ll have to ponder that while I chew on my cud and spit my tabakey.

Posted by: LASue at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (Ed8Zd)

182 These questions and answers are real duds so far.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (so+oy)

183
Come to the middle!

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (byl2g)

184 Every
D
question
is
a
softball-setup
for
Schiff&Co
to
repeat
their
bent
case

Posted by: Les Kinetic at January 29, 2020 02:02 PM (YbTY/)

185
Just played the apology from@DonLemon @CNN last night. Apology accepted. Move on.#CancelCulture is absurd and often destructive of free speech on left and right.

Speak for yourself, pal.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 29, 2020 02:02 PM (7rVsF)

186 I didn't know Rick Wilson was gay.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 29, 2020 02:02 PM (dNzKv)

187 1, What Don Lemon, Rick Wilson, and Wajahat Ali are doing is taking the speech patterns and stereotypes formerly used to mock poor, low-status blacks and applying them, untransformed, to attack the left's designated racial scapegoat, poor, low-status whites.

Remember, Clinton would put on her drawl.
Biden said, gonna put y'all in chains.

Etc

they do this all the time

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:02 PM (vEIlU)

188 Say what you will about Don L'Mon, his heart is filled with love for his fellow man.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 29, 2020 02:02 PM (+y/Ru)

189 I live in Northern California. The local Chinese New Year celebration was CANCELED due to fears of the Corona virus. These are expats and visitors and extended family of Chinese immigrants. What do they know?

Posted by: Max Power at January 29, 2020 01:59 PM

Ha!
I teach business to a group of Chinese students. Instead of going home, they all went to California to go to Disneyland.
Show 'em a good time OK?

Posted by: Diogenes off site at January 29, 2020 02:02 PM (zkt/z)

190 Wedjet it to you??

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2020 02:02 PM (Ut2e7)

191
Allemande right!

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 29, 2020 02:02 PM (byl2g)

192 "I wonder if every centering joke has been done and which one was the most used."

We are putting in a good effort.

Posted by: a dead skunk at January 29, 2020 02:02 PM (Tnijr)

193 Still centered!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at January 29, 2020 02:02 PM (SRRAx)

194 Perhaps Don Lemon aspires to being a black, gay Ed McMahon. His entire laughing-so-hard-he-had-to-rest-his- weary-head-on-his-desk-and-then-dab-away-the-tears-of-mirth schtick was hamster-fisted at best.

Posted by: kathysaysso at January 29, 2020 02:02 PM (vkS2Z)

195
Promenade!

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 29, 2020 02:02 PM (byl2g)

196 Whenever the Left gets caught doing shit it's always "both Left and Right".

Posted by: ... at January 29, 2020 02:02 PM (aL0Hq)

197
Go back and fix it, starting in the paragraph immediately after Le Mon's "apology".

You're welcome.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 29, 2020 02:02 PM (pNxlR)

198 Mr. Haney asks a question.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 29, 2020 02:02 PM (q1Pj5)

199
Allemande left!

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 29, 2020 02:03 PM (byl2g)

200
Now let's bust the margins for good measure.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 29, 2020 02:03 PM (7rVsF)

201 Happily, I wouldn't recognize Lon Demon out of a stack of photos of only him.

But "mid-wit". I'm stealing that. Well, maybe not stealing. I'll give Ace an I.O.U., good for one expertly fabricated and installed shelf.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 29, 2020 02:03 PM (QzJWU)

202 I have no fucking clue what the Madchester Sound is.
Posted by: Mark1971 at January 29, 2020 02:00 PM

What, you didn't see them open for Madness in '83?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 29, 2020 02:03 PM (ejd/p)

203 Them Wilson ears are just perfect to hold onto while he's tossing a salad.

Posted by: Bruce at January 29, 2020 02:03 PM (vd8XM)

204 Low IQ cousin fucker laughs at his betters and is not sorry

Posted by: steevy at January 29, 2020 02:03 PM (KNsKs)

205 Wilson is the poster child for inbred Fetal Alcohol Syndrome sufferers everywhere.

Posted by: Whatchulookingat? at January 29, 2020 02:03 PM (y6v9s)

206 >>Say what you will about Don L'Mon, his heart is filled with love for his fellow man.

So is his ass.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2020 02:03 PM (ZLI7S)

207 1
2
3
4
5
6

Posted by: Jasper Moore at January 29, 2020 02:03 PM (B+t5k)

208 What the fuck is that point on Rick Wilson's head? Does he have a dunce cap under the skin on his skull?

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, Direct Fire! at January 29, 2020 02:03 PM (F5pj+)

209 I don't recall giving Hewitt permission to speak for me.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2020 02:03 PM (ptqGC)

210 This coordinated shit stinks. Lawfare obviously wrote q for senators and answers for the stupid House Managers, who can't even read.

Posted by: EveR at January 29, 2020 02:03 PM (R0z7P)

211 These midwits think they are Patriots when they're really the Browns.
==========
That's going to leave a mark.

Posted by: Preseason 2019 cleveland browns vs post season at January 29, 2020 02:03 PM (0814F)

212 1
2
3
4
5
6

Posted by: Jasper Moore at January 29, 2020 02:03 PM (B+t5k)

213 T

R

U

M

P

!

Posted by: Diogenes off site at January 29, 2020 02:03 PM (zkt/z)

214 188 Say what you will about Don L'Mon, his heart is filled with love for his fellow man.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 29, 2020 02:02 PM (+y/Ru)

---

It's not his heart that gets filled with "love".

Posted by: SMH at January 29, 2020 02:03 PM (RU4sa)

215 172 Don't you hate when you got a big interview and all your dress shirts and underwear are in the wash?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 29, 2020 02:01 PM (LWu6U)

Just throw on whatever you can find, like this guy

https://youtu.be/YnXPGF0pvJU

Posted by: josephistan at January 29, 2020 02:03 PM (Izzlo)

216 The Center holds.

Posted by: mrp at January 29, 2020 02:04 PM (Pqytn)

217 This is a good question being answered.
Why didn't they challenge the claims of privilege?

House answer is stupid.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:04 PM (ufFY8)

218 I teach business to a group of Chinese students. Instead of going home, they all went to California to go to Disneyland.
Show 'em a good time OK?
Posted by: Diogenes off site at January 29, 2020 02:02 PM (zkt/z)
-----------------

Boy, are they in for a big disappointment.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 29, 2020 02:04 PM (Mc5lZ)

219 oh blessed relief

Posted by: a dead skunk at January 29, 2020 02:04 PM (Tnijr)

220 *ouch

Posted by: deplorable unperson - King Ranch Edition at January 29, 2020 02:04 PM (nfcV2)

221

My Square Dancing commands worked!

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 29, 2020 02:04 PM (byl2g)

222 hamster-fisted at best.
Posted by: kathysaysso at January 29, 2020 02:02 PM

Hamster fisting?

Go on....

Posted by: Don Lemon at January 29, 2020 02:04 PM (ejd/p)

223 >>> Mid-wits sounds like a TV game show.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

SCTV Half-Wits
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eTDsJd1l7Aw

Posted by: 6to4to3 at January 29, 2020 02:04 PM (ilTjN)

224 Clowns -> you <-- Jokers.

Posted by: Zod at January 29, 2020 02:04 PM (u4/yY)

225 that point on Rick Wilson's head?

That's so the space worms can control him, its an antenna.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2020 02:04 PM (Ut2e7)

226
I cannot tell a lie -I had my finger up the Lemon's squeak hole that night he could not stop laughing.

Posted by: Jeff Zucker at January 29, 2020 02:04 PM (LilNs)

227 I think Mid Wit is a Vox Day invention. It refers to people in the ~110 IQ bracket. Vox Day uses it generally because he sort of ... also worships intelligence. But the point is people in that bracket are smart enough to know they are smarter than average, but not smart enough to realize how far they are from 'genius'. They tend to fall for things which seem clever, whereas the half-wit simply won't get it at all. The average person is probably a bit more humble, Vox Day seems to think that people in that bracket (which I suspect encompasses a lot of personnel managers) are all like this, which is where the weird intelligence worship comes in.

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 29, 2020 02:04 PM (Eg9+v)

228 Look at Hakim Jeffries trying to sound smart

Posted by: JoeF. at January 29, 2020 02:04 PM (CqE5x)

229 Wajahat "Some Muslim...I've Never Heard Of" Ali
@WajahatAli
·
Jan 28
Trump tweeted our CNN clip from 2 days ago. Friends are now concerned about my safety. I refuse to be intimidated & bullied by bad faith actors who cry fake victimhood, whining about a harmless, silly 30 second clip while endorsing Trump, a cruel vulgarian who debases everyone.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 29, 2020 02:04 PM (dNzKv)

230 So traitor John Bolton called Democrat Rep. Engel after he was fired and told him to look into Yovanovitch.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2020 02:04 PM (wiXsO)

231 184
Every

D

question

is

a

softball-setup

for

SchiffCo

to

repeat

their

bent

case

Posted by: Les Kinetic at January 29, 2020 02:02 PM (YbTY/)

Well, no sh*t. Did you think they were going for the truth?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for Your Souvenier Impeachment Gear! at January 29, 2020 02:05 PM (ldR/a)

232 Luckily, a guy like Wilson has skeletons. And the guys at 4chan are looking for them.

Those really aren't people you want looking into your past.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, Direct Fire! at January 29, 2020 02:05 PM (F5pj+)

233 I think the voice Rick Wilson was trying to do was a Larry the Cable Guy / Git 'er Done! voice.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 29, 2020 02:05 PM (Kpl3J)

234 Don Lemon takes the lead in the "Dumbest man on CNN" contest. Briefly.

Its good to see that this is hurting them, though.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:05 PM (KZzsI)

235
How are we losing to these people??

The majority of the populace want free stuff. And revenge.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 29, 2020 02:05 PM (aKsyK)

236 LOL, the answer was actually retarded.
Their subpoenas were invalid...LOLHere goes Philbin to refute!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:05 PM (ufFY8)

237
Ow! Got thrown suddenly to the left.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 29, 2020 02:05 PM (7rVsF)

238 Whew.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2020 02:05 PM (ptqGC)

239 Have to seriously start planning to move out of NJ.

My town which has a population of just under 17k has been in litigation with the state over building "low-cost" housing, is on the verge of losing it's appeals and may have to build upwards of 9k units of low cost housing.

My town is small and undeveloped and we like it that way.

This is bullshit.

Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 29, 2020 02:05 PM (0keV9)

240
(*)(*)

Perky!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 29, 2020 02:05 PM (pNxlR)

241

There's something about those with bug eyes

Schiff
Hogg
Lemon
AOC
...

all flippin' nuts -

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:05 PM (vEIlU)

242 Rick Wilson looks like a Donald Pleasance character.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 29, 2020 02:05 PM (oVJmc)

243 206 >>Say what you will about Don L'Mon, his heart is filled with love for his fellow man.

So is his ass.

LOLOL!!! (wipes spit take off monitor)

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 02:06 PM (XN+hF)

244 Is this like Star Trek where we all lean to the side the ship is turning?

Posted by: FrodoB,
because hobbits don't wear socks at January 29, 2020 02:06 PM (veJcn)

245 235
How are we losing to these people??

The majority of the populace want free stuff. And revenge.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 29, 2020 02:05 PM (aKsyK)

=========

Punishing me isn't going to exact revenge on their fathers who were never there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:06 PM (q80AH)

246 We gonna whip-lash at this rate.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2020 02:06 PM (Ut2e7)

247 But I know this. It is humbling to be reminded that what tiny little academic gifts I have are nothing compared to what people who are truly gifted can do. And thus I try to keep my freaking mouth shut around them to limit the humiliation.

These midwits think they are Patriots when they're really the Browns.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at January 29, 2020 02:00 PM (mf5HN)

What's hilarious is that the really really smart people can be incredibly dumb about the rest of life, because they simply don't think about it at all. They're too focused on very specific areas.

There's a good reason for the adage about A, B, and C students.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 29, 2020 02:06 PM (wCmLp)

248 Philbin: "That is just a misrepresentation of the record. They had to get done by Christmas."

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:06 PM (ufFY8)

249 Close to the edge, down by the margin...

Posted by: Jon Anderson at January 29, 2020 02:06 PM (XN+hF)

250 >>>41 Seriously, who's paying Rick Wilson? Surely no GOPer is paying him for campaign services.

I don't know, but I would speculate it's the same sort of "public spirited billionaires" who fund Bill Kristol, and I'd also guess that Soros (or his "charitable foundation") is heavily in the mix.

I'd also point out that Rick Wilson went on a junket to Qatar, a country which is spreading a LOT of money all around DC. (And a lot of people are taking that money without registering with FARA.)

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:06 PM (PbpT7)

251 ut the point is people in that bracket are smart enough to know they are smarter than average, but not smart enough to realize how far they are from 'genius'. They tend to fall for things which seem clever, whereas the half-wit simply won't get it at all. The average person is probably a bit more humble

Its a good term but yeah I think he overplays it quite a bit. The problem is excluding all other aspects of a person. Someone who is brilliant but a fool is worthless. Someone who is wise but an idiot is a gem. There's also honor, dignity, virtue, and so on. You can't reduce people into just one of those categories or allow it to eclipse all the others or you miss a host of factors.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:07 PM (KZzsI)

252 * searches on Amazon for neck brace*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2020 02:07 PM (ptqGC)

253 >>That results in absurdities like Rick Wilson claiming that being able to
locate Ukraine on a map is a useful virtue signal of his (falsely
imputed) high intelligence . . .
Is it a coincidence that Sec. Pompeo had just pantsed an obnoxious NPR reporter who kept asking about Ukraine during an interview that had been set up to discuss Iran? After Pompeo ended the interview they had (off the record) words about why that happened, and Pompeo asked the NPR gal to point out Ukraine on a map. She says she identified in correctly, he has implied she pointed out Bangladesh.
These people can't help but project, so of course in their insecurity of a journalist being asked to point out something on a map they - get this - claim Trump and his idiot supporters don;t know geography.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2020 02:07 PM (bDqIh)

254 16 The Center cannot hold!
Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 01:49 PM (NgKpN)

Told ya!

/rasberry

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 02:07 PM (NgKpN)

255
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2020 02:05 PM (ptqGC)

Jane, how you doing?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 29, 2020 02:07 PM (7rVsF)

256
Wajahat "Some Muslim...I've Never Heard Of" Ali
@WajahatAli
Jan 28
Trump tweeted our CNN clip from 2 days ago. Friends are now concerned about my safety. I refuse to be intimidated & bullied by bad faith actors who cry fake victimhood, whining about a harmless, silly 30 second clip while endorsing Trump, a cruel vulgarian who debases everyone.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

"Intimidated and bullied" by his own words.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 29, 2020 02:07 PM (aKsyK)

257 Wajahat "Some Muslim...I've Never Heard Of" Ali
@WajahatAli Jan 28
Trump tweeted our CNN clip from 2 days ago. Friends are now concerned about my safety. I refuse to be intimidated & bullied by bad faith actors who cry fake victimhood, whining about a harmless, silly 30 second clip while endorsing Trump, a cruel vulgarian who debases everyone.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 29, 2020 02:04 PM (dNzKv)

pot calling kettle black

w/e
they have no clue

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:07 PM (vEIlU)

258 of course Ali is not sorry. southern boys have dusted a shitload of his inbred peeps and they'll never get the opportunity to homo again.

Posted by: x at January 29, 2020 02:07 PM (nFwvY)

259 232 Luckily, a guy like Wilson has skeletons. And the guys at 4chan are looking for them.

Those really aren't people you want looking into your past.
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, Direct Fire! at January 29, 2020 02:05 PM (F5pj+)

Might I suggest a peek into the crawl space of his house?

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (RD7QR)

260 Centerin' helps muh readin'

Posted by: Midwit Redneck at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (o4KRr)

261
You'll be hearing from my attorney tomorrow morning!

** adjusts cervical collar **

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (pNxlR)

262 Philbin: "That is just a misrepresentation of the record. They had to get done by Christmas."

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:06 PM (ufFY

My CSPAN2 link must be lagging.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (q1Pj5)

263 I'd also point out that Rick Wilson went on a junket to Qatar, a country which is spreading a LOT of money all around DC. (And a lot of people are taking that money without registering with FARA.)

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:06 PM (PbpT7)

Bolton is supposedly in Qatar as well.

Posted by: BignJames at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (X/Pw5)

264 Hadrian, I'm okay.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (ptqGC)

265 lol
good question

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (vEIlU)

266 257 Wajahat "Some Muslim...I've Never Heard Of" Ali
@WajahatAli Jan 28
Trump tweeted our CNN clip from 2 days ago. Friends are now concerned about my safety. I refuse to be intimidated & bullied by bad faith actors who cry fake victimhood, whining about a harmless, silly 30 second clip while endorsing Trump, a cruel vulgarian who debases everyone.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 29, 2020 02:04 PM (dNzKv)

pot calling kettle black

w/e
they have no clue
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:07 PM (vEIlU)

=========

He's never debased me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (q80AH)

267 This is bullshit.

Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 29, 2020 02:05 PM (0keV9)

====================
Does your town vote reliably Democrat?

Posted by: mrp at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (Pqytn)

268 So traitor John Bolton called Democrat Rep. Engel after he was fired and told him to look into Yovanovitch.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2020 02:04 PM (wiXsO)

that doesn't sound traitors. Yavonovich is a criminal tard who allegedly spied on Trump folks and denied visas to those who wanted to end corruption in Ukraine, right?

Posted by: LASue at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (Ed8Zd)

269 "Wajahat 'Some Muslim...I've Never Heard Of' Ali"

Send him back!

Posted by: Chris M at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (eAZVt)

270 Val Demings needs to increase that suit size a bit.

Posted by: Mrs RickWilson at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (NVYyb)

271 231

Did you think they were going for the truth?
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for Your Souvenier Impeachment Gear! at January 29, 2020 02:05 PM (ldR/a)

Wouldn't that be great?

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (ghFVE)

272

So they won't answer it directly.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:09 PM (vEIlU)

273 Rick Wilson looks like a penis you would see in one of those Big Books of Diseases.

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2020 02:09 PM (We5nk)

274 271 231

Did you think they were going for the truth?
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for Your Souvenier Impeachment Gear! at January 29, 2020 02:05 PM (ldR/a)

Wouldn't that be great?
Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (ghFVE)

============

"Nope."
-Adam Schiff

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:09 PM (q80AH)

275 At this point if the likes of Schiff or Schumer spoke the truth, they would combust.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2020 02:09 PM (Ut2e7)

276 263 I'd also point out that Rick Wilson went on a junket to Qatar, a country which is spreading a LOT of money all around DC. (And a lot of people are taking that money without registering with FARA.)

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:06 PM (PbpT7)

Bolton is supposedly in Qatar as well.
Posted by: BignJames at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (X/Pw5)

Is Qatar an Iran ally?

Posted by: josephistan at January 29, 2020 02:09 PM (Izzlo)

277 270
Val Demings needs to increase that suit size a bit.

Posted by: Mrs RickWilson at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (NVYyb)

Or reduce the donut intake a little.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at January 29, 2020 02:09 PM (ufFY8)

278 Has Don Lemon criticized the people who did this on his show?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 29, 2020 02:09 PM (PPbDD)

279 Half Wits >>> Mid Wits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTDsJd1l7Aw

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 29, 2020 02:09 PM (wtvvX)

280 I think Trump would be able to find Ukraine on a map. You have to be stupid to believe that Trump doesn't know that Ukraine is near Russia, and once you get near Russia, you can just look for Keeve.

Nothing that I have ever heard from the cucks makes me regard them as any kind of "intellectual", same as Obama.

Posted by: Axeman at January 29, 2020 02:10 PM (Eicbe)

281
You'll be hearing from my attorney tomorrow morning!

Horde class action lawsuit. Represented by Insomniac, the Florida Hammer!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 29, 2020 02:10 PM (7rVsF)

282 You want to know why people hate the GOP? Look at Rick Wilson. These are the bottom feeding, self absorbed, self proclaimed Washington elitists they hire with your donations.

Hahaha. You rube, prol, flyover assholes I spent years lying to and making into dupes. You all suck, you bunch of hayseeds.

BTW. I have a better education than this bloated bag of carbs and dog shit.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2020 02:10 PM (VpIIl)

283 The Ukraines?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 29, 2020 02:10 PM (q1Pj5)

284 If I saw a guy that looked like Rick Wilson standing around the local playground ... I probably wouldn't immediately call the police, but I would contemplate it.

And you know for sure, within the hour, there would be a "Nextdoor" post about "the pevy looking, Rick Wilson-type weirdo spotted hanging around the playground" from some concerned mom.

Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at January 29, 2020 02:10 PM (hdzef)

285 I'd like to be the 57th person to remind ace it's dungarees not bluejeans.

Thanks.

Posted by: eleven at January 29, 2020 02:10 PM (QLPEO)

286 Who's this bint complaining about Ukraine not getting aid in a timely manner?

Where was she during Barry's reign of terror?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2020 02:10 PM (ptqGC)

287 235 The majority of the populace want free stuff. And revenge.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 29, 2020 02:05 PM (aKsyK)

Daddy Issues.

Posted by: Allie at January 29, 2020 02:10 PM (UnA8+)

288 Midwit is just a dyslexic spelling of Dimwit

Posted by: Muldoon at January 29, 2020 02:10 PM (m45I2)

289 Qatar; I didn't even know her.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:10 PM (ghFVE)

290 >>>They tend to fall for things which seem clever, whereas the half-wit simply won't get it at all.

I'm reminded of something either I said or someone else did (I forget):

The uninformed people think that there is a conspiracy -- or, let's say, and interlocking series of shared interests -- which controls this country's politics.

The half-smart people know that that is just a conspiracy theory and that the country is far too large and fractured to be controlled by an interlocking directorate of shared financial/cultural imperatives.

The smart people know that in fact the country is controlled by an interlocking directorate of shared financial/cultural imperatives.

You can apply this to a thousand situations, where the half-smart people want to differentiate themselves from the Non-College Graduates and believe something they THINK is smart and sophisticated -- but they wind up moving further and further from the truth, and, in their quest to be "smart," make themselves dumber than they actually are.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:10 PM (PbpT7)

291 Might I suggest a peek into the crawl space of his house?

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (RD7QR)

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Whoa there! This might be a bad precedent.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 02:10 PM (NVYyb)

292 How about we call all hacks like Don LeMon Dinsdale?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2020 02:10 PM (Ut2e7)

293 247--

That's what made Lemons' "black hole" musings so hilarious. He well and truly believed he was putting the deepest of thoughts out there for us to think on.

Posted by: Ktgreat at January 29, 2020 02:11 PM (AD3JT)

294 @267

I live in a county that went 60 pct for Trump

Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 29, 2020 02:11 PM (0keV9)

295 Cruz question!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:11 PM (ufFY8)

296 Wouldn't that be great?

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (ghFVE)

It would be completely out of character; no audience would believe it.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for Your Souvenier Impeachment Gear! at January 29, 2020 02:11 PM (ldR/a)

297 Romney tweeted his questions for the trial:

https://bit.ly/36Ekd4N

Why, it's like the DNC and the MFM collaborated on writing those for him. Oh, wait...
Posted by: Guy Smiley

If you actually read the Twitter thread, somebody linked a video from......The Bulwark.
So many thoughtful people are grateful to Mitt being SO transparent.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at January 29, 2020 02:11 PM (vcOmj)

298 25 "Like the difference between being informed on something specific and being intelligent overall."

TheJamesMadison, this reminds me of a friend of my mother's, when I was young.

He was multitalented, and had a storied past with valorous war service.

I once saw him reply to someone who referred to him as an expert on an issue with a deprecating smile, and "An expert is just somebody who knows more and more about less and less."

Posted by: barbarausa at January 29, 2020 02:11 PM (W7IZQ)

299
I'd also point out that Rick Wilson went on a junket to Qatar, a country which is spreading a LOT of money all around DC. (And a lot of people are taking that money without registering with FARA.)
Posted by: ace

Forget all about that macho shit and learn how to milk Qatar.

Posted by: Rick Cougar Wilson at January 29, 2020 02:11 PM (aKsyK)

300 DErsh

Posted by: JoeF. at January 29, 2020 02:11 PM (CqE5x)

301 Cruz Missile incoming.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:11 PM (vEIlU)

302 This description of mid-wits fits appx 37% of all people on the internet.

Posted by: eleven at January 29, 2020 02:11 PM (QLPEO)

303 295 Cruz question!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:11 PM (ufFY

=========

"Can you show me the money?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:11 PM (q80AH)

304 OK, that was funnier than it should have been.

(I was talking about the video ace linked - dude has white suit and no shirt.)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 29, 2020 02:11 PM (LWu6U)

305 Dersh is up

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 29, 2020 02:12 PM (so+oy)

306 Desultory wiping at scorched food in your stovetop's burner pans is really low grade pretending, bb.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 29, 2020 02:00 PM (pNxlR)
-------

!!!!!

*adjusts Post-It note over computer camera*

Posted by: bluebell at January 29, 2020 02:12 PM (/669Q)

307 @Techno_Fog

NEW - Flynn has filed his Supplemental Motion to Withdraw his plea.

Flynn "did not lie to the FBI agents who interviewed him in the White House on January 24, 2017."

Thread.

https://tinyurl.com/vuuhjrk

Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2020 02:12 PM (cF8AT)

308 What's hilarious is that the really really smart people can be incredibly dumb about the rest of life, because they simply don't think about it at all. They're too focused on very specific areas.

There's a good reason for the adage about A, B, and C students.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 29, 2020 02:06 PM (wCmLp)

Not going to lay claim to being "really really smart," but I'm definitely one of those people who's fairly intelligent but made really dumb choices in life.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 29, 2020 02:12 PM (NWiLs)

309 Dershowitz up.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2020 02:12 PM (ptqGC)

310 288 Midwit is just a dyslexic spelling of Dimwit

What about misfits?

Posted by: dantesed at January 29, 2020 02:12 PM (88xKn)

311 They've lost even Cookie Milano. Yes, she's crazy and says crazy things, but even she is fed up with L'Mon.

https://bit.ly/2vxoJ8o

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 29, 2020 02:12 PM (+y/Ru)

312 As a matter of the law, does it matter if there was a quid pro quo?

--Cruz

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:12 PM (ghFVE)

313 Oh my, the black lady whose suit is too tight is not convincing. She just stumbled around. Brought up promises made in 2014 that were not kept by Trump admin -- right after Philbin explained that foreign policy is the pursue of the current president.

Posted by: corn and beans at January 29, 2020 02:12 PM (tkNkP)

314 298 25 "Like the difference between being informed on something specific and being intelligent overall."

TheJamesMadison, this reminds me of a friend of my mother's, when I was young.

He was multitalented, and had a storied past with valorous war service.

I once saw him reply to someone who referred to him as an expert on an issue with a deprecating smile, and "An expert is just somebody who knows more and more about less and less."
Posted by: barbarausa at January 29, 2020 02:11 PM (W7IZQ)

==========

One of my dad's PhD students explained it like that to me.

"People say that I must know a lot of stuff. I say, no, I know a lot about a very specific little thing."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:12 PM (q80AH)

315 I'm kind of a midwit. I'm just smart enough to know that I'm not as smart as some of the other people I meet. It took me awhile to realize that the best thing I could do when meeting such people was to shut up, listen, and leave the geniusing to them.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 29, 2020 02:12 PM (RD7QR)

316 Can you imagine being Rick Wilson, and aspiring to be as manly as Jonah Goldberg???

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 29, 2020 02:12 PM (wtvvX)

317 Right now I'm wondering about the following:

The crazies think there are UFOs of alien origin.

The half-smart people know that FTL travel is impossible and furthermore know that no one would cross millions of light years just to "buzz" a planet, even if they could do so.

The truly informed people know there are actually UFOs of alien origin.

Now, I'm firmly in the "Half-smart people" camp on that one, but I'm seeing so much chatter about UFOs being real I'm wondering if I shouldn't agree with the crazies a bit more.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:13 PM (PbpT7)

318 Ack - forgot to paste:

https://youtu.be/YnXPGF0pvJU
Posted by: josephistan

OK, that was funnier than it should have been.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 29, 2020 02:13 PM (LWu6U)

319 I live in a county that went 60 pct for Trump

Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 29, 2020 02:11 PM (0keV9)

=================================
Well, the State of New Jersey has just the remedy for that little problem.

Posted by: mrp at January 29, 2020 02:13 PM (Pqytn)

320 Irony is that Trump is an actual MENSA level genius.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at January 29, 2020 02:13 PM (0xMqp)

321 Val Demings (D-FL) just said that 15,000 Ukrainians died because Trump withheld aid.
*******
What Bleeping IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 29, 2020 02:13 PM (BqBId)

322 Eurocrat: "Brexit shows that there are deep problems with the EU. So we must enact reforms. And by reforms I mean make it impossible for anyone else to leave."

https://is.gd/x4FnjS

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 29, 2020 02:13 PM (aRyC3)

323 Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:10 PM (PbpT7)

As a good friend of mine told me at Navy Nuclear Power School:

Those who think they are smart? are really annoying to those of us who actually are.

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 02:13 PM (NgKpN)

324 Don Lemon after realizing he's not as smart as he thinks he is:

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Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at January 29, 2020 02:13 PM (C+We0)

325 Santa has a special place (Island of Midwit Tools) for Don Lemon.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, at January 29, 2020 02:13 PM (Vy7tf)

326 Dersh destroying it in a clear manner.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:13 PM (ufFY8)

327
the black lady whose suit is too tight

Not possible. Never been observed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 29, 2020 02:14 PM (7rVsF)

328 Yavonovich is a criminal tard who allegedly spied on Trump folks and denied visas to those who wanted to end corruption in Ukraine, right?
Posted by: LASue at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (Ed8Zd)

Exactly.

Yavonovich is a snake.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 29, 2020 02:14 PM (sy5kK)

329 322 Eurocrat: "Brexit shows that there are deep problems with the EU. So we must enact reforms. And by reforms I mean make it impossible for anyone else to leave."

https://is.gd/x4FnjS
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 29, 2020 02:13 PM (aRyC3)

========

Well, I always thought it was best for Europe to engage in another war with itself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:14 PM (q80AH)

330 306 *adjusts Post-It note over computer camera*

Posted by: bluebell at January 29, 2020 02:12 PM (/669Q)

I have one, too!

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:14 PM (ghFVE)

331 You can apply this to a thousand situations, where the half-smart people want to differentiate themselves from the Non-College Graduates and believe something they THINK is smart and sophisticated -- but they wind up moving further and further from the truth, and, in their quest to be "smart," make themselves dumber than they actually are.

=========

I mean look at "college" itself now. How much debt, and for what?

Also, everyone goes now. So how do you stand out? Pay for a pricier college. Funny how that works out...

Posted by: Preseason 2019 cleveland browns vs post season at January 29, 2020 02:14 PM (KB/FD)

332
Why Is The End Of Dershowitz's Nose Blue?

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 29, 2020 02:14 PM (byl2g)

333 What about misfits?
Posted by: dantesed at January 29, 2020 02:12 PM (88xKn)

Danzig! (bangs head)

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 02:14 PM (XN+hF)

334 >>>310 288 Midwit is just a dyslexic spelling of Dimwit

I didn't think of that. I thought it was just an alteration of nitwit.

But it makes sense if it's just an anagram of dimwit.

The midwits aren't actually dim... but they're ALMOST dim. And they have a lot of Ego Eggs in the "I'm Smart" basket.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:14 PM (PbpT7)

335 So Val bought into the spiel they sold Nadler that the color black is slimming?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2020 02:15 PM (Ut2e7)

336 The Dersh cannot keep it under 5 mins. NO way.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:15 PM (vEIlU)

337 Dersh destroying it in a clear manner.

Pearls before swine.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - King Ranch Edition at January 29, 2020 02:15 PM (nfcV2)

338 Smell my fingers?

Posted by: Don Lemon at January 29, 2020 02:15 PM (IRJgV)

339 >>I think Trump would be able to find Ukraine on a map. You have to be
stupid to believe that Trump doesn't know that Ukraine is near Russia,
and once you get near Russia, you can just look for Keeve.

Yeah, Wilson now exists as a Trump basher by trade. He's just published his second #OrangeManBad book, and he only gets invited on the CNN and MSNBC shows because he haaates Trump.

He just has to keep thinking of new ways to call Trump stupid, and he grasped at the closest thing on Saturday - the story about an NPR reporter allegedly misidentifying Ukraine in another continent.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2020 02:15 PM (bDqIh)

340 Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at January 29, 2020 02:13 PM (C+We0)

Morons can be so very creative!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 29, 2020 02:15 PM (sy5kK)

341 321 Val Demings (D-FL) just said that 15,000 Ukrainians died because Trump withheld aid.
*******
What Bleeping IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 29, 2020 02:13 PM (BqBId)

She's the one who got her service weapon stolen out of her car when she was police chief.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 29, 2020 02:15 PM (NWiLs)

342 >>the best thing I could do when meeting such people was to shut up, listen, and leave the geniusing to them. Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 29, 2020 02:12 PM (RD7QR)

If you can find a way to pick their pocket while they're geniusing, you qualify as an upper-midwit.

Posted by: Zod at January 29, 2020 02:15 PM (u4/yY)

343 313 Oh my, the black lady whose suit is too tight is not convincing. She just stumbled around. Brought up promises made in 2014 that were not kept by Trump admin -- right after Philbin explained that foreign policy is the pursue of the current president.
Posted by: corn and beans at January 29, 2020 02:12 PM (tkNkP)

But that's just it.

In her mind, Obama is STILL, and will ALWAYS BE president.

Posted by: Allie at January 29, 2020 02:15 PM (UnA8+)

344 the best of lsu. we're not laughing with you fuckface, we're laughing at your pathetic clown show. oh, go fuck yourself with that smelly finger you butt fuck every evening. wanker.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 29, 2020 02:15 PM (KP5rU)

345 Dershowitz is pretty masterful.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2020 02:15 PM (wiXsO)

346 >>>333 What about misfits?
Posted by: dantesed at January 29, 2020 02:12 PM (88xKn)

Danzig! (bangs head)

I really like the Misfits song "Hybrid Moments" -- which I only know because it was at the end of Jackass 2 or something -- and always want to check them out more.

Anyone have suggestions for catchier stuff that N00b might like?

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:15 PM (PbpT7)

347 Dershowitz is a little breathless and actor-y for me.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:15 PM (ghFVE)

348 Listening to Danzig now. Dirty Black summer.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 29, 2020 02:15 PM (jWC3i)

349 Scoliosis Girl isn't complete without big boobs attached.

Posted by: Ahwoo Flu at January 29, 2020 02:16 PM (sdctx)

350 228 Look at Hakim Jeffries trying to sound smart
Posted by: JoeF. at January 29, 2020 02:04 PM (CqE5x)

some things are not possible.

it would be easier to turn lead into gold.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 29, 2020 02:16 PM (sy5kK)

351 347
Dershowitz is a little breathless and actor-y for me.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:15 PM (ghFVE)

He only has five minutes. He gotta sprint.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:16 PM (ufFY8)

352 334 I didn't think of that. I thought it was just an alteration of nitwit.

But it makes sense if it's just an anagram of dimwit.

The midwits aren't actually dim... but they're ALMOST dim. And they have a lot of Ego Eggs in the "I'm Smart" basket.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:14 PM (PbpT7)

At least I know I'm a complete idiot.

Which is why I don't need to constantly be beaten down with it, it's not like I can be shamed any deeper on the matter.

Posted by: Allie at January 29, 2020 02:16 PM (UnA8+)

353 Way too much talking.

This bullshit does not deserve this much talking or attention.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - King Ranch Edition at January 29, 2020 02:16 PM (nfcV2)

354 All t he Democrats are Limp Biscuits

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2020 02:16 PM (Ut2e7)

355 I don't usually comment, but just had to be part of this centering format - Finally it's A.D. to wake the chamber, and for the obvious Trump win. Thanks Alan for throwing out the dems' Ouija board & Tarot cards.

Posted by: Robert's centered bald spot at January 29, 2020 02:16 PM (g0gdr)

356 I like Michael Malice a lot. He had a podcast called Your Welcome (spelled incorrectly on purpose) that is very good.

Posted by: Augustine at January 29, 2020 02:16 PM (BDZWU)

357 Bolton is supposedly in Qatar as well.
Posted by: BignJames at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (X/Pw5)

the video of "possibly" Bolton walking down the streets of Doha

https://tinyurl.com/s3q7bkf

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:16 PM (vEIlU)

358 They're ELITE people and Better Than You because they are on Television. Are any of you on Television?? No. As the great Brian O'Blivion once observed "...television is reality, and reality is less than television."

Posted by: I Have Questions at January 29, 2020 02:17 PM (BvNzB)

359 Ugh, now Schumer.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:17 PM (ufFY8)

360 I mean look at "college" itself now. How much debt, and for what?

Also, everyone goes now. So how do you stand out? Pay for a pricier college. Funny how that works out...

Posted by: Preseason 2019 cleveland browns vs post season at January 29, 2020 02:14 PM (KB/FD)

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Nowadays, it's easier to go to college than enlist.

Military tends not to accept dummies, fatties, or druggies.

Whereas college...

Posted by: SMH at January 29, 2020 02:17 PM (RU4sa)

361 Oh, the irony.

The elitists who joke about cousin-humpin' inbreds in the South, have an actual brother-marryin' Dem Rep on their team.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2020 02:17 PM (ptqGC)

362 317 Right now I'm wondering about the following:

The crazies think there are UFOs of alien origin.

The half-smart people know that FTL travel is impossible and furthermore know that no one would cross millions of light years just to "buzz" a planet, even if they could do so.

The truly informed people know there are actually UFOs of alien origin.

Now, I'm firmly in the "Half-smart people" camp on that one, but I'm seeing so much chatter about UFOs being real I'm wondering if I shouldn't agree with the crazies a bit more.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:13 PM (PbpT7)

There's a school of thought that UFOs & aliens - maybe all supernatural phenomena - are "ultra terrestrial" rather than extra-terrestrial, that is they are manifestations of a different universe peeking into ours

Posted by: josephistan at January 29, 2020 02:17 PM (Izzlo)

363 "
Val Demings (D-FL) just said that 15,000 Ukrainians died because Trump withheld aid."

Even if true, why is that the USA's concern?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for Your Souvenier Impeachment Gear! at January 29, 2020 02:17 PM (ldR/a)

364 314, yep.

Intelligent people know that there are things they don't know, and that there is always more to learn

Posted by: barbarausa at January 29, 2020 02:17 PM (W7IZQ)

365 Ok, the retards will respond..

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:17 PM (ufFY8)

366 353 Way too much talking.

This bullshit does not deserve this much talking or attention.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - King Ranch Edition at January 29, 2020 02:16 PM (nfcV2)

==========

Bright side:

They're not passing The Patriot Act II: Revengeance.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:17 PM (q80AH)

367 "Please respond " is NOT FKN QUESTION.

DemScum.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - King Ranch Edition at January 29, 2020 02:17 PM (nfcV2)

368 What's hilarious is that the really really smart people can be
incredibly dumb about the rest of life, because they simply don't think
about it at all. They're too focused on very specific areas.

Very true.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at January 29, 2020 02:17 PM (nRWPy)

369 Let the ChiComs cough in your face and spit in your eye, bigot!

Posted by: Ahwoo Flu at January 29, 2020 02:17 PM (sdctx)

370 259 232 Luckily, a guy like Wilson has skeletons. And the guys at 4chan are looking for them.

Those really aren't people you want looking into your past.
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, Direct Fire! at January 29, 2020 02:05 PM (F5pj+)

Might I suggest a peek into the crawl space of his house?
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (RD7QR)

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Did you ever think you'd root for those kinds of people (4chan)? People who don't give a fuck?

Posted by: Groundhog at January 29, 2020 02:18 PM (VYwSh)

371
Bolton is supposedly in Qatar as well.
Posted by: BignJames at January 29, 2020 02:08 PM (X/Pw5)

Is Qatar an Iran ally?
Posted by: josephistan at January 29, 2020 02:09 PM (Izzlo)

Qatar is an ally of Qatar.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 29, 2020 02:18 PM (sy5kK)

372
Well, I always thought it was best for Europe to engage in another war with itself.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill

Can we please stay out of it this time?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 29, 2020 02:18 PM (aKsyK)

373 Schiff = mute button

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:18 PM (ghFVE)

374
[(I was talking about the video ace linked - dude has white suit and no shirt.)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 29, 2020 02:11 PM

what's your point?

Posted by: Sonny Crockett at January 29, 2020 02:18 PM (qo34W)

375 Can't watch Schiff. He always looks like he has a prostate vibe in his ass.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 29, 2020 02:18 PM (oVJmc)

376 I tested with a medium high IQ but around here I feel like a dunce, so goes to show how much that's worth.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:18 PM (KZzsI)

377 I had a dream. I was a political commissar, and word came down Rick Wilson was of no further need. I go to Rick's cell, escort him to the special room in the basement. I unholster the Nagant, tell Rick to get down on his knees. Rick thanks me, thinking some special moment is about to happen. It does, for me. I wore earplugs.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 29, 2020 02:18 PM (C1Lsn)

378 mid wits are heavily impressed by credentials and position, as well.

Half wits tend to hate people who went to good schools out of jealousy, but a lot of smart people without credentials also hate people who went to good schools because they know they are actually mostly idiots.

And the worst of them is the mid-wit who went to harvard or who has other high-credentials.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 29, 2020 02:18 PM (LWu6U)

379 As a matter of the law, does it matter if there was a quid pro quo?

--Cruz
Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:12 PM

There must be a quid pro quo, Theodore...

Posted by: Dr. H. Lecter at January 29, 2020 02:19 PM (ejd/p)

380 I did not know that a penis could dress like a twenty something and talk.
But The Rick Wilson proved me wrong.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 29, 2020 02:19 PM (pw+jk)

381 Anyone have suggestions for catchier stuff that N00b might like?

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:15 PM (PbpT7)

I just love this song, "Last Caress."

The lyrics are..well, let's just say The Misfits had a knack for going so far over the top that it's cartoonish enough that they don't offend me. In fact, I find it hysterically funny.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/t7bu8n2

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 02:19 PM (XN+hF)

382 I had to mute.

It's beyond stupid.

Here is basically the gist of the majority of questions being asked:

Would you please repeat everything you said for the past week...in 5 mins. intervals.

NO ONE is asking an original question.

Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2020 02:19 PM (cF8AT)

383 >>>358 They're ELITE people and Better Than You because they are on Television. Are any of you on Television?? No. As the great Brian O'Blivion once observed "...television is reality, and reality is less than television."

I agree with the sentiment completely -- these people really do think Bein' On TV makes them experts -- and also approve of the "Videodrome" quote.

One of my favorite not-quite-good-but-very-interesting-in-its-semi-success movies when I was younger than 29.

I bought it on Amazon. Not really as good as I remember it, but that might just be because I now know/expect all the really freaky stuff.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:19 PM (PbpT7)

384 High Lord Impeacher Schiff?

He won't be missed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2020 02:19 PM (Ut2e7)

385 There are UFOs. We don't know what they are. If we did, there wouldn't be UFOs.

Yep, I'm practicing to be a televised MidWit.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at January 29, 2020 02:19 PM (C+We0)

386 367 "Please respond " is NOT FKN QUESTION.

DemScum.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - King Ranch Edition at January 29, 2020 02:17 PM (nfcV2)

"Would you respond . . . ?"

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:19 PM (ghFVE)

387

So the rumor is John Bolton, after he got fired, called a House Democrat to turn him on to Masha, as she was ready to dish dirt on the president, thus her involvement in the fake impeachment?

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 29, 2020 02:19 PM (byl2g)

388 Schiff fantasizing again...

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:19 PM (ufFY8)

389 Oh lord, here is Shiffty making up conversations again

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 02:19 PM (NVYyb)

390 Now, I'm firmly in the "Half-smart people" camp on that one, but I'm seeing so much chatter about UFOs being real I'm wondering if I shouldn't agree with the crazies a bit more.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:13 PM (PbpT7)

probes

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:19 PM (vEIlU)

391 382 I had to mute.

It's beyond stupid.

Here is basically the gist of the majority of questions being asked:

Would you please repeat everything you said for the past week...in 5 mins. intervals.

NO ONE is asking an original question.
Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2020 02:19 PM (cF8AT)

=========

So...Congress?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:19 PM (q80AH)

392 I knew a guy in high school who would boast all the time about his high IQ. It was like 10 points lower than mine. The difference between us wasn't the IQ, it was humility. I knew the rating meant little and knew I was just a sinful fool. He thought it made him special.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:19 PM (KZzsI)

393 >>>The lyrics are..well, let's just say The Misfits had a knack for going so far over the top that it's cartoonish enough that they don't offend me. In fact, I find it hysterically funny.

I would assume it's about a necrophilic send-off to a dead lover.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:19 PM (PbpT7)

394 Val Demings (D-FL) just said that 15,000 Ukrainians died because Trump withheld aid."

Even if true, why is that the USA's concern?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for Your Souvenier Impeachment Gear! at January 29, 2020 02:17 PM (ldR/a)

She's an idiot and is talking to idiot dems. Nobody believes that in the two-months or less that the aid was withheld, 15,000 Ukrainians died.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (1CjJc)

395 Anti-Sandersnista Donks release ad.

https://bit.ly/37DAtEn

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (+y/Ru)

396 This guy is an embarrassment to Democrats.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (NVYyb)

397 The Gimp is giving a bravura, one man performance of The Aristocrats.

Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (0keV9)

398 Where did this stupid idea come from that it's meaningful to be able to identify countries on an unlabeled map?

Maps are labeled!

Posted by: Kensington at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (stQWR)

399 Does Schiff realize he is describing exactly what the Democrats did in 2016 accept it was Ukraine and not Russia?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (ZLI7S)

400 schiff trying to soften the obama hot mic incident

pos

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (vEIlU)

401 396 This guy is an embarrassment to Democrats.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (NVYyb)

==========

Objection:

Not possible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (q80AH)

402 >>The truly informed people know there are actually UFOs of alien origin.
This is correct. And when they show up, they're gonna tidy up this mess but good.

Posted by: Zod at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (u4/yY)

403 "Please Respond."

"Please Clap."

Sheesh.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (C+We0)

404 >>>probes

I don't understand why you have to enter the atmosphere to collect data, or why you have to move at 1000 mph.

Park a satellite with a cloak at a Lagrange point.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (PbpT7)

405 comment not found

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (q80AH)

406 There's a school of thought that UFOs & aliens - maybe all supernatural phenomena - are "ultra terrestrial" rather than extra-terrestrial, that is they are manifestations of a different universe peeking into ours
Posted by: josephistan

Buncha pervs.

Posted by: eleven at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (QLPEO)

407 There's a school of thought that UFOs & aliens - maybe all supernatural phenomena - are "ultra terrestrial" rather than extra-terrestrial, that is they are manifestations of a different universe peeking into ours
Posted by: josephistan at January 29, 2020 02:17 PM (Izzlo)

It's fun seeing atheists accidentally rediscover religion.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (KUaJL)

408 dammit

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (q80AH)

409 She's the one who got her service weapon stolen out of her car when she was police chief.
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I had no choice. I killed somebody with it. Even though I ditched the body in the everglades, I needed a way to defeat any ballistics evidence in case the gators wouldn't eat that scumbag.

Posted by: Val Demmings at January 29, 2020 02:21 PM (cs2Or)

410 mid wits are heavily impressed by credentials and position, as well.
...
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 29, 2020 02:18 PM (LWu6U)
+++++++++++
Why, that doesn't describe THE Rick Wilson at all. Nope. Nothing, for example, like his friend Tom "Technocrat" Nichols.

I'll bet that 90+% of technocrats are "mid-wits" by this definition.

"Technocrat mid-wit" will enter the rotation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2020 02:21 PM (I2dne)

411 364 314, yep.

Intelligent people know that there are things they don't know, and that there is always more to learn

Posted by: barbarausa at January 29, 2020 02:17 PM (W7IZQ)

I categorize it as Wisdom.

Intelligence can solve problems. Wisdom is when you know you can't, or should not, solve it.

Thing is, that intelligence, over the years, does often morph into Wisdom, as you realize there are many things you just cannot solve.

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 02:21 PM (NgKpN)

412 397
The Gimp is giving a bravura, one man performance of The Aristocrats.

Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (0keV9)

OK, I LOLed.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:21 PM (ufFY8)

413 398 Where did this stupid idea come from that it's meaningful to be able to identify countries on an unlabeled map?

Maps are labeled!
Posted by: Kensington at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (stQWR)

Good point. And their borders sometimes change.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:21 PM (ghFVE)

414
mid wits are heavily impressed by credentials and position, as well.

Like Doctor Jill Biden?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 29, 2020 02:21 PM (7rVsF)

415 Can anyone ask if schiff had contact with the whistleblower

Posted by: JoeF. at January 29, 2020 02:21 PM (CqE5x)

416 Trying to memorize maps without labels is a waste of time! It's a stupid and inefficient waste of time.

It's fine to do that, but there's no point to it.

Posted by: Kensington at January 29, 2020 02:21 PM (stQWR)

417 >>>I would assume it's about a necrophilic send-off to a dead lover.

I mean, based on the title "Last Caress," and knowing their penchant for psychopath/horror movie themes.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:21 PM (PbpT7)

418 That's Rick Wilson, of course. 285 pounds of Rompin'-Stomplin' Sex.

He's young. He's wearing bluejeans, as George Will would say.

my goodness, he is repulsive

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:21 PM (vEIlU)

419 Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:13 PM (PbpT7)
============

I've always been firmly on the no UFO camp but the Navy saying they are real, as they have recently done, has shaken my confidence.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 02:21 PM (NVYyb)

420 Missed it by <that> much.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2020 02:21 PM (Ut2e7)

421 411
I categorize it as Wisdom.

Intelligence can solve problems. Wisdom is when you know you can't, or should not, solve it.

Thing is, that intelligence, over the years, does often morph into Wisdom, as you realize there are many things you just cannot solve.
Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 02:21 PM (NgKpN)

=========

"I'm pretty sure wisdom means looking up funny cuts on sides of darts."
-George Lucas

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:21 PM (q80AH)

422 405 comment not found
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (q80AH)

robbed by the boss

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (ghFVE)

423 If UFOs are real (which I think is ridiculous) they wouldn't be some kind of scientific expedition, they are dumbass kids doing donuts in the school parking lot.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (KZzsI)

424 Today is Day 1,104 of the Trump Impeachment. [h/t Dennis Prager]

Posted by: ShainS -- Day 1,104 of the Trump Impeachment at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (j+GpB)

425 "efforts to cheat an election"

My God, what projection.

And a last minute appeal for Bolton as a witness.

These people are despicably pathetic.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (ufFY8)

426 Roberty Downey said it best: "Never Go Full Retard"

Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (RKQ/v)

427 406 There's a school of thought that UFOs & aliens - maybe all supernatural phenomena - are "ultra terrestrial" rather than extra-terrestrial, that is they are manifestations of a different universe peeking into ours
Posted by: josephistan

Buncha pervs.
Posted by: eleven at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (QLPEO)

And all that anal probing?

Goes to prove that Aliens, are OttersPeople

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (NgKpN)

428 Just taking $ from a foreign govt. doesn't automatically put you into FARA territory, ace. You have to represent that govt. in some way before our own govt. Thus the bizarre, to me, funny business with FARA by so many recently.

Your "influence" such as it is derives largely from the very fact you're repping a foreign govt. Playing games about that provides no benefit, and decreases your value. FARA registration is a very simple process, easier than getting a driver's license.

(unless almost everything has changed since I was in contact with it, the above holds)

Posted by: rhomboid at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (El6T/)

429 422 405 comment not found
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (q80AH)

robbed by the boss
Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (ghFVE)

=======

I can't complain, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (q80AH)

430 Techno-Twit?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (Ut2e7)

431 I categorize it as Wisdom.

Intelligence can solve problems. Wisdom is when you know you can't, or should not, solve it.

Thing is, that intelligence, over the years, does often morph into Wisdom, as you realize there are many things you just cannot solve.
Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 02:21 PM (NgKpN)

Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.

Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad.

Charisma is getting somebody to eat the fruit salad you made with tomatoes.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (KUaJL)

432 George Will calls blue jeans "dungarees."

He's full of malarkey like that.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2020 02:23 PM (ptqGC)

433
The next Enrico Fermi doesn't have to attend Harvard. The next Bill Kristol does.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 29, 2020 02:23 PM (7rVsF)

434 I don't understand why you have to enter the atmosphere to collect data, or why you have to move at 1000 mph.

Park a satellite with a cloak at a Lagrange point.
======
We did. And some other stuff too.

We drop into the gravity well to get the only thing that we can't get out here. Human DNA.

You keep it coming or we'll cut you down and re-grow some more compliant livestock.

Posted by: Zardock the devourer at January 29, 2020 02:23 PM (5Ck9r)

435

How can we stop "cilmate change" when we can't even stop the spread of the Flu??

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 29, 2020 02:23 PM (byl2g)

436 This is a true story.
Chuck Schumer took the SAT more than once. In the Senate cloakrooms, he has bragged about having attained a "perfect score" by combining his highest math and his highest verbal.
This is an inside joke of the Senate; he becomes very agitated when it is referenced.
Chuck Schumer is Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer.

Posted by: Zod at January 29, 2020 02:23 PM (u4/yY)

437 There are UFOs, they just aren't from outer space.

Posted by: rammajamma at January 29, 2020 02:23 PM (PQRcz)

438 >>I can't complain, I guess.

Sure you can. We'll miss you though.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2020 02:23 PM (ZLI7S)

439 I have average intelligence but I'm not Don Lemon stupid. The man said on air that an airplane was swallowed by a black hole.

Posted by: dantesed at January 29, 2020 02:23 PM (88xKn)

440 431 Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.

Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad.

Charisma is getting somebody to eat the fruit salad you made with tomatoes.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (KUaJL)

==========

Dexterity is getting someone to eat the fruit salad without realizing it has tomatoes in it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:23 PM (q80AH)

441 >>>423 If UFOs are real (which I think is ridiculous) they wouldn't be some kind of scientific expedition, they are dumbass kids doing donuts in the school parking lot.

this is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy explanation. They're bored rich kids who think it's funny to "buzz" a non-spacefaring primitive planet.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:23 PM (PbpT7)

442 423 If UFOs are real (which I think is ridiculous) they wouldn't be some kind of scientific expedition, they are dumbass kids doing donuts in the school parking lot.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (KZzsI)

Kids, Ants, Magnifying Glass.

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 02:23 PM (NgKpN)

443 Thing is, that intelligence, over the years, does often morph into Wisdom, as you realize there are many things you just cannot solve.

That's just age. Unless you are supremely arrogant or a terrible person, all of us gain wisdom with age. Some more than others.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:23 PM (KZzsI)

444 422 405 comment not found
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (q80AH)

robbed by the boss
Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (ghFVE)

"REJECTED!!!"

-Tim Kitzrow

Posted by: Allie at January 29, 2020 02:23 PM (UnA8+)

445 411 Don Q

I can agree with it as wisdom.

"the wisdom to know the difference" applies across many situations

Posted by: barbarausa at January 29, 2020 02:23 PM (W7IZQ)

446 268 So traitor John Bolton called Democrat Rep. Engel after he was fired and told him to look into Yovanovitch.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2020 02:04 PM (wiXsO)

I keep being amazed that Democrats are trying to make this a thing. A President can fire any ambassador at any time for any reason. And he does not have to say why.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 29, 2020 02:23 PM (Kpl3J)

447 @415

Nobodies going to do that, they are going to ask anodyne questions about process.

If they ask truly illuminating and clarifying questions then it opens pandora's box.

So just listening to these questions, from both sides, it's unlikely witnesses will be called.

Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 29, 2020 02:24 PM (0keV9)

448 438 >>I can't complain, I guess.

Sure you can. We'll miss you though.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2020 02:23 PM (ZLI7S)

========

I'll wait until Festivus.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:24 PM (q80AH)

449 438 >>I can't complain, I guess.

Sure you can. We'll miss you though.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2020 02:23 PM (ZLI7S)

But the fireworks might be fun.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:24 PM (ghFVE)

450
We can't even stop the spread of this "corona virus" but we can control the Weather?? With Carbon Credits??

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 29, 2020 02:24 PM (byl2g)

451 Anna Cattamont is going to be busy what with Space Gerbils and Space Otters.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2020 02:24 PM (Ut2e7)

452 431 Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.

Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad.

Charisma is getting somebody to eat the fruit salad you made with tomatoes.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (KUaJL)

What's intimidating them into eating it even though you know they're allergic to tomatoes?

Posted by: Allie at January 29, 2020 02:24 PM (UnA8+)

453 Grassley's use of the word "unprecedented", instead of using "invalid", is a brilliant stroke. It turns this discussion of House subpoenas into a purely factual question.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 02:24 PM (NVYyb)

454 436
This is a true story.
Chuck Schumer took the SAT more than once. In
the Senate cloakrooms, he has bragged about having attained a "perfect
score" by combining his highest math and his highest verbal.
This is an inside joke of the Senate; he becomes very agitated when it is referenced.
Chuck Schumer is Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer.

Posted by: Zod at January 29, 2020 02:23 PM (u4/yY)

LOL! A 400 + 400. Priceless.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:25 PM (ufFY8)

455 "...all the way home retarded." LULZ

Posted by: shipoopi at January 29, 2020 02:25 PM (qDBif)

456 452 431 Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.

Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad.

Charisma is getting somebody to eat the fruit salad you made with tomatoes.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (KUaJL)

What's intimidating them into eating it even though you know they're allergic to tomatoes?
Posted by: Allie at January 29, 2020 02:24 PM (UnA8+)

========

Strength and Charisma with a threatening dialogue option

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:25 PM (q80AH)

457 I like Michael Malice a lot. He had a podcast called Your Welcome (spelled incorrectly on purpose) that is very good.
Posted by: Augustine at January 29, 2020 02:16 PM (BDZWU)

Gutfeld has him on his show often enough.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:25 PM (vEIlU)

458 404
>>>probes

I don't understand why you have to enter the atmosphere to collect data, or why you have to move at 1000 mph.

Park a satellite with a cloak at a Lagrange point.

no cloaks!

Posted by: Edna Mode at January 29, 2020 02:25 PM (sGtp+)

459 >>>We drop into the gravity well to get the only thing that we can't get out here. Human DNA.

You keep it coming or we'll cut you down and re-grow some more compliant livestock.

...

Based on all the probes, don't you have enough DNA by now? Why the repeat ventures, Zardron?

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:26 PM (PbpT7)

460 How long is this going to continue?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2020 02:26 PM (ptqGC)

461 I think a lot of bizarre ideas are appealing to otherwise smart people because the ideas are bizarre. It's intellectual masturbation.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 29, 2020 02:26 PM (wCmLp)

462 I hope we see more of Philbin in the future. He seems like a smart good guy.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:26 PM (ghFVE)

463 My SATs were not impressive. The verbal/language portion was like double the math portion. It totalled a fairly good number, but nothing that would attract attention of an ivy league school or anything. I think I got into Calvin on the strength of my essay more than the scores.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:26 PM (KZzsI)

464 Ancient Chinese Secret Alien Theorists suggest that crop circles were created by UFOs piloted by Bigfoot.

Posted by: History Channel at January 29, 2020 02:26 PM (LxhKk)

465 @419

There may be UFO's but they ain't intelligent extraterrestrials.

There is humanoid life on a single planet in the entire universe, and this is it baby.

Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 29, 2020 02:26 PM (0keV9)

466 When I Was Laughing Uproariously at Borderline Racist Attacks on Low-Status Whites...

Borderline?

Posted by: DocJ at January 29, 2020 02:26 PM (DU2N9)

467 The owners of DC Solar, a Benicia-based company, pleaded guilty today to charges related to a billion dollar Ponzi scheme -- the biggest criminal fraud scheme in the history of the Eastern District of California. The government's investigation has resulted in the largest criminal forfeiture in the history of the District with over $120 million in assets forfeited that will go to victims, and has returned $500 million to the United States Treasury, with more to come, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=94898

Posted by: SMH at January 29, 2020 02:26 PM (RU4sa)

468 I wonder if this stuff with instigator Rick Wilson will work.Because some recent polls show a huge gap between male and female voters when it comes to Trump. If correct, it means that a majority of female voters are willing to lose their jobs and their 401 k shirts because Orange Man talks mean, acts bad, and insults people.

Posted by: mercenary13 at January 29, 2020 02:26 PM (iBjFa)

469 >>>457 I like Michael Malice a lot. He had a podcast called Your Welcome (spelled incorrectly on purpose) that is very good.

I love that joke more than it probably deserves to be loved.

I think it may be that syndrome where you think, "I GET IT!," and credit the joke a little too much, because you're really just crediting yourself for having gotten it.

Still, I do like that joke.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (PbpT7)

470 Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.

Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad.

Charisma is getting somebody to eat the fruit salad you made with tomatoes.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (KUaJL)

==========

Dexterity is getting someone to eat the fruit salad without realizing it has tomatoes in it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:23 PM (q80AH)

Comity is getting someone to eat the fruit salad without giving them the hose again.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (1CjJc)

471 It's fun seeing atheists accidentally rediscover religion.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (KUaJL)

Yes I still remember an article on some site a few years ago saying that there was "evidence" we were living in a computer simulation that was created outside of our world. They were all circle jerking and agreeing it was plausible. I very casually pointed out it sounded like "something else" and got downvoted into oblivion. None so blind....

Posted by: ... at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (aL0Hq)

472 mid wits are heavily impressed by credentials and position, as well.

I got into an argument with an adjunct professor that reflects that.

AP was very impressed with Obama's academic record (the small bits we know about). I pointed out how little we know about his actual grades, papers, and actions.

AP kept going back to the fact he was at Harvard and the president of the Law Review.

I pointed out that none of Obama's papers or grades were known, and in fact the ones that are known are incredibly bad. Apes with figs in a grotto anyone?

AP wouldn't be convinced. Being there was enough.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (9t0Zz)

473 there's no law against shooting aliens. smoke em if you got em.

Posted by: x at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (nFwvY)

474 >>442
423 If UFOs are real (which I think is ridiculous)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (KZzsI)

Observing your forced servitude when They arrive will be entertaining, but only for a few minutes.
Then Zod will turn to watching Lena Dunham's forced servitude.

Posted by: Zod at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (u4/yY)

475 462
I hope we see more of Philbin in the future. He seems like a smart good guy.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:26 PM (ghFVE)

With some glittery Pam Bondi sprinkled in.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (ufFY8)

476 Ever notice that the people that aliens end up probing to help create the human-alien hybrids are from the shallow end of the gene pool?

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (KUaJL)

477 Over my second cup o f coffee this morning, I pondered what I would do if suddenly installed as King.

Often, the simplest solution is also the best solution. Sort of a corollary to Ocaam's Razor.

So, simply, find a derelict ship (perhaps Bill Krystal has one), tow it up the Potomac, then send in a couple of companies of Marines to the Capital, round up every Democrat Representative/Senator and march them aboard.

While towing the ship away, stops might be made to pick up Kerry and Barky, Then just haul it out to sea, and scuttle the damn thing.

Life, not only in the U.S., but worldwide, would immediately improve. Object lessons serve a purpose.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (CDGwz)

478 I haven't read it but I'm told that Michael Malice's book on "The New Right" is very good.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (PbpT7)

479 Thing is, that intelligence, over the years, does often morph into Wisdom, as you realize there are many things you just cannot solve.
Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 02:21 PM (NgKpN)

Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.

Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad.

Charisma is getting somebody to eat the fruit salad you made with tomatoes.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (KUaJL)

Hmmm...

Knowledge is knowing a Tomato is a Fruit.

Intelligence, thus following the correct pattern, puts it in a fruit salad.

Wisdom is knowing this just ain't right.

Dexterity is when wisdom throws the fruit at the Intelligence who put it in the salad.

Charisma is the pretty girl on the sideline, that neither intelligence or wisdom, will hit with the tomato.

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (NgKpN)

480 How long is this going to continue?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2020 02:26 PM (ptqGC)

2 days for 16 total hours. Ain't it a grand spectacle?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (q1Pj5)

481 Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.

Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad.

Charisma is getting somebody to eat the fruit salad you made with tomatoes.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (KUaJL)

I'll bet you put carrots in there too.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (j3npP)

482 I would assume it's about a necrophilic send-off to a dead lover.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:19 PM (PbpT7)

Something like that. The subversion of classic 50s rock and roll punked up with those lyrics just slays me.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (XN+hF)

483 Why does Don Lemon feel the need to apologize. Someone told him he needed to? I'm sure that's what all the folks at CNN and those that watch it (I don't mean people forced to look at it at airline terminals, but those that choose to watch at home) feel about Trump voters.

Obviously Mr. Ali felt no need to apologize.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (WI7YS)

484 Ugh Stabenow.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (ufFY8)

485 Sally Forth had to deal with Space Lemurs parked at a Lagrange Point all cloaked. The Space Lemurs were anthropologists studying a primitive world.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (Ut2e7)

486 there's no law against shooting aliens. smoke em if you got em.
Posted by: x at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (nFwvY)
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Glad to hear that.

Posted by: Cowboys at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (Eicbe)

487 I think a lot of bizarre ideas are appealing to otherwise smart people because the ideas are bizarre. It's intellectual masturbation.

Yeah I've noticed nearly every really smart person I have known has at least one area they are just flat loony in, something that stands out like an Irish kid in a Kenyan school. Genius in everything and imbecile on this one topic.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (KZzsI)

488 Q from Stabenow

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:28 PM (ghFVE)

489 Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.

Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad.

Charisma is getting somebody to eat the fruit salad you made with tomatoes.
Posted by: joe

Karma is having those tomato wedges shoved up your nose.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2020 02:28 PM (9vbJt)

490 Okay, it's clear that all the Democrats intend to do is ask questions that give Schiff and the others opportunities to lie and make shit up

Posted by: JoeF. at January 29, 2020 02:28 PM (CqE5x)

491 SMH Smack My Head
SMF Smell my fingers

Posted by: ZombieJouralist at January 29, 2020 02:28 PM (S6nOH)

492 At GOP , their should be some mechanism adopted that keeps cucks like Wilson Identifying as a Republican.

First thing out of Harf's mouth was

"He's a Republican "

well, maybe not the first thing out of her mouth but close

Posted by: REDACTED at January 29, 2020 02:28 PM (rpxSz)

493 >>>466 When I Was Laughing Uproariously at Borderline Racist Attacks on Low-Status Whites...

Borderline?

...

yeah, I didn't want to do the full SJW thing and make a complete accusation of racism.

Of course, it's racist by THEIR RULES.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:28 PM (PbpT7)

494 Yeah I've noticed nearly every really smart person I have known has at least one area they are just flat loony in, something that stands out like an Irish kid in a Kenyan school. Genius in everything and imbecile on this one topic.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (KZzsI)

The more convoluted the logic necessary to believe it, the smarter you must be that it all somehow makes sense.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 29, 2020 02:28 PM (wCmLp)

495 Stabenaw: Would the house mgrs. like to correct any falsehoods of mis-characterizations in the WH's opening argument?

Sweet baby Jesus, please let this end....do whatever you must.

Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2020 02:28 PM (cF8AT)

496 Bloomberg's dog commercial is a sad desperate cry for help.

Posted by: ... at January 29, 2020 02:29 PM (aL0Hq)

497 Has it been mention...yeah, I'm sure it has...that imagine Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and Katie Pavlich doing a tri-screen split during the Obama years and mocking blacks in Stepin Fetchit voices -- and then crying with laughter as they mock and deride Obama voters. They would've all been dismissed by the next day. Maybe not even that long. Stink Finger Lemon, Wilson and that other useless slab of meat reek of elitism that isn't warranted. I hope it costs them all dearly.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 29, 2020 02:29 PM (JoUsr)

498 Stabenow: Would the managers want to correct any inaccuracies in their opening statements?

(paraphrased)

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:29 PM (ghFVE)

499 We drop into the gravity well to get the only thing that we can't get out here. Human DNA.

You keep it coming or we'll cut you down and re-grow some more compliant livestock.

...

Based on all the probes, don't you have enough DNA by now? Why the repeat ventures, Zardron?
=======
Why do you keep going back to the drive through and getting fries with that? Delicious, convenient and economical.

Posted by: Zardock the devourer at January 29, 2020 02:29 PM (cs2Or)

500 495 Stabenaw: Would the house mgrs. like to correct any falsehoods of mis-characterizations in the WH's opening argument?

Sweet baby Jesus, please let this end....do whatever you must.
Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2020 02:28 PM (cF8AT)

===========

"I've got an idea..."
-Ellen Ripley

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:29 PM (q80AH)

501
AP wouldn't be convinced. Being there was enough.
Posted by: bonhomme
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What? No appeal to the Nobel Prize winner status?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 29, 2020 02:29 PM (CDGwz)

502 LOL.

Wut?

This bitch is incoherent.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:29 PM (ufFY8)

503
387

So the rumor is John Bolton, after he got fired, called a House Democrat to turn him on to Masha, as she was ready to dish dirt on the president, thus her involvement in the fake impeachment?
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 29, 2020 02:19 PM (byl2g)
******************

https://tinyurl.com/rs78exq

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2020 02:29 PM (wiXsO)

504 "The truly informed people know there are actually UFOs of alien origin."

Not well informed then.

zero point zero evidence of any intelligent life any place other than Earth. And mathematically provable that this is the case.

Fermi laughs.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at January 29, 2020 02:29 PM (0xMqp)

505 423 If UFOs are real (which I think is ridiculous) they wouldn't be some kind of scientific expedition, they are dumbass kids doing donuts in the school parking lot.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (KZzsI)

My theory is that they are Time Travelers from our own Future, come back for sightseeing excursions. This was backed up by some observations that they appeared to know what was about to happen before it happened - well if you're a time traveler, you can do that.

They are under strict orders NOT to interfere or interact, lest they change their own time line. In fact that one group that DID make a big public Interaction, at the Capitol Building, changed their own time line so much that they negated their own existence and instantly disappeared. And none of us remember it now because once their existence was negated, it never happened.

You can't Prove it's Not True!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 29, 2020 02:29 PM (Kpl3J)

506 495 Stabenaw: Would the house mgrs. like to correct any falsehoods of mis-characterizations in the WH's opening argument?

Sweet baby Jesus, please let this end....do whatever you must.
Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2020 02:28 PM (cF8AT)
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To think they're going to do this for 16 hours is crazy.

Posted by: WisRich at January 29, 2020 02:29 PM (G0vdT)

507 It would have been fun if Stabenow worded her question to contain the exclamation, "YOU LIE!!!!" and to hear Roberts read that.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:30 PM (ghFVE)

508
Genius in everything and imbecile on this one topic.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Lithuanians are like that. The sneaking, conniving bastards.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 29, 2020 02:30 PM (7rVsF)

509 Yeah I've noticed nearly every really smart person I have known has at least one area they are just flat loony in, something that stands out like an Irish kid in a Kenyan school. Genius in everything and imbecile on this one topic.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (KZzsI)

I guess mine would be staying out of the Friend Zone.

Posted by: ... at January 29, 2020 02:30 PM (aL0Hq)

510 Hopefully, Debbie Stabenow will soon be the former Senator from Michigan

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 02:30 PM (NVYyb)

511 Why does Don Lemon feel the need to apologize.

This suggests to me that their internal polling is showing that the vid clip is KILLING them. Based on the responses I saw on social media to it the mood in response was "you know I don't like Trump but this is making me think of voting for him" so I can see how they might panic

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:30 PM (KZzsI)

512 467 The owners of DC Solar, a Benicia-based company, pleaded guilty today to charges related to a billion dollar Ponzi scheme -- the biggest criminal fraud scheme in the history of the Eastern District of California.

-----------

A centerpiece of the Obama administration.

And a scam.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 29, 2020 02:30 PM (sy5kK)

513 The Michael Malice/Rubin interview is really good.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2020 02:30 PM (wiXsO)

514 505
They are under strict orders NOT to interfere or interact, lest they change their own time line. In fact that one group that DID make a big public Interaction, at the Capitol Building, changed their own time line so much that they negated their own existence and instantly disappeared. And none of us remember it now because once their existence was negated, it never happened.

You can't Prove it's Not True!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 29, 2020 02:29 PM (Kpl3J)

===========

If time travel existed, any rules around it would get broken and paradoxes would extinguish all life in the universe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:30 PM (q80AH)

515 Someone gave Zoe Lofgren a pearl necklace.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 29, 2020 02:30 PM (q1Pj5)

516 Why the fuck does pixy hate me today?

Posted by: DocJ at January 29, 2020 02:30 PM (DU2N9)

517 well, maybe not the first thing out of her mouth but close

Posted by: REDACTED at January 29, 2020 02:28 PM (rpxSz)

Was a swab of her saliva put under a microscope?

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at January 29, 2020 02:30 PM (ufFY8)

518
I'll bet you put carrots in there too.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (j3npP)

Nope.

But that's a question about alignment, not stats, and we're veering into very nerdy territory now.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 29, 2020 02:30 PM (KUaJL)

519 there's no law against shooting aliens. smoke em if you got em.

I'll bet a creative prosecutor could find a way to make The Migratory Bird Treaty Act fit.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 29, 2020 02:31 PM (9t0Zz)

520 This tedious woman is tedious.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:31 PM (ghFVE)

521 I don't understand why you have to enter the atmosphere to collect data, or why you have to move at 1000 mph.

Park a satellite with a cloak at a Lagrange point.
Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (PbpT7)

satellite?

one was supposedly underwater, in the ocean, traveling at high speeds. In the water.

Not sure if any of the videos are true but supposedly coming from military, so who knows.

A satellite can look, a probe can collect data.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:31 PM (vEIlU)

522 Hey all. Checking in. Psych helped clarify things. Priest is next. Probably should have been my first step, say twenty-five years ago...I'm a slow learner.

And time to change the nic. I ought to have stepped away from the full mask before now, but...well, here it is.

Posted by: Formerly Brother Cavil, call me Brother Tim at January 29, 2020 02:31 PM (CUU+W)

523 Ingenuity is to puree the tomato so that no one knows that there is in fact a tomato in the fruit salad.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, at January 29, 2020 02:31 PM (Vy7tf)

524 New numbers: Mortality 11% Yikes! Paper and findings and stats included (ITU admission, ARDS, septic shock, multiple organ failure).

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/ 1222592130490814464

PDF file published today.
bit.ly/2O7VFe8

Posted by: Ahwoo Flu at January 29, 2020 02:31 PM (sdctx)

525 >>zero point zero evidence of any intelligent life any place other than Earth

Not an abundance of evidence of intelligent life on this rock either.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2020 02:31 PM (ZLI7S)

526 UFOs may be real. Lots of experimentin' going on. But aliens? I doubt it. It seems like if you're a spacefaring race, then avoiding gravity wells is probably the prime directive.

Of course, if you've nailed interstellar travel you may well have nailed the energy problem so comprehensively that gravity wells don't matter, but I kinda doubt it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2020 02:31 PM (I2dne)

527 I guess mine would be staying out of the Friend Zone.

Posted by: ... at January 29, 2020 02:30 PM (aL0Hq)

Easy, the Friend Zone doesn't exist.
Misreading another person's romantic intentions isn't a zone, bruh

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (Eg9+v)

528 "The President is unrepentant, and we fear he will do it again."
Yeah, that is evidence.
What a dumb cvnt.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (ufFY8)

529 521 I don't understand why you have to enter the atmosphere to collect data, or why you have to move at 1000 mph.

Park a satellite with a cloak at a Lagrange point.
Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (PbpT7)

satellite?

one was supposedly underwater, in the ocean, traveling at high speeds. In the water.

Not sure if any of the videos are true but supposedly coming from military, so who knows.

A satellite can look, a probe can collect data.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:31 PM (vEIlU)

=========

How about they bury them under the ground and then no one ever digs them up for hundreds of year.

Then they aliens get shot into the ships through lightning after which they rise up from the ground and start lasering everyone?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (q80AH)

530 Cotton up.

Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (0keV9)

531 515 Someone gave Zoe Lofgren a pearl necklace.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 29, 2020 02:30 PM (q1Pj5)

Thanks for the i.d.
Maybe.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (ghFVE)

532 A satellite can look, a probe can collect data.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:31 PM (vEIlU)

Yeah, collect data.

Posted by: Otters at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (1CjJc)

533 Democrats have always been the Party of Racial Superiority/Inferiority. Changing the races doesn't change that.

Posted by: ... at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (aL0Hq)

534 I've listened to Howard Stern and other New Yorkers make fun people from the South for decades. I was also the recipient of southern bias when interviewing for jobs in NYC. I just figured it came with the territory. Frustrating but not unexpected.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (U9Qbt)

535 Wait...so tomatoes are fruit?

Hah. nerds.

Posted by: eleven at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (QLPEO)

536 It's Don LeMon!
Posted by: It's me donna at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (6XlcD)

We should refer to him as "Don Lemming", and urge him to fulfill his destiny by running headlong off a cliff.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (LxWV7)

537 530 Cotton up.
Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (0keV9)

=========

Put your cotton shirt back on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (q80AH)

538 The more convoluted the logic necessary to believe it, the smarter you must be that it all somehow makes sense.

I do actually think that is the mindset. Either that or the gnostic appeal of having Secret Knowledge denied the ordinary person.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (KZzsI)

539 >>>487 I think a lot of bizarre ideas are appealing to otherwise smart people because the ideas are bizarre. It's intellectual masturbation.

Here's what I've noticed, on this same vibe:

The half-smart are suckers for mere abstraction. By which I mean: They think something is "smart" if it merely represents an abstraction away from the physical and real.

My favorite example -- and I think what made me realize this -- was some fatuous professor commenting on the Israel/Palestine wall.

"The wall," he sagely pronounced, "is a symbol of the separation of one people from another."

Well, I thought, seems to me that the wall is also an actual separation of one people from another -- that is its physical function and its real-world intent.

So this guy is saying "a wall is a symbol for a wall." And there might be some kind of use for that kind of statement in very high level abstract theory-of-the-real philosophy, but this dope wasn't on that level.

He just thought it sounded smarter to talk about the abstraction of a wall than the actual wall.

Even though, in this case, the abstraction of the wall was exactly coterminus and coplanar with the physical reality of the wall.

But hey, abstractions sound "smart." Dumb people talk about real things, smart people talk about abstractions and symbols.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (PbpT7)

540 Another anodyne question.

This is boring.

Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (0keV9)

541 522 Hey all. Checking in. Psych helped clarify things. Priest is next. Probably should have been my first step, say twenty-five years ago...I'm a slow learner.

And time to change the nic. I ought to have stepped away from the full mask before now, but...well, here it is.
Posted by: Formerly Brother Cavil, call me Brother Tim at January 29, 2020 02:31 PM (CUU+W)

Whole buncha great news, there.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:33 PM (ghFVE)

542 Hey all. Checking in. Psych helped clarify things. Priest is next. Probably should have been my first step, say twenty-five years ago...I'm a slow learner.

And time to change the nic. I ought to have stepped away from the full mask before now, but...well, here it is.
Posted by: Formerly Brother Cavil, call me Brother Tim

Welcome home.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2020 02:33 PM (9vbJt)

543 Fuck this, can't deal with pixy today. Out.

Posted by: DocJ at January 29, 2020 02:33 PM (DU2N9)

544 Where did this stupid idea come from that it's meaningful to be able to identify countries on an unlabeled map?

Maps are labeled!
Posted by: Kensington at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (stQWR)

First they admit Trump knows where countries are by accusing him of wanting to build there, then they say he doesn't know.

Fools.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:33 PM (vEIlU)

545 434
I don't understand why you have to enter the atmosphere to collect data, or why you have to move at 1000 mph.

Park a satellite with a cloak at a Lagrange point.

======

We did. And some other stuff too.

We drop into the gravity well to get the only thing that we can't get out here. Human DNA.

cow rectums.

Posted by: Anachronda at January 29, 2020 02:33 PM (sGtp+)

546 I guess mine would be staying out of the Friend Zone.
Posted by: ... at January 29, 2020 02:30 PM

So you're stuck here, too?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 29, 2020 02:33 PM (ejd/p)

547 Easy, the Friend Zone doesn't exist.
Misreading another person's romantic intentions isn't a zone, bruh
Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (Eg9+v)

See?

Posted by: ... at January 29, 2020 02:33 PM (aL0Hq)

548 Wait...so tomatoes are fruit?

Ketchup is a smoothie

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at January 29, 2020 02:33 PM (nRWPy)

549 Park a satellite with a cloak at a Lagrange point.
Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (PbpT7)

They got a lotta nice girls...

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 29, 2020 02:33 PM (NWiLs)

550 510
Hopefully, Debbie Stabenow will soon be the former Senator from Michigan

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 02:30 PM (NVYyb)

No, it is the other senator that is up, Peters.
I am hoping that John James wins this time.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:33 PM (ufFY8)

551 485 Sally Forth had to deal with Space Lemurs parked at a Lagrange Point all cloaked. The Space Lemurs were anthropologists studying a primitive world.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (Ut2e7)

Not busy fighting Gorilla Pundit and Punk Chimp for Primate Superiority?

Posted by: Allie at January 29, 2020 02:33 PM (UnA8+)

552 I hope you continue to progress, Cavil/Tim. Prayers for you as you find your way

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2020 02:33 PM (I2dne)

553 522 Hey all. Checking in. Psych helped clarify things. Priest is next. Probably should have been my first step, say twenty-five years ago...I'm a slow learner.

And time to change the nic. I ought to have stepped away from the full mask before now, but...well, here it is.
Posted by: Formerly Brother Cavil, call me Brother Tim at January 29, 2020 02:31 PM (CUU+W)

Don't know the back story here but I'm glad you're finding help!

Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2020 02:33 PM (cF8AT)

554 Then they aliens get shot into the ships through lightning after which they rise up from the ground and start lasering everyone?!

And they have dogs that shoot bees from their mouths.

Posted by: eleven at January 29, 2020 02:33 PM (QLPEO)

555 Your Cotton is low.

Posted by: Scarlett at January 29, 2020 02:33 PM (Vy7tf)

556

The left's fallback position when they are caught now is always - fear for my life! Fainting couch.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:33 PM (vEIlU)

557 You can't Prove it's Not True!!!
======
there is a great short story where a writer is having drinks with Harlan Ellison. Harlan gets drunk and reveals the secret of why aliens never visit the earth.

Its fantastically done. captures Ellison well. And the answer is, actually plausible.

Posted by: simplemind at January 29, 2020 02:34 PM (qPaaP)

558 How many Craigslist hooker stings has Stabencow's hubby been busted ?

at least 1 or 2

he always brings her in the court as a witness

to explain why he goes to hoes

Posted by: REDACTED at January 29, 2020 02:34 PM (rpxSz)

559 Of course, it's racist by THEIR RULES.

I've been reliably informed by SJW morons that one cannot be racist against whites.

You see racism is power + bigotry.

Even Oprah can't be racist against a poor Appalachian white person because whites have all the power, and blacks don't.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 29, 2020 02:34 PM (9t0Zz)

560 Posted by: Formerly Brother Cavil, call me Brother Tim at January 29, 2020 02:31 PM (CUU+W)

What manner of man is this who can summon forth fire without flint or tinder?

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 29, 2020 02:34 PM (NWiLs)

561 518
I'll bet you put carrots in there too.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 29, 2020 02:27 PM (j3npP)

Nope.

But that's a question about alignment, not stats, and we're veering into very nerdy territory now.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 29, 2020 02:30 PM (KUaJL)

Still more intelligent then the Shit Show in the Senate.

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 02:34 PM (NgKpN)

562 Posted by: Formerly Brother Cavil, call me Brother Tim at January 29, 2020 02:31 PM

Great news!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 29, 2020 02:35 PM (ejd/p)

563 The hicks I'm laughing at fought for the Confederacy. Mic drop.

Posted by: Don Lemon at January 29, 2020 02:35 PM (LxhKk)

564 So the rumor is John Bolton, after he got fired, called a House Democrat to turn him on to Masha, as she was ready to dish dirt on the president, thus her involvement in the fake impeachment?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Bolton, as can be seen in retrospect, was always...ALWAYS! a two -faced double dealing weasel. The common peeps saw him as some kind of hawkish truth sayer about what we should do as policy. Like a lot of people who show up on Talking Heads interview shows, he doesn't really know shit (...Joe Digenova?). He makes it all up.

George W. Bush also thought he was a shit.

Trump brought him on because he thought having a "hawk" counterpoint to Pompeo would improve debate, giving Trump an alternate viewpoint.
When Bolton became NSC Chair, he started running his own "ops" against Pompeo to discredit him with Trump.

Fortunately, Trump was shrewd enough to catch Bolton in what he was doing, and fired his ass.
Bolton is now political poison, and has no "home" with either party. He now has to fend for himself and sell himself to the highest bidder. So yeah, showing up in Qatar to be a lobbyist or mouthpiece for the Qatar (home of Al Jazeerah) government fits.

Maybe he and Rick Wilson should get a show on CNN and show people how shit weasels "git 'er done!".

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at January 29, 2020 02:35 PM (vcOmj)

565 The owners of DC Solar, a Benicia-based company, pleaded guilty today to charges related to a billion dollar Ponzi scheme

I think every one of those big "green" start ups that the Obama administration propped up and cheered on has proved either a gross fraud or just collapsed under the weight of zero business. It was a mini dot com bubble; promising what could not possibly be delivered and getting mountains of cash to do it with. They got a nice logo and set up a bitchen office with ergonomic stand up desks and solar heating then collapsed when they couldn't actually produce anything.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:35 PM (KZzsI)

566 As I am sure anyone worth their salt in English can tell, I scored perfect (at the time 800) on math and 650 on English. I didn't care about English and hated the rules so there is that. Still was accepted at Cal Tech but stayed here to go to UCSB. Now UCSB is considered the number 4 in engineering.. almost a Cal Tech.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 29, 2020 02:35 PM (pw+jk)

567 483 ....... I'm sure that's what all the folks at CNN and those that watch it (I don't mean people forced to look at it at airline terminals, but those that choose to watch at home) feel about Trump voters.
----------

To the few CNN viewers that actually saw that show, they were laughing right along with the Don.

And guessing those viewers are truly surprised at the negative reaction.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 29, 2020 02:35 PM (sy5kK)

568 What manner of man is this who can summon forth fire without flint or tinder?
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 29, 2020 02:34 PM

Damn it, Insom! Beat me to it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 29, 2020 02:35 PM (ejd/p)

569 Philbin bringing it again.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:35 PM (ufFY8)

570 A satellite can look, a probe can collect data.

Like I always say, "Are you going to stare at that ass all day, or are you going to probe it?"

Posted by: A Grey at January 29, 2020 02:35 PM (9t0Zz)

571 I still call it Key-ev. Fight me!

Posted by: Midwit Redneck at January 29, 2020 02:35 PM (o4KRr)

572 535
Wait...so tomatoes are fruit?

Hah. nerds.

Posted by: eleven at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (QLPEO)
Culinarily, tomato isn't a fruit. But it *is* the fruit of the tomato plant. Only a verbally challenged person can't grasp the sense difference between the uses.

"hurr durr the yellow things aren't petals on the sunflower" x100
(just venting)

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 29, 2020 02:36 PM (Eg9+v)

573 We did. And some other stuff too.

We drop into the gravity well to get the only thing that we can't get out here. Human DNA.

cow rectums.

Posted by: Anachronda
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What can I say, I tried atkins diet for a while.

Posted by: Zardock the devourer at January 29, 2020 02:36 PM (0814F)

574 If the sniffles don't kill you, the medical bills to save your life will.

Time for a drink.

Posted by: Ahwoo Flu at January 29, 2020 02:36 PM (sdctx)

575 Easy, the Friend Zone doesn't exist.
Misreading another person's romantic intentions isn't a zone, bruh
Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit

No, but, "I like you as a friend", is.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2020 02:36 PM (9vbJt)

576 431 . . . Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.

Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad.

Charisma is getting somebody to eat the fruit salad you made with tomatoes.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously
_______

Savoir faire is knowingly and cheerfully eating the fruit salad with the tomatoes and complimenting the host.

Posted by: Furious George at January 29, 2020 02:36 PM (9vQJW)

577 Tomatoes, tomatillos, ground cherries...all fruits.

And they're in the Nightshade family. It's a crazy botanical family. Some are extremely common foods and some will kill you.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 02:36 PM (XN+hF)

578 *goes back to watching SG-1*

Posted by: SMH at January 29, 2020 02:36 PM (RU4sa)

579 I'd wager that most people who believe in extraterrestrials are atheists or agnostics.

It would follow the conventional pattern.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 29, 2020 02:36 PM (U9Qbt)

580 I do actually think that is the mindset. Either that or the gnostic appeal of having Secret Knowledge denied the ordinary person.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (KZzsI)

They're both part of the same issue: the desire to be part of the "elite".

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 29, 2020 02:36 PM (wCmLp)

581 >>>UFOs may be real. Lots of experimentin' going on.

well, some UFOs are undoubtedly advanced Air Force prototypes and experiments.

But the "UFOs" that have people chattering are making turns and moving at speeds which are impossible with human technology.

I just think these are optical effects.

There's a phenomenon called "Rods," which were previously thought to maybe be UFOs. People take cellphone video, and then later, they see these long dark gray "rods" -- very long, very thin -- whipping through the atmosphere at impossible speeds.

Well, it turns out they're just bugs. They're rods because they're moving too fast for the video to record them as point-objects. Instead, they're motion blurred into a rod.

And they're not moving at impossible speeds ten miles in the atmosphere, as some would think. Actually, they're just moving at quite-possible bug speeds near the camera. (Something close appears to be moving faster, as in traversing more of the sky/your angle of vision, than something far away. Planes, for example, seem to move slowly across the sky, though of course they're moving 600mph.)

Anyway, I look at these "pills" of light and I think: Aren't these just a variation of "Rods"?

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:37 PM (PbpT7)

582 This is going to go on for 16 hours, like the fight in Rocky 2.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 29, 2020 02:37 PM (q1Pj5)

583 575 Easy, the Friend Zone doesn't exist.
Misreading another person's romantic intentions isn't a zone, bruh
Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit

No, but, "I like you as a friend", is.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2020 02:36 PM (9vbJt)

==========

James Bond never seems to have this problem.

Have you tried to be James Bond?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:37 PM (q80AH)

584 Philbin bringing it again.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:35 PM (ufFY

yes. I like him. Easy to listen to.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:37 PM (vEIlU)

585 Posted by: Formerly Brother Cavil, call me Brother Tim

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 29, 2020 02:37 PM (WI7YS)

586 But hey, abstractions sound "smart." Dumb people talk about real things, smart people talk about abstractions and symbols.
Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (PbpT7)

That story reminds me. It took a person of absolute average intelligence (nice guy) to make the best observation on The Humanities that I ever heard.

He said to me one day in college that it seems to him that "[Sociology etc] is the study of things everyone already knows but would never ever need to think about".

A wall is a wall. Fucking duh, asshole. The textbooks should have been called Duh.

Posted by: ... at January 29, 2020 02:37 PM (aL0Hq)

587 I like tomato pie .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 29, 2020 02:37 PM (U9Qbt)

588 i never watch that shit. but, from what i've heard, a spelling bee would have made more sense. none of these melon heads can spell shit.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (KP5rU)

589 Cory Gardner says he'll vote against witnesses.

https://tinyurl.com/v7q4tzr

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (sWM8x)

590 Maybe Qatar is the next Ukraine ... except they are richer, and maybe even more corrupt and vicious, idk. And Ukraine's new president seems to maybe be on the right track ... IF our own SDNY/?? doesn't undermine Trump's efforts .. Qatar ... still a black hole ... of oil.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (Cus5s)

591 Philbin

It's all a political charade.

Amen

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (vEIlU)

592 What would be nice is if C-SPAN "Impeachment" got higher numbers than whatever Don Lemon is on.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (ghFVE)

593 "The wall," he sagely pronounced, "is a symbol of the separation of one people from another."

Far out, man. Like, I'd never looked at a wall that way before.

Sounds like this person has been listening to way too much Pink Floyd and smoking way too many drugs whilst doing so.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy. #DemocratsSuck at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (HaL55)

594 565
The owners of DC Solar, a Benicia-based company, pleaded guilty today to charges related to a billion dollar Ponzi scheme

I think every one of those big "green" start ups that the Obama
administration propped up and cheered on has proved either a gross fraud
or just collapsed under the weight of zero business. It was a mini dot
com bubble; promising what could not possibly be delivered and getting
mountains of cash to do it with. They got a nice logo and set up a
bitchen office with ergonomic stand up desks and solar heating then
collapsed when they couldn't actually produce anything.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:35 PM (KZzsI)

I suspect most of their malfeasance related to the inability to produce (followed by lies) more than a premeditated plan to defraud. A very Chinese situation, innit?

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (Eg9+v)

595 Oh my God

This is so stupid

Posted by: JoeF. at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (CqE5x)

596 586 A wall is a wall. Fucking duh, asshole. The textbooks should have been called Duh.
Posted by: ... at January 29, 2020 02:37 PM (aL0Hq)

==========

A is a.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (q80AH)

597 I gotta say, I'm pretty pleased with the ACV drink I've concocted.

It's not quite the taste level of Kombucha but it's not too shabby in it's own right.

Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (0keV9)

598
I think every one of those big "green" start ups that the Obama administration propped up and cheered on has proved either a gross fraud or just collapsed under the weight of zero business. It was a mini dot com bubble;

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:35 PM (KZzsI)

No, Chris, the difference is that the dot-com bubble was private money, but all the Obama stuff was taxpayer money.

Huge difference.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (sy5kK)

599
The Rick Wilson deserves a prize. I was thinking, send him a carboy of Don Lemon's taint grease. His good and close friend, the dimwitted alcoholic pervert Don Lemon.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (5S9Ex)

600 Schiff again

Posted by: JoeF. at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (CqE5x)

601 Hey all. Checking in. Psych helped clarify things. Priest is next. Probably should have been my first step, say twenty-five years ago...I'm a slow learner.

God be with you, brother.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (KZzsI)

602 If there are no space aliens how do you explain the exsanguination of "Snippy" the horse?

https://tinyurl.com/snippy-the-horse

Posted by: Muldoon at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (m45I2)

603 NYT reports Navy confirms the existence of UFO flights over nuclear carriers. No suggestion they are extraterrestrial.

https://tinyurl.com/y4dzfaav

https://tinyurl.com/yxpu4fyu

Extensive and interesting interview with a Navy pilot who the Navy identified as having had a UFO contact.
https://tinyurl.com/yyo47dmu

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (NVYyb)

604 Don't know the back story here but I'm glad you're finding help!

Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2020 02:33 PM (cF8AT)

This. Good to hear!

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (1CjJc)

605 Brother Tim! So glad to see you, and so glad you are seeking help. I hope your priest will give you some good suggestions. This is the time to lean on God - when you most need Him. Give all your problems over to Him.

And here's my favorite quote from St. Augustine: Work as if everything depends on you, and pray as if everything depends on God. I interpret that to mean do everything you can think of to help yourself (such as seeking help like you did today), and then also pray for help from God.

Posted by: bluebell at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (/669Q)

606 599
The Rick Wilson deserves a prize. I was thinking, send him a carboy of Don Lemon's taint grease. His good and close friend, the dimwitted alcoholic pervert Don Lemon.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (5S9Ex)

==========

How about leadership of Trump's re-election campaign?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:39 PM (q80AH)

607 Beans are fruit. The songs says so.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 29, 2020 02:39 PM (jWC3i)

608 I think the WH counsel made a mistake not to use every bit of their time

make them beg to be out of this

Posted by: REDACTED at January 29, 2020 02:39 PM (rpxSz)

609 "Retards?" I'm going to report you to Twitter for attacking a protected class.

(I was suspended for the exact same reason, one or two strikes before being permanently suspended from Twitter.)

Posted by: CrustyB at January 29, 2020 02:39 PM (UUD++)

610 583
575 Easy, the Friend Zone doesn't exist.

Misreading another person's romantic intentions isn't a zone, bruh

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit

No, but, "I like you as a friend", is.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2020 02:36 PM (9vbJt)

==========

James Bond never seems to have this problem.

Have you tried to be James Bond?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:37 PM (q80AH)

Wishful thinking is NOT a zone, as I said before...

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 29, 2020 02:39 PM (Eg9+v)

611 Schiff is an idiot. A true idiot.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 02:39 PM (NVYyb)

612 OK, so they showed a wide shot, and as the question was asked, the House Managers were furiously flipping pages to find their places on teh script.

dipSchiff stared at a page for maybe 20 seconds, and brought his binder with him.

Obviously not set up. /s

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:39 PM (ufFY8)

613 Master class in persuasiveness:

@WashTimes 10m

Joe Biden says he needs a VP who can be president 'because I'm an old guy'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 29, 2020 02:39 PM (DhaqP)

614 Speaking of UFO's I started watching random episodes of The X Files a couple days ago. The show did so much in instilling a distrust of the federal government. Shame it went woke and got broke.

Posted by: Augustine at January 29, 2020 02:39 PM (BDZWU)

615 A couple of Senate questions ago, I got in my brain the idea that John Roberts is the host of "Password."

More amusing that way.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:39 PM (ghFVE)

616 594
I suspect most of their malfeasance related to the inability to produce (followed by lies) more than a premeditated plan to defraud. A very Chinese situation, innit?
Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (Eg9+v)

Considering that they were the primary sponsor for Kyle Larson's NASCAR team not too long ago, they were definitely throwing money that they didn't have around.

Posted by: Allie at January 29, 2020 02:40 PM (UnA8+)

617 If there are no space aliens how do you explain the exsanguination of "Snippy" the horse?

Microsoft Windows users hated him.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at January 29, 2020 02:40 PM (C+We0)

618 UCSB (UC State Beach) has better beaches than CalTech. And back then, Pasadena was a pretty but dead suburban place (it got better).

Posted by: rhomboid at January 29, 2020 02:40 PM (El6T/)

619 Hey all. Checking in. Psych helped clarify things. Priest is next. Probably should have been my first step, say twenty-five years ago...I'm a slow learner.

Posted by: Formerly Brother Cavil, call me Brother Tim at January 29, 2020 02:31 PM (CUU+W)

I don't know the backstory here, but congrats on getting help and The Horde's got your back.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 29, 2020 02:40 PM (ZGrMX)

620 Anybody seen my Toppik?

Posted by: Don Lemon with masking tape on his forehead at January 29, 2020 02:40 PM (v0R5T)

621 Anyway, I look at these "pills" of light and I think: Aren't these just a variation of "Rods"?
=====
doesn't explain the thermal imaging from the navy videos.

Probably they are experimental, unmanned drone type craft. High G maneuvers not a problem for a robot.

It wasn't one of mine.

Posted by: Zardock the devourer at January 29, 2020 02:40 PM (7NfrT)

622 But hey, abstractions sound "smart." Dumb people talk about real things, smart people talk about abstractions and symbols.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (PbpT7)

Professions also have this by having their own 'language'. Their own terms, often for simple things.

Ran into this time and time again as an IT guy. I had to get through their verbiage to understand the simple thing they wanted.

But if you don't know the language, you will not be accepted by said profession.

Its like nautical terms. Right Left? or Port Starboard? One makes you a Sailor, the other a landlubber.

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 02:40 PM (NgKpN)

623 >>And they're not moving at impossible speeds ten miles in the atmosphere, as some would think.

Our eyes can believe that 20 discrete things seen in a second are a smooth moving object.

Likewise, a girl sitting at the end of the bar at closing time can look just like Sophia Loren.

Don't believe everything you see.

Posted by: Roy at January 29, 2020 02:40 PM (SUJyY)

624 Posted by: eleven at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (QLPEO)
Culinarily, tomato isn't a fruit.

Hah! Eat me!

Posted by: Toamato Ice Cream at January 29, 2020 02:40 PM (Vy7tf)

625 Schiff just makes up shit and creates strawmen

Posted by: JoeF. at January 29, 2020 02:40 PM (CqE5x)

626 >>>522 Hey all. Checking in. Psych helped clarify things. Priest is next. Probably should have been my first step, say twenty-five years ago...I'm a slow learner.

And time to change the nic. I ought to have stepped away from the full mask before now, but...well, here it is.

...

brother, is this a depression related thing?

Whatever it is, glad you're taking steps to improve.

I caught this great quote on a classic Doctor Who I just watched over the weekend -- Salvitarum ambulando. "It is solved by walking," "the thing is solved by walking."

Sometimes just doing a thing fixes things.

And also -- I think actual, non-metpahorical walking helps a lot of things too!

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:40 PM (PbpT7)

627 607
Beans are fruit. The songs says so.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 29, 2020 02:39 PM (jWC3i)
Isn't the pod the fruit and the beans, the seeds? In no sense are beans fruit, I reckon. Then again, when you need to rhyme with toot, you need to rhyme with toot.

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 29, 2020 02:40 PM (Eg9+v)

628 613 Master class in persuasiveness:

@WashTimes 10m

Joe Biden says he needs a VP who can be president 'because I'm an old guy'
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 29, 2020 02:39 PM (DhaqP)

=========

It's like he's begging for the electorate to end this charade.

"I'm gonna die in office for sure," is a God-awful campaign message to send out, but that's exactly what he just did.

He might as well have said, "Please, for the love of God, don't vote for me."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:40 PM (q80AH)

629 Schiff is an idiot. A true idiot.

Eh. It was either this or blow hobos under a bridge.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - King Ranch Edition at January 29, 2020 02:40 PM (nfcV2)

630

realize that this was the only thing of consequence what Lil'Debbie Stabenaw has done in three+ terms in the Senate

Posted by: AltonJackson
If you are finished, unload & show clear
at January 29, 2020 02:40 PM (ceIDk)

631 But hey, abstractions sound "smart." Dumb people talk about real things, smart people talk about abstractions and symbols.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (PbpT7)

-------

Which is why virtue signaling is so popular, prevalent and predominant with that crowd.

They would much rather be seen as, and thought of, being supportive for the Issue of The Day. Armbands, ribbons, and yard signs dont do shit about solving poverty, curing cancer, feeding the homeless or protecting battered women.

Its the rare individual that at actually writes a check to the American Cancer Association, but they'll sure a fuck wear a pink ribbon one weekend out of the year.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 29, 2020 02:41 PM (8XRCm)

632 I don't know the backstory here, but congrats on getting help and The Horde's got your back.

In a good way of course

Posted by: It's me donna at January 29, 2020 02:41 PM (6XlcD)

633 @608

It's like tap dancing on a razor blade, is it better maximize your ability to explicate or do you want to boar and annoy your audience as little as possible.

Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 29, 2020 02:41 PM (0keV9)

634 574 If the sniffles don't kill you, the medical bills to save your life will.

Time for a drink.
Posted by: Ahwoo Flu at January 29, 2020 02:36 PM (sdctx)

Whisky and honey.

Same as it always was.

Posted by: doctor feelgood at January 29, 2020 02:41 PM (sy5kK)

635 612 OK, so they showed a wide shot, and as the question was asked, the House Managers were furiously flipping pages to find their places on teh script.

dipSchiff stared at a page for maybe 20 seconds, and brought his binder with him.

Obviously not set up. /s

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:39 PM (ufFY

Well, to be fair, press secretaries do that, filing questions under topical headings in their binders.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:41 PM (ghFVE)

636 577
Tomatoes, tomatillos, ground cherries...all fruits.

And they're in the Nightshade family. It's a crazy botanical family. Some are extremely common foods and some will kill you.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 02:36 PM (XN+hF)

We were warned about this in the '70's, when the Killer Tomatoes attacked.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 29, 2020 02:41 PM (1CjJc)

637 The friend zone does exist, but it's not as vast as some make it out to be. There are some women who will manipulate guys and feed off them emotionally, but there are many others who honestly just want friendship. And ultimately it's up to the man to not be a pushover. If you like her, make your intentions clear up front. If she doesn't reciprocate, then don't hang around hoping that she'll change her mind.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 29, 2020 02:41 PM (wCmLp)

638 622 Professions also have this by having their own 'language'. Their own terms, often for simple things.

Ran into this time and time again as an IT guy. I had to get through their verbiage to understand the simple thing they wanted.

But if you don't know the language, you will not be accepted by said profession.

Its like nautical terms. Right Left? or Port Starboard? One makes you a Sailor, the other a landlubber.
Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 02:40 PM (NgKpN)

===========

Have you made any attempt to read anything by an academic gender studies person?

It's half jargon, and if you don't understand every word, then you obviously are not part of the solution.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:41 PM (q80AH)

639 Well done, Tim!!! I've always liked you and your comments.

Posted by: ... at January 29, 2020 02:41 PM (aL0Hq)

640 Master class in persuasiveness:

@WashTimes 10m

Joe Biden says he needs a VP who can be president 'because I'm an old guy'
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 29, 2020 02:39 PM (DhaqP)
+++++++++++
I'm no politician, but even I know not to do that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2020 02:41 PM (I2dne)

641 Beans are fruit. The songs says so.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 29, 2020 02:39 PM (jWC3i)
Isn't the pod the fruit and the beans, the seeds? In no sense are beans fruit, I reckon. Then again, when you need to rhyme with toot, you need to rhyme with toot.

----

Beans are legumes you fucking heathens.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (8XRCm)

642 Actually I think there are very few naturally smart people. Maybe 10%. There are many more people who have what I call hustle intelligence. They know a lot because they have an open mind, and think a lot on their own, and learn from experience and observation. In the olden days it used to be called "wisdom". You can get wisdom at any age, you just have to be open to receiving it. As the saying goes, there is very little wisdom in the second kick of the mule.

Natural intelligence plus hustle intelligence are super geniuses. 1 in a million. Naturally intelligent people without the hustle do fine, but end up going down silly rabbit holes like being an expert on the rules of D&D, or memorizing the Star wars movies. They just don't amount to much. Hustle intelligence people can produce great works of art and science - honesty, diligence, trial and error will get you very far. Just look at a beehive - which one is the smart bee directing everyone else?

Then there are the poseurs, who spend most of their time simply repeating what other smart people say. They are average intelligence, and lazy. They don't learn much wisdom, they only repeat the wisdom of others, and since they are somewhat stupid, they usually foul that up. Just watch a Democrat try and quote the bible some time to see it in action. these are the people who like to make fun of the dimwits, and the hustle intelligent, because it is all about social status, and nothing more. they don't actually car about being smart, that takes work, they just want to look smart.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (+DS2f)

643 Standing still fixes nothing. I'll be right here.

Posted by: klaftern at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (RuIsu)

644 Posted by: Formerly Brother Cavil, call me Brother Tim

Sorry. Computer having issues again.

I am glad you are back. Please take care of yourself and check back regularly. More people love and need you than you may realize. God loves and needs you too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (WI7YS)

645 Microsoft Windows users hated him.

My mom loves clippy. I think her generation was the target audience.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (KZzsI)

646 Beans are fruit. The songs says so.

Also referenced are the medicinal properties of excessive flatulence.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - King Ranch Edition at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (nfcV2)

647 So CNN is now Don's public therapy session?
Fuckin' idiots.

Posted by: wth at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (v0R5T)

648 Well, "beans, beans, the magical legume" made for a tough rhyme scheme.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (XN+hF)

649 629 Schiff is an idiot. A true idiot.

Eh. It was either this or blow hobos under a bridge.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - King Ranch Edition at January 29, 2020 02:40 PM (nfcV2)

you have no idea how difficult that decision was.

Posted by: Adam Schiff at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (sy5kK)

650 >>>(I was suspended for the exact same reason, one or two strikes before being permanently suspended from Twitter.)

I was suspended for joking with a friend that he was a "mongoloid trump supporter."

I can get unsuspended, but then I thought: Fuck Twitter in its gaping millennial a***ole.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (PbpT7)

651 How the hell is there corruption when there is truth seeking (i.e. an investigation)??
Jesus, what a fantacist this asshole is...

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (ufFY8)

652 OK, Repubs, GET SMART.

Sen Blutarsky asks the House Managers, did you and Senate members coordinate questions before the trial today?

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (NgKpN)

653 Excellent, Tim. Hang in there.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (C+We0)

654
UCSB (UC State Beach) has better beaches than CalTech. And back then,
Pasadena was a pretty but dead suburban place (it got better).

Posted by: rhomboid at January 29, 2020 02:40 PM (El6T/)

===
When I was there it was either UCSD or UCSB as the top party school.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (pw+jk)

655 528 "The President is unrepentant, and we fear he will do it again."
Yeah, that is evidence.
What a dumb cvnt.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (ufFY

Unrepentent from his- noncriminal completely correct actions that we happen to disagree with
and we fear he will again not commit a crime and will do things correctly but we won't like them. !!!

Posted by: LASue at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (Ed8Zd)

656 I sense the already soft impeachment gas bag deflating further. Would bet a taco that the newest polling on impeachment will show it falling even further into "don't care" territory.

"Witnesses!" fake drama is the last gasp.

Almost willing to bet half a taco that we have acquittal soon.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 29, 2020 02:43 PM (El6T/)

657 Well, if that don't beat all, Don Lemon solemnly queefs his response as if anybody cares.

Posted by: Fritz at January 29, 2020 02:43 PM (2Mnv1)

658 Schiff is the most irritating man on the planet

Posted by: JoeF. at January 29, 2020 02:43 PM (CqE5x)

659 622
But hey, abstractions sound "smart." Dumb people talk about real things, smart people talk about abstractions and symbols.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (PbpT7)

Professions also have this by having their own 'language'. Their own terms, often for simple things.

Ran into this time and time again as an IT guy. I had to get through their verbiage to understand the simple thing they wanted.

But if you don't know the language, you will not be accepted by said profession.

Its like nautical terms. Right Left? or Port Starboard? One makes you a Sailor, the other a landlubber.

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 02:40 PM (NgKpN)

While people do this to sound 'in', it has an important purpose. That is, when common terms drift, the technical terms don't get busted. It also helps distinguish the technical use from the common use. Botany has this problem where every jerk thinks that once he learns what a petal is in botany, that "technically this is not a petal" dude, it's called a term of art. This would have been solved easily if someone had just used some weird term instead of the common term.

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 29, 2020 02:43 PM (Eg9+v)

660 650 >>>(I was suspended for the exact same reason, one or two strikes before being permanently suspended from Twitter.)

I was suspended for joking with a friend that he was a "mongoloid trump supporter."

I can get unsuspended, but then I thought: Fuck Twitter in its gaping millennial a***ole.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (PbpT7)

===========

Plus it took you away from us.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:43 PM (q80AH)

661 This idiot and the Stabenow idiot talk about "a high crime and misdeanor" as though it is one particular thing and Trump did it, whatever it is.

SHUT. UP. SCHIFF.

Posted by: bluebell at January 29, 2020 02:43 PM (/669Q)

662 The more you eat, the more you...flume?

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 02:43 PM (XN+hF)

663 Schiff turns rhetorical argument on its head, and just keeps sending words out into the void, in hopes his audience will make sense of what he says, even though he himself has no idea what he's saying.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 02:43 PM (NVYyb)

664 Have you tried to be James Bond?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:37 PM (q80AH)

I have but somehow, failed

probably the blond hair

Posted by: REDACTED at January 29, 2020 02:43 PM (rpxSz)

665 He might as well have said, "Please, for the love of God, don't vote for me."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:40 PM (q80AH)

Just let me die in peace has a certain persuasiveness to it.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 29, 2020 02:43 PM (1CjJc)

666 Joe Biden says he needs a VP who can be president 'because I'm an old guy'
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 29, 2020 02:39 PM (DhaqP)
+++++++++++
I'm no politician, but even I know not to do that.

LOL... Remember when he was floating Stacy Abrams name as VP.. Yeah, a morbidly obese woman... That's the ticket

Posted by: It's me donna at January 29, 2020 02:43 PM (6XlcD)

667 Lord, save the stupid, weak Republicans from themselves.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 29, 2020 02:43 PM (ZS+GP)

668 664 Have you tried to be James Bond?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:37 PM (q80AH)

I have but somehow, failed

probably the blond hair
Posted by: REDACTED at January 29, 2020 02:43 PM (rpxSz)

==========

Bond is blond now!

You can make it work!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:43 PM (q80AH)

669 Schitt for Brains: RUSSIA!!!!

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:44 PM (vEIlU)

670 650 >>>(I was suspended for the exact same reason, one or two strikes before being permanently suspended from Twitter.)

I was suspended for joking with a friend that he was a "mongoloid trump supporter."

I can get unsuspended, but then I thought: Fuck Twitter in its gaping millennial a***ole.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (PbpT7)

Now, if you could just get your friend to admit he has some Mongol DNA? (which we all probably have?)

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 02:44 PM (NgKpN)

671 For you, Brother Cavil, now Brother TIm:

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 29, 2020 02:44 PM (d7Ww2)

672 611 Schiff is an idiot. A true idiot.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 02:39 PM (NVYyb)

he's Javert

where's a river when ya need it

Posted by: REDACTED at January 29, 2020 02:44 PM (rpxSz)

673 Jesus these questions are becoming increasingly boring.

That may be the point.

Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 29, 2020 02:44 PM (0keV9)

674 Well, "beans, beans, the magical legume" made for a tough rhyme scheme.

Butt tunes, butt tunes from the magic legume....

Nah, doesn't scan well

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:44 PM (KZzsI)

675 UCSB (UC State Beach) has better beaches than CalTech. And back then,
Pasadena was a pretty but dead suburban place (it got better).

Posted by: rhomboid at January 29, 2020 02:40 PM (El6T/)

===
I dated 2 guys from UCSB - "very good looking" surfer type must have been an admission requirement.

Posted by: LASue at January 29, 2020 02:44 PM (Ed8Zd)

676 Well, "beans, beans, the magical legume" made for a tough rhyme scheme.

----

pffffft

Beans beans the magigical legume
the more you eat, make that odious perfume.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 29, 2020 02:44 PM (8XRCm)

677 Hey all. Checking in. Psych helped clarify things. Priest is next.
Probably should have been my first step, say twenty-five years ago...I'm
a slow learner.

Posted by: Formerly Brother Cavil, call me Brother Tim at January 29, 2020 02:31 PM (CUU+W)

well of course you are in our prayers Brother. you are one of us...ok, maybe that last part is not what you want to hear now.

Posted by: The Book of Otters 3:15 at January 29, 2020 02:44 PM (hmgiv)

678 Where is Grump? Solid choice on The 100. Any other suggestions for riveting entertainment like that?

Posted by: Ahwoo Flu at January 29, 2020 02:44 PM (PoHZ6)

679 Oh, had to be UCSB. UCSD's been a comparatively serious/nerdy place since it was established, and more science-centric than UCSB. UCSB, I can confirm, had, um, a "party phase". Heard it from good sources.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 29, 2020 02:44 PM (El6T/)

680 Why doesn't Wajourass go strap himself to an IED. You know, since stereotypes are so funny, you Goat Fucker.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2020 02:44 PM (VpIIl)

681 Damn off Otters!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'if you can't laugh at yourself, make fun of oher people' at January 29, 2020 02:45 PM (hmgiv)

682
Ha!
TRUMP is pushing 'russian conspiracy
theories'?!?!?
Wut????
Lord help me.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2020 02:45 PM (ufFY8)

683 Schiff sees a cat and thinks, "I need to fill those with mouth noises."

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 29, 2020 02:45 PM (pw+jk)

684 667
Lord, save the stupid, weak Republicans from themselves.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 29, 2020 02:43 PM (ZS+GP)
Lord, while you are at it, save us from them.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed[/c] at January 29, 2020 02:45 PM (N39Ws)

685 I have but somehow, failed

probably the blond hair

Eh, didn't stop Roger Moore. Or Daniel Craig

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:45 PM (KZzsI)

686 587 I like tomato pie .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 29, 2020 02:37 PM (U9Qbt)

Meh. It's a gyp, like Pennsylvania Dutch chicken pot pie.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 29, 2020 02:45 PM (RD7QR)

687 You can make it work!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:43 PM (q80AH)

Blond, James Blond

Posted by: REDACTED at January 29, 2020 02:45 PM (rpxSz)

688

Philbin schooling Schitt for Brains again.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:45 PM (vEIlU)

689 Don't mess with my Toot Toot.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, at January 29, 2020 02:45 PM (Vy7tf)

690 576 -

Insanity is spending absurd amounts of time online arguing about the status of tomatoes.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 29, 2020 02:45 PM (D5FKZ)

691 I dated 2 guys from UCSB - "very good looking" surfer type must have been an admission requirement.
Posted by: LASue at January 29, 2020 02:44 PM (Ed8Zd)

I worked in Santa Barbara briefly after grad school. The city is old people and young women who are 9s and 10s.

I kind of regret leaving, but I hated California.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 29, 2020 02:45 PM (wCmLp)

692
You get the impression from Schiff & other House managers that they really think that if they just keep repeating ad nauseam (on top of last week's 23-hr filibuster) that Trump committed impeachable offenses that a crime will magically appear justifying their partisan impeachment

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 29, 2020 02:45 PM (BqBId)

693 Black-eyed peas are legumes, I think?

If so they're my favorite legume.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 02:45 PM (XN+hF)

694 505 423 If UFOs are real (which I think is ridiculous) they wouldn't be some kind of scientific expedition, they are dumbass kids doing donuts in the school parking lot.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:22 PM (KZzsI)

My theory is that they are Time Travelers from our own Future, come back for sightseeing excursions. This was backed up by some observations that they appeared to know what was about to happen before it happened - well if you're a time traveler, you can do that.

They are under strict orders NOT to interfere or interact, lest they change their own time line. In fact that one group that DID make a big public Interaction, at the Capitol Building, changed their own time line so much that they negated their own existence and instantly disappeared. And none of us remember it now because once their existence was negated, it never happened.

You can't Prove it's Not True!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 29, 2020 02:29 PM (Kpl3J)
------
Truth to power. I actually used that on a comment on my local news site on Monday. Area 51 is hiding the future us. Fight Me!!!!

Posted by: Groundhog at January 29, 2020 02:45 PM (VYwSh)

695 >> I just think these are optical effects.

When I was as kid, there was one street light, that when I would drive past it, it looked like it was swinging around really fast.

Hard to explain, but my perspective was backwards - it pointed to the left, but I thought it pointed to the right. So to compensate my mind made it move. (there are optical illusions that do this)

Well, I think a lot of UFO are reflections on window glass that your mind has all out of perspective.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 29, 2020 02:45 PM (LWu6U)

696 (I was suspended for the exact same reason, one or two strikes before being permanently suspended from Twitter.)
Posted by: CrustyB

Permanently suspended from Twitter? Just hanging from Twitter?

Sounds painful. Are they allowed to suspend you from Twitter? Permanently?

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at January 29, 2020 02:46 PM (vcOmj)

697 I got blocked by Rick Wilson on Twitter for always asking him why he was in Qatar so often.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at January 29, 2020 02:46 PM (C+We0)

698 685 I have but somehow, failed

probably the blond hair

Eh, didn't stop Roger Moore. Or Daniel Craig
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:45 PM (KZzsI)

==========

I'm through For Your Eyes Only, and I'm beginning to feel bad for Moore.

He had so many chances to make a great Bond film, and he never made it. The closest is The Spy Who Loved Me, which is good, but not even as good as Lazenby's one movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:46 PM (q80AH)

699 650 >>>(I was suspended for the exact same reason, one or two strikes before being permanently suspended from Twitter.)

I was suspended for joking with a friend that he was a "mongoloid trump supporter."

I can get unsuspended, but then I thought: Fuck Twitter in its gaping millennial a***ole.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (PbpT7)

So, why does Twitter hate mongoloids?

Isn't this the real question?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 29, 2020 02:46 PM (sy5kK)

700 >>
Schiff is an idiot. A true idiot.

A truly dazzling idiot, right?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2020 02:46 PM (bDqIh)

701
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,
be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May
God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly
host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits
who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Amen.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 29, 2020 02:44 PM (d7Ww2)

Excellent nurse. Fav prayer. Going to say it right now.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'if you can't laugh at yourself, make fun of oher people' at January 29, 2020 02:46 PM (hmgiv)

702 611
Schiff is an idiot. A true idiot.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 02:39 PM (NVYyb)
..........

My brother told me last Saturday that HE IS A PATRIOT!
I told him it was time to take the hILLRY sticker off his car.

Posted by: wth at January 29, 2020 02:46 PM (v0R5T)

703 671: our parish recites this every Sunday.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 29, 2020 02:46 PM (jWC3i)

704 I dated 2 guys from UCSB - "very good looking" surfer type must have been an admission requirement.

Posted by: LASue at January 29, 2020 02:44 PM (Ed8Zd)

At the same time? Whoa! Go little surfer girl!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 29, 2020 02:46 PM (q1Pj5)

705 648 Well, "beans, beans, the magical legume" made for a tough rhyme scheme.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (XN+hF)

Beans beans the magical legume
the more you eat
Away your friends zoom?

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 02:46 PM (NgKpN)

706 Ace and that twitter whore. I haven't forgotten.

Posted by: eleven at January 29, 2020 02:47 PM (QLPEO)

707 still believe schiff has a closet full of little boys somewhere. he is the prototype pedo.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 29, 2020 02:47 PM (KP5rU)

708 You can't Prove it's Not True!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 29, 2020 02:29 PM (Kpl3J)

Tell me about it. John Titor was sent to try and fix the damage and, well....

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at January 29, 2020 02:47 PM (C+We0)

709 Farage's exit speech at the EU shows not all the English have had their balls cut off.

Posted by: rammajamma at January 29, 2020 02:47 PM (PQRcz)

710 Sean Davis @seanmdav
3m
It's obvious that Schumer and House Dems colluded to turn the Q&A into a scripted TV show, rather than an opportunity for all senators to genuinely seek answers to their questions. I don't imagine that tactic will play well among moderate GOP senators

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 29, 2020 02:47 PM (BqBId)

711 Schiff is an idiot. A true idiot.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 02:39 PM (NVYyb)
..........

Bugeyes from Burbank

Posted by: wth at January 29, 2020 02:47 PM (v0R5T)

712
cow rectums.

*points towards Washington DC.*

That's where we Earflings keep our supply. Take them all, we've been trying to get rid of them for a while now.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy. #DemocratsSuck at January 29, 2020 02:47 PM (HaL55)

713 >>>
Professions also have this by having their own 'language'. Their own terms, often for simple things.

Ran into this time and time again as an IT guy. I had to get through their verbiage to understand the simple thing they wanted.

...

Well, I think the specialized and exact jargon of technical fields is necessary.

But there is a Cargo Cult mentality, when people who are not experts in that field, who are not speaking rigorously about that field, just pepper in barely-understood jargon to sound "smart.'

And of course some very non-rigorous, non-technical fields just invent silly terminology to sound rigorous and "scientific."

See the Sokal Hoax, of course.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:47 PM (PbpT7)

714 They are under strict orders NOT to interfere or interact, lest they change their own time line. In fact that one group that DID make a big public Interaction, at the Capitol Building, changed their own time line so much that they negated their own existence and instantly disappeared. And none of us remember it now because once their existence was negated, it never happened.

You can't Prove it's Not True!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 29, 2020 02:29 PM (Kpl3J)

That's the shit that gave me headaches back in Quantum Mechanics class.

Posted by: Roy at January 29, 2020 02:47 PM (SUJyY)

715 Toma-to is a fruit

Tomah-to is a vegetable

Google it

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 29, 2020 02:47 PM (U9Qbt)

716 705 648 Well, "beans, beans, the magical legume" made for a tough rhyme scheme.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (XN+hF)

Beans beans the magical legume
the more you eat
Away your friends zoom?

Or...Your butt goes boom?

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2020 02:47 PM (XN+hF)

717 Twitter Ace was awesome in a very specific Ace way that really can't be replicated, but it's over now and I'm glad because Twitter is a piece of shit.

Posted by: ... at January 29, 2020 02:47 PM (aL0Hq)

718

Does Rick know that ZERO percent of students who leave Baltimore high schools...that ALL of the schools, can't read or do math.

That's the Democrat base Rick, you jagoff.

He calls Trump supporters rubes, but what about all those idiots who vote Democrat.

Posted by: Rev. Dr. E Buzz Miller, Lesbian at January 29, 2020 02:47 PM (0tFNp)

719 nurse ratched, thank you for that beautiful prayer. It's going in the regular rotation....specifically concerning our president.

Posted by: vivi at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (11H2y)

720 @seanmdav 2 minutes ago

It's obvious that Schumer and House Dems colluded to turn the Q&A into a scripted TV show, rather than an opportunity for all senators to genuinely seek answers to their questions. I don't imagine that tactic will play well among moderate GOP senators.

====

I'm betting the house mgrs. wrote the questions and handed them out to the Dem senators.

Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (cF8AT)

721 I had a girlfriend who took me to a spot in the car, where if you took it out of gear the car would start to roll in the direction that seemed up hill from the appearance. It was kind of neat. She thought it was all sorts of trippy and magical and amazing. She also thought ghosts were totally real and took me on a ghost tour of Charleston. Which was neat historically but silly. I must have looked excessively skeptical because the tour guide kept looking at me when he mentioned skeptics.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (KZzsI)

722 Sean Davis:
Washington Post fact-checker insinuates, without any evidence whatsoever, that the top National Security Council lawyer tasked with vetting records is lying about the presence of classified top secret information in Bolton's book. Incredible.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (dNzKv)

723 Philbin just put the dagger into witnesses being called.

This trial wraps up Friday.

Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (0keV9)

724 So traitor John Bolton called Democrat Rep. Engel after he was fired and told him to look into Yovanovitch.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2020 02:04 PM (wiXsO)

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Democrats, again, admit the president committed no "statutory crime."

How are we losing to these people??

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (byl2g)

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"We have met the enemy and it is us."

Posted by: Undocumented at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (5NMZN)

725 Posted by: Inspector Kemp at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (+DS2f)

Here is an interesting thing to consider with regards to IQ. IQ is not an absolute measure but is scaled to cohort (usually your age-group, I think.) In practice, the score on the same test if not normalized for cohort would show that a ten year old is something like 1/2 the IQ of a 20 year old or something close to this. (I think my guess is off, but I'm too lazy to check the figures.)
In any case, what this means is people get smarter as they get older, as stories concerning wisdom and age suggest. This also suggests that people with a higher 'g' (the thing that IQ is supposed to correlate to) are ultimately just people who learn faster, and are thus more competent.

If you're smart enough to grasp this (and it doesn't take a genius--) you can learn to apply yourself to things and substitute 'g' for effort in a whole swath of cases. In any case, most geniuses who are successful will tell you it's mostly effort. (I suspect their effort goes further than mine, but how can the clay complain.)

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (Eg9+v)

726 699 650 I was suspended for joking with a friend that he was a "mongoloid trump supporter."

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:42 PM (PbpT7)

So, why does Twitter hate mongoloids?

Isn't this the real question?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 29, 2020 02:46 PM (sy5kK)

Maybe Twitter doesn't like "Trump" or "Trump supporter."

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (ghFVE)

727 I worked in Santa Barbara briefly after grad school. The city is old people and young women who are 9s and 10s.

I kind of regret leaving, but I hated California.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 29, 2020 02:45 PM (wCmLp)

===
I rate this as mostly true.
My mom would say "The newlywed and nearly dead."

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (pw+jk)

728 686 Meh. It's a gyp, like Pennsylvania Dutch chicken pot pie.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 29, 2020 02:45 PM (RD7QR)

You take that back, you dirty pea-eater.

Posted by: Allie at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (UnA8+)

729 581
There's a phenomenon called "Rods," which were previously thought to
maybe be UFOs. People take cellphone video, and then later, they see
these long dark gray "rods" -- very long, very thin -- whipping through
the atmosphere at impossible speeds.

Well, it turns out they're just bugs. They're rods because they're
moving too fast for the video to record them as point-objects. Instead,
they're motion blurred into a rod.

the awesomest rods are birds moving in about the same direction as the shutter at almost shutter speed. they look like hotdogs moving by means of undulating sheets attached to their sides.

Posted by: Anachronda at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (sGtp+)

730 Schiff is the very real world caricature that people have of slimy lawyering. He reminds me of the Billy Flynn lawyer in the musical Chicago -- a great theatric role--but then again Jerry Orbach was not trying to impeach the president.

Posted by: corn and beans at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (tkNkP)

731 Patrick Philbin makes a great case for repetitive impeachments. It stops the rest of their legislating cold.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (NVYyb)

732 Bette Miller who has called Republican voters bigots is urging supporters of President Trump to abandon the Republican Party with the hashtag #Regrexit.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (wiXsO)

733 What is a dazzling idiot like you doing in such an august setting like this?

Posted by: Waco Kid Gene Wilder To Sheriff Schiff at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (ufFY8)

734 At your local grocery one finds canned tomatoes on the fruit isle.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (ZS+GP)

735 I'm betting the house mgrs. wrote the questions and handed them out to the Dem senators.

Well, that would explain the "spontaneous" slide shows

Posted by: It's me donna at January 29, 2020 02:49 PM (6XlcD)

736 She also thought ghosts were totally real and took me on a ghost tour of Charleston. Which was neat historically but silly. I must have looked excessively skeptical because the tour guide kept looking at me when he mentioned skeptics.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (KZzsI)

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I did one of those.

The only walking tour I've taken in this city the seven years I've lived here. It was amusing.

The carriage rides are better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:49 PM (q80AH)

737 Schiff does have the look of a pedo. You just know he has a footlocker stuffed full of clown suits and bondage gear.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2020 02:49 PM (lC04h)

738 Beans beans the magical legume
the more you eat
Away your friends zoom?

The more you exhume? The more you perfume? The bigger butt-flume?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:49 PM (KZzsI)

739 I dated 2 guys from UCSB - "very good looking" surfer type must have been an admission requirement.

Posted by: LASue at January 29, 2020 02:44 PM (Ed8Zd)
.........

Dude. Totally.

Posted by: wth at January 29, 2020 02:49 PM (v0R5T)

740 514 505
They are under strict orders NOT to interfere or interact, lest they change their own time line. In fact that one group that DID make a big public Interaction, at the Capitol Building, changed their own time line so much that they negated their own existence and instantly disappeared. And none of us remember it now because once their existence was negated, it never happened.

You can't Prove it's Not True!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 29, 2020 02:29 PM (Kpl3J)

===========

If time travel existed, any rules around it would get broken and paradoxes would extinguish all life in the universe.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:30 PM (q80AH)

That was one of my favorite X-Files episodes. A man travels back in time to kill himself, and his colleagues who invented time travel in the first place. Time travel made unbearable chaos the norm in the future, if it could even be called "the future" anymore.

Posted by: josephistan at January 29, 2020 02:49 PM (Izzlo)

741 Prune isn't really a vegetable. Cabbage is a vegetable.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 29, 2020 02:49 PM (aKsyK)

742 So Bolton's book was rejected for publication by the NSC.... 3 days before the NYT leak......

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at January 29, 2020 02:49 PM (jjaLl)

743 for example, if you say "intent" in law, well, that is a specific term of art in law with a meaning similar to the common definition, but which evokes an entire body of caselaw defining it.

Similarly, "res ipsa loquitor" is not just a latin buzz-phrase, but invokes a whole concept in tort law (we don't have to prove the linkage between the negligence and the injury-- the thing speaks for itself) with defined (vaguely, but still) parameters and limitations.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:49 PM (PbpT7)

744 Joe Concha @JoeConchaTV
GOP senators believe they have the votes to block witnesses | TheHill

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 29, 2020 02:49 PM (BqBId)

745 probably the blond hair

Eh, didn't stop Roger Moore. Or Daniel Craig
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:45 PM (KZzsI)

I'm a Texas Blond, think Carolyn Jones blond

not a limey dishwater blond

Posted by: REDACTED at January 29, 2020 02:49 PM (rpxSz)

746 723 Philbin just put the dagger into witnesses being called.

This trial wraps up Friday.
Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (0keV9)

Hope so!

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:50 PM (ghFVE)

747 740
That was one of my favorite X-Files episodes. A man travels back in time to kill himself, and his colleagues who invented time travel in the first place. Time travel made unbearable chaos the norm in the future, if it could even be called "the future" anymore.
Posted by: josephistan at January 29, 2020 02:49 PM (Izzlo)

===========

Posit:

Time travel exists, and Hitler and the rise of the Third Reich was the best outcome for Europe in the middle of the 20th century.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:50 PM (q80AH)

748 >>>the awesomest rods are birds moving in about the same direction as the shutter at almost shutter speed. they look like hotdogs moving by means of undulating sheets attached to their sides.

oh, I think I've seen those!

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:50 PM (PbpT7)

749 St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,
be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May
God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly
host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits
who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Amen.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 29, 2020 02:44 PM (d7Ww2)

Excellent nurse. Fav prayer. Going to say it right now.
====
Look up the backstory to that prayer. Chilling.

Posted by: Pope Leo XIII at January 29, 2020 02:50 PM (cs2Or)

750

Sean Davis @seanmdav
3m

It's obvious that Schumer and House Dems colluded to turn the QA into a scripted TV show, rather than an opportunity for all senators to genuinely seek answers to their questions. I don't imagine that tactic will play well among moderate GOP senators
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 29, 2020 02:47 PM (Bq

FFS it gnaws on me when people are halfway there.

Hint: "Moderate GOP senators" are part of the script!!!

Posted by: ... at January 29, 2020 02:50 PM (aL0Hq)

751 742 So Bolton's book was rejected for publication by the NSC.... 3 days before the NYT leak......

I didn't know it was before the leak...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 29, 2020 02:50 PM (6XlcD)

752 I though Twitter was demanding ace dox himself to get back on? I would expect this tbh.

Posted by: Ahwoo Flu at January 29, 2020 02:50 PM (PoHZ6)

753 @seandavis

Senate staff and House staff have definitely coordinated the Q&A. It's not a coincidence, it's a plan. Ask them

Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2020 02:50 PM (VpIIl)

754 589 Cory Gardner says he'll vote against witnesses.

https://tinyurl.com/v7q4tzr
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (sWM8x)

When does that vote take place. Because I expect them to release another bull shit phony bombshell that will make all the RINOs suddenly decide to call witnesses. It will be completely nothing and will wind up finding out that the Dems knew about it when Schiff was holding his kangaroo court but it will be the fig leaf of cover they want to allow this to drag out.

Their Kavanaugh strategy.

Posted by: Buzzion at January 29, 2020 02:51 PM (G2zl5)

755 720 @seanmdav 2 minutes ago

It's obvious that Schumer and House Dems colluded to turn the Q&A into a scripted TV show, rather than an opportunity for all senators to genuinely seek answers to their questions. I don't imagine that tactic will play well among moderate GOP senators.

====

I'm betting the house mgrs. wrote the questions and handed them out to the Dem senators.

Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (cF8AT)

And the Repubs should ask shift that exact question.

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 02:51 PM (NgKpN)

756 Patrick Philbin makes a great case for repetitive impeachments. It stops the rest of their legislating cold.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (NVYyb)

one of the Dems objectives

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:51 PM (vEIlU)

757 94 Romney tweeted his questions for the trial:

https://bit.ly/36Ekd4N
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Question One: Who shall be my lucky Pierre?
Posted by: Mitt Rombley at January 29, 2020 01:55 PM (KB/FD)
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https://twitter.com/JeffElder/status/1222596047878283265/photo/1

Posted by: Groundhog at January 29, 2020 02:51 PM (VYwSh)

758 OT, but it seems a lot of advertisers on CNN seem to appeal more to people without college degrees, you know, the lumpenproletariat.

Ace Hardware, Behr Paints, McDonalds and Michelob to name a few.

Posted by: vivi at January 29, 2020 02:51 PM (11H2y)

759 741 Prune isn't really a vegetable. Cabbage is a vegetable.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 29, 2020 02:49 PM (aKsyK)

Vegetables dream of responding to youuuuuu...

Posted by: Allie at January 29, 2020 02:51 PM (UnA8+)

760 754 When does that vote take place. Because I expect them to release another bull shit phony bombshell that will make all the RINOs suddenly decide to call witnesses. It will be completely nothing and will wind up finding out that the Dems knew about it when Schiff was holding his kangaroo court but it will be the fig leaf of cover they want to allow this to drag out.

Their Kavanaugh strategy.
Posted by: Buzzion at January 29, 2020 02:51 PM (G2zl5)

========

Friday, I believe.

And if they vote against witnesses, they can vote on acquittal immediately afterwards.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:51 PM (q80AH)

761 Bolton, Gitmo, some assembly required.

Posted by: rammajamma at January 29, 2020 02:51 PM (PQRcz)

762
And the Repubs should ask shift that exact question.

That's what I was gonna say.. Ask them

Posted by: It's me donna at January 29, 2020 02:51 PM (6XlcD)

763 721
I had a girlfriend who took me to a spot in the car, where if you took
it out of gear the car would start to roll in the direction that seemed
up hill from the appearance. It was kind of neat. She thought it was
all sorts of trippy and magical and amazing. She also thought ghosts
were totally real and took me on a ghost tour of Charleston. Which was
neat historically but silly. I must have looked excessively skeptical
because the tour guide kept looking at me when he mentioned skeptics.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (KZzsI)

Worst Penthouse Forum letter ever.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 29, 2020 02:52 PM (1CjJc)

764 Posit:

Time travel exists, and Hitler and the rise of the Third Reich was the best outcome for Europe in the middle of the 20th century.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:50 PM (q80AH)
+++++++++++
If a disarmed, poor, socialist, superstate-bound culture in permanent demographic decline and under enthusiastic (enthusiastically-enabled) invasion by barbarians is the best possible outcome, what the hell were the other ones?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2020 02:52 PM (I2dne)

765 House managers and this farce that Schumer created has pissed off a lot of the wrong GOP senators.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2020 02:52 PM (VpIIl)

766 Santa Barbara (like most of SoCal) was better the further you go back, mostly because of crowding/real estate inflation. Oh - and the civic collapse/one party state/widespread idiocy on all matters.

It hasn't grown that much, even after the water hook-up, but real estate has gone Bay Area crazy of course.

Water's a bit cooler up there but the area overall retains a special quiet kind of beauty.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 29, 2020 02:52 PM (El6T/)

767 A tomato walks into a redneck bar. The bartender says ' we don't allow fruits in here' . The tomato says ' there's no possible way you could have known that. You're a redneck rube'

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 29, 2020 02:52 PM (U9Qbt)

768 I rate this as mostly true.
My mom would say "The newlywed and nearly dead."
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (pw+jk)

If you're 25, a good paying job in a seaside town, travelling all over the world on the government's dime... it's awesome and worth paying $2300 a month for a studio apartment.

When you're 35... not so much.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 29, 2020 02:52 PM (wCmLp)

769 Brother Tim, I'm glad to hear you're getting the help you need. I am most sorry you're going through such a hard time right now. We're all here for you.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 29, 2020 02:52 PM (Js/7v)

770 Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:47 PM (PbpT7)

This is one thing I try to emphasize to people. When you're trying to converse with those who aren't part of the field, you have to translate. You want to put things in common speech, you're not going to initiate them into the jargon.

This also helps keep the jargon from spilling off into common speech and causing stupidity, especially the stupidity of the person who can spill off a bunch of technical jargon but has no idea what they really mean. With chemistry, biology, neuroscience, psychology, this has been a huge problem.

But let's face it, people are always trying to mogg other people with language. I suspect if you can't simply out-reason them, you can just use brute force.

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 29, 2020 02:52 PM (Eg9+v)

771 Hotair is floating a story about a memo stopping Bolton book. Note that the letter is dated 23 jan. Would mean whoever leaked did so after the stop request was sent...

Posted by: Brad at January 29, 2020 02:52 PM (oQLDZ)

772 The DNC wrote the questions and produced the video answers.

Posted by: ... at January 29, 2020 02:52 PM (aL0Hq)

773 >>Bette Miller who has called Republican voters bigots is urging
supporters of President Trump to abandon the Republican Party with the
hashtag #Regrexit.

Oh, that'll do it!
Which reminds me: I bet she's part of that super-secret Hollywood-Media-#Resistance twitter chat group, The Decency Collective (dun dun duuuuuun!)

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2020 02:52 PM (bDqIh)

774 they look like hotdogs moving by means of undulating sheets attached to their sides.

"yes... video artifacts... that's it"
--Nyarlothotep

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:52 PM (KZzsI)

775 >>>
So, why does Twitter hate mongoloids?

Isn't this the real question?

I was imitating Tom Nichols' "elitist" rants, without naming him. It has always been mu suspicion that that fat rat reported me.

Of course, it could have been some kind of automated search for forbidden words.

But I blame Fattie.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:52 PM (PbpT7)

776 Lee Harvey Oswald was the 17th Doctor.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at January 29, 2020 02:53 PM (C+We0)

777 764 Posit:

Time travel exists, and Hitler and the rise of the Third Reich was the best outcome for Europe in the middle of the 20th century.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:50 PM (q80AH)
+++++++++++
If a disarmed, poor, socialist, superstate-bound culture in permanent demographic decline and under enthusiastic (enthusiastically-enabled) invasion by barbarians is the best possible outcome, what the hell were the other ones?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2020 02:52 PM (I2dne)

=========

The Soviet Union taking all of Western Europe?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:53 PM (q80AH)

778 Joe Concha @JoeConchaTV
GOP senators believe they have the votes to block witnesses | TheHill
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 29, 2020 02:49 PM (BqBId)

yay

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:53 PM (vEIlU)

779 How are we losing to these people??

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (byl2g)

***************
The MSM propaganda works on a lot of people.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2020 02:53 PM (wiXsO)

780 The GOP is moderate to center left at this point.

Posted by: Ahwoo Flu at January 29, 2020 02:53 PM (PoHZ6)

781 When the flyover you mock
and your breath smells of cock
that's a Le Mon

Posted by: Priapism at January 29, 2020 02:53 PM (2cfUo)

782 Michelob is a prole beer? Damn, have to give up my Natty Light.

Posted by: rammajamma at January 29, 2020 02:53 PM (PQRcz)

783 773 >>Bette Miller who has called Republican voters bigots is urging
supporters of President Trump to abandon the Republican Party with the
hashtag #Regrexit.

Bette Midler?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 29, 2020 02:53 PM (6XlcD)

784 If time travel existed, any rules around it would get broken and paradoxes would extinguish all life in the universe.
====
Okay drive through jokes aside.

And because time travel was invented here on Earth, not long ago, that is why I am really here. I am chasing off criminals who are trying to meddle with Earth. Earth is under full quarantine.

Posted by: Zardock the devourer at January 29, 2020 02:53 PM (cs2Or)

785 >>>But let's face it, people are always trying to mogg other people with language

mogg? new slang to me.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:53 PM (PbpT7)

786 Santa Barbara (like most of SoCal) was better the further you go back, mostly because of crowding/real estate inflation. Oh - and the civic collapse/one party state/widespread idiocy on all matters.

It hasn't grown that much, even after the water hook-up, but real estate has gone Bay Area crazy of course.

Water's a bit cooler up there but the area overall retains a special quiet kind of beauty.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 29, 2020 02:52 PM (El6T/)

The company I worked for was a small consulting firm who's managers founded it thirty years ago. I understand why they didn't leave, there was just no way I could afford to settle there permanently.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 29, 2020 02:53 PM (wCmLp)

787 The Soviet Union taking all of Western Europe?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:53 PM (q80AH)
+++++++++++
The EU is doing that job just fine.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2020 02:53 PM (I2dne)

788 754 589 Cory Gardner says he'll vote against witnesses.

https://tinyurl.com/v7q4tzr
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (sWM8x)
--------

Good, one less to worry about. how many wobblers are left? 3 or 4.

Posted by: WisRich at January 29, 2020 02:54 PM (G0vdT)

789 784 If time travel existed, any rules around it would get broken and paradoxes would extinguish all life in the universe.
====
Okay drive through jokes aside.

And because time travel was invented here on Earth, not long ago, that is why I am really here. I am chasing off criminals who are trying to meddle with Earth. Earth is under full quarantine.
Posted by: Zardock the devourer at January 29, 2020 02:53 PM (cs2Or)

=========

Are you the newest incarnation of the Doctor?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:54 PM (q80AH)

790 Okay drive through jokes aside.

And because time travel was invented here on Earth, not long ago, that is why I am really here. I am chasing off criminals who are trying to meddle with Earth. Earth is under full quarantine.
Posted by: Zardock the devourer at January 29, 2020 02:53 PM (cs2Or)
+++++++++++
So you're on a march through Meddle Earth to defend it from dark powers?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2020 02:54 PM (I2dne)

791 779 How are we losing to these people??

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (byl2g)

***************
The MSM propaganda works on a lot of people.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2020 02:53 PM (wiXsO)

And bias confirmation.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:54 PM (ghFVE)

792 As someone who is desperately looking for a job (I was just turned down for a receptionist job because I was "overqualified" and they thought I'd be bored, but I'm not landing jobs I'm qualified for either), it is really rubbing me the wrong way today that these idiots are making tons of money for being idiots.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at January 29, 2020 02:54 PM (d6Ksn)

793 This is one thing I try to emphasize to people. When you're trying to converse with those who aren't part of the field, you have to translate. You want to put things in common speech, you're not going to initiate them into the jargon.

On the topic of intelligence, this is one very good test. CS Lewis insisted upon it. A truly great mind can make complex, difficult concepts understandable for the average and subnormal intellect. If you cannot communicate without your trade jargon and special language, your vocabulary and intelligence, while possibly high, is not as great as you might imagine.

Worst Penthouse Forum letter ever.

I have lived a very, very boring life. I read literary bios sometimes and there's no way anyone would write one about me. They'd start researching then fall asleep.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:55 PM (KZzsI)

794 @JRubinBlogger

I would love to see the bubble over Roberts' head. " Holy cow, these people think the president is king. I'm not giving them an inch next time they show up with some cock and pull exec power argument. " Or something like that

Or something like that?

Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2020 02:55 PM (cF8AT)

795 792 As someone who is desperately looking for a job (I was just turned down for a receptionist job because I was "overqualified" and they thought I'd be bored, but I'm not landing jobs I'm qualified for either), it is really rubbing me the wrong way today that these idiots are making tons of money for being idiots.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at January 29, 2020 02:54 PM (d6Ksn)

========

Run for Congress!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:55 PM (q80AH)

796 728 686 Meh. It's a gyp, like Pennsylvania Dutch chicken pot pie.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 29, 2020 02:45 PM (RD7QR)

You take that back, you dirty pea-eater.
Posted by: Allie at January 29, 2020 02:48 PM (UnA8+)

I was eating with my soon-to-be-ex wife the first time I was served Mennonite chicken pot pie. I was whispering loudly to her "WHERE'S THE CRUST? THERE'S NO FREAKIN' CRUST!" and she was giving rolling her eyes.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 29, 2020 02:55 PM (RD7QR)

797 So you're on a march through Meddle Earth to defend it from dark powers?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2020 02:54 PM (I2dne)

Meddle Earth, is that where the Dark Lord, is a Mother in Law?

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 02:55 PM (NgKpN)

798 Question One: Who shall be my lucky Pierre?

Posted by: Mitt Rombley at January 29, 2020 01:55 PM (KB/FD)

===
Pro Tip: If you don't know who is the Lucky Pierre, you are the lucky Pierre.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 29, 2020 02:55 PM (pw+jk)

799 710 Sean Davis @seanmdav
3m
It's obvious that Schumer and House Dems colluded to turn the Q&A into a scripted TV show, rather than an opportunity for all senators to genuinely seek answers to their questions. I don't imagine that tactic will play well among moderate GOP senators
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 29, 2020 02:47 PM (BqBId)

Maybe that's why this has all seemed so boring.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:56 PM (ghFVE)

800 Bette Midler?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 29, 2020 02:53 PM (6XlcD)
******
Yep.
Autocorrect is not my friend.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2020 02:56 PM (wiXsO)

801 IQ, as I understand it, is as much a measure of processing speed and bandwidth as anything else. That's a pretty good substitute for intelligence.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 29, 2020 02:56 PM (RD7QR)

802 Posit:

Time travel exists, and Hitler and the rise of the Third Reich was the best outcome for Europe in the middle of the 20th century.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill

Did you ever read "The Big Time" by Fritz Leiber?

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at January 29, 2020 02:56 PM (vcOmj)

803 794 @JRubinBlogger

I would love to see the bubble over Roberts' head. " Holy cow, these people think the president is king. I'm not giving them an inch next time they show up with some cock and pull exec power argument. " Or something like that

Or something like that?
Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2020 02:55 PM (cF8AT)

=========

"These people think the president has full authority over American foreign policy as it says in the Constitution instead of the administrative state! What dummies!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:56 PM (q80AH)

804 If time travel exists, then the best explanation for Hillary Clinton is that our future is inhabited by people with a very sick sense of humor.

Posted by: Roy at January 29, 2020 02:56 PM (SUJyY)

805 Hey all. Checking in. Psych helped clarify things. Priest is next. Probably should have been my first step, say twenty-five years ago...I'm a slow learner.

And time to change the nic. I ought to have stepped away from the full mask before now, but...well, here it is.
Posted by: Formerly Brother Cavil, call me Brother Tim at January 29, 2020 02:31 PM (CUU+W)

hugs

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:56 PM (vEIlU)

806 792 As someone who is desperately looking for a job (I was just turned down for a receptionist job because I was "overqualified" and they thought I'd be bored, but I'm not landing jobs I'm qualified for either), it is really rubbing me the wrong way today that these idiots are making tons of money for being idiots.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at January 29, 2020 02:54 PM (d6Ksn)

I'm right there with you.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 29, 2020 02:56 PM (Js/7v)

807 794 @JRubinBlogger

Okay.. That settles it... The woman is nuts

Posted by: It's me donna at January 29, 2020 02:56 PM (6XlcD)

808 793 On the topic of intelligence, this is one very good test. CS Lewis insisted upon it. A truly great mind can make complex, difficult concepts understandable for the average and subnormal intellect. If you cannot communicate without your trade jargon and special language, your vocabulary and intelligence, while possibly high, is not as great as you might imagine.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:55 PM (KZzsI)

I try to tell people this, and a lot of them just tell me I'm full of shit.

I think they're just too lazy to want to explain things.

Posted by: Allie at January 29, 2020 02:56 PM (UnA8+)

809 We need more Sean Davises

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 29, 2020 02:56 PM (dNzKv)

810 My time machine broke.

What's your excuse?

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 29, 2020 02:56 PM (Tu54I)

811 802 Posit:

Time travel exists, and Hitler and the rise of the Third Reich was the best outcome for Europe in the middle of the 20th century.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill

Did you ever read "The Big Time" by Fritz Leiber?
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at January 29, 2020 02:56 PM (vcOmj)

==========

No, but I did play plenty of Command and Conquer Red Alert when I was younger.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:56 PM (q80AH)

812 Question One: Who shall be my lucky Pierre?

Posted by: Mitt Rombley at January 29, 2020 01:55 PM (KB/FD)
++++++++++++
If you organize a large enough group and orient yourselves in a circle, you can *all* be Lucky Pierre, Mitt.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2020 02:57 PM (I2dne)

813 Time travel exists, and Hitler and the rise of the Third Reich was the best outcome for Europe in the middle of the 20th century.

Either that, or it was part of a great compromise.

OK we'll let you have the holocaust but that Lovecraftian takeover of reality in which insanity blasts reason and truth out of existence is right out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:57 PM (KZzsI)

814 One hour until Sizzler!

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at January 29, 2020 02:57 PM (LxhKk)

815 >I have lived a very, very boring life. I read
literary bios sometimes and there's no way anyone would write one about
me. They'd start researching then fall asleep.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:55 PM (KZzsI)

You know, this is very interesting to me. I was just....um....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Posted by: Muad'dib at January 29, 2020 02:57 PM (sjdRT)

816

Democrats failed today. At least so far. It's a joke It's disjointed as hard as they tried to attack certain aspects of the trial or topics.

It feels disjointed and out of context.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:57 PM (vEIlU)

817 If time travel existed, any rules around it would get broken and paradoxes would extinguish all life in the universe.
====
Okay drive through jokes aside.

And because time travel was invented here on Earth, not long ago, that is why I am really here. I am chasing off criminals who are trying to meddle with Earth. Earth is under full quarantine.
Posted by: Zardock the devourer at January 29, 2020 02:53 PM (cs2Or)

=========

Are you the newest incarnation of the Doctor?
=====
No. But you people can not keep anything secret. All it takes is one cocktail party and the next thing you know there's a script writer flogging an idea around. . . so annoying.

Posted by: Zardock the devourer at January 29, 2020 02:57 PM (cs2Or)

818 When you pee in the filling tank, it doesn't count as an upper decker.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 29, 2020 02:57 PM (oLvxv)

819 Geez, when will they break? I need to run out.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:57 PM (vEIlU)

820 A tomato walks into a redneck bar. The bartender says ' we don't allow fruits in here' . The tomato says ' there's no possible way you could have known that. You're a redneck rube'
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 29, 2020 02:52 PM (U9Qbt)
...........

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH *sucks air*
BWAHHAHAHAHAHA

Posted by: Don Lemon with masking tape on his forehead at January 29, 2020 02:58 PM (v0R5T)

821 817
Are you the newest incarnation of the Doctor?
=====
No. But you people can not keep anything secret. All it takes is one cocktail party and the next thing you know there's a script writer flogging an idea around. . . so annoying.
Posted by: Zardock the devourer at January 29, 2020 02:57 PM (cs2Or)

==========

Wait...so you're Paul from the movie Paul?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:58 PM (q80AH)

822 Interesting time travel fact: chicken cordon bleu only exists in the past. If you try to make it, time administrators sub out your ingredients for the real thing while they're in the oven. Due to an early time travel accident and resulting paradoxes, it's impossible to make cordon bleu in the present. That's why Hitler never gets killed. Administrators are busy with operation cordon bleu so that no one in the present is the wiser about time travel.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2020 02:58 PM (lC04h)

823 When I was staying with a girl in Britain she said "I have to see if my moggy likes you".

I thought it was a sexual thing or something. Turns out that's another one of their words for cat.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at January 29, 2020 02:58 PM (nD9Hu)

824 >>>CS Lewis insisted upon it. A truly great mind can make complex, difficult concepts understandable for the average and subnormal intellect. If you cannot communicate without your trade jargon and special language, your vocabulary and intelligence, while possibly high, is not as great as you might imagine.

yeah, I taught a lot through college and after -- SATs, LSATs, MCATs, GMATs -- and I did come to realize that there was a difference between knowing how to do something and knowing it so thoroughly that you can explain HOW to do it to people who don't know.

I mean, *intuition* helps get you there if you kind of know what you're doing, BUT YOU CAN'T TEACH INTUITION. You have to teach a specific algorithm.

And that algorithm is boring, and hard to teach because anything algorithmic is boring.

But you can't teach intuition.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:58 PM (PbpT7)

825 Watching Schiff reminds me of watching a high school mock UN.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at January 29, 2020 02:58 PM (C+We0)

826 792 As someone who is desperately looking for a job (I was just turned down for a receptionist job because I was "overqualified" and they thought I'd be bored, but I'm not landing jobs I'm qualified for either)
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at January 29, 2020 02:54 PM (d6Ksn)

I'm sorry.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 02:58 PM (ghFVE)

827 Wow.. This is a marathon thread... What was the subject again?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 29, 2020 02:58 PM (6XlcD)

828 @117

We are losing to these people because they effectively control or were instrumental in instituting most of what we regard as the political reality we live under.

The Donks controlled all the levers in congress for nearly 60 years an held the Presidency for over half that time.

The entirety of our government and institutions are organized to advance and implement their agenda not ours.

Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 29, 2020 02:58 PM (0keV9)

829 Hollywood is fucked. China just shut down most of the theaters.

Mr. metokur aka mr anti bully is has been a great follow to track the sniffles.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MisterAntiBully

Posted by: Ahwoo Flu at January 29, 2020 02:58 PM (PoHZ6)

830 >>And bias confirmation.

And we aren't losing.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2020 02:58 PM (ZLI7S)

831 On the topic of intelligence, this is one very good test. CS Lewis insisted upon it. A truly great mind can make complex, difficult concepts understandable for the average and subnormal intellect. If you cannot communicate without your trade jargon and special language, your vocabulary and intelligence, while possibly high, is not as great as you might imagine.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:55 PM (KZzsI)
++++++++++
It's an interview question where I work. My company works with technology that is generally well understood industrially but is arcane and unknown in general.

We ask candidates. "Pretend I am a stranger from a different industry. Explain what we do."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2020 02:59 PM (I2dne)

832 822 Interesting time travel fact: chicken cordon bleu only exists in the past. If you try to make it, time administrators sub out your ingredients for the real thing while they're in the oven. Due to an early time travel accident and resulting paradoxes, it's impossible to make cordon bleu in the present. That's why Hitler never gets killed. Administrators are busy with operation cordon bleu so that no one in the present is the wiser about time travel.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2020 02:58 PM (lC04h)

======

This sounds like the most realistic handling of time travel by a bureaucracy ever conceived.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:59 PM (q80AH)

833 785
>>>But let's face it, people are always trying to mogg other people with language

mogg? new slang to me.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 02:53 PM (PbpT7)

My spelling is probably wrong, like spelling doxx with two x's. It means to overwhelm someone. It gets confused in my mind with Rees-Mogg, the brit who moggs everyone with his class.

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 29, 2020 02:59 PM (Eg9+v)

834 >>> Life, not only in the U.S., but worldwide, would immediately improve. Object lessons serve a purpose.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.

I never understood the positive side of the ending of Tom Clancy's "Debt of Honor" (Granted, I was a skull of mush when I was reading it). Yeah, I totally get it now.

Posted by: 6to4to3 at January 29, 2020 02:59 PM (ilTjN)

835 779 How are we losing to these people??

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 29, 2020 01:57 PM (byl2g)

I live MA, Richard Neal's district

As a group, I have never lived around such stupid people as these folks

and don't even get me started on how fugly they are

If I put on a dress, I would be Ms. Berkshire County

Posted by: REDACTED at January 29, 2020 02:59 PM (rpxSz)

836 Here's what I don't get about leaks. Why aren't leaks involving classified information assumed to be lies, after all they are by their nature unverifiable and often times leaked by lying sacks of shit.

Posted by: Pliney at January 29, 2020 02:59 PM (nzKWW)

837 Worst Penthouse Forum letter ever.

I have lived a very, very boring life. I read literary bios
sometimes and there's no way anyone would write one about me. They'd
start researching then fall asleep.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:55 PM (KZzsI)

Just funnin' ya. There was a Hotel in Bremerton, and it had a concave window, which would focus light in such a way as to produce a magical appearing optical effect. If forget now. But point being is that most things can be explained, with sufficient time and observation.

UFO's are just that. Phenomena nobody has had sufficient time and observation to explain.

Now you have the second worst Penthouse Forum letter ever.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 29, 2020 02:59 PM (1CjJc)

838 Time travel exists, and Hitler and the rise of the Third Reich was the best outcome for Europe in the middle of the 20th century.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:50 PM (q80AH)

Six million people would disagree with that - if they could.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at January 29, 2020 02:59 PM (d6Ksn)

839 It wasn't too long ago that Wajahat Ali was searching the entire country to find a liver donor for his toddler daughter. Now that she's out of danger I guess he's taking a pass on humility.

Posted by: LongHaulPlucker at January 29, 2020 02:59 PM (rhniu)

840
Best time travel book Ive ever read.

Lightning by Dean Koontz

Posted by: fixerupper at January 29, 2020 03:00 PM (8XRCm)

841
So USMDA was signed by Trump today.

Major legislation, a cornerstone of his campaign.

And you missed the coverage of it on all the PROGDA outlets?

Me, too.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 29, 2020 03:00 PM (sy5kK)

842 >>>It's an interview question where I work. My company works with technology that is generally well understood industrially but is arcane and unknown in general.

We ask candidates. "Pretend I am a stranger from a different industry. Explain what we do."

...

Good question.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 03:00 PM (PbpT7)

843 If you're 25, a good paying job in a seaside town, travelling all over the world on the government's dime... it's awesome and worth paying $2300 a month for a studio apartment.

When you're 35... not so much.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile

Are you still living in Lewis Center?

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at January 29, 2020 03:00 PM (vcOmj)

844 Okay drive through jokes aside.

And because time travel was invented here on Earth, not long ago, that is why I am really here. I am chasing off criminals who are trying to meddle with Earth. Earth is under full quarantine.
Posted by: Zardock the devourer at January 29, 2020 02:53 PM (cs2Or)
+++++++++++
So you're on a march through Meddle Earth to defend it from dark powers?
=====
We can't destroy you, lest something you do in the future saves the universe, and we can't let anyone else near you, lest they do something to undo the universe.

So, I'm here. Babysitting the tadpole pond.

Posted by: Zardock the devourer at January 29, 2020 03:00 PM (DcQ0e)

845 836 Here's what I don't get about leaks. Why aren't leaks involving classified information assumed to be lies, after all they are by their nature unverifiable and often times leaked by lying sacks of shit.

Because they hurt Trump, that's why !

Posted by: Your sycophant press at January 29, 2020 03:00 PM (6XlcD)

846 819 Geez, when will they break? I need to run out.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:57 PM (vEIlU)

I thought maybe on the hour, but nope!

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 03:00 PM (ghFVE)

847 If I put on a dress, I would be Ms. Berkshire County
Posted by: REDACTED at January 29, 2020 02:59 PM (rpxSz)

That's actually possible now, you know.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at January 29, 2020 03:00 PM (d6Ksn)

848 >>@JRubinBlogger

I would love to see the bubble over Roberts' head. " Holy cow, these
people think the president is king. I'm not giving them an inch next
time they show up with some cock and pull exec power argument. " Or
something like that

- - -

Like him or not, Scott Adams has identified the worst trait of our current media: they spend most of their time mind-reading as opposed to chasing down and relaying facts.

You don't know what Roberts is thinking, Jen Rubin, just as you don't know what Trump or Pence or Pompeo, etc. are thinking, what motivates them, what their strategy is on any given issue. However, you have column inches to fill, and twitter pals to impress with your wit, so you make up silly stuff like that. Just awful.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2020 03:00 PM (bDqIh)

849 842 >>>It's an interview question where I work. My company works with technology that is generally well understood industrially but is arcane and unknown in general.

We ask candidates. "Pretend I am a stranger from a different industry. Explain what we do."

...

Good question.
Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 03:00 PM (PbpT7)

===========

*mumbles into shirt*
-Software Engineer

"You're hired!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 03:00 PM (q80AH)

850 >>>My spelling is probably wrong, like spelling doxx with two x's. It means to overwhelm someone. It gets confused in my mind with Rees-Mogg, the brit who moggs everyone with his class.

thanks. I've been watching a lot of Peep Show so I've been getting a lot of british slang. It sounds british to me.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 03:01 PM (PbpT7)

851 Where did this stupid idea come from that it's meaningful to be able to identify countries on an unlabeled map?

Maps are labeled!
Posted by: Kensington at January 29, 2020 02:20 PM (stQWR)

Actually, that's sort of a standard-issue exam question in any Geography course. Mainly to test if you have been paying attention.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2020 03:01 PM (LxWV7)

852 And that algorithm is boring, and hard to teach because anything algorithmic is boring.

But you can't teach intuition.

You can't, its true. You CAN teach something until it becomes intuitive, but you cannot teach people if the only way you know something is at a gut level instinct or as you put it, intution.

I found that out about myself years ago when I'd get into a discussion and know I was right about something but had come to it in a flash rather than step by step understanding so I could not defend the proposition.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 03:01 PM (KZzsI)

853 836 Here's what I don't get about leaks. Why aren't leaks involving classified information assumed to be lies, after all they are by their nature unverifiable and often times leaked by lying sacks of shit.

Posted by: Pliney at January 29, 2020 02:59 PM (nzKWW)

You understand perfectly.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 29, 2020 03:01 PM (sy5kK)

854 801 IQ, as I understand it, is as much a measure of processing speed and bandwidth as anything else. That's a pretty good substitute for intelligence.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 29, 2020 02:56 PM (RD7QR)

IQ is pattern recognition, IMO.

How well, and how fast, you can distinguish a pattern that is only held in your mind.

Vice what everyone does, which is recognize physical patterns.

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 03:02 PM (NgKpN)

855 Jen Rubin is as smart as she is pretty.

(And yes, I'm being catty.)

Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at January 29, 2020 03:02 PM (d6Ksn)

856 831
On the topic of intelligence, this is one very good test. CS Lewis
insisted upon it. A truly great mind can make complex, difficult
concepts understandable for the average and subnormal intellect. If you
cannot communicate without your trade jargon and special language, your
vocabulary and intelligence, while possibly high, is not as great as you
might imagine.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 02:55 PM (KZzsI)

++++++++++

It's an interview question where I work. My company works with
technology that is generally well understood industrially but is arcane
and unknown in general.

We ask candidates. "Pretend I am a stranger from a different industry. Explain what we do."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2020 02:59 PM (I2dne)
This is a little more complex than that. Research shows that you can communicate most easily with people within ~15 IQ points of you. It takes intentional effort for ANYONE to simplify their discourse to the level of someone quite lower in intellect.

Sometimes I just read BBC Pidgin. It's eye-openin' I tells ya

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 29, 2020 03:02 PM (Eg9+v)

857 probes
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 02:19 PM

Scab labor.

Posted by: International Brotherhood of Otters at January 29, 2020 03:02 PM (IRJgV)

858 The GOP is a sh_t worm fed by the DNC/CoC.
The American people elected a freeman barbarian who happened to run under the GOP banner.

Both parties are scared.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 29, 2020 03:02 PM (ZS+GP)

859 Time travel, IQ, Jen Rubin, beer - thread has potential.

Posted by: rammajamma at January 29, 2020 03:02 PM (PQRcz)

860 So, I'm here. Babysitting the tadpole pond.
Posted by: Zardock the devourer at January 29, 2020 03:00 PM (DcQ0e)

----

Bullshit.

You're Carl the drapery guy. You're reliable, a good listener and extremely funny.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 29, 2020 03:03 PM (8XRCm)

861 lol. House Democrats released their infrastructure plan today. It's a giant, steaming pile of shit complete with garbage like trying to reinstate the tax exempt advance refunding. It's an abomination compared to what the president has proposed.

Like, Trump will negotiate with them on anything. See you in November, assholes.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2020 03:03 PM (VpIIl)

862 Here's what I don't get about leaks. Why aren't leaks involving classified information

arrestable? You are either leaking classified information in direct contravention to it being classified or, you are leaking classified information you are not legally allowed to posess.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2020 03:03 PM (9vbJt)

863 Time travel, IQ, Jen Rubin, beer - thread has potential.
Posted by: rammajamma at January 29, 2020 03:02 PM (PQRcz)

----

neads moar bewbs

Posted by: fixerupper at January 29, 2020 03:03 PM (8XRCm)

864 I am in an apocalypse: American student trapped in coronavirus-hit Chinese city

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china- health-usa-student-idUSKBN1ZS2RI

Posted by: Ahwoo Flu at January 29, 2020 03:03 PM (PoHZ6)

865 Marijuana is a fruit.

Posted by: Chris M at January 29, 2020 03:03 PM (eAZVt)

866 We ask candidates. "Pretend I am a stranger from a different industry. Explain what we do."

Well it beats the old saws like

"what is your greatest weakness"
"where do you see yourself in five years"

etc

Crap questions meant to psychologically trick the person you're interviewing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 03:03 PM (KZzsI)

867 99.9% chance you were reported, ace. You were too effective on Twitter and that's already illegal.

Posted by: ... at January 29, 2020 03:04 PM (aL0Hq)

868 @paulsperry

People always ask me, "Paul, why do Dems always stick together? No matter what, they never break ranks like Republicans!" & I explain it's b/c MSM's on their side. MSM=glue holding Dems together. But the same MSM divides Repubs, making it harder for them to unite in controversies

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2020 03:04 PM (wiXsO)

869 Jen Rubin is as smart as she is pretty.

(And yes, I'm being catty.)

Posted by: DonnaV. at January 29, 2020 03:02 PM (d6Ksn)

===
Nobody, NOBODY can be that smart.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 29, 2020 03:04 PM (pw+jk)

870 Ha! Great question from Lindsey!

Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2020 03:04 PM (ZLI7S)

871 Hey everybody.

Charlie Brown = real conservatives/PDT supporters
Lucy = Rick Wilson et al

https://tinyurl.com/u5wszo5

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 29, 2020 03:04 PM (L2ZTs)

872 omg

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 03:04 PM (vEIlU)

873 "These people think the president has full authority over American foreign policy as it says in the Constitution instead of the administrative state! What dummies!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 02:56 PM (q80AH)

She is so jarringly stupid.

Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2020 03:04 PM (cF8AT)

874 lol

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 03:04 PM (vEIlU)

875 Anyone who saw him dance with Tipper in 2000 could tell you that Al Gore rhythm is non-existent.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 29, 2020 03:04 PM (m45I2)

876 A truly great mind can make complex, difficult
concepts understandable for the average and subnormal intellect.

If yu can't explain it on the back of a napkin to a barmaid, you really don't know what you're talking about.

attr: Albert Einstein ...

Posted by: Adriane the Pithy Saying Critic ... at January 29, 2020 03:05 PM (LPnfS)

877 Ewwww, I know what I would ask as a Senator.

Chief Justice? Is abuse of power, or obstruction of Congress impeachable offenses IN YOUR OPINION?

Bet he'd punt.

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 03:05 PM (NgKpN)

878
The GOP is moderate to center left at this point.
Posted by: Ahwoo Flu

AOC said the Democrat party is center to center right.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 29, 2020 03:05 PM (aKsyK)

879 Schiff complains a hypothetical is "off". My irony meter exploded.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 03:05 PM (NVYyb)

880 IQ is pattern recognition, IMO.

How well, and how fast, you can distinguish a pattern that is only held in your mind.

Vice what everyone does, which is recognize physical patterns.
Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 03:02 PM (NgKpN)

I have a useless personal talent in that regard. I can identify Asian women with only seeing them from behind. 99% accurate.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 29, 2020 03:05 PM (U9Qbt)

881 >>>You can't, its true. You CAN teach something until it becomes intuitive, but you cannot teach people if the only way you know something is at a gut level instinct or as you put it, intution.

I learned this trying to teach high school kids to do percentages. I didn't need an algorithm, because I just got it.

But the kids didn't. They needed the "translation:" "of" means "times," % means "divided by 100," "is" means equals, etc.

My "getting it" meant that I understood that on a not-really-conscious level and I just did it. But someone who doesn't get it has to have the algorithm.

I'm very suspicious of the many, many Sneeerers in political discourse. Sneering away an objection or a question reallly means, "I cannot prove what I am saying, and in fact have never had it proven to me, but I accept it as a quasi-religious article of faith, so I'm just going to sneer away your questioning of it as if you were a heathen infidel."

"I can't be bothered to explain" often means 'I cannot explain, and I'm so incurious that I never sought out the explanation myself."

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 03:05 PM (PbpT7)

882

hypothetical

obama potus with romney son corrupt

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 03:05 PM (vEIlU)

883 >>It wasn't too long ago that Wajahat Ali was searching the entire country
to find a liver donor for his toddler daughter. Now that she's out of
danger I guess he's taking a pass on humility.

First generation American kid of Pakistani immigrants, born and raised in San Francisco who self-identifies as "Muslim-American." Wrote a play about how tough it was for Muslims after 9-11 (because we're all racist, I think?). The chances of that guy having any respect for non-coastal regular Americans is less than 0.001%.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2020 03:05 PM (bDqIh)

884 So, I'm here. Babysitting the tadpole pond.
Posted by: Zardock the devourer at January 29, 2020 03:00 PM (DcQ0e)

----

Bullshit.

You're Carl the drapery guy. You're reliable, a good listener and extremely funny.
======
Oddly enough, that was the family business back on annex 123 / 1.23. Humor runs in the family.

Posted by: Zardock the devourer at January 29, 2020 03:06 PM (BSHBK)

885
Ha! Great question from Lindsey!
Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2020 03:04 PM (ZLI7S)

-----

Care to share resin man??

Posted by: fixerupper at January 29, 2020 03:06 PM (8XRCm)

886 Are you still living in Lewis Center?
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at January 29, 2020 03:00 PM (vcOmj)

For the moment. My lease is up in September and I want to find something else to last until September 2021, when hopefully I'll have another job somewhere outside Ohio.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 29, 2020 03:06 PM (wCmLp)

887 Shiffty again its impeachable to go after a opponent no mater how corrupt that opponent is

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2020 03:06 PM (ZCEU2)

888 851 Actually, that's sort of a standard-issue exam question in any Geography course. Mainly to test if you have been paying attention.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2020 03:01 PM (LxWV7)

When I had to take a geography course in middle school, strangely, we didn't really have to know the Middle East or Former Soviet states at all.

It was pretty much just having to know most of Western Europe, South (but not Central) America, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Japan.

I'm absolutely sure I never had to be able to identify say, Qatar, or the Ukraine, on an unlabeled map.

But my schools also kind of sucked.

Posted by: Allie at January 29, 2020 03:06 PM (UnA8+)

889 Holy Shit Schiff is an idiot. We just went through 3 years of Obama's Justice Department investigating Trump.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2020 03:06 PM (ZLI7S)

890 And new Flynn filing in which he denies lying to FBI agents. Fun case.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 29, 2020 03:06 PM (El6T/)

891 Schiff complains a hypothetical is "off". My irony meter exploded.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 03:05 PM (NVYyb)

It was Cruz and someone who wrote this.

Cruz, masterful

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 03:06 PM (vEIlU)

892 Haha!!!!

Schiff says a President should not investigate political rivals, especially using foreign powers.

They need to put a bag over this guys head, just to stop this ridiculousness.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 03:06 PM (NVYyb)

893 We ask people to explain our mission set. If they get it wrong, we punch them in the nuts. That way, they never answer incorrectly again

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at January 29, 2020 03:07 PM (nD9Hu)

894 >>>867 99.9% chance you were reported, ace. You were too effective on Twitter and that's already illegal.

thanks for saying so.

but you know, anything a corporation wants to do is legal, as long as they donate to the National Review Institute.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 03:07 PM (PbpT7)

895 522 Hey all. Checking in. Psych helped clarify things. Priest is next. Probably should have been my first step, say twenty-five years ago...I'm a slow learner.

And time to change the nic. I ought to have stepped away from the full mask before now, but...well, here it is.
Posted by: Formerly Brother Cavil, call me Brother Tim at January 29, 2020 02:31 PM (CUU+W)

You make many people here happy with your action.

Good luck and keep us informed, please!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 29, 2020 03:07 PM (sy5kK)

896 In my two companies, engineering, I made questions to test the design prowess of candidates.... if I didn't know already.

One was about a a garbage dumpster where the lid is getting deformed from normal use. Give me three design concepts to correct the problem.
Very few candidates could give me one concept on the fly.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 29, 2020 03:07 PM (pw+jk)

897 Library graffiti

E = MC 2

Albert Einstein

C+ next time show your work.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 29, 2020 03:07 PM (U9Qbt)

898 Graham and Cruz it was.

Q: In a hypothetical, would obama have authority to ask for investigation into romney's son?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 03:07 PM (vEIlU)

899 Did Shiffty get a law degree out of a Cracker Jack box?

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2020 03:07 PM (ZCEU2)

900 But you can't teach intuition.

*********

We won't teach WITHOUT tuition!

/University professors

Posted by: Muldoon at January 29, 2020 03:07 PM (m45I2)

901 Oh lord, someone please clip this video. This is fucking priceless.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 03:07 PM (NVYyb)

902 Schiff just majorly blew the hypothetical Mitt Romney son- Obama question.

Posted by: corn and beans at January 29, 2020 03:07 PM (tkNkP)

903 >>Care to share resin man??

paraphrase.

If Mitt Romney's son was making a million dollars from a corrupt company overseas would it be impeachable for Obama to ask that he be investigated?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2020 03:08 PM (ZLI7S)

904 >>>186 I didn't know Rick Wilson was gay.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Don't put your evil on us.

Posted by: The Gays (who dress better) at January 29, 2020 03:08 PM (PbpT7)

905 They know they can get away with it, and so they do. It's that simple.

These people are holding all the cards. Why in the world should they care about a bunch of impotent outrage from the internet? Don Lemon--or what he represents--is backed up by virtually every powerful institution in society and he will never be held accountable for anything he says, and he knows that. This contemptuous, insulting reply is what you get until that changes.

Posted by: BunnyFooFoo at January 29, 2020 03:08 PM (0Uf+z)

906 I imagine Cruz is lol over this stupid Schiff pontificating as he's wrapping himself in the flag.

Posted by: EveR at January 29, 2020 03:08 PM (R0z7P)

907 Thread longer than my tapeworm.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 29, 2020 03:08 PM (Tu54I)

908 Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 29, 2020 03:07 PM (pw+jk)

Make the lid out of titanium.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 29, 2020 03:08 PM (U9Qbt)

909
Give me three design concepts to correct the problem.

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New production or retro fit the existing ??

Posted by: fixerupper at January 29, 2020 03:08 PM (8XRCm)

910 We ask candidates. "Pretend I am a stranger from a different industry. Explain what we do."
........

We ask candidates: "Walk toward that wall with your elbows extended straight in front of you. If they touch first, well... we'll let you know."

Posted by: wth at January 29, 2020 03:08 PM (v0R5T)

911 907 Thread longer than my tapeworm.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 29, 2020 03:08 PM (Tu54I)

Maybe we'll make it to 1000.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 03:09 PM (ghFVE)

912 I think Schiff's other game is laying the groundwork for when Barr comes out with his report. This way they can say, "See the president is going after his political rivals."

Posted by: JoeF. at January 29, 2020 03:09 PM (CqE5x)

913 Let's get to 1,000.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at January 29, 2020 03:09 PM (ayFCE)

914 Holy Shit Schiff is an idiot. We just went through 3 years of Obama's Justice Department investigating Trump.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2020 03:06 PM (ZLI7S)

and friends, family (sons), campaign workers

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 03:09 PM (vEIlU)

915 If Mitt Romney's son was making a million dollars from a corrupt company overseas would it be impeachable for Obama to ask that he be investigated?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2020 03:08 PM (ZLI7S)

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heh... awsome

Posted by: fixerupper at January 29, 2020 03:09 PM (8XRCm)

916 >>Schiff says a President should not investigate political rivals, especially using foreign powers.

"YOU MEAN LIKE JOHN BRENNAN USING FIVE EYES TO INVESTIGATE TRUMP!?"

-- BEN ROETHLISBERGER

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2020 03:09 PM (bDqIh)

917 Thread longer than my tapeworm.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 29, 2020 03:08 PM (Tu54I)
..........

Longer than my lap band.

Posted by: Nadler at January 29, 2020 03:10 PM (v0R5T)

918 See the ONT failed to get to 1K,
Lets don't now

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2020 03:10 PM (ZCEU2)

919 Make the lid out of titanium.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 29, 2020 03:08 PM (U9Qbt)

===
Yes, change the material is an answer.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 29, 2020 03:10 PM (pw+jk)

920 My tapeworm is drinking my milkshake.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 29, 2020 03:10 PM (Tu54I)

921 I can identify Asian women with only seeing them from behind. 99% accurate.

Short, long torso, short legs, little butt, black hair?

"I can't be bothered to explain" often means 'I cannot explain, and I'm so incurious that I never sought out the explanation myself."

Yeah I find myself doing that and its always a condescending sneer, its contempt rather than humility. We should always approach each person trying to offer what is to their best and greatest benefit, to try to help and better than, not attack and belittle. When someone does wrong we should be more disappointed than smug or enraged.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 03:10 PM (KZzsI)

922 910
We ask candidates. "Pretend I am a stranger from a different industry. Explain what we do."

........

We ask candidates: "Walk toward that wall with your elbows extended
straight in front of you. If they touch first, well... we'll let you
know."

Posted by: wth at January 29, 2020 03:08 PM (v0R5T)

You work in porn?

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 29, 2020 03:11 PM (1CjJc)

923 "I can't be bothered to explain" often means 'I cannot explain, and I'm so incurious that I never sought out the explanation myself."

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 03:05 PM (PbpT7)

Its also when they do the 'bow to authority' argument, like 97% of Climate Scientists say.

Because even though YOU may understand it, they don't.

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 03:11 PM (NgKpN)

924 Schiff says a President should not investigate political rivals, especially using foreign powers.

They need to put a bag over this guys head, just to stop this ridiculousness.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

He may have just indicted Barack Obama. Unwittingly, of course.

The whole premise behind the Steele Memorandum.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at January 29, 2020 03:11 PM (vcOmj)

925 865
Marijuana is a fruit.

Posted by: Chris M at January 29, 2020 03:03 PM (eAZVt)

I am what I eat.

Posted by: Choom Boy Shit Midas at January 29, 2020 03:11 PM (ufFY8)

926 Oh its Zoe who claimed impeachment shouldn't be put upon a President if his name was Clinton

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2020 03:11 PM (ZCEU2)

927 Someone should ask Schiff if running for president grants one-or one's family member--immunity from investigation or prosecution.

Posted by: JoeF. at January 29, 2020 03:11 PM (CqE5x)

928 Incredible news!

Old Bay is releasing a new Hot Sauce. That shit is going right into my purse.

Posted by: Hillary ==> at January 29, 2020 03:11 PM (NVYyb)

929 Getting closer.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at January 29, 2020 03:11 PM (ayFCE)

930 Lawfare gave Senators questions and then wrote answers for the House idiots. Seems rather disingenuous for these jerks to be talking about corrupt.

Posted by: EveR at January 29, 2020 03:11 PM (R0z7P)

931 Schiff never had a plan, he just got caught up in the whirlwind and Nancy can't control things the way she used to. They fucked up.

Posted by: rammajamma at January 29, 2020 03:11 PM (PQRcz)

932 Posted by: ace at January 29, 2020 03:05 PM (PbpT7)

This is the thing that comes up in Socratic dialogues a lot. People just 'know' things, so Socrates questions them, and as it turns out, they don't. This pissed some folks off, as you might expect, when it came to.. .certain things.

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 29, 2020 03:11 PM (Eg9+v)

933 >>If Mitt Romney's son was making a million dollars from a corrupt company
overseas would it be impeachable for Obama to ask that he be
investigated?

So we have cranky Sen. Graham again, huh?
Stupid Democrats. Also: guess Mitt pissed him off, too?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2020 03:11 PM (bDqIh)

934 921 Yeah I find myself doing that and its always a condescending sneer, its contempt rather than humility. We should always approach each person trying to offer what is to their best and greatest benefit, to try to help and better than, not attack and belittle. When someone does wrong we should be more disappointed than smug or enraged.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 03:10 PM (KZzsI)

"Educate YOURSELF! It's not MY job to teach YOU!" is probably the most common (and condescending) version of that.

Posted by: Allie at January 29, 2020 03:12 PM (UnA8+)

935 On the way to 1K. One post at a time.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - Not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at January 29, 2020 03:12 PM (HU45H)

936 "We ask candidates: "Walk toward that wall with your elbows extended
straight in front of you. If they touch first, well... we'll let you
know."

Posted by: wth at January 29, 2020 03:08 PM (v0R5T"

You fuckers are killing me.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2020 03:12 PM (VpIIl)

937 I can't stand this much longer. Zoe Lofgren reminds us the Framers had participated in an insurrection, which is just like an impeachment.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 03:12 PM (NVYyb)

938 I have a useless personal talent in that regard. I can identify Asian women with only seeing them from behind. 99% accurate.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

***********

Is it the surgical mask that gives it away?

Posted by: Muldoon at January 29, 2020 03:12 PM (m45I2)

939 Um this is complete and utter bullshit, exhortations to investigate politicians or groups happens all the fucking time.

Case in point, the investigation of the GOP rep who was indicted on insider trading was instigated by a Democrat "colleague."

The IRS began it's "investigation" of Tea Party groups at the request of Representatives and Senators.

I'm tired of hearing this nonsense.

Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 29, 2020 03:12 PM (0keV9)

940 Yeah, Schiff answered the "Would it be ok if Obama asked the Ukraine to investigate Mitts' son if he were getting $1mm from the Ukraine" with "what Trump did was wrong"

No answer to the question

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at January 29, 2020 03:13 PM (vPKfA)

941 Ace hates 1K threads, but lets keep going .

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2020 03:13 PM (ZCEU2)

942 I can identify Asian women with only seeing them from behind. 99% accurate.
--------------------------------------------------------------------

You mean, from driving behind them on the road, right?
Because I can too.

Posted by: JoeF. at January 29, 2020 03:13 PM (CqE5x)

943 OT, but it seems a lot of advertisers on CNN seem to
appeal more to people without college degrees, you know, the
lumpenproletariat.

Ace Hardware, Behr Paints, McDonalds and Michelob to name a few.

Posted by: vivi at January 29, 2020 02:51 PM (11H2y)

Hey! I like a lot of those

Posted by: Count de Monet, lumpenproletariat at January 29, 2020 03:13 PM (q1Pj5)

944 She-man men haters club nood so no 1K.

Sad face ;-(

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - Not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at January 29, 2020 03:13 PM (HU45H)

945 Is it true that Ace earns a dollar for every comment we make?

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 29, 2020 03:13 PM (L2ZTs)

946 Why does Ace hate 1K threads?

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at January 29, 2020 03:13 PM (ayFCE)

947
If Mitt Romney's son was making a million dollars from a corrupt company
overseas would it be impeachable for Obama to ask that he be
investigated?

---

What hurts is Mitt Romneys son IS making bank from Ukraine.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 29, 2020 03:14 PM (8XRCm)

948 I have a useless personal talent in that regard. I can identify Asian women with only seeing them from behind. 99% accurate.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
===
Does this talent involve the fact that Asian women have "fish butt."?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 29, 2020 03:14 PM (pw+jk)

949 He's trying to use the Jedi Mind Trick only since he is the weak minded one, he only convinces himself.

Posted by: JB1000 at January 29, 2020 03:14 PM (Kf5r9)

950 Yeah, Schiff answered the "Would it be ok if Obama asked the Ukraine to investigate Mitts' son if he were getting $1mm from the Ukraine" with "what Trump did was wrong"
----------------------------------------------------------------------

That's his answer to everything.

Posted by: JoeF. at January 29, 2020 03:14 PM (CqE5x)

951 Not so sure about Asian women.

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2020 03:14 PM (ZCEU2)

952 That shit is going right into my purse.
Posted by: Hillary

---

Eeeeew!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 29, 2020 03:14 PM (Y4EXg)

953 It would be a very interesting study to if possible find out how people are sometimes able to just understand things in a flash without a step by step process in their brain that makes it all fit together.

I cook that way. Its intuitive: this will taste good with that. That won't work. I don't know why or how, I haven't any science to explain it. I have a hard time writing recipes down because I don't do it methodically. I put it together like a painting, not a program.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 03:14 PM (KZzsI)

954 I can't stand this much longer. Zoe Lofgren reminds us the Framers had participated in an insurrection, which is just like an impeachment.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 03:12 PM (NVYyb)

straw hair

She's like an overstuffed scarecrow with a perm gone wrong.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 03:14 PM (vEIlU)

955 What hurts is Mitt Romneys son IS making bank from Ukraine.
=====
Yup.

And others.

Its even worse than we thought.

Posted by: simplemind at January 29, 2020 03:14 PM (BSHBK)

956 Just knowing things...my third semester calc teacher was a Chinese gent and with every proof he would say - you do calclation (sic) and you know it!

Posted by: rammajamma at January 29, 2020 03:15 PM (PQRcz)

957 I just know fastest way to get a nood is get to high 900s

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2020 03:15 PM (ZCEU2)

958 Sometimes contempt is an appropriate response to an argument. Arguments obviously made in bad faith, for example. The problem is that our entire political culture has been converted into The Daily Show, where sneering is the only argument that is ever offered for anything.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2020 03:15 PM (lC04h)

959 Nood.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at January 29, 2020 03:15 PM (ayFCE)

960 >>>One was about a a garbage dumpster where the lid is getting deformed from normal use. Give me three design concepts to correct the problem.
Very few candidates could give me one concept on the fly.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 29, 2020 03:07 PM (pw+jk)

Sounds like a question for a sheet metal man.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 29, 2020 03:15 PM (ZS+GP)

961 How come the Weeble hasn't spoken - Nasty Nadler.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 03:15 PM (vEIlU)

962 I know they're assholes, but I find it hard to believe that Collins, Murk and Mitt are watching Schiff spin, lie and just make shit up and saying, "Yeah, I like the cut of this guy's jib...."

Posted by: JoeF. at January 29, 2020 03:15 PM (CqE5x)

963 You really can't watch too much of the Democrats talking. It's like taking in an episode of Super Stupor.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2020 03:15 PM (VpIIl)

964 Would pay good money to hear Roberts read the question; "Has anyone seen Mike Hunt?"

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at January 29, 2020 03:16 PM (ZTJjv)

965 My guess is Democrats don't care their arguments for Clinton only apply to Clinton

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2020 03:16 PM (ZCEU2)

966 Sometimes contempt is an appropriate response to an argument.

It is, its like the proverbs about answering a fool; you have to pick and choose the appropriate answer based on the situation. For everything there is a time and season.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 29, 2020 03:16 PM (KZzsI)

967 I can't help but think that that hypothetical Romney son question was a shot across the bow of some sort.

Posted by: corn and beans at January 29, 2020 03:16 PM (tkNkP)

968 950 Yeah, Schiff answered the "Would it be ok if Obama asked the Ukraine to investigate Mitts' son if he were getting $1mm from the Ukraine" with "what Trump did was wrong"
----------------------------------------------------------------------

That's his answer to everything.
Posted by: JoeF. at January 29, 2020 03:14 PM (CqE5x)

Note the Chief Justice, he did not answer the qeustion, ask again.

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 03:16 PM (NgKpN)

969 She's like an overstuffed scarecrow with a perm gone wrong.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette

If Zoe Lofgren is the scarecrow, who is the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion?

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at January 29, 2020 03:16 PM (vcOmj)

970

nood

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 03:16 PM (vEIlU)

971 Sounds like a question for a sheet metal man.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 29, 2020 03:15 PM (ZS+GP)

===
Yep, changing the geometry of the lid is another answer.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 29, 2020 03:17 PM (pw+jk)

972 Its also when they do the 'bow to authority' argument, like 97% of Climate Scientists say.

Because even though YOU may understand it, they don't.

Posted by: Don Q at January 29, 2020 03:11 PM (NgKpN)

Appeal to authority is a fallacy IF that authority is not accepted by both parties. Climate scientists (like those who claim the burden of proof) assume an authority that they think everyone obviously respects and accepts. Appeal to authority is valid when both accept that authority, since this is how disputes are resolved. The fallacy comes along when that appeal is used irrelevantly; which is just to say that there's nothing specifically fallacious about appeals to authority, except when there is.

for burden of proof its a little more subtle; they're using what's called a 'null hypothesis' - they're appealing to some vague but supposedly understood standard. It's a dumb appeal because there's no real authority backing it, you may as well respond that the burden of proof is on them to prove that you have the burden of proof, ad infinitum.

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 29, 2020 03:17 PM (Eg9+v)

973 Screw the NOOD. 1000 or bust!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 29, 2020 03:17 PM (pw+jk)

974 When you realize that the Dems will lose 2 more SCOTUS nominees all this impeachment shit makes sense.

Posted by: BluesFish at January 29, 2020 03:17 PM (WQZ1O)

975 come on guys, 28 more to 1k

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 29, 2020 03:17 PM (d7Ww2)

976 946
Why does Ace hate 1K threads?

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at January 29, 2020 03:13 PM (ayFCE)
Think it has something to do with Pixy Minx 0.7 alpha. Causes a disruption in the space/time continuum or something. Minx 0.71 alpha fixes that.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed[/c] at January 29, 2020 03:17 PM (N39Ws)

977 25

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 29, 2020 03:17 PM (d7Ww2)

978 It's so hard to listen to Schiff

So slimy

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at January 29, 2020 03:17 PM (vPKfA)

979 Posted by: eleven at January 29, 2020 02:32 PM (QLPEO)
Culinarily, tomato isn't a fruit. But it *is* the fruit of the tomato plant. Only a verbally challenged person can't grasp the sense difference between the uses.

"hurr durr the yellow things aren't petals on the sunflower" x100
(just venting)
Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 29, 2020 02:36 PM (Eg9+v)

Peas and beans are fruits. As is Don Lemming.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2020 03:18 PM (LxWV7)

980 Saw a preggers girl ask a guy for a cigarette. Gives her 2 cigarettes says:

You are smoking for two now.

The genius of the snark broke the fuuking time training bra barrier.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 29, 2020 03:18 PM (Tu54I)

981 I live in Frederick "Rick" G. Wilson Jr.'s current hometown of Tallahassee, FL. Outside of the FSU students, the carpetbagger politicos, and most of the state employees, pretty much everyone else speaks with a drawl. I'm not sure how well his interview is going to go over the next time "Rick" shows up at one of the city's many BBQ joints.
Oh, and he's 56, which technically makes him a Boomer. So not sure what's up with him playing the Boomer card during that interview.

Posted by: Rusty at January 29, 2020 03:18 PM (dPoUG)

982 I can't help but think that that hypothetical Romney son question was a shot across the bow of some sort.
Posted by: corn and beans at January 29, 2020 03:16 PM (tkNkP)

absolutely, no coincidences on this one

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 03:18 PM (vEIlU)

983 schiffty schiff is a shiftier schiff

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 29, 2020 03:18 PM (d7Ww2)

984 962 I know they're assholes, but I find it hard to believe that Collins, Murk and Mitt are watching Schiff spin, lie and just make shit up and saying, "Yeah, I like the cut of this guy's jib...."
Posted by: JoeF. at January 29, 2020 03:15 PM (CqE5x)

Although Mitt might not have liked that "Mitt's son" question from Lindsey and Cruz.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 03:18 PM (ghFVE)

985 Philosophy is wondering if ketchup is a smoothie.

Posted by: Trog04 at January 29, 2020 03:18 PM (oecje)

986 17

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 29, 2020 03:18 PM (d7Ww2)

987 Doing my part.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 03:19 PM (q80AH)

988 982
I can't help but think that that hypothetical Romney son question was a shot across the bow of some sort.

Posted by: corn and beans at January 29, 2020 03:16 PM (tkNkP)

absolutely, no coincidences on this one

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2020 03:18 PM (vEIlU)Still lost on over 46% of the US voting base

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed[/c] at January 29, 2020 03:19 PM (N39Ws)

989 I know they're assholes, but I find it hard to believe that Collins, Murk and Mitt are watching Schiff spin, lie and just make shit up and saying, "Yeah, I like the cut of this guy's jib...."
Posted by: JoeF.

It isn't. It's about how they will appear to their constiuencies. Especially Collins.

At some point in your life, you have to do the right thing and say "screw it" to everything else.

Murkowski is really a crappy person, and has been for a very long time. The GOP should at last get some money into beating her in Alaska. I'm so very sick of her.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at January 29, 2020 03:19 PM (vcOmj)

990 Romney stood behind his desk, shook his head, smiled and raised his arms
in a "c'mon" gesture as the chief justice read the question aloud

https://t.co/zwmn6aq4uW

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed[/c] at January 29, 2020 03:20 PM (N39Ws)

991 I don't get how the House is trying to tell the Senate what the rules are. if the House wanted more witnesses, they should have called them when it was their turn.

and the house repubs never got a chance to cross examine, why whould the dems in the senate?

fuck those fuckers

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 29, 2020 03:20 PM (d7Ww2)

992 Anonymous sources tell me Zoe Lofgren pulled at train in a chemical toilet at Woodstock.

Posted by: wth at January 29, 2020 03:20 PM (v0R5T)

993 romney is a giant douchebag

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 29, 2020 03:20 PM (d7Ww2)

994 7

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed[/c] at January 29, 2020 03:20 PM (N39Ws)

995 5

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed[/c] at January 29, 2020 03:21 PM (N39Ws)

996 4

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed[/c] at January 29, 2020 03:21 PM (N39Ws)

997 3

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed[/c] at January 29, 2020 03:21 PM (N39Ws)

998 One more for the team.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 03:21 PM (q80AH)

999 2

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed[/c] at January 29, 2020 03:21 PM (N39Ws)

1000 1000

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 29, 2020 03:21 PM (q80AH)

1001 I so regret voting for that motherfuckinghampsterfucker

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 29, 2020 03:21 PM (d7Ww2)

1002 972 Appeal to authority is a fallacy IF that authority is not accepted by both parties.
Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 29, 2020 03:17 PM (Eg9+v)

I didn't know that part of the fallacy. Thanks.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 03:21 PM (ghFVE)

1003 OK. Nood.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed[/c] at January 29, 2020 03:21 PM (N39Ws)

1004 Getting closer

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2020 03:21 PM (ZCEU2)

1005 LAST!

Posted by: wth at January 29, 2020 03:22 PM (v0R5T)

1006 There we go, now lets go invade the nood

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2020 03:22 PM (ZCEU2)

1007 >>>Although Mitt might not have liked that "Mitt's son" question from Lindsey and Cruz.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 03:18 PM (ghFVE)

Good for them. He needs it.
Between the ribs.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 29, 2020 03:22 PM (ZS+GP)

1008 Through..... And Beyond!!!

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at January 29, 2020 03:22 PM (vcOmj)

1009 I suspect most of their malfeasance related to the inability to produce (followed by lies) more than a premeditated plan to defraud. A very Chinese situation, innit?
Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 29, 2020 02:38 PM (Eg9+v)

Well, given that practically anyone with a good understanding of First-Year physics could have told them that their expectations were wildly unrealistic, I am going with "premeditated fraud."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2020 03:22 PM (LxWV7)

1010 980 Saw a preggers girl ask a guy for a cigarette. Gives her 2 cigarettes says:

You are smoking for two now.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 29, 2020 03:18 PM (Tu54I)

NICE.

Posted by: m at January 29, 2020 03:23 PM (ghFVE)

1011 Nadler is reading the answer to the question

Nope, no collusion there

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at January 29, 2020 03:24 PM (vPKfA)

1012 Feminism is just an outlet for unhappy women to vent under a pretense of a Cause.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 29, 2020 03:29 PM (oVJmc)

1013 I wish Trump would have a rally in Alaska and Utah and Maine. Just to remind those three Senators who much pull he has....

Posted by: vivi at January 29, 2020 03:37 PM (11H2y)

1014 Star-Belly Sneeches have stars upon thars.

Posted by: Ponsonby Britt at January 29, 2020 03:42 PM (F8Ust)

1015 Ali comes from a culture that is still trying to splice their DNA with a goat in the 21st century; but sure, Republicans in Tennessee are the problem.

Hey Wajahat....... bacha bazi much?

Posted by: Specto at January 29, 2020 03:48 PM (IbeKg)

1016 It's funny when people who are in no way prepared to commit violence, so strongly desire to commit violence. It's like the videos on youtube of dogs driving cars. The dog really, really wants to drive a car, but it's incapable. However, the people, they are targeting are not incapable of committing violence.

Posted by: DFCtomm at January 29, 2020 04:09 PM (50gG9)

1017 Oh, haha! Cruz and Hawley asking about whether Misko and Ciaramella coordinated, presumably using Vindman as a source.

Too bad they didn't direct that question to Schiff. Under oath.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 29, 2020 04:22 PM (NVYyb)

1018 Nice excuse bean brain now tel us how the moon got in your eyes

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 29, 2020 07:07 PM (wGqjj)

1019 Shouldn't Lemmon be trolling at men's rooms in the Village?

Posted by: I am not corey Booker at January 30, 2020 12:05 AM (Ju2mK)

1020 this guy looks like the little nazi guy in the movie the black bird.weird.

Posted by: dave in pa. at January 30, 2020 11:21 AM (CcH/4)

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