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Elon Musk Pulls Back the Veil on Twitter's Algorithm, and Researches Discover a New Category of Algorithm Interventions: "GovernmentRequested"
On Friday, Twitter released the recommendation algorithm portion of its code by publishing it on GitHub, where developers post open source software data. Developer Steven Tey dug into the code and found that there is a mechanism through which the US government can "intervene" with the code. "When needed, the government can intervene with the Twitter algorithm," Tey wrote. "In fact, @TwitterEng (Twitter Engineering) even has a class for it -- 'GovernmentRequested.'" Tey linked directly to the code on GitHub. On March 17, Musk announced he was going to make the algorithm open source later in the month and said, "Our 'algorithm' is overly complex & not fully understood internally. People will discover many silly things , but we'll patch issues as soon as they're found!"David French calls this mere "jawboning" by the government, and reminds you that government has free speech rights too, and most of these free speech rights involve stripping citizens of their free speech rights. Just like the Constitution promises! More from Hot Air. Twitter's algorithm also empowers liberals to effectively silence conservatives, just by blocking them. The algorithm slaps a huge penalty on any accounts which have been blocked or muted, making them all-but-radioactive as far as being promoted on Twitter. This is designed to appease leftists -- who for years and years have been running mass-blocks. If you've ever found that you're blocked by an account you haven't ever interacted with, it's because leftists assemble huge lists of people that they think should be blocked, and then other leftists just take that mass block list and execute it. (I think this can be done with the push of a button.) The net result is that virtually every conservative on twitter is blocked by nearly every leftwing user -- which the algorithm then takes as proof that those accounts should never, ever be promoted and may even be throttled and prevented from being seen by anyone.
Meanwhile, Musk stripped the New York Times of its blue check. They'll now have to pay for the blue check if they want to pretend at being "verified." This never should have happened -- but Twitter did it, I'm sure, knowing that this fair-on-its-face algorithm intervention would have enormous consequences on conservatives' speech, given that almost every leftwinger proudly announces which mass-block lists he's implementing. People who mass-block should not have their mass-blocks incorporated into the algorithm for deciding who is worth promoting and who needs to be suppressed. If someone only has 50 accounts blocked, then they've probably made a real decision about each of those blocks, and maybe it's fair to ding the blocked accounts as far as promotion. But if someone has blocked ten thousand accounts, then obviously that person has never, ever interacted with most of those blocked accounts, and is just employing a block list to never see a point of view that disagrees with his own. Such mass blocks should be deweighted in importance down to having zero impact, once the list gets long enough.
Musk was not kind about the Times.
Elon Musk has made his first big blue check takedown, and his target is one of the most esteemed newspapers in the world. Twitter previously announced that on Saturday, it would begin "winding down" its "legacy verified program" by removing badges they deemed "legacy verified checkmarks." The move is designed to get users to pay an $8 monthly fee to retain the blue check as part of the company's "Twitter Blue" service. The New York Times, which has 54.9 million followers on the social media platform, became the most prominent account thus far to lose its blue check.
... The Times announced earlier this week it was not going to pay the fee to retain its badge, nor would it reimburse any of its staffers. Nearly all other major U.S. journalistic outlets have made the same decision.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk The real tragedy of @NYTimes is that their propaganda isn't even interesting Also, their feed is the Twitter equivalent of diarrhea. It's unreadable. They would have far more real followers if they only posted their top articles. Same applies to all publications.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: SturmToddler at April 03, 2023 03:33 PM (Mkvkw)
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 03, 2023 03:33 PM (Mkvkw)
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 03, 2023 03:33 PM (Mkvkw)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 03, 2023 03:33 PM (glGDV)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 03, 2023 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)
@elonmusk
The real tragedy of @NYTimes is that their propaganda isn't even interesting
Also, their feed is the Twitter equivalent of diarrhea. It's unreadable.
They would have far more real followers if they only posted their top articles.
Same applies to all publications.
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Treating people with contempt, especially people who think very highly of themselves, is pretty harsh on the ego. I think this man entertains me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 03:34 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Just Lily at April 03, 2023 03:35 PM (WWIFD)
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 03, 2023 03:35 PM (Mkvkw)
Posted by: N. Lurker at April 03, 2023 03:36 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 03, 2023 03:36 PM (wtvvX)
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Some rando is going to get a fake NYT account and pay for the blue checkmark, and it's going to lead to some small entertainments.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 03:36 PM (LvTSG)
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And if anyone knows a thing or two about jawboning....
Posted by: ... at April 03, 2023 03:36 PM (PTLob)
Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2023 03:36 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: I've decided to get rich at April 03, 2023 03:36 PM (7wwvn)
G-d Speed good sir.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2023 03:36 PM (up/3i)
And get thrown out of the press corpse.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 03, 2023 03:36 PM (glGDV)
Posted by: rd at April 03, 2023 03:37 PM (Z32m1)
G-d Speed good sir.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2023 03:36 PM (up/3i)
Honestly, who comes even close?
Howard Hughes?
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 03, 2023 03:38 PM (wtvvX)
All the big news sites have awful social media presence. Worse than incompetent, they are actively unpleasant and poorly presented. Its so bizarre, all they need is a good headline and a link, but their content is just poor, not so much amateurish as just incompetent.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2023 03:38 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 03, 2023 03:38 PM (glGDV)
Posted by: N. Lurker at April 03, 2023 03:38 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 03, 2023 03:38 PM (Mkvkw)
Ford is dropping AM due to the electric field surrounding the EV vehicles (when running) won't permit AM radio waves without interference.
You could have an AM radio, it just won't pick up any stations, or so I've read.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 03, 2023 03:38 PM (jTmQV)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 03, 2023 03:38 PM (ncXxy)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023
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That sounds like the kind of thing Huey Long would have done. But he never did any prison time. Got shot, supposedly by a citizen, in the state capitol building.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2023 03:38 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2023 03:38 PM (DMyTF)
Posted by: I've decided to get rich at April 03, 2023 03:39 PM (7wwvn)
Howard Hughes?
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 03, 2023 03:38 PM (wtvvX)
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I don't think that man ever had fun. He looked like he should have had fun, but I'm not sure he ever had it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 03:39 PM (LvTSG)
Brother says Truth Social is a significant hook up joint with chicks reaching out all the time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 03, 2023 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)
I thought his bodyguards did it. It was hella suspicious given that he was really gaining on FDR in the polls.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2023 03:39 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 03, 2023 03:38 PM (glGDV)
That's per month, right?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 03, 2023 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2023 03:40 PM (DMyTF)
Fake cutie accounts are always trying to get connected on social media with guys. Its hilariously easy to spot.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2023 03:40 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 03, 2023 03:38 PM (glGDV)
That's per month, right?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 03, 2023 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)
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Shoulda made it per tweet.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 03:40 PM (LvTSG)
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FDR was a very frail, fragile man.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 03, 2023 03:40 PM (xSnmX)
Posted by: N. Lurker at April 03, 2023 03:40 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Joe Mama at April 03, 2023 03:40 PM (WmGrA)
Posted by: garrett at April 03, 2023 03:40 PM (tHTIk)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 03, 2023 03:38 PM (ncXxy)
right, they just asked. twitter, as a private company, had the final say in if anything was actually done or not....
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 03, 2023 03:40 PM (Mkvkw)
Ford is dropping AM due to the electric field surrounding the EV vehicles (when running) won't permit AM radio waves without interference.
You could have an AM radio, it just won't pick up any stations, or so I've read.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 03, 2023 03:38 PM (jTmQV)
I don't think Tesla's have radios at all, just that big tablet in the middle with internet streaming everything.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 03, 2023 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 03, 2023 03:40 PM (v4kIh)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023
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That sounds like the kind of thing Huey Long would have done. But he never did any prison time. Got shot, supposedly by a citizen, in the state capitol building.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2023 03:38 PM (J2vNu)
It was George Ryan. I looked it up.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023 03:41 PM (yQpMk)
Hoo boy, they are really showing their manipulative ways.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2023 03:41 PM (rNDFM)
But I never comment on anything.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 03, 2023 03:41 PM (jTmQV)
1) eliminating blocklists
2) eliminating algorithms (I am ONLY interested in my follows/feed, not what's "for you")
3) also providing an "promotion-free" experience for a few bucks a month
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 03, 2023 03:42 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: torabora at April 03, 2023 03:42 PM (OUiUM)
It's why they are woefully unprepared to engage conservatives on the merits of any given policy proposal.
They never hear any of the alternate viewpoints or consider all angles of a given situation.
Truly bizarre behavior--unless you are a Leftist, in which case it's only natural and right and true.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2023 03:42 PM (YIVH2)
The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee · 3h
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2:02 minute video
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 03, 2023 03:42 PM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2023 03:42 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: polynikes at April 03, 2023 03:43 PM (MNhXM)
>>I don't think that man ever had fun. He looked like he should have had fun, but I'm not sure he ever had it.
Hughes banged Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner and Faith Domergue.
If the man didn't have fun doing that then he was obviously a Homo.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2023 03:43 PM (up/3i)
Posted by: Bert G at April 03, 2023 03:43 PM (fF0pk)
Posted by: torabora at April 03, 2023 03:42 PM (OUiUM)
His show was giving facts about what happens and what the impact of the drugs are and they suspended him again.
Had he signed that last contract with whomever, he'd be paying them right now.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 03, 2023 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)
You could have an AM radio, it just won't pick up any stations, or so I've read.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 03, 2023
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In the early days of AM radios in cars, the signal got interference from the spark plugs themselves. Resistor plugs solved that problem and it hasn't been an issue for decades. Of course nowhere near as many people listen to AM nowadays.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2023 03:43 PM (J2vNu)
Howard Hughes?
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 03, 2023 03:38 PM (wtvvX)
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I don't think that man ever had fun. He looked like he should have had fun, but I'm not sure he ever had it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 03:39 PM (LvTSG)
Wasn't he banging Jane Russell when he owned RKO?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023 03:43 PM (yQpMk)
They have a much to do with dispassionate science as astrology.
If you called them, "feelings" it's more honest.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 03, 2023 03:43 PM (YXI6g)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 03, 2023 03:43 PM (jTmQV)
Hoo boy, they are really showing their manipulative ways.
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Oddly, Valerie Jarrett made the Bestseller list for a day. The NYTs is special.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 03, 2023 03:44 PM (xSnmX)
Its always been rigged. Always. The list has always been promoting books they wanted promoted with no regard to sales. They got busted a couple decades go with a scam in which they were only counting books sold in specific, carefully selected niche book stores in areas that they could get reliable results. And I believe they were self-reported, not from sales.
Reminds me of when the record stores started reporting sales based on the UPC scan sales, not store owners reporting sales. Suddenly there was an explosion of Country and Contemporary Christian music being sold, when the accurate data was being counted.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2023 03:44 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: torabora at April 03, 2023 03:44 PM (OUiUM)
Posted by: observer at April 03, 2023 03:44 PM (FBltX)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2023 03:42 PM (ZLI7S)
Part of the problem is we don’t quite know what to do with Musk… he does not fit nicely into any Style Guide.
Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2023 03:44 PM (PCK5/)
Howard Hughes?
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 03, 2023 03:38 PM (wtvvX)
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I don't think that man ever had fun. He looked like he should have had fun, but I'm not sure he ever had it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 03:39 PM (LvTSG)
You're probably right, which is amazing considering the stars/starlets he banged and the planes he flew...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 03, 2023 03:44 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 03, 2023 03:45 PM (gPjAY)
In the early days of AM radios in cars, the signal got interference from the spark plugs themselves. Resistor plugs solved that problem and it hasn't been an issue for decades. Of course nowhere near as many people listen to AM nowadays.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2023 03:43 PM (J2vNu)
Alternator whine was a big player in the older cars, but a cap in the power feed or just really good grounds usually took care of that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 03, 2023 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: polynikes at April 03, 2023 03:45 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at April 03, 2023 03:45 PM (VXTO0)
Those who speak of Governments or Corporations having Rights... ie things which cannot be taken away, but only punished, are diluting what a Right actually is.
Even the argument that Corporations gain their Free Speech Right, from the people who own it, is false. The speech IS coming from a Person, and said speech should have THEIR Name on it, not the Corporations.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2023 03:45 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 03, 2023 03:45 PM (gPjAY)
Don't it make my brown eyes blue?
Posted by: N. Lurker at April 03, 2023 03:46 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2023 03:46 PM (0hOvj)
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/
1642962756906418176
https://tinyurl.com/5crn5jhj
When I just went to Ezra Levant's twatter account that I have bookmarked [without an account of my own] a corgi flashed on screen while it was loading ; and there's a corgi icon next to the account name!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 03, 2023 03:46 PM (Vwz3I)
Part of the problem is we don’t quite know what to do with Musk… he does not fit nicely into any Style Guide.
I would say he is a chaotic/neutral paladin, very Tumpian in that regard.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2023 03:46 PM (up/3i)
Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at April 03, 2023 03:46 PM (OZjDX)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 03, 2023 03:47 PM (Zvtjl)
I'm shocked! Shocked, I say!!
(No, I'm not)
Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2023 03:47 PM (qoGsy)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 03, 2023 03:47 PM (v4kIh)
Posted by: polynikes at April 03, 2023 03:47 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 03, 2023 03:45 PM (gPjAY)
Don't it make my brown eyes blue?
Posted by: N. Lurker at April 03, 2023 03:46 PM (eGTCV)
She's got a BLLUUUEEEE flame shootin from her brown eye.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 03, 2023 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 03, 2023 03:47 PM (Zvtjl)
A slow speed chase through Manhattan!
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023 03:47 PM (yQpMk)
One way to find bad lightning arresters was listen to the AM radio as you drove along a power line.
Posted by: rd at April 03, 2023 03:48 PM (Z32m1)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 03, 2023 03:48 PM (Zvtjl)
>>Trump's plane has landed and is surrounded by security vehicles. Wall to wall coverage on NY television.
More Trump created drama, the man is detestable!!
--
David "I Do Butt Stuff" French.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2023 03:48 PM (up/3i)
I don't agree with all of his positions but I have enormous respect for his talents. The guy has out NASAed NASA.
But mostly I admire him for standing up for free speech. He's done more to promote free speech than anyone and without it we are doomed.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2023 03:48 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at April 03, 2023 03:46 PM (OZjDX)
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5 years ago, Musk was the visionary idol of the "IwannaFuckScienceSoHardForRealGuys" part of the left.
He even gets a name drop in the first episode of Star Trek Discovery as one of the great visionaries of history.
And now...that he said, "the government shouldn't be telling people what to think and we need a real free press?" Public enemy #1 (depending on the day, he could fall down to 3).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 03:48 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 03, 2023 03:46 PM (Vwz3I)
Catturd had a cat or whatever is his image is.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 03, 2023 03:48 PM (Zz0t1)
Nothing he's come up with is unthinkable by others, in fact its mostly boilerplate near-sci fi stuff. He was smart enough to recognize that electric cars are only really interesting or useful as sport cars, taking advantage of their huge immediate torque for massive off-the-line acceleration. Smart, but not innovative.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2023 03:49 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2023 03:49 PM (oHd/0)
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/
1642962756906418176
https://tinyurl.com/5crn5jhj
When I just went to Ezra Levant's twatter account that I have bookmarked [without an account of my own] a corgi flashed on screen while it was loading ; and there's a corgi icon next to the account name!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 03, 2023 03:46 PM (Vwz3I)
Heh. I saw doge too when twitter was loading (on the web).
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 03, 2023 03:49 PM (wtvvX)
Also, their feed is the Twitter equivalent of diarrhea. It's unreadable.
He's right - there's a Twitter account where all they do is point out grammar and spelling errors in the NYTimes' Twitter posts. (NYT usually but not always corrects them afterwards, but I'm old enough to remember when the advantage of the Big Media over "bloggers in pajamas" was their copy editors).
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2023 03:50 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: polynikes at April 03, 2023 03:50 PM (MNhXM)
I thought his bodyguards did it. It was hella suspicious given that he was really gaining on FDR in the polls.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2023
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Quite probably, and possibly by accident. Long didn't die immediately from the wounds. As he was being wheeled into surgery, he told his men, "Nobody talks to the press until I do." Knowing what a publicity-seeking missile he was -- he could have spun the incident as "That ol' Standard Oil tryin' to stop me from helpin' the poor folks of Loozyana" -- makes me think that they needed to concoct a story. One of his guards may have put a couple of rounds into him by accident. Oops!
Weiss (or Weisz), the dentist accused of the shooting, couldn't defend himself; the bodyguards had shot him. And he was not political and was never known to be a Long hater.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2023 03:50 PM (J2vNu)
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Well yeah but our side is the only side that hasn't realized that shit's pointless and has been since the sun came up for the very first time.
You need to *emotionally* persuade people and because the Left gave have no limits to the lies they will tell or the crap they will support, they have a pretty easy time getting people into the bubble.
And even as people leave the bubble it doesn't matter because they will demonize them (like apostasy) and convert 20 young impressionable minds for every 1 mature adult mind that leaves.
*We* in the main try to get people to "reason" their way out of a bubble they got sucked into emotionally. You even see it sometimes when people here "argue" with the trolls like the trolls give a fuck. It doesn't work. It's all commendable but it's barely better than mental masturbation.
Posted by: ... at April 03, 2023 03:50 PM (boWuw)
That will go for this place, too.
But we will be safe from the Chinese from tracking what music we like and what food bloggers we follow. Thank heavens for that.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 03, 2023 03:50 PM (eXt3H)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 03, 2023 03:47 PM (Zvtjl)
A slow speed chase through Manhattan!
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023 03:47 PM (yQpMk)
Shoulda rented a Bronco to show up in...
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2023 03:51 PM (oHd/0)
https://abc7ny.com/watch/live/
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 03, 2023 03:48 PM (Zvtjl)
PLEASE tell me that he hired a band to play "Hail to the Chief" as he descended the stairs to the tarmac...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 03, 2023 03:51 PM (wtvvX)
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/
1642962756906418176
That's a Shiba Inu, the dog from the "doge" memes.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2023 03:51 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at April 03, 2023 03:51 PM (ljAqb)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at April 03, 2023 03:51 PM (ljAqb)
He will stick you with the tab.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023 03:52 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 03, 2023 03:52 PM (p+1gI)
Which... he probably would have.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2023 03:52 PM (0hOvj)
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Not an avatar or the like but a corgi at the top left-hand corner of the page. Clicking on it goes to the twitter.com home page.
Give it a go:
https://twitter.com/ezralevant
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 03, 2023 03:52 PM (Vwz3I)
Yeah.... some things you look at and go... hey... wait a second...
Like Patton's lethal Car Accident.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2023 03:52 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2023 03:53 PM (rNDFM)
Musk is the only person who could get you to the moon right now. Boeing's having enough trouble with just keeping 737s in the air, and Bezos fucked up so badly Amazon has contracted with Musk for their launches.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2023 03:53 PM (ZGrMX)
Shoulda rented a Bronco to show up in...
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2023 03:51 PM (oHd/0)
Didn't Pawn Stars buy the OJ Bronco?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 03, 2023 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: ... at April 03, 2023 03:50 PM (boWuw)
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Yep. Emotion trumps reason every time. It takes a remarkable mind indeed to reflect on the true merits of an idea and draw a reasonable conclusion. Setting aside ego and emotion is downright impossible for far too many people.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2023 03:53 PM (YIVH2)
"Criminal RICO
To violate RICO, a person must engage in a pattern of racketeering activity connected to an enterprise. The law defines 35 offenses as constituting racketeering, including gambling, murder, kidnapping, arson, drug dealing, bribery. Significantly, mail and wire fraud are included on the list. These crimes are known as "predicate" offenses. To charge under RICO, at least two predicate crimes within 10 years must have been committed through the enterprise.
Note that an enterprise is required. This might be a crime family, a street gang or a drug cartel. But it may also be a corporation, a POLITICAL PARTY, or a managed care company."
(caps are mine)
Posted by: Gref at April 03, 2023 03:53 PM (AMIL/)
It's not a corgi, it's the Doge dog, a Shiba Inu.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2023 03:54 PM (ZGrMX)
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I stand [sit??] corrected. There was a doge guy very pleased in the replies to Musk's tweet, above, so I guess that explains that.
Thanks.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 03, 2023 03:54 PM (Vwz3I)
It's the sudden stop that gets you.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023 03:54 PM (yQpMk)
You take FedGov money there will always be strings attached.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2023 03:54 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: GWAR at April 03, 2023 03:55 PM (tHTIk)
Give it a go:
https://twitter.com/ezralevant
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 03, 2023 03:52 PM (Vwz3I)
Ah. Ok. That was the same thing for a catturd link I clicked earlier......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 03, 2023 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)
Alternator whine was a big player in the older cars, but a cap in the power feed or just really good grounds usually took care of that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden
And when we put aftermarket stereo systems into our mid-70s land-whale cruisers, the amplified whine sounded like you had an F-14 under the hood.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 03, 2023 03:55 PM (n+4am)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zdx3IIwrt9I
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFLMX22BNE
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 03, 2023 03:55 PM (FVME7)
Crazy conspiracy theorists.
@ShellenbergerMD
A growing body of evidence shows U.S. govt officials, agencies, & contractors demanding Facebook & Twitter censor ordinary Americans. Now, an influential censorship advocate has admitted that she worked for the CIA. Who is she? Why is she so influential?
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2023 03:55 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: N. Lurker at April 03, 2023 03:55 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 03, 2023 03:52 PM (p+1gI)
There's likely advertising contracts he'd violate should he just shut it down.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 03, 2023 03:56 PM (Zz0t1)
It is why the "precautionary principle" has always been a dagger aimed at the heart of the American experiment.
At the end of the day right around the time the 19th amendment was ratified the bomb began ticking.
Posted by: sven at April 03, 2023 03:56 PM (Lzpvj)
A growing body of evidence shows U.S. govt officials, agencies, & contractors demanding Facebook & Twitter censor ordinary Americans. Now, an influential censorship advocate has admitted that she worked for the CIA. Who is she? Why is she so influential?
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2023 03:55 PM (ZLI7S)
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"You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide."
-the Left, also the bad guys from Harry Potter, the only book they've ever read
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 03:56 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: polynikes at April 03, 2023 03:56 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2023 03:40 PM (0hOvj)
I became suspicious after she put her dick in my ass and then never called me back.
Posted by: ... at April 03, 2023 03:56 PM (ErQaS)
I'm-a gonna live dangerously and stop at the local Dollar Tree on the way home. (If you don't think that's living on the edge, you haven't seen the Dollar Trees in my neighborhood.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2023 03:57 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Michael Vick at April 03, 2023 03:57 PM (h5TKJ)
>>There's likely advertising contracts he'd violate should he just shut it down.
There's also the dream of recouping the billions he lit on fire buying it.
It's a pipe dream, still, a dream none the less.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2023 03:57 PM (up/3i)
Well we are losing global reserve currency status this year so the lady will be wrong holing a lot of folks soon.
Posted by: sven at April 03, 2023 03:57 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2023 03:40 PM (0hOvj)
I became suspicious after she put her dick in my ass and then never called me back.
Posted by: ... at April 03, 2023 03:56 PM (ErQaS)
Not a fan of Thai food?
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 03, 2023 03:58 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Musk von Sydow at April 03, 2023 03:58 PM (EXyHK)
Well, Joe Biden, as President, has free speech rights.
However, some bureaucrat at DHS telling Twitter to censor Alex Berenson, does not.
David French really isn't that bright.
Posted by: Jay in PA at April 03, 2023 03:58 PM (i7Q7S)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023 03:58 PM (yQpMk)
It's too late.
All social media has already hijacked peoples' dopamine regulation mechanisms.
They'd just find the next loop-machine.
Now if you want to shut down the internet entirely, that might make some headway.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 03, 2023 03:58 PM (eXt3H)
He is a lot like Vindman, essentially the military is full of people who forget that the point is to serve the people not necessarily the whim of government.
Posted by: sven at April 03, 2023 03:59 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: polynikes at April 03, 2023 03:59 PM (MNhXM)
Things aren't going that well for globalists these days.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2023 03:59 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at April 03, 2023 03:59 PM (MvF+J)
David French really isn't that bright.
Posted by: Jay in PA at April 03, 2023 03:58 PM (i7Q7S)
It's dark where he keeps his head.
Posted by: N. Lurker at April 03, 2023 03:59 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 03, 2023 03:59 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2023 03:59 PM (DMyTF)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 03, 2023
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My '75 Ford Maverick only had an AM radio, so I added Pioneer Supertuner for FM and cassette tapes that hung under the dash. Reminded me of Mr. Sulu's helm console on Star Trek, just smaller.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2023 03:59 PM (J2vNu)
#SOON
//Carrington Event of the other side of the sun this time
Posted by: sven at April 03, 2023 04:00 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 03, 2023 03:59 PM (wtvvX)
A sex machine?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 03, 2023 04:00 PM (Zz0t1)
His wife is hittable.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2023 03:59 PM (DMyTF)
Indeed.
Posted by: The 7th Fleet at April 03, 2023 04:00 PM (yQpMk)
Putin rattling the saber reminded them of their national identity and its fragility.
Posted by: sven at April 03, 2023 04:00 PM (Lzpvj)
Not very stealthy in naming their classes, are they? I would have suggested 'StateSponsoredCensorship'.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 03, 2023 04:01 PM (Xrfse)
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My '75 Ford Maverick only had an AM radio, so I added Pioneer Supertuner for FM and cassette tapes that hung under the dash. Reminded me of Mr. Sulu's helm console on Star Trek, just smaller.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2023 03:59 PM (J2vNu)
The Supertuner series were solid stereos back in the day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 03, 2023 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Whatever you think is about to happen in this video, you're wrong
https://tinyurl.com/mr2rw5e3
__
Incredible video shows skier saving snowboarder who was buried alive under deep, heavy snow. The skier BARELY noticed him as he skied past.
https://tinyurl.com/mtv8tvhp
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at April 03, 2023 04:01 PM (278Ea)
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 03, 2023 04:02 PM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023 04:02 PM (yQpMk)
More evidence they are either that brazen or that cocksure they are not ever losing power again....
don't know which it is yet.
Posted by: sven at April 03, 2023 04:02 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at April 03, 2023 04:02 PM (MvF+J)
They weren't expecting us to be able to see it, any more than the people writing the global warming hoax FORTRAN that was leaked in the East Anglia documents expected us to see the comments that it was in fact making shit up so Michael Mann would be happy.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2023 04:04 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 03, 2023 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)
I miss my Alpine AM/FM cassette deck. Sounded great, and those green buttons were soooo cool.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 03, 2023 04:04 PM (wtvvX)
https://tinyurl.com/mtv8tvhp
This one made me feel like I was suffocating. Would have liked to see the guy get out so I could stop breathing for him. LOL
Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 03, 2023 04:04 PM (sI15f)
don't know which it is yet.
Posted by: sven a
At this point they're just doing that thing on your face.
Posted by: I Mean at April 03, 2023 04:05 PM (7wwvn)
The New Yawk Times is Hot Garbage.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 03, 2023 04:05 PM (KaRdo)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2023 04:05 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2023 04:05 PM (DMyTF)
At least until the RESTRICT Act bans non-FedCoins.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2023 04:06 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at April 03, 2023 04:06 PM (MvF+J)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 03, 2023 04:07 PM (fWTJL)
>>McTurtle still recovering from his faceplant is very convenient. Too convennient.
I mean he is 80 after all, when I was a kid a little old lady fell over her shopping cart, hit her head and died on the spot.
Here's hoping there is a shopping cart incident in McConnell's future.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2023 04:07 PM (up/3i)
Posted by: garrett at April 03, 2023 04:08 PM (tHTIk)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2023 04:07 PM (up/3i)
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Like...he sees one in person for the first time in decades?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 04:08 PM (LvTSG)
It was a granny muscle car, you could put a 302 in it and make a sleeper.
Posted by: sven at April 03, 2023 04:08 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 03, 2023 04:09 PM (v4kIh)
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today,
We had that. It was called the Soviet Union. National Socialist Germany. The People's Republic of China.
And so on.
If that's what you want then Imagine is the song for you.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2023 04:09 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: zombie abraham lincoln at April 03, 2023 04:09 PM (Vwz3I)
For the record she's the hottest non-Japanese cat girl I've seen.
Posted by: Obligatory at April 03, 2023 04:09 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: sven at April 03, 2023 04:08 PM (Lzpvj)
I had the 302, it still sucked.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023 04:09 PM (yQpMk)
Damn optimists.
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Yep. I feel your pain. This market trades on deep state emo alone. Imaging losing the ability to price the world to the Saudis and thinking its a good thing.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 03, 2023 04:09 PM (fWTJL)
Most cars sucked in the 70s. Ford did overachieve though, with the Pinto and the Mustang II.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2023 04:11 PM (ZGrMX)
So Earnings
Much Moneys
Stonks
Investment Wagging
Posted by: Some Doge at April 03, 2023 04:11 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: garrett at April 03, 2023 04:11 PM (tHTIk)
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The Ford Theatre too.
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Heh, my great, great, great distant cousin was outside holding Booth's horse for him. He got Booth across the Potomac and then headed for Cuba and then England.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 03, 2023 04:11 PM (fWTJL)
OnlyFans, here comes Sanna!
Posted by: spindrift at April 03, 2023 04:11 PM (h5TKJ)
I am at a loss on how a 302 or 351 packed Maverick could suck, hell they even came in 4 door.
I had a 302 4 door that I did up like a Mad Max Pursuit Special-I was happy with it.
Posted by: sven at April 03, 2023 04:11 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023 04:12 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: JROD at April 03, 2023 04:12 PM (IlL6s)
||Former Canadian men's basketball national team member and Olympian Greg Francis has died at the age of 48.
Canada Basketball confirmed the news on Monday.
Francis competed for Canada at both the 1998 FIBA men’s world championship and 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.||
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 03, 2023 04:12 PM (Vwz3I)
4 Doors More Whores.
Seriously, though. 4 Door Vehicles are shit.
Posted by: garrett at April 03, 2023 04:13 PM (tHTIk)
Very true, the worst was the 75-81 era the more extra shit EPA crammed into the engine case the narrower the horizontal and vertical spacing got around the powerplant.
Posted by: sven at April 03, 2023 04:13 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Some Sanna on Only Fans at April 03, 2023 04:13 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 03, 2023 04:13 PM (Wy1BU)
A lot of Corvettes are famous for this.
Posted by: garrett at April 03, 2023 04:13 PM (tHTIk)
Eh, sometimes you need to be able to throw people bodily into your vehicle....
also I have had several companions who desired to accompany me in my wanderings.
Posted by: sven at April 03, 2023 04:14 PM (Lzpvj)
@unusual_whales 2h
BREAKING: Blackstone, $BX, has again blocked withdrawals from its $70 billion real estate income trust in March.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 03, 2023 04:14 PM (jzzG8)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2023 04:14 PM (up/3i)
||Former Canadian men's basketball national team member and Olympian Greg Francis has died at the age of 48.
Someone linked a study showing the clot shot reduced life expectancy by...25 years.
The article they linked was somewhat dubious but...in shape 48 year olds don't normally die absent foul play...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2023 04:14 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2023 03:55 PM (ZLI7S)
Just read the substack. Infuriating. An unaccountable leviathan "parsing" our media consumption and generously sprinkling it with outright lies.
Her involvement in "Project Birmingham" especially interesting.
Posted by: DaisyB at April 03, 2023 04:15 PM (AbL8c)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2023 04:15 PM (ZLI7S)
Embrace the suck!
Posted by: yep at April 03, 2023 04:15 PM (sPYbd)
My boosted once Moderna non-svelte ass must be a tank then.
Posted by: sven at April 03, 2023 04:16 PM (Lzpvj)
A lot of Corvettes are famous for this.
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GM made another car like this in the early 90s. You had to buy a special wrench to change the back two spark plugs. Can't remember its name. It was a shit car.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 03, 2023 04:16 PM (fWTJL)
@unusual_whales 2h
BREAKING: Blackstone, $BX, has again blocked withdrawals from its $70 billion real estate income trust in March.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 03, 2023 04:14 PM (jzzG
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Backing down from ESG is not in the cards, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 04:16 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Kamala Harris at April 03, 2023 04:16 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2023 04:16 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023 04:12 PM (yQpMk)
GM Northstar V8 - the starter was located between the block and the intake manifold.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 03, 2023 04:16 PM (OgrpQ)
Bud Light draws backlash after promoting trans activist Dylan Mulvaney, but marketing pros say it’s a smart move
zerohedge @zerohedge · 1h
were the marketing pros recently employed by twitter?
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 03, 2023 04:16 PM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: garrett at April 03, 2023 04:17 PM (tHTIk)
>>The whole stupid thing with Imagine is that we don't need to imagine
Imagine was John's soul crying out to be free of Yoko Ono.
Discuss...
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2023 04:17 PM (up/3i)
I think the 302 in the Maverick made 140HP tops.
They did make a Grabber version. That might have had more go.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023 04:17 PM (yQpMk)
Will anyone be held accountable? (shake your head).
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 03, 2023 04:17 PM (N39Ws)
Bud Light draws backlash after promoting trans activist Dylan Mulvaney, but marketing pros say it’s a smart move
zerohedge @zerohedge · 1h
were the marketing pros recently employed by twitter?
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 03, 2023 04:16 PM (Vwz3I)
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When Bud Lite sales decline by 5% this quarter, it will be blamed on Trump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 04:17 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 03, 2023 04:13 PM (Wy1BU)
*Narrows eyes*
My college girlfriend in the '80s drove a beat-up old Nova. Yours wasn't blue, was it?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 03, 2023 04:17 PM (BTgKJ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 03, 2023 04:18 PM (FVME7)
Most of Toyota's V8s do that too. It's kind of irresistable to engineers on V engines because the flywheel's right there.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2023 04:18 PM (ZGrMX)
2 BBL Carb and an automatic with 2.75 - 3.25 Gearing, too.
Didn't take much to fix all that, though.
Posted by: garrett at April 03, 2023 04:18 PM (tHTIk)
Discuss...
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2023 04:17 PM (up/3i)
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Mark David Chapman was actually a hitman hired by Lennon to kill Yoko, but Chapman misunderstood his instructions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 04:18 PM (LvTSG)
One of the biggest open questions is, does the clot shot injure you or not when you get it and if it doesn't you are free (the spike proteins stay in your arm) or...is everyone basically screwed once they get it?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2023 04:18 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 03, 2023 04:19 PM (fWTJL)
Former Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson Announces 2024 Presidential Campaign
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 03, 2023 04:19 PM (FVME7)
Joe Manchin Hints at Centrist Run for President
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 03, 2023 04:18 PM (FVME7)
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*reads tea leaves*
Manchin knows he can't win in 2024 in WV, so he's decided that he's going to grift on a larger scale: a hopeless presidential primary campaign that takes in at least $20 million.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 04:19 PM (LvTSG)
Crypto Jumps After Musk Changes Twitter Icon To Dogecoin
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 03, 2023 04:19 PM (Vwz3I)
Pretty sure they made a HiPo Gremlin / Pacer. Crazy rare cars.
Posted by: garrett at April 03, 2023 04:20 PM (tHTIk)
Nah, he was still trying to fit in with her and her Marxist friends when he wrote that.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2023 04:20 PM (ZGrMX)
Former Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson Announces 2024 Presidential Campaign
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 03, 2023 04:19 PM (FVME7)
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GOPe is going to kill each other to get the 15% of Republican primary voters that won't vote for Trump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 04:20 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: ... at April 03, 2023 04:20 PM (2zuWP)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 03, 2023 04:20 PM (KFhLj)
She lost it drag racing on OH 202 back in the day.
Posted by: sven at April 03, 2023 04:20 PM (Lzpvj)
Joe Manchin Hints at Centrist Run for President
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He'd likely get moar Dem Primary Votes than Kamala or Joe.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 03, 2023 04:20 PM (fWTJL)
They are so funny.
Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2023 04:20 PM (krQz2)
It could be opened by a key but the trunk lid was crazy heavy and had to be held open while you were boosting the battery.
Posted by: N. Lurker at April 03, 2023 04:21 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 03, 2023 04:20 PM (fWTJL)
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Not ballots, though.
It'd be hilarious if Manchin won IA, NH, SC, and then Biden still won the primary.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 04:21 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher
Nope! Candy Apple red. Had a 350 engine and a three speed manual shift on the floor.
I had only driven three on the tree so it took some getting used to.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 03, 2023 04:21 PM (Wy1BU)
That Engine is something.
The 72 Mach 1, though...
Posted by: garrett at April 03, 2023 04:21 PM (tHTIk)
Now mind you, a 72 Impala was a land whale and it drove like one too.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2023 04:22 PM (up/3i)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 03, 2023 04:20 PM (fWTJL)
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He could possibly primary Joe! LOFL!!
Ohpleaseletthathappenohpleaseohplease!
Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2023 04:22 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023 04:22 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2023 04:22 PM (DMyTF)
Smaller cars had a head start on a lot of the EPA interference that was coming down the line. And they were better attempts at a small car than anything the Big 3 were doing, not that that's a high bar.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2023 04:22 PM (ZGrMX)
Caitlyn Jenner Says “Radical Rainbow Mafia Has Hijacked LGBT People,” “They Are Domestic Terrorists”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 03, 2023 04:23 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: N. Lurker at April 03, 2023 04:23 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2023 04:22 PM (up/3i)
You could land aircraft on the hood if you turned it into the wind.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023 04:23 PM (yQpMk)
The day he seriously started thinking about it we'd find out that Manchin is a racist.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2023 04:23 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 03, 2023 04:19 PM (fWTJL)
California Institute of Design. But the Gremlin X and Pacer X came with 360 cid. Both coffins on wheels.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 03, 2023 04:23 PM (OgrpQ)
There is no difference between what Dylann Roof did and what the transecutioner did in TN. Except in how the FNM handled it...oh and the legion of NGOs that were helping the tranny murder.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2023 04:24 PM (lc5cP)
>>Explain the Vega. I never saw one that wasn't falling apart.
As others have noted, most American cars of the 70s and 80s sucked donkey dick.
The first fun to drive car I owned was and RX7.
I miss that car dearley.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2023 04:24 PM (up/3i)
Posted by: N. Lurker at April 03, 2023 04:24 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: fd at April 03, 2023 04:24 PM (iayUP)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2023 04:24 PM (lc5cP)
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We do know that Roof kind of felt bad about what he was about to do before he did it.
No such indication from tranny in Nashville.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 04:25 PM (LvTSG)
Passed me on a pass in a whiteout blizzard. Like I was going in reverse.
And I was driving an Audi Quattro w/ Blizzaks on it.
Posted by: garrett at April 03, 2023 04:25 PM (tHTIk)
I think 70s GM pretty much just built cars out of rust. Saved time.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2023 04:25 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2023 04:18 PM (lc5cP)
Just a SWAG (scientific wild ass guess)... if the shot hits an artery? it gets spread around your body.... if it hits a vein? it does straight to your heart. If it hit NEITHER, it stays in your arm like it is supposed to.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2023 04:26 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: N. Lurker at April 03, 2023 04:26 PM (eGTCV)
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I drove a Vega. It was a rust bucket that drove great. I didn't need a key to get something from my trunk.
Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2023 04:26 PM (krQz2)
I had only driven three on the tree so it took some getting used to.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 03, 2023 04:21 PM (Wy1BU)
I am relieved.
My first car was my dad's old '66 Mustang, which also had a 3-speed manual on the floor. The clutch on that thing was a cast-iron beyotch to negotiate with.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 03, 2023 04:26 PM (BTgKJ)
For two years there was a Cosworth edition Vega, mostly a trim package, but ran Cosworth designed heads.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 03, 2023 04:26 PM (OgrpQ)
I have mixed feelings about the Chevy Bl*zer. Still, when it was running, it was a mudder.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at April 03, 2023 04:26 PM (xPJvm)
https://bityl.co/I05T
It was fun to cruise around in, even in the winter you could have the top down if you were in the front seat and had the windows up. Amazing heater on that thing.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023 04:26 PM (yQpMk)
Asa Hutcheson: Trump should step aside for the good of the party.
F**k You motherf**ker, F**K YOU!!!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2023 04:27 PM (up/3i)
Posted by: garrett at April 03, 2023 04:27 PM (tHTIk)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at April 03, 2023 04:27 PM (xPJvm)
Asa Hutcheson: Trump should step aside for the good of the party.
F**k You motherf**ker, F**K YOU!!!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2023 04:27 PM (up/3i)
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"This is the man for us!"
-Wal-Mart, and literally no one else
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 04:27 PM (LvTSG)
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The Ford Theatre too.
Posted by: zombie abraham lincoln at April 03, 2023 04:09 PM (Vwz3I)
Fun to ride shotgun in it though.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 03, 2023 04:28 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 03, 2023 04:23 PM (FVME7)
I only wanted this ridiculous nutbar notion to go *that* far!
Posted by: Bruce Jenner points at a passing signpost while hurtling down the slippery slope at April 03, 2023 04:28 PM (h5TKJ)
Posted by: N. Lurker at April 03, 2023 04:28 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2023 04:28 PM (DMyTF)
https://tinyurl.com/56v52p4p
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 04:28 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Bruce Jenner points at a passing signpost while hurtling down the slippery slope at April 03, 2023 04:28 PM (h5TKJ)
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"Listen, I'm in total control. This ain't getting' out of hand at any time."
-Robespierre
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 04:29 PM (LvTSG)
https://tinyurl.com/56v52p4p
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 04:28 PM (LvTSG)
She moves me.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023 04:29 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Queegueg the Harpooner at April 03, 2023 04:30 PM (KQtp9)
And Crocs.
Posted by: garrett at April 03, 2023 04:27 PM (tHTIk)
My current daily is a 06 WRX STI running 485 hp at the wheels. I do not own a set of crocs, I don't vape and I am not a lesbian.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 03, 2023 04:30 PM (OgrpQ)
-Robespierre
Good. If you need me, I'll be in the bath.
Posted by: Marat at April 03, 2023 04:30 PM (tHTIk)
The day he seriously started thinking about it we'd find out that Manchin is a racist.
Posted by: 18-1
Or that he fell out of a window.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 03, 2023 04:30 PM (FVME7)
She lost it drag racing on OH 202 back in the day.
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Got a Beach Boys song in my head now. Been on OH 202 north of Huber Heights recently, I guess back in the day it was great for racing.
Posted by: exdem13 at April 03, 2023 04:30 PM (W+kMI)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2023 04:30 PM (DMyTF)
>>Those are like the Subaru WRX. And Crocs.
I also had a Mitsubishi Galant VR4 which was essentially the Mitsubishi Legnum Rally Car that would race against the Subaru WRX.
The Galant was the 2nd most fun car to drive as it had four wheel steering and all wheel drive to allow you to take turns at around 100 mph.
Which I would routinely test driving on the FDR drive at night.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2023 04:30 PM (up/3i)
I bet that thing is fun as hell.
And, I bet strangers think you are gay.
Posted by: garrett at April 03, 2023 04:31 PM (tHTIk)
Posted by: EveR at April 03, 2023 04:31 PM (MUpk6)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 03, 2023 04:31 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2023 04:22 PM (up/3i)
Pretty sure that was the car we had in drivers ed. Definitely an Impala and '72 would be about perfect on the year. Don't recall how it drove, but do recall sitting in the back with a couple of cute girls while one of the other kids had their turn driving.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at April 03, 2023 04:31 PM (+VYe5)
I remember those. Neighbor had one.
He only let me drive it once.
Posted by: garrett at April 03, 2023 04:31 PM (tHTIk)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023 04:22 PM (yQpMk)
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I actually had a Vega as one of my first cars. My dad bought it off a friend of his for $250. It was about 13 years old, and only had 37,000 miles. He completely rebuilt the engine, which included, if I remember correctly (and I'm not a car guy, so let me know if I got it wrong) replacing the aluminum cylinder sleeves with steel sleeves. His downfall was trying to salvage the water pump after one of the ears that bolts to the engine snapped. Car liked to overheat. Also burned oil.
Other than that, it was a fun car to drive, and the car in which I learned to drive stick.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 03, 2023 04:32 PM (uPgE/)
I mean, same car, slightly different body panels.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023 04:32 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 03, 2023 04:32 PM (z0DEK)
She was pretty good and fearless, lost to a 'vette.
You used to be able to tear ass all the way from Troy to Huber without much hassle.
I miss my youth.
Posted by: sven at April 03, 2023 04:32 PM (Lzpvj)
https://tinyurl.com/56v52p4p
Double jointed?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2023 04:32 PM (DMyTF)
Posted by: EveR at April 03, 2023 04:31 PM (MUpk6)
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I was predicting this sort of thing 2 years ago.
We'd get a succession of Trump Killers, "good Republicans" that the media would go to bat for in an effort to dethrone Trump in the minds of the Republican primary voter.
Each one would last about a week. They'd never get within 35 points of Trump. They'd each raise a minimum of $10 million and spend far less than that to campaign strictly from their homes, making virtual appearances on CNN.
Asa is now candidate #2. We're going to get at least 10 more of these.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 04:33 PM (LvTSG)
>>Shit wait, it wasn't a 72 Impala, it was a 72 Buick Skylark Convertible. I mean, same car, slightly different body panels.
Did it have positraction? Asking for a hot Italian girl.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2023 04:33 PM (up/3i)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 04:33 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: JT at April 03, 2023 04:34 PM (T4tVD)
And, I bet strangers think you are gay.
Posted by: garrett at April 03, 2023 04:31 PM (tHTIk)
I have it set up for auto cross, but it looks stock. Going to install a manual hydro brake in it this summer. Gapped many a Camaro and Mustang in it. But I mostly like cruising the winding roads in it, rides on rails.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 03, 2023 04:34 PM (OgrpQ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 04:33 PM (LvTSG)
Is Pence, like the Expos, already mathematically eliminated?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023 04:34 PM (yQpMk)
>>I remember those. Neighbor had one. He only let me drive it once.
It was a great car.
This was during my Japanese Rice Rocket Phase, also had a Mitsubishi Eclipse.
I now drive a Corvette disguised as a Jeep Wrangler.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2023 04:35 PM (up/3i)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 03, 2023 04:35 PM (fWTJL)
I think 70s GM pretty much just built cars out of rust. Saved time.
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Truth on that. The big Chevy station wagon with the black vinyl seats (fry like bacon) succumbed to a lot of winter-caused rust, and the early-model Chevette also turned into a Flinstones car until dad had a garage weld a plate onto the driver's side floor to prevent water getting in. It didn't rust away though, the transmission went south. Twice.
Posted by: exdem13 at April 03, 2023 04:35 PM (W+kMI)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at April 03, 2023 04:27 PM
Not everyone can have the AoSHQ equivalent of a blue check. It wouldn't be prudent.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 03, 2023 04:35 PM (a3Q+t)
Whatever.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 03, 2023 04:35 PM (VaXFS)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 04:33 PM (LvTSG)
Is Pence, like the Expos, already mathematically eliminated?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 03, 2023 04:34 PM (yQpMk)
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Unless I've missed something, he hasn't announced yet. I'm sure he's in the background with big dollar donors lining up tens of millions (perhaps more than a hundred million) dollars for the campaign.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 04:35 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 03, 2023 04:30 PM (OgrpQ)
Nobody thinks WRX drivers are lesbians. They think they're 16 year old boys.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2023 04:36 PM (ZGrMX)
-The GOPe
---one week later---
"Well, Trump is even more popular than ever and has raised more money from small dollar donors in the past seven days than we have from big dollar donors. Maybe if we convince people that he's a Russian stooge again. People like reruns, right?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 04:36 PM (LvTSG)
I'll bet. They are really well conceived vehicles, imo.
Posted by: garrett at April 03, 2023 04:37 PM (tHTIk)
Posted by: The Son of the Mailman, who would be a great President at April 03, 2023 04:37 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: N. Lurker
The idea was to marry an 'independent' line of cars outside of the union mafia with a 'eco-friendly' brand. They had a handful of industry firsts like plastic panels with auto-paint ( sure, piss on it, but it was groundbreaking ) Then the GM chief caved to the unions and folded it into the GM line and destroyed any kind of innovation that could or would be had.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 03, 2023 04:37 PM (jzzG8)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 03, 2023 04:37 PM (BTgKJ)
Hutchinson has as much chance of becoming president as a random dog turd.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2023 04:37 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: garrett at April 03, 2023 04:37 PM (tHTIk)
Jared Pink on YouTube famously has a '72 International pickup with a Corvette drivetrain. It's a hell of a sleeper.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2023 04:38 PM (ZGrMX)
H & H/2024 Hutchinson/Hogan
Just GTFO with this idiocy.
Posted by: micky at April 03, 2023 04:38 PM (3byMq)
Welp.
Posted by: DaisyB at April 03, 2023 04:38 PM (AbL8c)
Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2023 04:39 PM (xhxe8)
She was pretty good and fearless, lost to a 'vette.
You used to be able to tear ass all the way from Troy to Huber without much hassle.
I miss my youth.
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Yeah, 202 and 203 have gotten built up quite a ways northward, although it's still not to the level as the Cincinnati-Dayton corridor.
Posted by: exdem13 at April 03, 2023 04:39 PM (W+kMI)
Posted by: polynikes at April 03, 2023 04:39 PM (pBEqG)
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at April 03, 2023 04:39 PM (Eeb9P)
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Reminded of that story about a chick posing as a conservative and then sending info to FBI.
Posted by: runner at April 03, 2023 04:40 PM (i4jdL)
Asa is now candidate #2. We're going to get at least 10 more of these.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 03, 2023 04:33 PM (LvTSG)
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"It's all about the grift!" -- Frank Reynolds
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2023 04:40 PM (YIVH2)
>>Jared Pink on YouTube famously has a '72 International pickup with a Corvette drivetrain. It's a hell of a sleeper.
Yeah, engine, drive train swaps are now all the rage.
The wildest one I saw was someone dropped a Lexus 8-Cyinder into a Miata.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2023 04:40 PM (up/3i)
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2023 04:36 PM (ZGrMX)
Not any more, they are pricing out of the market. Subaru discontinued the performance STI and their value has gone way up. A "new" 2020 STI is fetching $60,000. the 16 year olds have moved to the Toyota/Subaru "Miata" the BRZ.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 03, 2023 04:40 PM (OgrpQ)
Posted by: polynikes at April 03, 2
The man is all Ukraine all the time
Posted by: runner at April 03, 2023 04:40 PM (i4jdL)
I don't understand those words in reference to the new york times.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 03, 2023 04:42 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 03, 2023 04:16 PM (fWTJL)
Might have been the Chevy Monza.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 03, 2023 04:43 PM (ZSK0i)
Some of us are blessed enough to have a few lines of code written at us others have a large books' worth and "sven" on twatter probably had the Encyclopedia Dramatica....
Posted by: sven at April 03, 2023 04:43 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 03, 2023 04:47 PM (17s+e)
Well, an ass like him would know.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 03, 2023 03:36 PM (wtvvX)
golf clap.
Posted by: kathysaysso at April 03, 2023 05:29 PM (PvVvQ)
Yup.
We're moving into Prime Grifting Season where almost anybody with any kind of publicly known name can make millions by running a nice little grift for a few months at most.
I think also on the Dims side as well.Someone or multiple someone's with Clintonian ambition and chutzpah will run against Punchy. I predict several cuz there's so much easy money to be made.
Punchy's a loser and everybody knows it. Why not make some money and maybe win the whole deal cuz you know the Dims are gonna cheat.
If I were a Dim politician, I'd be all in.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 03, 2023 05:40 PM (mm6iK)
Ace, why should a block affect promotion at all? That always weaponizes blocking. Hasn't the user gotten what they wanted by not having to read the nonsense?
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