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Not-Thin Lizzy is now claiming that if you have a legal theory that she disagrees with, that's a prosecutable crime.

She's arguing here with Mark Levin, who takes the obviously-fascist view that just because he disagrees with Trump's/Eastman's theory on holding up the counting of electors, that does not make their (in his mind) erroneous reading of the law criminal.

And Levin was responding to a hit by Media Matters -- which Not-Thin Lizzy piggybacks on -- claiming he was "passionately" defending a theory he himself rejects.


Mark R. Levin
@marklevinshow

Uh, I said it wasn't criminal, assh*les; I didn’t passionately defend it. I don't know how much Soros is paying you dolts but your association with him has ruined you clowns forever.


Not-Thin Lizzy says it does make it illegal, because she's an anti-authoritarian defending our nation's Normzzz.


Rep. Liz Cheney
@RepLizCheney
.
@MarkLevinshow
: The Eastman memos & fake elector scheme are indefensible. On the memos: Eastman took the opposite legal position a month before the election; he knew all 9 Justices would rule against him; & he admitted it was illegal in an Oval Office meeting & afterwards. (1/3)


White House lawyers said it was illegal too. The fake electoral slates were obviously false, and were transmitted to multiple federal officials for purposes of obstructing the electoral count. None of this is ambiguous. (2/3)

Watch the hearings, and read the opinion of the federal judge who concluded that Eastman and Trump likely violated two criminal statutes. (3/3)

I wonder how much Soros is paying her.


Oh, here's a great idea -- the CDC is finally requiring states to report monkeypox cases within 24 hours.

They waited until San Francisco had finished its Kink Festival super-spreader event to impose the reporting requirement, of course.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is designating monkeypox -- an infectious viral disease that's been showing up around the world recently -- as a nationally notifiable condition on Monday.

The designation means that states are now required to report all confirmed and suspected monkeypox cases to the agency within 24 hours of discovery. States must also share surveillance data such as case numbers.

"Making the condition nationally notifiable positions public health to continue to monitor and respond to monkeypox after the current outbreak recedes," CDC spokesperson Kristen Nordlund said last week according to Politico.

Because our health officials decided that in this case, protecting the a leftwing constituency against "stigma" was more important than protecting the public health, the genie is now out of the bottle and the virus is now uncontainable, writes Scott Gottlieb in the NYT.

Well, they wrote that last part. I added in the first part. Which is all true.

When about 100 cases of monkeypox had been confirmed or suspected in Europe in May, it was clear the virus was spreading outside the areas where it was previously seen. Some on social media suggested it might already be
spreading rapidly in communities in Europe and the United States.

Which communities, Scott?

Code of silence, huh?

These reports should have been a code red for federal infectious disease response.

But it wasn't until late June that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expanded testing for monkeypox to large commercial labs like Quest Diagnostics and Labcorp for more capacity and access. The C.D.C. had gone through its standard playbook, ticking through its protracted checklist.

Compared with the agency's botched rollout of a test for the coronavirus, the monkeypox test came at warp speed. But the virus spread even faster. If American leaders wanted to quash the outbreak, the United States should have been testing all people who presented with what was presumed to be atypical cases of diseases like genital herpes and zoster infection; both can cause rashes that sometimes resemble monkeypox. That might have required 15,000 tests a week, by my rough estimate. From mid-May to the end of June, the United States tested only about 2,000 samples.

They could have also issued genuine health advisories instead of lies like "monkeypox can affect everyone" and "put a band-aid on your sores."

Well, the CDC didn't issue that one -- but they knew that gay-oriented health organizations were issuing that snake-oil "Party On, M'Dudes" advice, and said nothing.

Wouldn't want to stigmatize the behaviors spreading the virus. Not when those behaviors are being enjoyed by non-normies.

Wait till this starts infecting kids. Then the CDC will be very strict and very direct with its demands about locking down children.

What about contact tracing? Need to know who to quarantine.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Silly! You can't do that with people the left likes! It's against the Constitution or something all of a sudden!

Dave in Fla posts his read of pollsters he gives the most credence to:

Today is a test for some of the pollsters I pay attention to. There are some I trust and I lot I disregard because I know they are biased (Quinnipiac, I'm looking at you). I'll post this comment a couple times today, so going on the record.

If the pollsters I trust are correct, then we will get the following results today:

Arizona - Both Lake and Masters will win by double digits.

Missouri - Schmidt will survive the dick stepping that his pollster did thanks to Trump letting people know he will support either Schmidt or Greiten. Schmidt will win by low single digits

Michigan - Dixon will win by over 15. In MI-03 Gibbs will beat Meijer by over 10.

Washington - In WA-03, Kent will advance to November in the jungle primary, Butler is about 50/50 to advance and try to hold her seat. There have been shenanigans here with lies about Trump's endorsement, which will have an unknown effect.

Kansas - The abortion amendment will pass by about 5 points.

At Twitchy, someone has written a Clickbait Novelty Single for The Hill: Alexandria Donkey-Chompers is the Democrats' best counter-candidate if Trump wins the Republican nomination.

AOC wields a superpower that is rarely found in Washington: She isn't afraid to lose. Her 2018 victory wasn't just historic, it was shocking, and felt predestined -- much like when we first saw a brilliant speaker with a funny name and big ears remind us that through hope and change we could put our country on a new course.

AOC has the ability to tell the story of her generation. She's Barack Obama if Barack Obama was an actual progressive. I love Obama, but he was a moderate who sounded like a progressive.

...

There is no denying that AOC would boost GOP turnout as a result of coverage on right wing networks built to scare elderly white voters. But she would electrify the party's base, turn out the youth at record levels and bring the party together by acknowledging the threat posed by electing Trump Republicans.

Also at Twitchy, the left -- Bless Their Stupid Hearts -- are trying to make Brandon "cool" by turning him into "Dark Brandon."

darkbrandonisverygay.jpg

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Jericho
@JerichoXV

Trying to turn a drooling 79 year old dementia patient into a bizarre super hero named dark Brandon, because the CIA killed an Al Qaeda leader for the 3rd time, is lame, & bizarre. He's the same putz who didn't want to take out Bin Laden when he was VP this came from above him.

I just saw a lavish Broadway musical about the all-male West Village Dance Troupe that invented the reacharound with bonus under-cupping ball-kneading -- the show was called Eclaire!: The Story of the Eclaire-and-Beignet Reacharound Technique -- and it was less gay than "Dark Brandon."

But keep trying, "guys." Keep pumping out those Sick Memes.

I mentioned in an earlier thread that David Zaslav, CEO of heavily-indebted Warner Discovery, is cutting the fat -- the Purplehaired Fat, as Ethan Van Sciver would say.

Well, he just killed the dubious SJW project, the Batgirl movie.

You might say, wait, what's wrong with a Batgirl movie?

Well nothing -- except that the plan was that there would be no more Batman and Superman in the DC movie Universe. The "Trinity" -- usually Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman -- would now be Batgirl, Supergirl, and Wonder Woman.

Killing the Batgirl movie indicates that David Zaslav was finally apprised of this plan and responded, appropriately, "T'fuck did you just say, Stupid?"

"Batgirl," the feature film adaptation of the DC Comics character, has been killed at Warner Bros., Variety has confirmed. It will not premiere on any platform at the studio -- neither theatrically nor on HBO Max.

The $90 million production -- starring Leslie Grace as Barbara Gordon (aka Batgirl) and directed by "Bad Boys for Life" and "Ms. Marvel" filmmakers Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah -- was greenlit in 2021 as part of a company-wide effort at Warner Bros. to create feature films specifically for HBO Max. But the new corporate regime at Warner Bros. Discovery has pivoted the company's priorities back to theatrical features, leaving "Batgirl" without a proper home.

Again, nothing wrong with a Batgirl movie -- but it was insane to suggest making a Batgirl the primary "Bat" character of the DC movie universe. (Michael Keaton was slotted to return as an older, retired Batman, serving as a mentor to Batgirl. But he wouldn't actually be the hero, just the Mr. Miyagi.)

DC Comics, which has been making every character it can gay -- including Batman! and whose marketshare has it slipping out of credible consideration even as the runner-up in the Big Two -- might be in for a f***ing tsunami of tsackings.

DeSantis's press guy responds to The View's stupid request for a hit-job "interview," via the sidebar and Tom Servo.

Kamala Harris, the Human Highlight Machine:

Posted by: Ace at 05:31 PM




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1 First!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 05:31 PM (llXky)

2 Whoa

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 02, 2022 05:32 PM (Do5/p)

3 Ms Piggy.

Awesome.

Posted by: garrett at August 02, 2022 05:32 PM (SddTV)

4 Oooh cool look.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 05:32 PM (llXky)

5 first in the box

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 02, 2022 05:32 PM (yikp0)

6 And now the content...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 05:32 PM (llXky)

7 Ace's grey-bar hotel.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 02, 2022 05:33 PM (yikp0)

8 Reports of low voter turnout in AZ. I don't know if this is good or bad. Probably bad.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 02, 2022 05:33 PM (m7R0k)

9 In before Ace fixes things.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 02, 2022 05:33 PM (ppBhU)

10 Lizzard Chinney.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 02, 2022 05:33 PM (JEnjG)

11 Liz Cheney's looks would be enhanced by a well rounded snout.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 02, 2022 05:33 PM (JOtiF)

12 almost top ten

Posted by: mallfly the peach of Hoboken at August 02, 2022 05:33 PM (Ynyl9)

13 Dark Branden ? Lol

Posted by: It's me donna at August 02, 2022 05:34 PM (bs+z0)

14 "Do you have King Harv in a box?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 02, 2022 05:34 PM (7rl4O)

15 The left truly cannot meme.

Another thing the left is incompetent at.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 02, 2022 05:35 PM (5pTK/)

16 8 Reports of low voter turnout in AZ. I don't know if this is good or bad. Probably bad.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 02, 2022 05:33 PM (m7R0k)

Probably low on the Dem side

Posted by: It's me donna at August 02, 2022 05:35 PM (bs+z0)

17 Dark Brandon OWNS U! Sick, LOL!!

Posted by: Sid at August 02, 2022 05:35 PM (rP2pL)

18 Dark Brandon, dark ace.

Seems fitting.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 02, 2022 05:35 PM (5pTK/)

19 Fetch status:

[] happening
[] not happening
[x] not happening, not gonna happen

Posted by: blaster at August 02, 2022 05:35 PM (Wb8Rg)

20 Dark Branden super hero ! Able to fall upstairs 3 times in a single climb!

Posted by: It's me donna at August 02, 2022 05:36 PM (bs+z0)

21 Dark ace

Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2022 05:36 PM (ZLI7S)

22 Aw shucks. Is the Kink concert over?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 02, 2022 05:36 PM (63Dwl)

23 Trump got over a stronger variant of Covid in three days. Biden got the mild cold variant of Covid and he's still not over it.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 02, 2022 05:36 PM (kDGvA)

24 They gonna milk that "killed AQ" leader for the next 4 months. But he ain't on the ticket.

Posted by: runner at August 02, 2022 05:36 PM (aTol7)

25 Dark Pedo

Posted by: garrett at August 02, 2022 05:36 PM (SddTV)

26 Remember how every speech Trump made was "dark?"

That was supposed to be bad.

But now Dark Brandon is super cool.

I think somehow Dark Brandon is a Rule 34 thing.

Posted by: blaster at August 02, 2022 05:37 PM (Wb8Rg)

27 Dick Cheney is in my ghoul pool this year. C'mon dick, there's still 4 months left to delight me.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 02, 2022 05:37 PM (m7R0k)

28 Ace has gone dark.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 02, 2022 05:37 PM (NpAcC)

29 Reports of low voter turnout in AZ. I don't know if this is good or bad. Probably bad.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 02, 2022 05:33 PM (m7R0k)
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Local polling station where I voted, poll worker said turnout was much higher than he anticipated. Obviously, he didn't say which side was turning out, but, I suspect it was GOP voters.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 02, 2022 05:37 PM (5pTK/)

30 Reports of low voter turnout in AZ. I don't know if this is good or bad. Probably bad.

Could be bullshit reporting to suppress after work turnout this evening.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 02, 2022 05:37 PM (Bd6X8)

31 The left can't meme. I'm going to have a stroke just from seeing them try so hard.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 02, 2022 05:37 PM (44ww/)

32 >>Dark Brandon, dark ace.

>>Posted by: blake

I will smite thee

Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2022 05:37 PM (ZLI7S)

33 Trump got over a stronger variant of Covid in three days. Biden got the mild cold variant of Covid and he's still not over it.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 02, 2022 05:36 PM (kDGvA)
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QUAD-VAXXED Brandon is still struggling to put it away.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 05:37 PM (llXky)

34 Fetch status:

[] happening
[] not happening
[x] not happening, not gonna happen

Posted by: blaster at August 02, 2022 05:35 PM (Wb8Rg)

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Vice signaling? I like it ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 02, 2022 05:38 PM (7rl4O)

35 In this dark hour...

Posted by: runner at August 02, 2022 05:38 PM (aTol7)

36 16 8 Reports of low voter turnout in AZ. I don't know if this is good or bad. Probably bad.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

An honest question, do you trust the media to rely facts like this to you?

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 05:38 PM (CXr4y)

Posted by: Marcel Marceau at August 02, 2022 05:38 PM (yQpMk)

38 Does Kamala come up with this drivel on her own or someone-who obviously doesn't like her (which sounds like most of the people who have worked with her)-writes this for her?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 02, 2022 05:38 PM (fL5aK)

39 Took me a minute to realize Ace forgot a close tag. Was getting confused there for second.

Posted by: olddog in mo, No Cheetos allowed on the 'toon at August 02, 2022 05:38 PM (9o+sE)

40 I gave up superhero movies/comics way before I gave up The Muppet Show

Posted by: Chuck C at August 02, 2022 05:38 PM (xttsV)

41 Dark Brandon? Sounds racist

Posted by: JoeF. at August 02, 2022 05:39 PM (mR6Gs)

42 37, I can't hear you Marcel--speak up dammit.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 05:39 PM (CXr4y)

43 Caught a CDC Spokesbitch re. MonkeyPox.

"We are warning that just because 99% of Infections have occured in a certain Community, is no reason to believe this outbreak will not affect you."

Posted by: garrett at August 02, 2022 05:39 PM (SddTV)

44 I see the light !

Posted by: It's me donna at August 02, 2022 05:39 PM (bs+z0)

45 Isn't making whiter than white Joe a "dark" character a form of racial appropriation?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 02, 2022 05:39 PM (63Dwl)

46 But now Dark Brandon is super cool.

I think somehow Dark Brandon is a Rule 34 thing.

Posted by: blaster at August 02, 2022 05:37 PM (Wb8Rg)
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Democrats have a thing for evil. They absolutely relish massive slaughter and destruction. Look at their jizzing over Game of Thrones which was a senseless perv-led bloodbath.

In their minds, they're the evil overlords.

In reality, they're the burial detail.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 05:39 PM (llXky)

47 Dick Cheney is in my ghoul pool this year. C'mon dick, there's still 4 months left to delight me.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 02, 2022 05:37 PM (m7R0k)



Since he got Trayvon's heart he is good for twenty more years.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 02, 2022 05:39 PM (yQpMk)

48 I realize Liz Cheney is not thin, but you could also call her "Tin" Lizzie she's so tone deaf.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 02, 2022 05:39 PM (fL5aK)

49 Darkie Brandon?
That's racisst.

Posted by: wth at August 02, 2022 05:39 PM (v0R5T)

50 Ah, norms are restored.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 02, 2022 05:40 PM (Xrfse)

51 I think they meant Dork Brandon.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 02, 2022 05:40 PM (yikp0)

52 They are really going with "Trump couldn't breathe/Brandon took out AQ leader?"
Didn't Joe just have a relapse?

Posted by: JoeF. at August 02, 2022 05:40 PM (mR6Gs)

53 Liz Chunky.

Posted by: huerfano at August 02, 2022 05:40 PM (dTFZY)

54 Trump used to regularly meet and spar with members of the MSM more in two or three weeks than Biden has done in the past year. Am I wrong about that?

Posted by: mallfly the peach of Hoboken at August 02, 2022 05:40 PM (Ynyl9)

55 Dark Brandon

Dank Brandon

Dork Brandon

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 05:40 PM (llXky)

56 >>29 Reports of low voter turnout in AZ. I don't know if this is good or bad. Probably bad.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 02, 2022 05:33 PM (m7R0k)
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Local polling station where I voted, poll worker said turnout was much higher than he anticipated. Obviously, he didn't say which side was turning out, but, I suspect it was GOP voters.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

Good news then.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 02, 2022 05:40 PM (m7R0k)

57 This is undoubtedly the cue for /pol/ autists to start churning out counter-Dark Brandon memes of Joe in blackface accompanied by some of his many racially insensitive statements over the years.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 02, 2022 05:40 PM (ppBhU)

58 Does Kamala come up with this drivel on her own or someone-who obviously doesn't like her (which sounds like most of the people who have worked with her)-writes this for her?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 02, 2022 05:38 PM (fL5aK)
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I think Kamala's speech writers are similar to the people who dressed Michelle O. They both go out of their way to make their people look bad, knowing they can get away with it.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 02, 2022 05:40 PM (5pTK/)

59 Dark Pedo

Posted by: garrett at August 02, 2022 05:36 PM (SddTV)

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Out: Dark Shadows.
In: Dark Pedos (a Gothic soap opera reboot).

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 02, 2022 05:41 PM (7rl4O)

60 52 They are really going with "Trump couldn't breathe/Brandon took out AQ leader?"

Yes they are.. Awahiri was 71 years old and doubtful if he was leading anything

Posted by: It's me donna at August 02, 2022 05:41 PM (bs+z0)

61 Dark gray, almost black Brandon is the best.

Posted by: Eromero at August 02, 2022 05:41 PM (0OP+5)

62 Since he got Trayvon's heart he is good for twenty more years.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 02, 2022 05:39 PM (yQpMk)

Hmm...No wonder Dick suddenly developed a taste for Skittles and Purple Drank...

Posted by: LYNN Cheney at August 02, 2022 05:41 PM (mR6Gs)

63 What an insult to Miss Piggy.

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 02, 2022 05:41 PM (WmGrA)

64 "Dark Pedo Brandon" > Dark FJB > Dark Brandon

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2022 05:41 PM (MxUom)

65 I would not bet against Dopey continuing to "get COVID" until after the elections, or they decide to 25th Amendment him.


At this point, there is zero upside for the Dems to bring him out to drool on camera.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 02, 2022 05:41 PM (bW8dp)

66 Lets see, killed one AQ leader whose deeds were ove 15 years past vs left 20 billion in military hardware for the Tailiban early this year and who knows how much information about americans and allies they didn't evacuate they gave to the Taliban.

We will see. There is still the reality that a lot of people forget or never know of a lot of the evil in DC because the FNM smothers the stories.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at August 02, 2022 05:42 PM (3cGpq)

67 This "Dark Brandon" thing is just a lame attempt to copy the "Dark MAGA" series of memes from a few months back.

So not only can the left not meme, they're unoriginal when they try.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 02, 2022 05:42 PM (Bd6X8)

68 >>Awahiri was 71 years old and doubtful if he was leading anything


even alive at the time.

Posted by: garrett at August 02, 2022 05:42 PM (SddTV)

69 Yes they are.. Awahiri was 71 years old and doubtful if he was leading anything
Posted by: It's me donna at August 02, 2022 05:41 PM (bs+z0)

Same as Biden then?

Posted by: JoeF. at August 02, 2022 05:42 PM (mR6Gs)

70 "Dark Brandon?" The problem with the tech companies relentless coddling is that the left really can't meme. And it calls attention to Biden's serious allergy to natural sunlight needing reflective sunglasses, as well as his bizarre lust for the hair of small girls. Never seen that in a President before.

But it doesn't matter. No one cares about Biden's "accomplishments" in Afghanistan and really he should be beaten every time he brings the place up.

Posted by: trev006 at August 02, 2022 05:42 PM (u8Evt)

71 Dick Brandon

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 02, 2022 05:42 PM (yikp0)

72 33 Trump got over a stronger variant of Covid in three days. Biden got the mild cold variant of Covid and he's still not over it.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 02, 2022 05:36 PM (kDGvA)
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QUAD-VAXXED Brandon is still struggling to put it away.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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It does not help recovering from covid if you have to take a lot of other medicine for other conditions that can affect your treatment.

Amphetamines and derivatives and steroids are at least two sets of drugs that complicate recovery from covid because possibility of bp spikes leading to stroke or heart attacks and a decline in immune response.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 05:42 PM (CXr4y)

73 “Dark Brandon” sounds like a prank involving some special means of hiding of a turd in someone else’s house.

Just behind the television set, probably.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 02, 2022 05:42 PM (CA7Od)

74
I thought Senile Joe became Dark Brandon when he crapped his pants at the Vatican and left a large Dark, wet, Smelly stain on the seat of a 400 year old chair.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 02, 2022 05:42 PM (5NkmN)

75 Dark Brandon? More like Derp Branson, amirite?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 02, 2022 05:42 PM (gbzeC)

76 No longer all gray

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 05:42 PM (V6f9+)

77 >>36 16 8 Reports of low voter turnout in AZ. I don't know if this is good or bad. Probably bad.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

An honest question, do you trust the media to rely facts like this to you?
Posted by: whig


Got that from Benny Johnson's Truth Social feed.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 02, 2022 05:42 PM (m7R0k)

78 Darkie Brandon

Dark Pedo

Dank Brandon

Dork Brandon

This shit always backfires on the left doesn't it?

Posted by: wth at August 02, 2022 05:43 PM (v0R5T)

79 I'm not sure why voter turnout in a primary is that big a deal.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2022 05:43 PM (ZLI7S)

80 51 I think they meant Dork Brandon.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 02, 2022 05:40 PM (yikp0)


See? Tolja it was Rule 34.

Posted by: blaster at August 02, 2022 05:44 PM (Wb8Rg)

81 73 “Dark Brandon” sounds like a prank involving some special means of hiding of a turd in someone else’s house.

Just behind the television set, probably.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
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Dark Brandon appears all the time on TV to shit on the American public. If you keep your TV off, you don't get the Dark Brandon surprise.

Good call Stephen.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 05:44 PM (CXr4y)

82 I think Kamala's speech writers are similar to the people who dressed Michelle O. They both go out of their way to make their people look bad, knowing they can get away with it.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 02, 2022 05:40 PM (5pTK/)

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Mean Girls FTW!

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 02, 2022 05:44 PM (7rl4O)

83 Kamala is the poet lariat of the left

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 02, 2022 05:44 PM (gbzeC)

84 Fat Batman > Dark Brandon

Posted by: wth at August 02, 2022 05:44 PM (v0R5T)

85 The Miss Piggy photo looks surprisingly like her.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 02, 2022 05:44 PM (+lVUW)

86 Arizona: I've been getting two or three emails a day from Sen Mark Kelly begging for donations for months. (Tim Ryan (Oh), too, in recent months. guy has apparently spent his whole working life in Congress. A real man of the people)

Posted by: mallfly the peach of Hoboken at August 02, 2022 05:44 PM (Ynyl9)

87 Dork Brandon >>> Dark Brandon.

No Yellow Brandon was a runner-up.

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 02, 2022 05:44 PM (WmGrA)

88 But it doesn't matter. No one cares about Biden's "accomplishments" in Afghanistan and really he should be beaten every time he brings the place up.

Posted by: trev006 at August 02, 2022 05:42 PM (u8Evt)
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It's funny how they're trying to cycle through designated enemies. RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA might actually beat Ukraine, so now we're back to bombing Muslims.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 05:45 PM (llXky)

89 Trump got over a stronger variant of Covid in three days. Biden got the mild cold variant of Covid and he's still not over it.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 02, 2022 05:36 PM (kDGvA)

I'm not convinced Biden didn't already have Covid back during the campaign. He would go missing for days at a time.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 02, 2022 05:45 PM (mR6Gs)

90 Tucson has had a couple of weeks of early voting and ballot drop off.

Posted by: FlowerGirl at August 02, 2022 05:45 PM (r+cze)

91 I think Kamala got the Dementia from Joey 2 Scoops.

Posted by: Dr Spank at August 02, 2022 05:45 PM (Cf8bn)

92 Dank Brandon.

Raised gas prices $3.00 then lowered them 50 cents by selling tax dollar oil to China.

Posted by: TexasDan at August 02, 2022 05:45 PM (z9npv)

93 by the way, it's very possible there is low voter turnout, in Phoenix.

Phoenix is rather purple, so, it wouldn't be much of a Surprise. (AZ morons will see what I did there)

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 02, 2022 05:45 PM (5pTK/)

94 Kamala is stupid incarnate. Everything she says is just stupid, brainless jibber jabber.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 02, 2022 05:45 PM (QSjkU)

95 re 79: I do believe that's how Ocasio-Crackpot beat Crowley for the Dem nomination in 2018.

Posted by: mallfly the peach of Hoboken at August 02, 2022 05:46 PM (Ynyl9)

96 Dark Brandon

Dank Brandon

Dork Brandon
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 05:40 PM (llXky)

As long as you're not conjuring Candyman or Mary Worth, it's cool

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 02, 2022 05:46 PM (MFphb)

97 Dark Brandon appears all the time on TV to shit on the American public. If you keep your TV off, you don't get the Dark Brandon surprise.

Good call Stephen.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 05:44 PM (CXr4y)
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Dodderingly senile man in cape wandering around, banding into things bellowing his super powers is not the image the Dems want to create.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 05:46 PM (llXky)

98 >>86 Arizona: I've been getting two or three emails a day from Sen Mark Kelly begging for donations for months. (Tim Ryan (Oh), too, in recent months. guy has apparently spent his whole working life in Congress. A real man of the people)
Posted by: mallfly the peach of Hoboken

I hope Blake Masters curb smashes that bald headed cocksucker.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 02, 2022 05:46 PM (m7R0k)

99 I'm not convinced Biden didn't already have Covid back during the campaign. He would go missing for days at a time.

Could be he just wandered off and they had trouble finding him.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 02, 2022 05:46 PM (Bd6X8)

100 @60

>>Awahiri was 71 years old and doubtful if he was leading anything

It's also doubtful that he was the guy they got, as he probably died years ago.

The last time he was seen in anything was that Cave video from 2008...

As has been said..

Everything is an Op.
Everything is bullshit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 02, 2022 05:46 PM (5jrx5)

101 and a decline in immune response.
Posted by: whig

Which gets you a longer recover from covid or another covid infection following recovery from the prior infection.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2022 05:46 PM (MxUom)

102
134 minutes til Tucker!

Posted by: Yo! Ultra MAGA at August 02, 2022 05:47 PM (3p3gX)

103 Tucson has had a couple of weeks of early voting and ballot drop off.
Posted by: FlowerGirl at August 02, 2022 05:45 PM (r+cze)
........

So. They're cheating.

Posted by: wth at August 02, 2022 05:47 PM (v0R5T)

104 In their minds, they're the evil overlords.

In reality, they're the burial detail.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 05:39 PM (llXky)

One thing about Game of Thrones that really doomed it early: Tywin Lannister and Petyr Baelish have bags of style on the show, but the fact is that their skills are dramatically overrated. Tywin gets his ass kicked relentlessly by a teenager, and only extreme luck (really author fiat) weighs the scales towards his victory. Meanwhile, Baelish is the kind of scummy, embezzling pervert that any nobleman of Christian Europe would have killed on general principles, never mind if he'd impregnated their daughter.

It's possible for intrigue and cruelty to "win" if you torture the definition of winning, but the toads who think they're players would be no more successful than most of Martin's amoral characters, and only gain victory through idiot plots that Tolkien never had to resort to.

Posted by: trev006 at August 02, 2022 05:47 PM (u8Evt)

105 Dave, if your pollsters come through I would love to know which ones you rate as the best. I myself have been noting that Quiinipick-em-up has been turning in some results that I find ridiculous.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2022 05:47 PM (trdmm)

106 Dark Sharts Brandon

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 02, 2022 05:47 PM (yikp0)

107 I just saw a lavish Broadway musical about the all-male West Village Dance Troupe that invented the reacharound with bonus under-cupping ball-kneading -- the show was called Eclaire!: The Story of the Eclaire-and-Beignet Reacharound Technique -- and it was less gay than "Dark Brandon."


/stands
/applauds

You could teach a class in pretty tongue using at a school for twenty dollar whores. I may have to hit the tip jar.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 02, 2022 05:47 PM (cupoy)

108 Putting Brandon in stupid aviators just makes him look pathetic and old. He never flew anything in real life. Pathetic demented dick sucking cuck. Sold his country out for his perverse family.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at August 02, 2022 05:47 PM (Xllcm)

109 "They waited until San Francisco had finished its Kink Festival super-spreader event to impose the reporting requirement, of course."

That's like closing the bunghole after the schlong is already out. Or something.

Posted by: Dr. Simile at August 02, 2022 05:47 PM (aXxgO)

110 What is the context for Kamala's remarks? Taken alone, her comment means absolutely NOTHING.

Of course, I'm willing to bet my new roof that taken *in context*, her comments are equally vapid and meaningless.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 02, 2022 05:48 PM (K5n5d)

111 wow, that dark brandon thing sux even worse that the blue 'bear with biden' bear meme.

not even SAD !-worthy, it's so pathetically weak, lol.

*spit*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at August 02, 2022 05:48 PM (xil8k)

112 You know the economy is in the shitter when used car lots go out of business.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 02, 2022 05:48 PM (D4vK5)

113 'Dark Brandon' - what is that, a Batman reference? Did Biden even claim he drove the Batmobile?

Posted by: mallfly the peach of Hoboken at August 02, 2022 05:48 PM (Ynyl9)

114 >>I do believe that's how Ocasio-Crackpot beat Crowley for the Dem nomination in 2018.

It is. But again that is in the party not between parties.

Unless a pollster like Trafalgar, the best pollster in the country who has Kari Lake up by significant double digits and Blake Master by similar, had the worst calls of their history they should both win in a walk regardless of turnout.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2022 05:48 PM (ZLI7S)

115 Trump got the bad covid and was done in 2 days. Biden gets the soiboi version, hides in a basement for a week, and then gets it again. Bore me not with your decrepit corpse of a wannabee superhero.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 02, 2022 05:48 PM (VwHCD)

116 The Miss Piggy photo looks surprisingly like her.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 02, 2022 05:44 PM (+lVUW)
.........

It does. Except she's missing the big zits on her chin and cheek.

Posted by: wth at August 02, 2022 05:49 PM (v0R5T)

117 gotta have a sense of humor to do meme right.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at August 02, 2022 05:49 PM (xil8k)

118 Biden's aviator glasses, would anyone in their right mind allow that dumb fuck anywhere near a plane cockpit?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 02, 2022 05:49 PM (m7R0k)

119 >>You know the economy is in the shitter when used car lots go out of business.

why is that?

a friend used to say you can tell you're in a recession when the waiters are all good, because competent people take those jobs.

Posted by: ace at August 02, 2022 05:49 PM (B3oWe)

120 It's possible for intrigue and cruelty to "win" if you torture the definition of winning, but the toads who think they're players would be no more successful than most of Martin's amoral characters, and only gain victory through idiot plots that Tolkien never had to resort to.

Posted by: trev006 at August 02, 2022 05:47 PM (u8Evt)
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That and the fact that whenever a decent character emerged, he was as dumb as a brick, obviously born yesterday with no idea that he lived in a perverted and demented world full of liars and thieves and would mindlessly put trust and transparently obvious traitors.

I was done after the first season.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 05:50 PM (llXky)

121 So according to that meme, Joe Biden killed Al-Zawiri by giving him Covid?

Posted by: JoeF. at August 02, 2022 05:50 PM (mR6Gs)

122 >>>What is the context for Kamala's remarks? Taken alone, her comment means absolutely NOTHING.

Of course, I'm willing to bet my new roof that taken *in context*, her comments are equally vapid and meaningless.

...

yeah i don't think context will save them, friend.

Posted by: ace at August 02, 2022 05:50 PM (B3oWe)

123 I swear that you could put a fucking parrot in front of a microphone and superimpose kamala's face on the bird and nobody would even notice.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 02, 2022 05:50 PM (QSjkU)

124 I am perplexed by the Kamalalala hate.

What she said above is no worse than what TFG used to say all the time.

Is all this hate because she is black?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 02, 2022 05:51 PM (nGX3X)

125 Ok, Major Healey, checked on Benny's bona fides and found out he was a former Buzzfeed writer who got fired from there for plagiarism and then hired by NewsMax as a columnist and Turning Point as chief creative officer.

I would not trust Benny Johnson's anecdotes about turnout as a result of my search.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 05:51 PM (CXr4y)

126 It's funny how they're trying to cycle through designated enemies. RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA might actually beat Ukraine, so now we're back to bombing Muslims.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 05:45 PM (llXky)

HIMARS is a powerful tool, but I don't doubt that it's dramatically overrated. Meanwhile, talk of a Kherson Counter-Offensive is so self-evidently stupid I dismiss anyone who gives it credence. IF Ukraine plans to make attacks against Russia, they should take territory that isn't next to fast reinforcements from Crimea or the eastern border.

Oh, the Russians haven't overextended themselves and are generally in excellent defensive position? Well, shit. No wonder even Biden and Friedman have realized what an corrupt sack of fuck Zelensky is.

Posted by: trev006 at August 02, 2022 05:51 PM (u8Evt)

127 Cheney wants to criminalize everyone who doesn't vote for her, which is everyone.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 02, 2022 05:51 PM (eGTCV)

128 The comment about AOC seemed ridiculous at first - and then I realized that - while she is a horrible candidate who would go down in flames - the fact that she is a decent looking non-septuagenarian heterosexueal who is able to respond with semi-coherent sentences does, in fact, put her head and shoulders above any other dem they could nominate.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2022 05:51 PM (trdmm)

129 a friend used to say you can tell you're in a recession when the waiters are all good, because competent people take those jobs.
Posted by: ace at August 02, 2022 05:49 PM (B3oWe)
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That is probably a fair assessment.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 02, 2022 05:51 PM (5pTK/)

130 I will smite thee

Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2022 05:37 PM (ZLI7S)

Jules...dat you?!?!

Posted by: zombie Vincent Vega at August 02, 2022 05:51 PM (BgMrQ)

131 124 I am perplexed by the Kamalalala hate.

What she said above is no worse than what TFG used to say all the time.

Is all this hate because she is black?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 02, 2022 05:51 PM (nGX3X)

wut

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 05:51 PM (V6f9+)

132 At some point, Republicans will internally regret starting the Let's Go Brandon thing

Republicans *didn't* start the "Let's Go Brandon thing," you fucking prat.

Nice filename for the pic though, ace. heh

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 02, 2022 05:51 PM (DTX3h)

133 I'm not sure why voter turnout in a primary is that big a deal.
Posted by: JackStraw

Here I think it is: We either get another from the McStain eGOP or someone who might (Kari Lake) be cut from the same cloth as Trump.
(A lib who finally sees that the libs are evil and does the right stuff after winning election.)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2022 05:51 PM (MxUom)

134 i just saw one where kamala is talking about transportation and energy and she spends two minutes explaining that we have to transport energy from where it's made to where it's needed "because, you know, that's where it's needed, and it's energy, and we have to transport it, and then the energy transports us."

something like that.

it was UH MAZ ING

Posted by: ace at August 02, 2022 05:52 PM (B3oWe)

135 I have to pee. With the urgency of now.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 02, 2022 05:52 PM (sWM8x)

136 Biden's aviator glasses, would anyone in their right mind allow that dumb fuck anywhere near a plane cockpit?
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Ready to taxi!

Posted by: JFK, Jr. at August 02, 2022 05:52 PM (WmGrA)

137
Oof. Well, of the the barrel for dinner.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 02, 2022 05:52 PM (DTX3h)

138 Hey! You got Monkeypox in my Wuhan Flu!

No! You got Wuhan Flu in my Monkeypox!

Posted by: Rhesus Chocolates at August 02, 2022 05:52 PM (aXxgO)

139 Is all this hate because she is black?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 02, 2022 05:51 PM (nGX3X)

No dip shit, it's because like you, she is an imbecile.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 02, 2022 05:52 PM (QSjkU)

140 "Dark Brandon" is proof yet again that the Left is incapable of creating a proper meme.

They really should stop trying, but they are incapable of learning from failure.

Idiots.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 02, 2022 05:52 PM (K5n5d)

141 >>a friend used to say you can tell you're in a recession when the waiters are all good, because competent people take those jobs.
Posted by: ace

Or more directly, Managers aren't afraid to fire the incompetent ones.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 02, 2022 05:52 PM (nGX3X)

142 That terrorist died twice just like Floyd.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 02, 2022 05:53 PM (44ww/)

143 Robert Barnes and Patrick Frei are both watching the Alex Jones trial and they are both gobsmacked at the judge's statements and decisions.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 02, 2022 05:53 PM (kDGvA)

144 Todays is a good day..

Posted by: Karma/Commenter What Got a Shirt at August 02, 2022 05:53 PM (CJAql)

145 Or more directly, Managers aren't afraid to fire the incompetent ones.

Guess I better update my resume.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 02, 2022 05:53 PM (Bd6X8)

146 Wow, Dave in Fla saying Patriot Meijer getting a beatdown today. I'm off to vote!

Posted by: A dude in MI at August 02, 2022 05:53 PM (/6GbT)

147 *waits impatiently for 5 o'clock so he can have a shot of Jager*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at August 02, 2022 05:53 PM (xil8k)

148
No dip shit, it's because like you, she is an imbecile.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

Cripes, who peed in your wheaties?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 02, 2022 05:53 PM (nGX3X)

149 Still stand by my assertion that Garth Marenghi is Kamala's speechwriter.

Posted by: DaisyB at August 02, 2022 05:53 PM (AbL8c)

150 You know the economy is in the shitter when used car lots go out of business.

why is that?

Because people do not have the money to even buy a used car. Used cars get re-Po'ed and re-sold, re-Po'ed and re-sold, rinse repeat. When they re-poem, and there is no one to resell it to, your economy is toes up.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 02, 2022 05:53 PM (D4vK5)

151 Dark Brandon super hero... Able to fall off a bike at a standstill..

Posted by: It's me donna at August 02, 2022 05:53 PM (bs+z0)

152 the fact that she is a decent looking non-septuagenarian heterosexueal who is able to respond with semi-coherent sentences does, in fact, put her head and shoulders above any other dem they could nominate.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2022 05:51 PM (trdmm)

Don't forget her ability to raise funds from idiots. She may not earn as much as Pelosi, but that's down to experience as much as anything. She might not be able to take a seat from Cuck Schumer but she can definitely rob Gillibrand.

Posted by: trev006 at August 02, 2022 05:54 PM (u8Evt)

153 > That terrorist died twice just like Floyd.

*warbling*
Youuuuu Only live twiiiiiice,
or sooo it seeeeems.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 02, 2022 05:54 PM (kDGvA)

154
"Making the condition nationally notifiable positions public health to continue to monitor and respond to monkeypox after the current outbreak recedes," CDC spokesperson Kristen Nordlund said last week according to Politico.

__________

What about contact tracing? Need to know who to quarantine.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2022 05:54 PM (1Nxff)

155 I am perplexed by the Kamalalala hate.
What she said above is no worse than what TFG used to say all the time.
Is all this hate because she is black?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 02, 2022 05:51 PM (nGX3X)


I can't tell if this is a failed joke or just Big Stupid?

I gonna play the odds and guess Big Stupid.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 02, 2022 05:54 PM (5NkmN)

156 HIMARS is a powerful tool, but I don't doubt that it's dramatically overrated

Posted by: trev006 at August 02, 2022 05:51 PM (u8Evt)
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Four batteries spread out over a front of that size is like peeing on a forest fire. Also, it's going to take months to train the crews, build the fire control to maximize their effectiveness, etc.

Seriously, training takes time. You don't just go into the 80s synth-pop montage and five minutes later have a bunch of seasoned operators.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 05:54 PM (llXky)

157 143 Robert Barnes and Patrick Frei are both watching the Alex Jones trial and they are both gobsmacked at the judge's statements and decisions.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 02, 2022 05:53 PM (kDGvA)

Rackets would have been too, had he not eaten a 7 day YT suspension that magically turned into a 10 day one.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 02, 2022 05:54 PM (Rl7KJ)

158 Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest

It's always about race isn't it.
What a broken record.
We need a better quality of troll here...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2022 05:54 PM (MxUom)

159 The "Trinity" -- usually Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman -- would now be Batgirl, Supergirl, and Wonder Woman.

--------

Busty Lesbian Porn film FTW!

Ace could even do a movie review ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 02, 2022 05:54 PM (7rl4O)

160 I'm cough cough hack cough hack cough cough hack cough hack Bat- cough cough hack cough hack man.

Posted by: joey biden at August 02, 2022 05:54 PM (yikp0)

161 The story of the real War of the Roses was far more interesting than Game of Thrones ever was. But, HBO brought nekkidness and sexual depravity plus gratuitous rapes and blood to the story which drew a lot of people in.

Read a bit of the first book in a Barnes and Noble back in the day and didn't care for it at all. Could care less what HBO is offering as I haven't watched it since the 70's.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 05:54 PM (CXr4y)

162 I'm unclear on Batgirl. Did they already film it and aren't releasing it or is it in production and and is being cancelled?

Posted by: Darth Randall at August 02, 2022 05:55 PM (nIyu9)

163 "Kamala Harris, the Human Highlight Machine"

Her speechwriters have to just be pushing the limits now. She must have seen the criticism she's getting for her word salads and yet she still okays these speeches.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 02, 2022 05:55 PM (qH6FZ)

164 38 Does Kamala come up with this drivel on her own or someone-who obviously doesn't like her (which sounds like most of the people who have worked with her)-writes this for her?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke


I'm guessing that her staff hates her, puts these idiotic word salads on her teleprompter, then makes mean spirited bets about whether or not she's stupid enough to read this crap as written. I can't believe that speech writers seriously write this stuff.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 02, 2022 05:55 PM (+lVUW)

165 Derp Brandon

Posted by: lowfibass ever the lurker at August 02, 2022 05:56 PM (xHuvm)

166 "A recession is when the prostitutes are good looking."
I didn't say that, but someone did.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, almost had some sunshine for a minute at August 02, 2022 05:56 PM (jTmQV)

167 Dark Brandon super hero... Able to fall off a bike at a standstill..
Posted by: It's me donna at August 02, 2022 05:53 PM (bs+z0)

Craps his pants faster than a speeding train.

Posted by: wth at August 02, 2022 05:56 PM (v0R5T)

168 Ahh, ah Tuesday Embarreling during Pride Month. The Gods will be pleased.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 02, 2022 05:56 PM (cupoy)

169 Much shorter Kamala:

"I hear the ocean."

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 02, 2022 05:56 PM (ZSK0i)

170 Seriously, training takes time. You don't just go into the 80s synth-pop montage and five minutes later have a bunch of seasoned operators.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 05:54 PM (llXky)

It's also difficult to have an effective counter-offensive when you give your best troops "stand and fight" orders instead of letting them do a tacti-cool withdraw to better defendable lines.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 02, 2022 05:56 PM (Rl7KJ)

171 Four batteries spread out over a front of that size is like peeing on a forest fire. Also, it's going to take months to train the crews, build the fire control to maximize their effectiveness, etc.

Seriously, training takes time. You don't just go into the 80s synth-pop montage
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 05:54 PM (llXky)

Well, SHIT!

I mean, I thought the USA was magically guiding HIMARS missiles on top of all the Russian ammo dumps, how dare anyone say that air defenses have even stopped HIMARS destroying a bridge.

Posted by: trev006 at August 02, 2022 05:56 PM (u8Evt)

172 149 Still stand by my assertion that Garth Marenghi is Kamala's speechwriter.
Posted by: DaisyB at August 02, 2022 05:53 PM (AbL8c)

Slander. Garth is a once-in-a-generation storyteller.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 05:56 PM (V6f9+)

173 Is Dark Brandon related to Darkwing Duck?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 02, 2022 05:57 PM (eGTCV)

174 Able to free himself from rose bushes in a matter of minutes.

Posted by: wth at August 02, 2022 05:57 PM (v0R5T)

175 >>>Slander. Garth is a once-in-a-generation storyteller.


* also actor

Posted by: ace at August 02, 2022 05:57 PM (B3oWe)

176 Read a bit of the first book in a Barnes and Noble back in the day and didn't care for it at all. Could care less what HBO is offering as I haven't watched it since the 70's.
Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 05:54 PM (CXr4y)
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George R.R. Martin is an overrated mid-tier talent. He bit off way more than he could chew when he decided to write an epic fantasy series. J.R.R. Tolkien and Tad Williams (one of Martin's influences) made it look easy. It's NOT. Now he's boned (and not in a good way) because he has no way to write his way out of the corner he painted himself into. The fans will only be able to compare his ending to the show's ending (which was terrible). Any way he tried to end it, he's going to piss of the fans of the books/show.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 02, 2022 05:58 PM (K5n5d)

177 Slander. Garth is a once-in-a-generation storyteller.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 05:56 PM (V6f9+)

Plus actor.

Posted by: DaisyB at August 02, 2022 05:58 PM (AbL8c)

178 wut
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water

I am make two points.
First a slight joke that TFG was not black.
Second, if you try to unwind what TFG said, half the time it was meaningless drivel just like kamalama. He was a much better speaker, but there was no real meaning in most of what he said. I am surprised that no one ever called him out for his nonsense sentences (other than a few errors, like 57 states, or Austria,..)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 02, 2022 05:58 PM (nGX3X)

179 *counting down the seconds ... *

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at August 02, 2022 05:58 PM (xil8k)

180 162 I'm unclear on Batgirl. Did they already film it and aren't releasing it or is it in production and and is being cancelled?
Posted by: Darth Randall at August 02, 2022 05:55 PM (nIyu9)

in production and cancelled. So there are sunk costs involved but they won't lose as much money as they would if they kept filming and released it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 05:58 PM (V6f9+)

181 I think they meant Dork Brandon.
Posted by: andycanuck

Nah, dorks are usually innocent and likable.

Posted by: Dark Hen at August 02, 2022 05:58 PM (cY9wR)

182 > a friend used to say you can tell you're in a recession when the waiters are all good, because competent people take those jobs.

This is a corollary to the "hot waitress" economic indicator, which is a real, but disputed theory. When the economy is good, restaurants can afford to hire the hot waitresses who aren't terribly good at their job. When things are down, the incompetent hotties go away and the competent normies come back.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 02, 2022 05:58 PM (kDGvA)

183 I really don't get how we're supposed to be impressed that Dark Senile Brandon sent better men and advanced weaponry to (probably, but hey, no proof yet) kill a terrorist,

and that makes him a superhero.

That's his fucking job, lame-os.
That's Tuesday at the office. That's a bare-ass, baseline requirement of the office.

Sad.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 02, 2022 05:59 PM (5NkmN)

184 146 Wow, Dave in Fla saying Patriot Meijer getting a beatdown today. I'm off to vote!
Posted by: A dude in MI at August 02, 2022 05:53 PM (/6GbT

the funniest thing in that race is that Meijer has been whining publicly about how the Dems have financed his opponents campaign, since his opponent had no money for ads. It's true, they did. They thought the other guy would be easier to beat in the general - I think they're wrong.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2022 05:59 PM (trdmm)

185 Joe Biden ............... I feel like a stud, man.

Launch the Nukes and let all those Bin Laden Clone Panty wastes eat U235, Man!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 02, 2022 05:59 PM (snpvX)

186 I had her do that Urgency of Now stuff....well a lot.

Posted by: Willie Brown at August 02, 2022 05:59 PM (Y274z)

187 The story of the real War of the Roses was far more interesting than Game of Thrones ever was. But, HBO brought nekkidness and sexual depravity plus gratuitous rapes and blood to the story which drew a lot of people in.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 05:54 PM (CXr4y)
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Yes, but a lot of liberals really identified with the cruelty of the characters - that was what earned such a loyal following. The wholesale incineration of towns and sexual sadism is what those people dream of doing if only they had some power.

Ace got pissed at me for pointing it out, but David French - *Pastor* David French - was really, really into the show.

Which is strange for a guy who identifies as a Reform Christian and likes to look down on everyone else. It's fine for Morons who don't put on airs to like something like that, but for Mr. Holier Than Thou to babble on about shows with borderline X-rated material was just weird.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 05:59 PM (llXky)

188 I find your lack of ice cream disturbing.

Posted by: Darth Brandon at August 02, 2022 05:59 PM (hLwLr)

189 I just realized, a bunch of LARPers did that "Dark Brandon" meme.

Which explains the current administration to a "T."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 02, 2022 05:59 PM (5pTK/)

190 I want to see him give his next speech in blue tights with a big "D" on his chest.

Posted by: wth at August 02, 2022 05:59 PM (v0R5T)

191 It's also difficult to have an effective counter-offensive when you give your best troops "stand and fight" orders instead of letting them do a tacti-cool withdraw to better defendable lines.
Posted by: Thrawn

Almost as if the whole clown show in Uke is being run by a third-rate comedian.

Posted by: Z, Man at August 02, 2022 05:59 PM (WmGrA)

192 The left seems to be making a big deal about comparing Trump's covid with Brandon's covid.
Stupid idiots.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 02, 2022 05:59 PM (eGTCV)

193 While Kamala's statement was horribly constructed, it made sense. It is not the worst she has done.

Posted by: WiNO at August 02, 2022 05:59 PM (EpDzw)

194 Cruelty level about 7.5

Very satiating

Posted by: fluffy at August 02, 2022 06:00 PM (UnQlg)

195 161 The story of the real War of the Roses was far more interesting than Game of Thrones ever was. But, HBO brought nekkidness and sexual depravity plus gratuitous rapes and blood to the story which drew a lot of people in.
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I knew that's what GoT would be. I've watched precisely not one damn second of it.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 02, 2022 06:00 PM (sWM8x)

196 also, with each day, renew our commitment to the urgency of now and the ability that we have collectively, all of us in it together, to do something about it."

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That there is some quality Babylon Bee- and Joe Mannix-level satire ...

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 02, 2022 06:00 PM (7rl4O)

197 >>>Yes, but a lot of liberals really identified with the cruelty of the characters

not just liberals

Posted by: Victor Davis Hanson, GoTtie at August 02, 2022 06:00 PM (B3oWe)

198 news item: 'FEMA says it recently became aware of “certain vulnerabilities” in Emergency Alert System encoder/decoder devices that would open up the systems to a hacker that could send a false alert via radio, television or a cable network.'

Should be a fun next couple of days.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at August 02, 2022 06:00 PM (bnAdj)

199 If Brandon is Dark Bat Man then who would be his Robin?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 02, 2022 06:00 PM (m7R0k)

200 I'm guessing that her staff hates her, puts these idiotic word salads on her teleprompter, then makes mean spirited bets about whether or not she's stupid enough to read this crap as written. I can't believe that speech writers seriously write this stuff.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 02, 2022 05:55 PM (+lVUW)
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Maybe her speeches are being written by an AI bot...It's using her to figure out human language by giving her nonsensical words to say, then examining the reactions in the comments on YouTube/Twitter/Facebook...All part of its evil plan to take over the world...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 02, 2022 06:00 PM (K5n5d)

201 I am make two points.
First a slight joke that TFG was not black.
Second, if you try to unwind what TFG said, half the time it was meaningless drivel just like kamalama. He was a much better speaker, but there was no real meaning in most of what he said. I am surprised that no one ever called him out for his nonsense sentences (other than a few errors, like 57 states, or Austria,..)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 02, 2022 05:58 PM (nGX3X)

I think the phrase is 'blackish' for Barry. Heck for Kameltoe, too. She's half Indian.

And yes, he babbled but in baritone. He couldn't improvise but he could recite lines from his teleprompter.

And lots of morons bashed him for being a stuttering clusterfuck. Obviously no one did in the mainstream.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:00 PM (V6f9+)

202 I don't want to live in crazy stupid world anymore.

Posted by: Infidel at August 02, 2022 06:00 PM (mn1Pi)

203 That's why his eyes are so beady, he's focusing that X-ray vision.

Posted by: wth at August 02, 2022 06:00 PM (v0R5T)

204 199 If Brandon is Dark Bat Man then who would be his Robin?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 02, 2022 06:00 PM (m7R0k)

Buttgig. If you know where I"m going with that...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:01 PM (V6f9+)

205 I think he means Fart Brandon.

Posted by: LASue at August 02, 2022 06:01 PM (Ed8Zd)

206 Crap, mobile phone copy/paste fail.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 02, 2022 06:01 PM (7rl4O)

207 "Kamala Harris, the Human Highlight Machine"

Her speechwriters have to just be pushing the limits now. She must have seen the criticism she's getting for her word salads and yet she still okays these speeches.
Posted by: lowandslow

If the accounts are true, she's lazy and doesn't prep or review anything.

Posted by: Dark Hen at August 02, 2022 06:01 PM (cY9wR)

208 If Brandon is Dark Bat Man then who would be his Robin?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 02, 2022 06:00 PM (m7R0k)
.......

Mayo Pete

Posted by: wth at August 02, 2022 06:01 PM (v0R5T)

209 I will sniff your children

I will finger your women

Posted by: Dark Brandon at August 02, 2022 06:01 PM (B3oWe)

210 this post reminds me that Cowboy Song by Thin Lizzy is greatness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9f_HHV5Pc4

Posted by: x at August 02, 2022 06:01 PM (ZC2go)

211 Dodderingly senile man in cape wandering around, banding into things bellowing his super powers is not the image the Dems want to create.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

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You left out speaking in tongues, incontinence strong enough to repel Xi, rewriting the past with his time travel remarks, and being like Forrest Gump--present at every historical event in America. He also has the hypnotic mental power to cause the Dem media to channel and repeat his desired messages. How can you not respect the power of Dark Brandon?

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 06:02 PM (CXr4y)

212
This just in: SecGay Buttgiggity has assumed the title of SecMonkeypox Buttgiggity.

Hang that weaselfucker by his scrawny neck with the monkeypox fiasco in the making.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at August 02, 2022 06:02 PM (pNxlR)

213 Aaaaahhhhh !

just one, purely for medicinal purposes.

says right on the label, made from Noble Herbs !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at August 02, 2022 06:02 PM (xil8k)

214 >>> 198 news item: 'FEMA says it recently became aware of “certain vulnerabilities” in Emergency Alert System encoder/decoder devices that would open up the systems to a hacker that could send a false alert via radio, television or a cable network.'

Should be a fun next couple of days.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at August 02, 2022 06:00 PM (bnAdj)

You just notice this?

"RUN FOR HILLS SENATOR PELOSI IS DEAD"

Posted by: CHYna at August 02, 2022 06:02 PM (llON8)

215 You can't make an omelette without chickens, and a chicken needs a farmer like a biker needs tires, so we must go on until the omelette is on the plate.

Posted by: Kamala on the campaign trail at August 02, 2022 06:02 PM (Ynyl9)

216 Any way he tried to end it, he's going to piss of the fans of the books/show.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 02, 2022 05:58 PM (K5n5d)

Plus he simply doesn't have the balls to close his series now that he makes preposterous amounts of money. His remaining fans will follow him no matter what he does and buy ancillary product that distracts from his main work. Some authors might continue just for pride and actually caring about their worlds (JRR and JKR) but Martin is a toad who really likes rape.

Posted by: trev006 at August 02, 2022 06:02 PM (u8Evt)

217 a friend used to say you can tell you're in a recession when the waiters are all good, because competent people take those jobs.

This is a corollary to the "hot waitress" economic indicator, which is a real, but disputed theory. When the economy is good, restaurants can afford to hire the hot waitresses who aren't terribly good at their job. When things are down, the incompetent hotties go away and the competent normies come back.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 02, 2022 05:58 PM (kDGvA)

Nooooooo

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:02 PM (V6f9+)

218 If Brandon is Dark Bat Man then who would be his Robin?

It would have to be someone smart. Maybe he'd pick the smartest man he knows.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 02, 2022 06:02 PM (Bd6X8)

219 211 Dodderingly senile man in cape wandering around, banding into things bellowing his super powers is not the image the Dems want to create.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd


In his underoos on the outside of his slacks

Posted by: It's me donna at August 02, 2022 06:02 PM (bs+z0)

220 Holy crap, the Alex Jones trial judge just informed Jones' counsel that, ""You may not elicit testimony that would lead Jones to testify that he did not defame plaintiffs or intentionally inflict emotional distress"."

https://bit.ly/3QcoG5U

So the judge has already decided Jones is guilty of that and is not allowed to defend himself against that charge.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 02, 2022 06:02 PM (kDGvA)

221 the funniest thing in that race is that Meijer has been whining publicly about how the Dems have financed his opponents campaign, since his opponent had no money for ads. It's true, they did. They thought the other guy would be easier to beat in the general - I think they're wrong.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2022 05:59 PM (trdmm)
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Jimmy Dore did a segment on Democrats doing just that. He also went off about Democrats doing everything they can to deny third party candidates. As Dore said, "Rather than develop candidates, the DNC is running the same playbook which puts radical right wingers on the ballot." Jimmy may have a blind spot when it comes to the right, but, he's pretty good at pointing out how stupid the DNC is.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 02, 2022 06:02 PM (5pTK/)

222
The only thing dark about Dark Brandon are the dark streaks in his shorts.

Dark Shart Brandon

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at August 02, 2022 06:03 PM (pNxlR)

223
The wholesale incineration of towns and sexual sadism is what those people dream of doing if only they had some power.

_________

The monsters of de Sade's novels were all wealthy, powerful atheists who pushed all that to the limit. If there's no God, why deny yourself pleasure, even to the point of torturing and killing the weak?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2022 06:03 PM (1Nxff)

224 Second, if you try to unwind what TFG said, half the time it was meaningless drivel just like kamalama. He was a much better speaker, but there was no real meaning in most of what he said. I am surprised that no one ever called him out for his nonsense sentences (other than a few errors, like 57 states, or Austria,..)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 02, 2022 05:58 PM (nGX3X)
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I agree that TFG was generally pretty good about *sounding* like he was saying something important without actually saying anything of substance at all.

His sentences were grammatically correct (minus the um's and ah's in his extemporaneous speaking), but they didn't have any meaningful content in them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 02, 2022 06:03 PM (K5n5d)

225 Dark Brandon. This is the devise of a desperate toady. A testosterone free toady who is also shameless.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 02, 2022 06:03 PM (QSjkU)

226 The story of the real War of the Roses was far more interesting than Game of Thrones ever was. But, HBO brought nekkidness and sexual depravity plus gratuitous rapes and blood to the story which drew a lot of people in.

Read a bit of the first book in a Barnes and Noble back in the day and didn't care for it at all. Could care less what HBO is offering as I haven't watched it since the 70's.
Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 05:54 PM (CXr4y)


You had me at nekkidness.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 02, 2022 06:03 PM (yQpMk)

227 @202

>>I don't want to live in crazy stupid world anymore.

Well, where these maniacs are taking us, we will look at this period as the salad years.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 02, 2022 06:04 PM (5jrx5)

228 >>> 220 Holy crap, the Alex Jones trial judge just informed Jones' counsel that, ""You may not elicit testimony that would lead Jones to testify that he did not defame plaintiffs or intentionally inflict emotional distress"."

https://bit.ly/3QcoG5U

So the judge has already decided Jones is guilty of that and is not allowed to defend himself against that charge.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 02, 2022 06:02 PM (kDGvA)

There are strenuous objections, and then there are strenuous objections.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 02, 2022 06:04 PM (llON8)

229 I will sniff your children

I will finger your women

Posted by: Dark Brandon at August 02, 2022 06:01 PM (B3oWe)
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"Dark Brandon, what is best in life?"

"Slander your enemies, steal their ice cream, and smell their women."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:04 PM (llXky)

230 this post reminds me that Cowboy Song by Thin Lizzy is greatness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9f_HHV5Pc4


Not sure how it's related, but you're right.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 02, 2022 06:04 PM (Bd6X8)

231 And yes, he babbled but in baritone. He couldn't improvise but he could recite lines from his teleprompter.

And lots of morons bashed him for being a stuttering clusterfuck. Obviously no one did in the mainstream.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:00 PM (V6f9+)

I think a lot of OBumbles success was because of the tone and timbre (?) of his voice. What he says is odious and ridiculous, but he sounds really mature and smart good saying it. Trump (much as I love him), his voice is not mellifluous but he makes up for it in context. Kamamlalal and Shrillery (and frankly many, many women politicians) have both the annoying voice and nothing substantive to say (but take many, many, many words to say it).

Posted by: LASue at August 02, 2022 06:04 PM (Ed8Zd)

232 They thought the other guy would be easier to beat in the general - I think they're wrong.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2022 05:59 PM (trdmm)

For real- most of the consultant class spews their advice on the principle that "oh, Republicans want to storm Washington and kill everyone! Insurrection!"

Except by November, an increasing number of people may be okay with that.

Posted by: trev006 at August 02, 2022 06:04 PM (u8Evt)

233 Yes, but a lot of liberals really identified with the cruelty of the characters - that was what earned such a loyal following. The wholesale incineration of towns and sexual sadism is what those people dream of doing if only they had some power.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 05:59 PM (llXky)

I watched about 10 minutes and quickly decided it was HBO trash. As I like to point out, GoTs final season was getting ratings that Star Trek:TNG got in its fifth season. GoT got that with a larger population. It was another show that mainly interested Blue areas and not much else. Remember how "Girls" was a thing?

Posted by: WiNO at August 02, 2022 06:05 PM (EpDzw)

234 If Brandon is Dark Bat Man then who would be his Robin?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 02, 2022 06:00 PM (m7R0k)

Buttgig. If you know where I"m going with that...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:01 PM (V6f9+)
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"Holy exposure, Dark Batman, I've got a rip in the crotch of my young boy's leotards. Wanna feel ... or just smell this time?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 02, 2022 06:05 PM (7rl4O)

235 So the judge has already decided Jones is guilty of that and is not allowed to defend himself against that charge.

Well, that's one way to make sure the case gets overturned on appeal.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 02, 2022 06:05 PM (Bd6X8)

236 Trump's first act on Jan 20, 2025 should be to free Assange/Snowden while referring Dick Cheney to the Hague for war crimes prosecution. That would tie the left and the useless right up in knots.

Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at August 02, 2022 06:05 PM (rE06j)

237 So they're saying Dark Brandon is cool, because he copied PDT twice?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 02, 2022 06:06 PM (llON8)

238 Obama could sound really good when reading what someone else had written, but to hear him ramble all over the place for five minutes while not actually answering a question tells you all you need to know about our 'most intelligent president.'

Posted by: mallfly the peach of Hoboken at August 02, 2022 06:06 PM (Ynyl9)

239 Let me lay it out for the slow members of the horde.

1. My nick refers to the current "democracy" as a junta
2. I misspell kamala's name
3. I refer to obama as TFG (This F-ing Guy)
4. I make a reference that obama was not black
5. I say that obama said a lot of drivel.

Does this sound like a troll? Seriously - I admit it wasn't a great joke, but I was trying to make a point about how she was often not much worse than TFG. In fact, I suspect she is cribbing some of his old campaign lines but her delivery is awful.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 02, 2022 06:06 PM (nGX3X)

240 DC Comics, which has been making every character it can gay -- including Batman! and whose marketshare has it slipping out of credible consideration even as the runner-up in the Big Two -- might be in for a f***ing tsunami of tsackings.

Heh. Learn to code, neckbeards, so you can go work at Google ...

re-reads last thread

... uh, nevermind.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at August 02, 2022 06:07 PM (v23vE)

241 If Brandon is Dark Bat Man then who would be his Robin?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 02, 2022 06:00 PM (m7R0k)


Well...I think you could make a pretty good case for Kamala being -

Bobbin'.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 02, 2022 06:07 PM (5NkmN)

242 "We must do something about the collective now, together, and because of the oneness of our togetherness, we can do it, collectively ... Amen."

Posted by: illiniwek at August 02, 2022 06:07 PM (Cus5s)

243 So the judge has already decided Jones is guilty of that and is not allowed to defend himself against that charge.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 02, 2022 06:02 PM (kDGvA)

Ah, the legal profession shines in glory again.

Posted by: WiNO at August 02, 2022 06:07 PM (EpDzw)

244 I had the same reaction as whig to G RRRR Martin. "Wait, Starke? Lannister? WTF? I think I'll just read up on the War of the Roses. "

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at August 02, 2022 06:07 PM (5svMo)

245 @220

>>So the judge has already decided Jones is guilty of that and is not allowed to defend himself against that charge.

Same thing happened in the Bannon trial, judge said that Bannon could not testify that it was his attorneys that directed him to not cooperate with the J6 committee.

Bastards.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 02, 2022 06:07 PM (5jrx5)

246 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Joey Fingerstick McShitpants at August 02, 2022 06:07 PM (Zz0t1)

247 Ace got pissed at me for pointing it out, but David French - *Pastor* David French - was really, really into the show.

Which is strange for a guy who identifies as a Reform Christian and likes to look down on everyone else. It's fine for Morons who don't put on airs to like something like that, but for Mr. Holier Than Thou to babble on about shows with borderline X-rated material was just weird. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Not weird if French is pedo friendly. For the most part, pedos are losers that cannot attract people their own age but for a small subset, it is about spoiling the innocence of yutes by exercising power. These are the bastards that Epstein and Maxwell targeted that are so jaded that the only high they can get is by depraved acts of power on others. That is what is driving many of the left's biggest funders is my guess. That taste of pure unadulterated control over others perhaps even to life or death. Only a monster in human form could play those games and enjoy them.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 06:08 PM (CXr4y)

248 Kamala Harris is so, so, SO tanking right now. On purpose. There is no other rational explanation

Posted by: deadrody at August 02, 2022 06:08 PM (SnywI)

249 > Well, that's one way to make sure the case gets overturned on appeal.

We're in a post law world and the only thing keeping us on a semi-normal path is inertia.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 02, 2022 06:08 PM (kDGvA)

250 >>Jimmy may have a blind spot when it comes to the right, but, he's pretty good at pointing out how stupid the DNC is.

Just the other day a bunch of DNC veterans led by the like of Dick Gephart and Tom Daschle published a letter where they told Democrats to stop this practice. Some of the clowns leading the party now are convinced that Ultra MAGA really isn't that popular and their insane leftists polices are going to magically become popular.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2022 06:08 PM (ZLI7S)

251 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Joey Fingerstick McShitpants at August 02, 2022 06:07 PM (Zz0t1)

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I dare say you are correct, sir.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 02, 2022 06:08 PM (5pTK/)

252 Didn't it come out already that the 'top al qaida leader' was already dead some time ago?

Posted by: Joey Fingerstick McShitpants at August 02, 2022 06:08 PM (Zz0t1)

253 "But, HBO brought nekkidness and sexual depravity plus gratuitous rapes and blood to the story which drew a lot of people in."

"Hey, what if I took The War of the Roses and did a fictional pron thing with it?"

~George R.R. Martin
groovy hippie dude

Posted by: DaisyB at August 02, 2022 06:08 PM (AbL8c)

254 shit.

My eyes are dilated from my eye Dr. appt. Didn't see the fucking sock.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 02, 2022 06:08 PM (Zz0t1)

255 248 Kamala Harris is so, so, SO tanking right now. On purpose. There is no other rational explanation

Posted by: deadrody
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So what you are saying is that she is going down?

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 06:09 PM (CXr4y)

256 My eyes are dilated from my eye Dr. appt. Didn't see the fucking sock.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 02, 2022 06:08 PM (Zz0t1)
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Well, it truly was a first. So, there's that.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 02, 2022 06:09 PM (5pTK/)

257 So the judge has already decided Jones is guilty of that and is not allowed to defend himself against that charge.
Posted by: bonhomme

Ahh. The Kangaroo Klown Kourt standard.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at August 02, 2022 06:09 PM (FVME7)

258 The monsters of de Sade's novels were all wealthy, powerful atheists who pushed all that to the limit. If there's no God, why deny yourself pleasure, even to the point of torturing and killing the weak?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2022 06:03 PM (1Nxff)
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Game of Thrones had two things going for it.

The production values were superb. That counts for a lot. You can look past cheap sets (such as in "I, Claudius") but having a very polished presentation puts people in a very receptive state.

The cast was amazing. They put a lot in the roles, and by all accounts redefined some of the characters in ways Martin never anticipated. People just wanted to watch these superlative people do things, even if it was awful things.

But the story was always garbage warmed over, and I knew early on they would botch the ending. It was all setup and zero payoff.

My family was into it and so I watched the final episodes and they got so pissed at me because I almost pissed myself I was laughing so hard at how bad it was.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:09 PM (llXky)

259 Trump (much as I love him), his voice is not mellifluous but he makes up for it in context. Kamamlalal and Shrillery (and frankly many, many women politicians) have both the annoying voice
Posted by: LASue at August 02, 2022 06:04 PM (Ed8Zd)

I really do suspect that at least part of Donald Trump's public facing personality is kayfabe, and that he's perfectly capable of bringing his A-game when he genuinely respects the people opposite him (MBS, Putin, Xi Jingping who clearly respected Trump more than Biden). But years of actually relating to normal people and avoiding elite bubbles means that most of the time he's stuck in his Lowest Common Denominator pose. There have been richer men than Trump: it's just that no one cares about them unless they're currently in charge of something worth caring about. But Trump has been an iconic American since the 80s. Maybe not an icon everyone likes, but the man defines a certain ideal.

Posted by: trev006 at August 02, 2022 06:09 PM (u8Evt)

260 >>> 245 @220

>>So the judge has already decided Jones is guilty of that and is not allowed to defend himself against that charge.

Same thing happened in the Bannon trial, judge said that Bannon could not testify that it was his attorneys that directed him to not cooperate with the J6 committee.

Bastards.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 02, 2022 06:07 PM (5jrx5)

I am not a lawyer but how the fck can a judge say, 'you can't call this witness' or 'you can't make this statement in your testimony'? ...besides the obvious psycho 'what are you going to do about it' post-law phase we're in.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 02, 2022 06:09 PM (llON8)

261 -----------

Well, it truly was a first. So, there's that.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 02, 2022 06:09 PM (5pTK/)



Well, yes. You're correct as I don't think I've left that nasty sock on when firsting before.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 02, 2022 06:09 PM (Zz0t1)

262 I have a belly full of hate for GRRM but...I gotta say the first 3 books are damn good. Masterful use of Point of View, good description, good characterization. He's plagurizing the War of the Roses but...eh.

It's the way he constantly rewards the cruel and punishes the good that wore on me. Then the Mereen bullshit. Dany being increasingly wrong about everything she decides on, introducing new major characters FIVE fucking books into the series....

Gah, I could go on. But the first three books are good. Not happy. But well-written.

And, I"m on record saying he'll never finish the series.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:09 PM (V6f9+)

263 White House lawyers say
Anything to make the Marxists happy

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2022 06:10 PM (k8B25)

264 "Hey, what if I took The War of the Roses and did a fictional pron thing with it?"

~George R.R. Martin
groovy hippie dude

Posted by: DaisyB
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Says something about our society and him that he made a buttload of money from guessing correctly that society would dig it.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 06:10 PM (CXr4y)

265 It is pretty obvious that RRRRR. Martin just stole the history of England and called it Westeros. He's even got Hadrian's Ice Wall keeping the Scots out.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 02, 2022 06:11 PM (yQpMk)

266 >> the show was called Eclaire!: The Story of the Eclaire-and-Beignet
>> Reacharound Technique -- and it was less gay than "Dark Brandon."

Holy Hell.

Posted by: Alex Jones at August 02, 2022 06:11 PM (uWF4x)

267 My eyes are dilated from my eye Dr. appt. Didn't see the fucking sock.....
Posted by: Sponge

You know you could just stop fucking socks, right?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2022 06:11 PM (MxUom)

268 Posted by: Infidel at August 02, 2022 06:00 PM (mn1Pi)

Consider taking a break. I know someone who spends a day fasting from any news on their phone, on their computer , in newspapers or TV. They've been doing in for about a year and they say it helps.

Besides, there are others who need you in this crazy world, so please hang around until God calls you to life beyond this life.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 02, 2022 06:11 PM (fL5aK)

269 >>> 262 I have a belly full of hate for GRRM but...I gotta say the first 3 books are damn good. Masterful use of Point of View, good description, good characterization. He's plagurizing the War of the Roses but...eh.

It's the way he constantly rewards the cruel and punishes the good that wore on me. Then the Mereen bullshit. Dany being increasingly wrong about everything she decides on, introducing new major characters FIVE fucking books into the series....

Gah, I could go on. But the first three books are good. Not happy. But well-written.

And, I"m on record saying he'll never finish the series.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:09 PM (V6f9+)

Did the fat boy get vaxxed? Not like I thought he'd finish it anyway.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 02, 2022 06:11 PM (llON8)

270
So two televisions, a computer monitor and a WiFi router are the electronics casualties of the lighning strike. Considering it hit the house and not nearby, no surge protector would have saved any of them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2022 06:12 PM (1Nxff)

271 The production values were superb. That counts for a lot. You can look past cheap sets (such as in "I, Claudius") but having a very polished presentation puts people in a very receptive state.

The cast was amazing. They put a lot in the roles, and by all accounts redefined some of the characters in ways Martin never anticipated. People just wanted to watch these superlative people do things, even if it was awful things.

But the story was always garbage warmed over, and I knew early on they would botch the ending. It was all setup and zero payoff.

My family was into it and so I watched the final episodes and they got so pissed at me because I almost pissed myself I was laughing so hard at how bad it was.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloy

Charles Dance was the best actor in that. His character was ruthless/evil but intelligent.

I didn't watch thelast seasons, and heard how the show writing became truly shoddy.

Posted by: Dark Hen at August 02, 2022 06:12 PM (cY9wR)

272 Liz can't hold a candle to Levin

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2022 06:12 PM (k8B25)

273 Ace, every post I see my piggy and see Cheney too.
Your cruelty is legend.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2022 06:12 PM (MxUom)

274 in production and cancelled. So there are sunk costs involved but they won't lose as much money as they would if they kept filming and released it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 05:58 PM (V6f9+)

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Thanks for clearing that up.

Posted by: Darth Randall at August 02, 2022 06:12 PM (nIyu9)

275 Says something about our society and him that he made a buttload of money from guessing correctly that society would dig it.
Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 06:10 PM (CXr4y)

Yup.

Posted by: DaisyB at August 02, 2022 06:12 PM (AbL8c)

276 I watched about 10 minutes and quickly decided it was HBO trash. As I like to point out, GoTs final season was getting ratings that Star Trek:TNG got in its fifth season. GoT got that with a larger population. It was another show that mainly interested Blue areas and not much else. Remember how "Girls" was a thing?

Posted by: WiNO at August 02, 2022 06:05 PM (EpDzw)
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If it's audience metrics, the original Battlestar Galactica had an audience 100 times greater than the reboot, which was supposedly this huge success.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:12 PM (llXky)

277 Never read or watched GOT. Glad I didn't.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 02, 2022 06:13 PM (fL5aK)

278
Besides, there are others who need you in this crazy world, so please hang around until God calls you to life beyond this life.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Bless you Fen.

Posted by: Infidel at August 02, 2022 06:13 PM (mn1Pi)

279 @260

>>I am not a lawyer but how the fck can a judge say, 'you can't call this witness' or 'you can't make this statement in your testimony'?

Judges are essentially kings of their courtrooms and pretty much do what they want.

Look at what the judge in Mike Flynn's case did to Mike Flynn essentially keeping him on trial when the DOJ said it was dropping the case because of prosecutorial malfeasance and essentially hired his own prosecutor.

Everything is broken, the judicial system doubly so.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 02, 2022 06:13 PM (5jrx5)

280 Bless you Fen.
Posted by: Infidel at August 02, 2022 06:13 PM (mn1Pi)

I agree with Fen

Posted by: It's me donna at August 02, 2022 06:13 PM (bs+z0)

281 Says something about our society and him that he made a buttload of money from guessing correctly that society would dig it.
Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 06:10 PM (CXr4y)

So does the talentless Howard Stern to did the same imbecilic crap every day for 10 years. Made a lot of money.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 02, 2022 06:14 PM (QSjkU)

282 Game of Thrones had cultural influence enormously, ENORMOUSLY beyond its actual ratings which were pretty modest. For some reason it was made A Thing by the cultural mavens.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2022 06:14 PM (Ivdso)

283 Kamamlalal and Shrillery (and frankly many, many women politicians) have both the annoying voice
Posted by: LASue

Women bartenders almost always have good voices.

Posted by: AOC at August 02, 2022 06:14 PM (nGX3X)

284 Michelle Obama's streaming show on Showtime has been cancelled because of low ratings. See, even in the darkest times there is joy.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 02, 2022 06:14 PM (m7R0k)

285 There you go. In lieu of the release of Epstein's client list, just contact trace all the juvenile cases of MPV coming out of DC. Done.

Posted by: Slow Learner at August 02, 2022 06:14 PM (klu5V)

286 Did the fat boy get vaxxed? Not like I thought he'd finish it anyway.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 02, 2022 06:11 PM (llON

Yeah, of course. He's a life-long lefty Democrat.
Still caught the coof.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:14 PM (V6f9+)

287 >>>CDC is finally requiring states to report monkeypox cases within 24 hours.

So soon before gay pride month?

Posted by: flounder at August 02, 2022 06:14 PM (U3uv2)

288 never watched "Game of Thrones" but I still sometimes watch iCarly reruns. The guy who created those programs must have spent a lot of time studying the Three Stooges' movies.

Posted by: mallfly the peach of Hoboken at August 02, 2022 06:15 PM (Ynyl9)

289
You know you could just stop fucking socks, right?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2022 06:11 PM (MxUom)



What ELSE am I going to do with the leftovers?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 02, 2022 06:15 PM (Zz0t1)

290 I have a belly full of hate for GRRM but...I gotta say the first 3 books are damn good. Masterful use of Point of View, good description, good characterization. He's plagurizing the War of the Roses but...eh.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:09 PM (V6f9+)

I've read some of his short sci-fi stories. They're written extremely well. The people are soulless and depraved.

Posted by: WiNO at August 02, 2022 06:15 PM (EpDzw)

291 If it's audience metrics, the original Battlestar Galactica had an audience 100 times greater than the reboot, which was supposedly this huge success.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:12 PM (llXky)

I miss Brother Cavil. But yes, the old one was great- the new one had its moments, but it was just too goddamned grim. And Katee Sackhoff... just had no business playing a fighter pilot who could beat up men, even if one of those men was Jamie Bamber

Posted by: trev006 at August 02, 2022 06:15 PM (u8Evt)

292 I strongly, vigorously recommend people take at least 1 day off from social media a week. Fast from it. Take a day of rest. Whatever you want to call it, just blow it off one day and don't even reach for the phone. You will be better for the time away.

And who knows, maybe if you get used to one day you can make it more.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2022 06:15 PM (Ivdso)

293 Game of Thrones had cultural influence enormously, ENORMOUSLY beyond its actual ratings which were pretty modest. For some reason it was made A Thing by the cultural mavens.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2022 06:14 PM (Ivdso)
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As did "Girls" which hardly anyone ever watched.

And now we have decades of Lena Dunham blinding us with her ugliness because of it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:16 PM (llXky)

294 And there's plenty of deviant sex and worse during the War of the Roses. Martin isn't really fishing far from the hatchery there.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:16 PM (V6f9+)

295 Liz can't hold a candle to Levin
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2022 06:12 PM (k8B25)



I am NOT the LAW!!!!

- - Liz Chinny

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 02, 2022 06:16 PM (Zz0t1)

296 270
So two televisions, a computer monitor and a WiFi router are the electronics casualties of the lighning strike. Considering it hit the house and not nearby, no surge protector would have saved any of them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2022 06:12 PM (1Nxff)


Well, that sucks. Hopefully no damage to the house itself.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at August 02, 2022 06:16 PM (v23vE)

297 292 socialist media
And you're right

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 02, 2022 06:16 PM (gbzeC)

298
I've read some of his short sci-fi stories. They're written extremely well. The people are soulless and depraved.

Posted by: WiNO at August 02, 2022 06:15 PM (EpDzw)
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You write what you know.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:16 PM (llXky)

299 No one will dispute that the last season, really the last three seasons, were shit, because the show runners ran out of material to adapt and had to write the story themselves. Which means they lost all the scheming mental part, which they can't do, and went to big set piece battles which they did know how to do. And they rushed the ending badly because they and everyone else wanted out.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 02, 2022 06:16 PM (yQpMk)

300 >Wait till this starts infecting kids. Then the CDC will be very strict >and very direct with its demands about locking down children.

Wait wut, I hadn't been paying attention much to this because it's not relevant but is there actually a chance that these depraved sickos end up making this a real epidemic that affects everyone.

Oh boy will the tides turn.

Posted by: havel at August 02, 2022 06:16 PM (PRDNR)

301 So two televisions, a computer monitor and a WiFi router are the electronics casualties of the lighning strike. Considering it hit the house and not nearby, no surge protector would have saved any of them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Expensive hit; but, no damage to loved ones counts for a lot in my book.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2022 06:16 PM (MxUom)

302 I read the first Game of Thrones book and was extremely underwhelmed. I cannot figure out why people like them so much. And hint: its not even fantasy. Its just alternate reality quasi medieval.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2022 06:17 PM (Ivdso)

303 The last compelling thing on TV was Chernobyl, the vast overwhelming programming that is currently on offer is garbage which is why having Plex loaded up with television programs and movies from the before times is essential.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 02, 2022 06:17 PM (5jrx5)

304 I have a belly full of hate for GRRM but...I gotta say the first 3 books are damn good. Masterful use of Point of View, good description, good characterization. He's plagurizing the War of the Roses but...eh.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:09 PM (V6f9+)

I've read some of his short sci-fi stories. They're written extremely well. The people are soulless and depraved.
Posted by: WiNO at August 02, 2022 06:15 PM (EpDzw)

Exactly. He's a talented writer but the subject matter he chooses is the problem.

The Tuf Voyaging sci fi stories are great and much less annoying, if you ever find them for sale.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:17 PM (V6f9+)

305 I comment with the urgency of now

Posted by: DB at August 02, 2022 06:17 PM (geLO8)

306 I always saw g o t as training, or perhaps grooming; popularize violent sadism / sex / rape among target audience.
shades of gray was an earlier version.
teach the susceptible to be good submissives.

just my 0.02

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at August 02, 2022 06:17 PM (gNK8s)

307 As did "Girls" which hardly anyone ever watched.

And Sex and the City before it, which was a modest success but not particularly a hit. But HUGE cultural impact.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2022 06:18 PM (Ivdso)

308 He wanders in broad daylight.
I assume he's calling in drone strikes on his own shins when he tries to make it to the bathroom.

Posted by: DaveA at August 02, 2022 06:18 PM (FhXTo)

309 > If it's audience metrics, the original Battlestar Galactica had an audience 100 times greater than the reboot, which was supposedly this huge success.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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One was on network, one on cable-ish. Not a fair comparison.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 02, 2022 06:18 PM (BFigT)

310 > I knew early on they would botch the ending. It was all setup and zero payoff.

It doesn't help that GRRM still hasn't figured out the payoff. Maybe he will write the ending before he dies, but Hollywood hacks certainly couldn't.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 02, 2022 06:18 PM (kDGvA)

311 If it's audience metrics, the original Battlestar Galactica had an audience 100 times greater than the reboot, which was supposedly this huge success.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:12 PM (llXky)

Ah, nuBSG which started the grim and gritty TV show explosion. That show had potential which it never lived up to. The head of the show admitted they never knew what the Cylon plan was. They just threw darts at the board for what was most dramatic.

Posted by: WiNO at August 02, 2022 06:18 PM (EpDzw)

312 The last compelling thing on TV was Chernobyl, the vast overwhelming programming that is currently on offer is garbage which is why having Plex loaded up with television programs and movies from the before times is essential.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 02, 2022 06:17 PM (5jrx5)
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I use Plex to run our media server. Digitized all of our movies and most of our tv dvd's. It also handles our music library.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 02, 2022 06:19 PM (5pTK/)

313 OH, MY!
When are they going to rename this virus?
I nominate "Pride Pox"

Posted by: George Takei at August 02, 2022 06:19 PM (YpHxX)

314 Bless you Fen.
Posted by: Infidel at August 02, 2022 06:13 PM (mn1Pi)

God bless you too dear. I did take off a day from anything related to politics or news and only looked at my phone to see if anyone from church had called me. It was a good day.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 02, 2022 06:19 PM (fL5aK)

315 Dark Brandon?? Are you fvcking kidding me??

Posted by: davidt at August 02, 2022 06:19 PM (oTZbj)

316
Kamamlalal and Shrillery (and frankly many, many women politicians) have both the annoying voice

__________

I have a theory that women do not make good sports announcers because their voices just don't project. Without any low tones, there's no power and it just sounds screechy.

When I work as a ring steward at dog shows, I use a low, slow resonant voice. Without raising the volume much, it carries very well. Exhibitors tell me how happy they are to have a steward that they can hear.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2022 06:19 PM (1Nxff)

317 MAE - yes, I was just thinking that myself; Tuf Voyaging is pretty much the only good writing he ever did !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at August 02, 2022 06:19 PM (gNK8s)

318
Miss Piggy is a fun, anthropomorphized puppet pig, with certain endearing qualities.

Donald Trump, Jr. should have gone with an actual pig. A stinking, bedraggled feral swine, covered in shit, and wallowing in a pile of filthy, shit-covered money.

A real Cheney Pig.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 02, 2022 06:19 PM (IXpV7)

319 It doesn't help that GRRM still hasn't figured out the payoff. Maybe he will write the ending before he dies, but Hollywood hacks certainly couldn't.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 02, 2022 06:18 PM (kDGvA)



He at least know how NOT to end the story now.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 02, 2022 06:19 PM (yQpMk)

320 290 I've read some of his short sci-fi stories. They're written extremely well. The people are soulless and depraved.
Posted by: WiNO at August 02, 2022 06:15 PM (EpDzw)


Sandkings is an amazing long short story. But yes, the protagonist fits your description.

I also liked the novel The Armageddon Rag. The protagonist is only a little bit assholic!

And...I've never gotten more than 40% of the way through the first of the Game Of Thrones book, despite multiple attempts. I just can't bring myself to care what happens next.

Posted by: Splunge at August 02, 2022 06:19 PM (cm/80)

321 302 I read the first Game of Thrones book and was extremely underwhelmed. I cannot figure out why people like them so much. And hint: its not even fantasy. Its just alternate reality quasi medieval.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2022 06:17 PM (Ivdso)

It has zombies and dragons. So it's Fantasy. It's low-magic but one of the themes of the series is how the return of the dragons brings back magic.

As for being underwhelmed..I don't know what to tell ya. Are you sure you're reading the books and studying what Martin's doing and how he's doing it?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:20 PM (V6f9+)

322
What ELSE am I going to do with the leftovers?
Posted by: Sponge

Cleanup after using your dip stick...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2022 06:20 PM (MxUom)

323 'I comment with the urgency of now'

Going to needlepoint a pillow with that.

Posted by: DaisyB at August 02, 2022 06:20 PM (AbL8c)

324 And, I"m on record saying he'll never finish the series.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:09 PM (V6f9+)

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He'll die before he finishes it.

Posted by: Darth Randall at August 02, 2022 06:20 PM (nIyu9)

325 Oh, here's a great idea -- the CDC is finally requiring states to report monkeypox cases within 24 hours.
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Has there been, anywhere, by anyone, any edict, public or private, banning the Monkey Pox-infected from *any* engagement or activity? Quarentines?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 02, 2022 06:20 PM (dx9uU)

326 Gorilla Pox!

Posted by: Dian Fossey at August 02, 2022 06:20 PM (YpHxX)

327 Earth has recorded its shortest day since scientists began using atomic clocks to measure its rotational speed.

On June 29, 2022, Earth completed one spin in 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours. This is the latest in a series of speed records for Earth since 2020.

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I guess the Earth is as sick of this shit as I am.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at August 02, 2022 06:20 PM (FVME7)

328
Well, that sucks. Hopefully no damage to the house itself.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at August 02, 2022 06:16 PM (v23vE)

_________

A hole blown into the living room floor and maybe damage to the chimney. We had a small fire from a ruptured propane line.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2022 06:21 PM (1Nxff)

329 I like the original Galactica ship design a lot better than the reboot. I always liked the Cylon Basestar too--the double saucer design was pretty cool.

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at August 02, 2022 06:21 PM (5svMo)

330 its not even fantasy. Its just alternate reality quasi medieval.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


With tits.

Posted by: davidt at August 02, 2022 06:21 PM (oTZbj)

331 Ah, nuBSG which started the grim and gritty TV show explosion. That show had potential which it never lived up to. The head of the show admitted they never knew what the Cylon plan was. They just threw darts at the board for what was most dramatic.
Posted by: WiNO at August 02, 2022 06:18 PM (EpDzw)

Fucking Mystery Box storytelling.
So much hate.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:21 PM (V6f9+)

332 I am not a lawyer but how the fck can a judge say, 'you can't call this witness' or 'you can't make this statement in your testimony'? ...besides the obvious psycho 'what are you going to do about it' post-law phase we're in.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 02, 2022 06:09 PM (llON

Those are amazingly obvious grounds for an appeal to overturn the result of a trial. That's where Bannon's case is headed, and I'm sure this one as well. Although to be clear, Bannon's case was a criminal trial, the Jones case is just about damages that he'll never pay. His company has already filed for bankruptcy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2022 06:22 PM (trdmm)

333 All of these enormous series like GoT I have just never gotten into. Seems like all the normies sit around gabbing about what happened this week and stroking their schweens to whatever stupid plot twist happened last week and what it MEAAAAAAANS for the rest of the show.

God, I just couldn't care less.

Posted by: ballistic at August 02, 2022 06:22 PM (oXNqT)

334 @312

>>I use Plex to run our media server.

I have Plex attatched to a 16tb NAS and Roku's on the back of every TV I also have 1000 movies and 250 television programs.

The great thing is you simple set to randomly choose TV programs, hit play and you essentially have your very own Television Network.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 02, 2022 06:22 PM (5jrx5)

335 I'm about to watch E6 of S4 of Westworld. I loved S1 and thought it should have stopped there. S2 keep my interest because they made it deliberately confusing and I wanted to know what was really happening. S3 was bad. S4 is meh but weird and at least has had a twist.

Honestly, it's just sunk cost for me now. I've watched up to here and I guess there are about 3 more episodes in the series.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 02, 2022 06:22 PM (yQpMk)

336 Can someone tell me what the Eastman fake elector theory is? I haven't paid attention to the Liz Cheney Drama club production now for a few weeks, so am woefully behind on her latest legal declarations.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 02, 2022 06:22 PM (gy4te)

337 >>> 304
==
The Tuf Voyaging sci fi stories are great and much less annoying, if you ever find them for sale.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:17 PM (V6f9+)

I still somewhat like Haviland (?) Tuf the character - the blinking and the cats always cracked me up - however in light of current events I find myself far more irritated with grrrrrrr martin's leftist crap. It's been a while since I read the stories so ymmv.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 02, 2022 06:23 PM (llON8)

338 Everything is fucked up it's difficult to keep up with the cavalcade of catastrophe...

But ISTR something something about AIDS carriers demanding to be allowed to donate blood and plasma. And getting their way. Am I mis-remembering?

Anyhoo, does the MonkeyPox preclude blood donations? Or suspected carriers? Are they going to be discriminated against? As they should?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2022 06:23 PM (5JChN)

339 Can someone please explain to me how the term “boneless pork rectum” came to be applied to Mitt Romney?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 02, 2022 06:23 PM (atmen)

340 262 I have a belly full of hate for GRRM but...I gotta say the first 3 books are damn good. Masterful use of Point of View, good description, good characterization. He's plagurizing the War of the Roses but...eh.

It's the way he constantly rewards the cruel and punishes the good that wore on me. Then the Mereen bullshit. Dany being increasingly wrong about everything she decides on, introducing new major characters FIVE fucking books into the series....

Gah, I could go on. But the first three books are good. Not happy. But well-written.

And, I"m on record saying he'll never finish the series.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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O Henry's short story, The Gift of the Magi or even the Ransom of Red Chief outweighs any of Martin's output and probably will be read far longer than his work.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 06:23 PM (CXr4y)

341 Never read or watched GOT. Glad I didn't.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 02, 2022 06:13 PM (fL5aK)
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You chose wisely. That's what makes David French's fandom so odd - okay, not odd, but revealing.

Normally you'd think a guy so prudish that he ordered his wife not to even talk to another man while he was doing paperwork in the Green Zone would denounce the sadistic depravity, but he was really, really into it.

Which speaks volumes, doesn't it?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:23 PM (llXky)

342 The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever > Game of Thrones.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 02, 2022 06:23 PM (5jrx5)

343 On an earlier thread, I pointed out that Kamala uses what has become standard DNC hand waving/gestures. They all do it, in a similar fashion, awkwardly, as though coached.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 02, 2022 06:24 PM (dx9uU)

344 Hadrian, I'm just glad you are all ok - including the dogs. It sounds like it could easily have been very bad. Clearly your guardian angels were at the ready.
I hope insurance covers some of the damages.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 02, 2022 06:24 PM (gbzeC)

345 339 Can someone please explain to me how the term “boneless pork rectum” came to be applied to Mitt Romney?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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Self obvious there. Horde applied the name and it stuck.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 06:24 PM (CXr4y)

346 And Sex and the City before it, which was a modest success but not particularly a hit. But HUGE cultural impact.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2022 06:18 PM (Ivdso)

Neither Sex and the City or GoT have had a huge cultural impact. Virtually nothing does because everything is so niche. A few media centers get into them, but that is mainly it. That's why everything from the mid-90's and before gets rebooted. Those are the only cultural items left that weren't niche.

I mentioned "Soylent green is people!" and my Gen-Z daughter caught it. She knew what it meant and I had never discussed it with her.

Posted by: WiNO at August 02, 2022 06:24 PM (EpDzw)

347 As did "Girls" which hardly anyone ever watched.

And Sex and the City before it, which was a modest success but not particularly a hit. But HUGE cultural impact.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2022 06:18 PM (Ivdso)


Yeah, SatC had to please the heck out of the progtards influence-wise.

It convinced thousands(?) millions(?) of women that leading a gay-style, fuck-anything-that-moves lifestyle was the thing to do.

Not a huge surprise cuz all of the writers on the show were gay.

Anywho, it was a success from that point of view.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 02, 2022 06:24 PM (5NkmN)

348 Dark Shart.

Posted by: Bosk at August 02, 2022 06:25 PM (v4L7Y)

349 Voted in Missouri today. At their request I also had to fill out a sample ballot and send to family (5) that are conservatives but don't really know how to vote in a primary. So weird to have to do that but I'm more than happy to do so. It's like I get 7 votes if my wife isn't fibbing about how she votes.

Posted by: Ethan Saunders at August 02, 2022 06:25 PM (W1E3x)

350 Pro tip: To prevent the spread of Monkey pox, it is advisable for faggots to refrain from butt fucking each other. Also, do not share butt plugs.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 02, 2022 06:25 PM (QSjkU)

351 It doesn't help that GRRM still hasn't figured out the payoff. Maybe he will write the ending before he dies, but Hollywood hacks certainly couldn't.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 02, 2022 06:18 PM (kDGvA)

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Would love to see what Vince Gilligan and his team of writers -- NOT Hollywood hacks -- could come up with.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 02, 2022 06:26 PM (7rl4O)

352 O Henry's short story, The Gift of the Magi or even the Ransom of Red Chief outweighs any of Martin's output and probably will be read far longer than his work.
Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 06:23 PM (CXr4y)

It's hard to say what will stand the test of time. O Henry managed it better than George MacDonald did, for all his at-time praise and support.

I think history will be fair to GRRM. He's a talented writer but is lack of discipline will doom him. I suspect Ned Start and Tywin Lannister will persist as archetypal hero and villian.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:26 PM (V6f9+)

353 Normally you'd think a guy so prudish that he ordered his wife not to even talk to another man while he was doing paperwork in the Green Zone would denounce the sadistic depravity, but he was really, really into it.

Which speaks volumes, doesn't it?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:23 PM (llXky)

Yes, it does. It also puts the lie on his often professed religiosity. I don't know a single sincere believer who would put more than 5 minutes into that crap. I watched part of 1 or 2 episodes and was so disgusted by it that I never went back.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2022 06:27 PM (trdmm)

354 I saw Dark Biden and the Cavalcade of Catastrophe open Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks at the End of the World in '72.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at August 02, 2022 06:27 PM (FVME7)

355
Ah, nuBSG which started the grim and gritty TV show explosion. That show had potential which it never lived up to. The head of the show admitted they never knew what the Cylon plan was. They just threw darts at the board for what was most dramatic.

Posted by: WiNO at August 02, 2022 06:18 PM (EpDzw)
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That much was obvious. The Cylon reveal of the week reportedly had the cast in an uproar.

Also, the whole West Wing in Space/ripped from the headlines feel was dumb.

Naturally Jonah Goldberg loved it because he's also a derivative-based writer and a loser.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:27 PM (llXky)

356 I saw Dark Shart open for GWAR at Jackson's Insane Asylum in '95.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 02, 2022 06:27 PM (Zz0t1)

357 When AIDS broke out in the early 80's insurance cos, who were making many unplanned expensive payouts, leveraged Reagan into accommodating them with new regulation.

How did they do that?
Prudential, Travelers, Blue Cross, - all the biggies -
"WE'RE GOING BANKRUPT", there will be no insurance for your wives and children etc.

Here it is today only this time it's CLIMATE CHANGE.
From, The Hill -
"I learned that my insurance company was filing for bankruptcy too late on a Friday to do anything about it," ... my insurance company was the seventh company to declare bankruptcy in Louisiana this year. ...one item stands out in this episode: climate change." https://bit.ly/3oLEr8l

Posted by: Braenyard at August 02, 2022 06:27 PM (UmCFK)

358 The urgency of now? Think Kamala's next blithering is going to make a reference to the world being a vampire?

Posted by: azjaeger at August 02, 2022 06:27 PM (1JjF6)

359 The great thing is you simple set to randomly choose TV programs, hit play and you essentially have your very own Television Network.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 02, 2022 06:22 PM (5jrx5)
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We don't have that much stuff. a bit over 300 movies and maybe 100 tv shows. quite a bit of music, but, that doesn't really take up that much disk space. I'm kind of surprised, I've not even used up a TB of disc space with everything we have. However, at the rate we're going, it won't be long.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 02, 2022 06:28 PM (5pTK/)

360 306 I always saw g o t as training, or perhaps grooming; popularize violent sadism / sex / rape among target audience.
shades of gray was an earlier version.
teach the susceptible to be good submissives.

just my 0.02

Posted by: sock_rat_eez
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Yes it very well could be. At least, that seems to be the fantasy of our current elites is master and those subjugated for the master's pleasures.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 06:28 PM (CXr4y)

361 "Also, do not share butt plugs."

You Oppressor! (makes tiny fists)
You brute! You brute!

Posted by: twinks everywhere at August 02, 2022 06:28 PM (jTmQV)

362 Dark Brandon sounds a LOT like Darth Brandon, dark lord of the Sith.

Yeah, that works for me.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at August 02, 2022 06:28 PM (Y206u)

363 I'm about to watch E6 of S4 of Westworld. I loved S1 and thought it should have stopped there. S2 keep my interest because they made it deliberately confusing and I wanted to know what was really happening. S3 was bad. S4 is meh but weird and at least has had a twist.

Honestly, it's just sunk cost for me now. I've watched up to here and I guess there are about 3 more episodes in the series.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 02, 2022 06:22 PM (yQpMk)


I'm pretty much of your opinion though I was enjoying Season 4 more than you.

Then in this week's show, I suddenly realized that I know how it ends, and it's well...lame.

Only two more episodes to go, so I'll finish it. But, I doubt I'll be surprised. Sad.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 02, 2022 06:28 PM (5NkmN)

364 I like the original Galactica ship design a lot better than the reboot. I always liked the Cylon Basestar too--the double saucer design was pretty cool.
Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at August 02, 2022 06:21 PM (5svMo)

It's just too bad the show's original writing was weak. Parts were good. It just couldn't overcome the 70's.

Posted by: WiNO at August 02, 2022 06:29 PM (EpDzw)

365 Suggested new name.......

Monkey Pox = Homo Bono

Posted by: Jack Mehoff at August 02, 2022 06:29 PM (snpvX)

366 Dork Brandon.

Posted by: davidt at August 02, 2022 06:30 PM (oTZbj)

367 Funny how Dark Brandon looks like what they did to John McCain when he was running for President, before his everlasting funeral started.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 02, 2022 06:30 PM (Zz0t1)

368 A hole blown into the living room floor and maybe damage to the chimney. We had a small fire from a ruptured propane line.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2022 06:21 PM (1Nxff)


That's a lot. Are you sure it was lightning and not, say, a drone strike from Dork Brandon?

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at August 02, 2022 06:30 PM (v23vE)

369
Yes, it does. It also puts the lie on his often professed religiosity. I don't know a single sincere believer who would put more than 5 minutes into that crap. I watched part of 1 or 2 episodes and was so disgusted by it that I never went back.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2022 06:27 PM (trdmm)
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I made it through the first season by averting my eyes/getting a drink/taking a potty break during that stuff because I do not enjoy it.

At the time Ace called me out for being a prude but I'd actually seen how porn gets made, so I knew what was going on the set and that can't be unseen.

But even if you can file that away and do the willfull suspension of disbelief, what is it that you're pretending in real? And you want to watch it? No.

David French will, sooner or later, get caught.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:30 PM (llXky)

370 Michelle Obama's streaming show on Showtime has been cancelled because of low ratings. See, even in the darkest times there is joy.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 02, 2022 06:14 PM (m7R0k)
.......

What was it called... Finding Bigfoot?

Posted by: wth at August 02, 2022 06:31 PM (v0R5T)

371 I think history will be fair to GRRM. He's a talented writer but is lack of discipline will doom him. I suspect Ned Start and Tywin Lannister will persist as archetypal hero and villian.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:26 PM

Little too incesty for me.

Posted by: DaisyB at August 02, 2022 06:31 PM (AbL8c)

372 Well, time to wander. Later!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 02, 2022 06:31 PM (5pTK/)

373 I have a strong immune system; however, I'm overweight and out of shape.
There are people who are fitter than I am who might get sicker from covid than I will.
The left is pathetic.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 02, 2022 06:31 PM (eGTCV)

374 BTW someone mentioned I, Claudius upstairs --Livia, that's how you write a powerful, strong woman villain.

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at August 02, 2022 06:31 PM (5svMo)

375 It's just too bad the show's original writing was weak. Parts were good. It just couldn't overcome the 70's.

Posted by: WiNO at August 02, 2022 06:29 PM (EpDzw)
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It was uneven because it wasn't supposed to be a series. It was a movie, stretched to a miniseries and then weekly show.

I've got it on DVD and it's pretty solid even so. Some episodes are pretty clunky, but others are really good.

Also: the cast was never really settled so people actually got bumped off.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:32 PM (llXky)

376 That much was obvious. The Cylon reveal of the week reportedly had the cast in an uproar.

Also, the whole West Wing in Space/ripped from the headlines feel was dumb.

Naturally Jonah Goldberg loved it because he's also a derivative-based writer and a loser.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:27 PM (llXky)

Moore never should have been given control. He's good when someone holds him in check. Otherwise he's all about drama, plot and consistency be cursed.

Posted by: WiNO at August 02, 2022 06:32 PM (EpDzw)

377 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
A metaphor for everything

https://tinyurl.com/2p96phnn

Posted by: redridinghood at August 02, 2022 06:32 PM (NpAcC)

378 370 Michelle Obama's streaming show on Showtime has been cancelled because of low ratings. See, even in the darkest times there is joy.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 02, 2022 06:14 PM (m7R0k)
.......

What was it called... Finding Bigfoot?

No, The Amazing Adventures of Little Barry and Big Mike....

Posted by: Jack Mehoff at August 02, 2022 06:32 PM (TJjL2)

379 If Joe wants to be a real super hero, he's going to need a Superman wig.

Posted by: wth at August 02, 2022 06:32 PM (v0R5T)

380 Here it is today only this time it's CLIMATE CHANGE.
From, The Hill -
"I learned that my insurance company was filing for bankruptcy too late on a Friday to do anything about it," ... my insurance company was the seventh company to declare bankruptcy in Louisiana this year. ...one item stands out in this episode: climate change." https://bit.ly/3oLEr8l
Posted by: Braenyard at August 02, 2022 06:27 PM (UmCFK)

that article is astounding in its idiocy - here the author is a PhD, a supposed "expert" on climate, and there is not even the slightest bit of actual science in anything he says. Louisiana storms are no worse than they ever were, that's a matter of record. The coastline is receding because it's a sinking basin and the effort to stop yearly flooding, carried out by the Army Corps of Engineers, has doomed much of South Louisiana to go back to being ocean. It has nothing to do with "climate" everything to do with hydraulic management, which we have failed at. Epically.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2022 06:33 PM (trdmm)

381 I'm pretty much of your opinion though I was enjoying Season 4 more than you.


S4 is definitely better than S3. I liked the reveal last week. Somehow Super Maeve is going to fix this for no particular reason except she must hate Tessa Thompson, but then, who doesn't.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 02, 2022 06:33 PM (yQpMk)

382 BTW someone mentioned I, Claudius upstairs --Livia, that's how you write a powerful, strong woman villain.

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at August 02, 2022 06:31 PM (5svMo)
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Cersei: I have an army of eunuchs, Mongols and three dragons to help me rule an empire.
Livia: I have my brain, you stupid bitch.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:33 PM (llXky)

383 I would vote for Michelle Obama. It would be nice to have another President with Big Balls.......

Posted by: Jack Mehoff at August 02, 2022 06:33 PM (TJjL2)

384 []It has zombies and dragons. So it's Fantasy. It's low-magic but one of the themes of the series is how the return of the dragons brings back magic.

Eventually. The first book has NOTHING fantasy about it. Zero. That's the one I read and found lacking in interest and grip. Did he write it well? Sure, but so does the Encyclopedia Britannica, that doesn't make it a story I'd recommend.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2022 06:34 PM (Ivdso)

385 Sorry, got dumb bitches mixed up.

Cersei was the incestuous usurper.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:34 PM (llXky)

386 Homeworld was a better version of Battlestar Galactica than either of the Galactica series.

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at August 02, 2022 06:34 PM (5svMo)

387 I like the original Galactica ship design a lot better than the reboot. I always liked the Cylon Basestar too--the double saucer design was pretty cool.
Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at August 02, 2022 06:21 PM (5svMo)

It's just too bad the show's original writing was weak. Parts were good. It just couldn't overcome the 70's.
Posted by: WiNO at August 02, 2022 06:29 PM (EpDzw)
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My revised tagline for the '70s version: "Fleeing from the Glen A. Larson tyranny, a ragtag fleet of fugitive scripts, in search of a shining plotline..."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 02, 2022 06:34 PM (aaGzp)

388 >>> 353 Normally you'd think a guy so prudish that he ordered his wife not to even talk to another man while he was doing paperwork in the Green Zone would denounce the sadistic depravity, but he was really, really into it.

Which speaks volumes, doesn't it?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:23 PM (llXky)

Yes, it does. It also puts the lie on his often professed religiosity. I don't know a single sincere believer who would put more than 5 minutes into that crap. I watched part of 1 or 2 episodes and was so disgusted by it that I never went back.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2022 06:27 PM (trdmm)

I watched the first ep with a buddy of mine since I was too cheap to have cable. Cool intro theme, interesting characters (Stark), fantasy set up.... wait, those two are... and they're... uh, nope.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 02, 2022 06:34 PM (llON8)

389 BTW someone mentioned I, Claudius upstairs --Livia, that's how you write a powerful, strong woman villain.
Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at August 02, 2022 06:31 PM (5svMo)


Livia was just a flat out great character.

So, many facets and all of them brought out perfectly by Sian Phillips.

Great show all around too.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 02, 2022 06:34 PM (5NkmN)

390 End Climate Change -----> Nuke the Sun

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 02, 2022 06:34 PM (LrYuZ)

391 > What was it called... Finding Bigfoot?

Was it a game show where contestants had to chase Michelle around the woods? If it was, will the producers survive the howling mobs?

Posted by: bonhomme at August 02, 2022 06:34 PM (kDGvA)

392 379 If Joe wants to be a real super hero, he's going to need a Superman wig.
Posted by: wth at August 02, 2022 06:32 PM (v0R5T)

Yes, and he should stuff a cantaloupe in his tights for the ladies.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 02, 2022 06:35 PM (QSjkU)

393
After she loses in Wyoming Liz Piggy is going to register as a democrat, and run for office in her homestate of Virginia. You watch.

Posted by: portlandon at August 02, 2022 06:35 PM (+oR7L)

394 It was uneven because it wasn't supposed to be a series. It was a movie, stretched to a miniseries and then weekly show.

I've got it on DVD and it's pretty solid even so. Some episodes are pretty clunky, but others are really good.

Also: the cast was never really settled so people actually got bumped off.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:32 PM (llXky)

And Jimmy Carter interrupted the pilot movie on TV with the Egypt/Israel peace treaty signing. I always liked the show. It is too bad Moore butchered the newer version.

Posted by: WiNO at August 02, 2022 06:35 PM (EpDzw)

395 Dork Bronson starring in: Old Man Balls.

Posted by: wth at August 02, 2022 06:35 PM (v0R5T)

396 >>> 382 BTW someone mentioned I, Claudius upstairs --Livia, that's how you write a powerful, strong woman villain.

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at August 02, 2022 06:31 PM (5svMo)
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Cersei: I have an army of eunuchs, Mongols and three dragons to help me rule an empire.
Livia: I have my brain, you stupid bitch.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:33 PM (llXky)

Now there's a crossover I'd like to see.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 02, 2022 06:35 PM (llON8)

397 I hope that "Dork Brandon" becomes the meme.

Posted by: Mikey NTH The Outrage Outlet is Stocked With Vexation and Ire. at August 02, 2022 06:35 PM (HfND3)

398 355
Ah, nuBSG which started the grim and gritty TV show explosion.
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And attractive non-SJW women.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 02, 2022 06:36 PM (UmCFK)

399 "Don't eat the figs. "

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at August 02, 2022 06:36 PM (5svMo)

400 73 “Dark Brandon” sounds like a prank involving some special means of hiding of a turd in someone else’s house.

Just behind the television set, probably.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

No. Crammed inside the living room curtain rods.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 02, 2022 06:36 PM (M9XmQ)

401 They are trying to re-make Joe as some sort of super President.. He withstood covid, he took out a terrorist etc. It ain't gonna work

Posted by: It's me donna at August 02, 2022 06:36 PM (bs+z0)

402 Monkey Pox was created by Trump to get even just like Reagan created AIDS in his basement one weekend.

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 02, 2022 06:36 PM (LrYuZ)

403 It makes me chuckle that nobody is really talking much about the attempt to flip Brandon yet again. Its just so lame nobody even cares much.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2022 06:36 PM (Ivdso)

404 Ah, nuBSG which started the grim and gritty TV show explosion. That show had potential which it never lived up to. The head of the show admitted they never knew what the Cylon plan was. They just threw darts at the board for what was most dramatic.
Posted by: WiNO

"Everyone is a cylon. Lazy writing ruined what could have been neat.

Posted by: Dark Hen at August 02, 2022 06:36 PM (cY9wR)

405 >>> 397 I hope that "Dork Brandon" becomes the meme.
Posted by: Mikey NTH The Outrage Outlet is Stocked With Vexation and Ire. at August 02, 2022 06:35 PM (HfND3)

Wait until he tries to ride a bicycle again, or visit a school where his wife is making a speech, or...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 02, 2022 06:37 PM (llON8)

406 Voted in Missouri today. At their request I also had to fill out a sample ballot and send to family (5) that are conservatives but don't really know how to vote in a primary. So weird to have to do that but I'm more than happy to do so. It's like I get 7 votes if my wife isn't fibbing about how she votes.
Posted by: Ethan Saunders at August 02, 2022 06:25 PM (W1E3x)
********
I do the same for family, friends and even my hair stylist.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 02, 2022 06:37 PM (NpAcC)

407 I think history will be fair to GRRM. He's a talented writer but is lack of discipline will doom him. I suspect Ned Start and Tywin Lannister will persist as archetypal hero and villian.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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I dunno about that simply that O. Henry, Dumas, even that old cynic Voltaire have hung around because they have enduring messages appealing to people. Stories of rape, torture, and murders are commonplace because people can see that on the news every night. Some people like grimness and darkness but it is difficult for that to speak to every age. Shakespeare, for example, endures by and large, but his Titus Andronicus is rarely performed simply because it resembles the GoT.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 06:37 PM (CXr4y)

408 Kamala talking about transporting energy so it could transport us is almost as bad as Kamala talking about the importance of space to a group of Space Force Certified Space Professionals. (That's when you get to wear the nifty badge)

Posted by: Fox2! at August 02, 2022 06:37 PM (0rU8g)

409 Doktor Jill pleading with America to send Joe some love because his job is hard is reminiscent of Nixon's "checkers" speech.


Posted by: Archer at August 02, 2022 06:37 PM (gmo/4)

410 Speaking of writing, hopefully we won't got to war with China before my latest book, Walls of Men: The Chinese Way of War can be published.

Finished it Sunday and am now getting it ready for publication.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:37 PM (llXky)

411 Not sure still a live thread but wine and out on deck, warm but you know its summer and won't be for long

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2022 06:37 PM (k8B25)

412 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
A metaphor for everything

https://tinyurl.com/2p96phnn
Posted by: redridinghood

That's quite the critics to real people ratio there.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at August 02, 2022 06:38 PM (FVME7)

413 Soylent Green is Monkey Pox.....Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyh !!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 02, 2022 06:38 PM (LrYuZ)

414 Game of Thrones will loom as large as Three's Company in peoples' minds in 25 years. I mean the dude ripped off World of Warcraft, for crying out loud.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2022 06:38 PM (Ivdso)

415 They are trying to re-make Joe as some sort of super President.. He withstood covid, he took out a terrorist etc. It ain't gonna work
Posted by: It's me donna at August 02, 2022 06:36 PM (bs+z0)

HE KICKED COVID'S ASS

Posted by: wth at August 02, 2022 06:38 PM (v0R5T)

416 Walls of Men: The Chinese Way of War


Boeing B29s:1 Walls of Men:0

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 02, 2022 06:38 PM (yQpMk)

417 My revised tagline for the '70s version: "Fleeing from the Glen A. Larson tyranny, a ragtag fleet of fugitive scripts, in search of a shining plotline..."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 02, 2022 06:34 PM (aaGzp)

Ha!

The intro theme though is classic.

Posted by: WiNO at August 02, 2022 06:38 PM (EpDzw)

418 It makes me chuckle that nobody is really talking much about the attempt to flip Brandon yet again. Its just so lame nobody even cares much.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Let's see daft Brandon attempt to drive a car.

Bonus points if Dr Jill, Hunter or kamala are standing on the course.

Posted by: Dark Hen at August 02, 2022 06:39 PM (cY9wR)

419 I watched The Dark Knight Rises again last night.

Man, if it doesn't more or less predict and peg our times, in an allegorical, comic book way admittedly.

Well worth watching again. Not just for the story but for the Holy Shit! moments of recognition.

Nolan's a kind 0f genius.

Streaming currently on Netflix.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 02, 2022 06:39 PM (5NkmN)

420 When will Biden wear a sweater and tell everyone to turn down their thermostats to 55 degrees in December ???

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 02, 2022 06:39 PM (LrYuZ)

421 How did we end up with fourth-rate Jack Handey knock-off as VP?

Posted by: aelfheld at August 02, 2022 06:39 PM (Zy9Yy)

422 I dunno about that simply that O. Henry, Dumas, even that old cynic Voltaire have hung around because they have enduring messages appealing to people. Stories of rape, torture, and murders are commonplace because people can see that on the news every night. Some people like grimness and darkness but it is difficult for that to speak to every age. Shakespeare, for example, endures by and large, but his Titus Andronicus is rarely performed simply because it resembles the GoT.
Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 06:37 PM (CXr4y)

Dunno either. But the noble man betrayed and murdered has resonance greater than GRRM possibly intended. Likewise, the cunning realist who wins a victory with a pen instead of an army with the Red Wedding is also memorable. Martin is playing with powerful tropes there.

As for darkness, I rejected Voltaire for his world view, just as I rejected Oscar Wilde. Wit is not wisdom.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:39 PM (V6f9+)

423 The re-branding of Brandon

Posted by: It's me donna at August 02, 2022 06:40 PM (bs+z0)

424 Job at today but otherwise off and on is a massive multi year job, lots of union guys. Just hearing banter in elevator and around them but never saying myself they have no love for Democrats or Sundowner.

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2022 06:40 PM (k8B25)

425 Wait until he tries to ride a bicycle again, or visit a school where his wife is making a speech, or...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 02, 2022 06:37 PM (llON
.........

gets stuck in a rose bush at the White House...

Posted by: wth at August 02, 2022 06:40 PM (v0R5T)

426 The Titus movie with Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange is pretty entertaining.

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at August 02, 2022 06:40 PM (5svMo)

427 Game of Thrones will loom as large as Three's Company in peoples' minds in 25 years. I mean the dude ripped off World of Warcraft, for crying out loud.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2022 06:38 PM (Ivdso)
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I actually think you're right on that. People are aware of Three's Company, but who would actually watch it straight through?

Game of Thrones will be like that - people will get the reference, nod along but no one will bother actually watching it. At most they'll run the title credits - just like they do with Three's Company because that's all you need to know.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:40 PM (llXky)

428 Game of Thrones had cultural influence enormously, ENORMOUSLY beyond its actual ratings which were pretty modest. For some reason it was made A Thing by the cultural mavens.

They liked the murder and incest.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 02, 2022 06:41 PM (Bd6X8)

429 Doktor Jill pleading with America to send Joe some love because his job is hard is reminiscent of Nixon's "checkers" speech.


Posted by: Archer

The role of Checkers is being played by dr jill

Posted by: Dark Hen at August 02, 2022 06:41 PM (cY9wR)

430 Yup, "Dork Brandon." Nice ridicule. Pictures of him quaking in fear of his handlers in their mascot costumes, keeling over on airplane stairs, talking about some poor staffer wiping his dirty old ass on Marine one, etc. Dork Brandon is just right.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 02, 2022 06:42 PM (IXpV7)

431 When will Biden wear a sweater and tell everyone to turn down their thermostats to 55 degrees in December ???
Posted by: Ferd Berfall

Dumpster Fire Side Chats.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at August 02, 2022 06:42 PM (FVME7)

432 387 My revised tagline for the '70s version: "Fleeing from the Glen A. Larson tyranny, a ragtag fleet of fugitive scripts, in search of a shining plotline..."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 02, 2022 06:34 PM (aaGzp)


"Meanwhile, in a galaxy far, far away, Princess Amoura lay back in her bed as the handsome young knight entered the room. The princess slipped off her robe, revealing her silky white thighs. The knight embraced her roughly, and began to caress her soft, round…"

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 02, 2022 06:42 PM (DTX3h)

433 Game of Thrones will loom as large as Three's Company in peoples' minds in 25 years. I mean the dude ripped off World of Warcraft, for crying out loud.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2022 06:38 PM (Ivdso)

"Come and knock on our door,
Winter's coming for you..."

Posted by: DaisyB at August 02, 2022 06:42 PM (AbL8c)

434 414 Game of Thrones will loom as large as Three's Company in peoples' minds in 25 years. I mean the dude ripped off World of Warcraft, for crying out loud.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2022 06:38 PM (Ivdso)

*blows whistle*
Ok, lay down your timeline and make your case. WOW started in 2004.
The third GOT book. A Storm of Swords (the last good one) was published in 2000.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:42 PM (V6f9+)

435 The re-branding of Brandon
Posted by: It's me donna


re-Brandoning!!!

Posted by: Dark Hen at August 02, 2022 06:42 PM (cY9wR)

436 Boeing B29s:1 Walls of Men:0

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 02, 2022 06:38 PM (yQpMk)
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It's a reference to an ancient Chinese poem that says the true walls of the realm are its men.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:42 PM (llXky)

437 The Ho has to be dumber than a box of rocks
And can't wait for her to move into the Oval Office

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2022 06:42 PM (k8B25)

438 Dark Brandon: He is so super-secret even he does not know what he is doing! This also applies to all versions of Brandon - he does not know what he is doing.

Posted by: Gref at August 02, 2022 06:43 PM (AMIL/)

439 Internet Archive has 13, all I think, episodes.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 02, 2022 06:43 PM (UmCFK)

440 But I picked the figs, myself, by hand from my own tree!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 02, 2022 06:43 PM (yikp0)

441 Who will be Dork Brandon's super villain nemesis?

Posted by: wth at August 02, 2022 06:43 PM (v0R5T)

442 426 The Titus movie with Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange is pretty entertaining.
Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at August 02, 2022 06:40 PM (5svMo)

Titus Andronicus is proof that even the best author in the world has one real stinker in him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2022 06:43 PM (trdmm)

443 It's a reference to an ancient Chinese poem that says the true walls of the realm are its men.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:42 PM (llXky)



Interesting. The Wooden Walls of Athens were it's ships.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 02, 2022 06:44 PM (yQpMk)

444 The Titus movie with Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange is pretty entertaining.

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at August 02, 2022 06:40 PM (5svMo)

---------

Concur. That was the first Shakespearean story I ever saw set in alternate, more modern, periods of history.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 02, 2022 06:44 PM (7rl4O)

445 Dork Brandon vs Super Bunny

Posted by: wth at August 02, 2022 06:44 PM (v0R5T)

446 An oldies TV station here runs Three's Company daily!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 02, 2022 06:44 PM (yikp0)

447 I have been wanting to get myself a window AC. Today I did a web search and TSC has them. They are super close and so much less crowded than Wallys and not a labyrinth like Lowes or Home Depot. This probably tips the scales to me actually pulling the car out of the garage and going. And the little room size one is only 35 lbs so it should not be bear to install it.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at August 02, 2022 06:45 PM (3cGpq)

448 410 Speaking of writing, hopefully we won't got to war with China before my latest book, Walls of Men: The Chinese Way of War can be published.

Finished it Sunday and am now getting it ready for publication.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:37 PM (llXky)


Congratulations! My writer friends all say that just getting a book to the point where they stop wanting to edit and let others read it is a major milestone.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at August 02, 2022 06:45 PM (v23vE)

449
*blows whistle*
Ok, lay down your timeline and make your case. WOW started in 2004.
The third GOT book. A Storm of Swords (the last good one) was published in 2000.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:42 PM (V6f9+)
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The original Warcraft games started in 1994.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:45 PM (llXky)

450 #389: If you want good characters read a lot of biography and history. A whole treasure trove sitting free for all to pluck from.

Posted by: Mikey NTH The Outrage Outlet is Stocked With Vexation and Ire. at August 02, 2022 06:45 PM (HfND3)

451 They liked the murder and incest.

Yeah I think that's the main thing. It was Lord of the Rings, but without heroes, goodness, and with lots of nudity and nasty stuff going on. Its LOTR for people without any soul or sense of morality.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2022 06:45 PM (Ivdso)

452 Remember, one square only.

Posted by: Sheryl Crow at August 02, 2022 06:46 PM (a3Q+t)

453 The original Warcraft games started in 1994.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:45 PM (llXky)

He said World of Warcraft. He makes the assertion, I want support for that statement.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:46 PM (V6f9+)

454 PaleRider should be manageable,

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2022 06:46 PM (k8B25)

455 If feel like Darkie Brandon is a pretty edgelord meme even for democrats.

Posted by: TexasDan at August 02, 2022 06:46 PM (mUqoJ)

456 433 Game of Thrones will loom as large as Three's Company in peoples' minds in 25 years. I mean the dude ripped off World of Warcraft, for crying out loud.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2022 06:38 PM (Ivdso)

"Come and knock on our door,
Winter's coming for you..."
Posted by: DaisyB at August 02, 2022 06:42 PM (AbL8c)


LOL. Also, now I have the Three's Company theme earworming in my head, so I curse you in mild yet uncomfortable ways ...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at August 02, 2022 06:47 PM (v23vE)

457 Nu Battlestar Galactica. I thought the first 2 seasons were excellent. Season 3: it becomes obvious that claim the cylons have a plan is b s. Also the Iraq war allegory was awful. Season 4: the split the season into 2 halves when 4 or 5 months between the halves. The first 10 episodes not to bad and in episode 10, they find an Earth in which the population had all died in a nuclear, dark but a brave ending. It should have ended there. Final 10 episodes and the actual final, yuck. The final 4 cylons, just awful. It's clear the writers never had a plan and were winging it. So disappointing.

Posted by: Darth Randall at August 02, 2022 06:47 PM (nIyu9)

458 410 Speaking of writing, hopefully we won't got to war with China before my latest book, Walls of Men: The Chinese Way of War can be published.

Finished it Sunday and am now getting it ready for publication.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
-------------------------------
Look forward to it.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 06:47 PM (CXr4y)

459 Iron Cross First Class.

Kid who ratted out his dad to the1/6 witch hunt.

https://youtu.be/BpB-Mbo2lEU

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at August 02, 2022 06:47 PM (FVME7)

460 Congratulations! My writer friends all say that just getting a book to the point where they stop wanting to edit and let others read it is a major milestone.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at August 02, 2022 06:45 PM (v23vE)
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Thanks! I'm done writing and now it's basically going through and finding all the typos, etc. After that, it's off to the test readers. Hoping to have it out in September.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:47 PM (llXky)

461 The only thing cool about Joe Biden is the temperature of his brain.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 02, 2022 06:47 PM (sVtYq)

462 Titus Andronicus is proof that even the best author in the world has one real stinker in him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2022 06:43 PM (trdmm)
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Hey, give him a break, he was just starting out.

There's a school of thought that says that Titus was actually a satire of the current "revenge tragedies" that were popular, which is why it's so over the top. Dunno if I believe that, but there it is.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 02, 2022 06:47 PM (aaGzp)

463
Who will be Dork Brandon's super villain nemesis?
Posted by: wth at August 02, 2022 06:43 PM (v0R5T)

"Commodion," who always keeps the toilet just out of his reach.

And Commodion's lackeys "Prompter" and "The Bunny."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 02, 2022 06:47 PM (IXpV7)

464 I like the original cast of 3s Company, when on watch them.

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2022 06:48 PM (k8B25)

465 nood

Posted by: It's me donna at August 02, 2022 06:48 PM (bs+z0)

466 447 I have been wanting to get myself a window AC. Today I did a web search and TSC has them. They are super close and so much less crowded than Wallys and not a labyrinth like Lowes or Home Depot. This probably tips the scales to me actually pulling the car out of the garage and going. And the little room size one is only 35 lbs so it should not be bear to install it.
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at August 02, 2022 06:45 PM (3cGpq)

My Niece gave me the biggest fucking window unit I've ever seen. The thing is huge and weighs over 200 pounds. I plan to A/C my shop with it, but will have to lift it up to the window with the tractor. I have never seen such a monster. Can't wait to try it out.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 02, 2022 06:48 PM (QSjkU)

467 NOOD Z

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2022 06:48 PM (MxUom)

468 The knight embraced her roughly, and began to caress her soft, round…"
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 02, 2022 06:42 PM


popliteal regions.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 02, 2022 06:49 PM (a3Q+t)

469 Mr. Furley > Ned Stark.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 02, 2022 06:49 PM (5jrx5)

470 Concur. That was the first Shakespearean story I ever saw set in alternate, more modern, periods of history.
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 02, 2022 06:44 PM (7rl4O)

I hate to give any credit to a writer who is now dead to me, but Joss Whedon's 2012 version of "Much ado about Nothing" is the best effort I've ever seen at that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2022 06:49 PM (trdmm)

471 Concur. That was the first Shakespearean story I ever saw set in alternate, more modern, periods of history.

Posted by: ShainS

It has been done with Hamlet, Richard III, and others. Not a fan of those really. But the basic storyline of the Taming of the Shrew has been done quite often with success.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2022 06:49 PM (CXr4y)

472 nood Ukraine

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 02, 2022 06:49 PM (yikp0)

473
He said World of Warcraft. He makes the assertion, I want support for that statement.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 02, 2022 06:46 PM (V6f9+)
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Yeah, but the "world" of Warcraft went back that far (and it was obviously derivative).

I don't think it's a reach to think of all of Warcraft is now World of Warcraft.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:49 PM (llXky)

474 Dork Brandon and Fatwoman go to Atlanta

Posted by: wth at August 02, 2022 06:49 PM (v0R5T)

475 48 I realize Liz Cheney is not thin, but you could also call her "Tin" Lizzie she's so tone deaf.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 02, 2022 05:39 PM (fL5aK)

That's a fair assessment.

Hope you're doing well today!

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at August 02, 2022 06:49 PM (Zg/67)

476 460 Congratulations! My writer friends all say that just getting a book to the point where they stop wanting to edit and let others read it is a major milestone.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at August 02, 2022 06:45 PM (v23vE)
---
Thanks! I'm done writing and now it's basically going through and finding all the typos, etc. After that, it's off to the test readers. Hoping to have it out in September.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2022 06:47 PM (llXky)


I have been a beta reader for friends' books if you have need of that.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at August 02, 2022 06:50 PM (v23vE)

477 Batgirl. Yvonne Craig.

Bunk.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 02, 2022 06:50 PM (C1rbv)

478 The noble man betrayed - isn't that "Othello"?

Posted by: Mikey NTH The Outrage Outlet is Stocked With Vexation and Ire. at August 02, 2022 06:50 PM (HfND3)

479 I like "Titus Andronicus".

It's not the Shakespeare we know exactly, but it's a very talented young playwright's version of a
revenge tragedy.

And it's almost perfect for that format which tended to be very bloody and cruel. It's certainly better than most of the revenge tragedies which have survived until today.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 02, 2022 06:50 PM (5NkmN)

480 Xipe, we have a monster like that, that we haven't used in 10 years cuz its such a big job to install it and take it out in the fall. It has been a hotter than normal summer, and I might yet break down on that one too if it still blows cold after sitting in dusty garage for 10 years.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at August 02, 2022 06:51 PM (3cGpq)

481 Looking at Doug Ross Journal ( has lots of good links) see one 70 year woman beaten severely in SF in a housing project.

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2022 06:52 PM (k8B25)

482 Warcraft: the lich king from the wintery north has a skeletal dragon and hordes of undead that he threatens the world with!

Martin (furiously scribbling): mhmm, keep going...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2022 06:52 PM (Ivdso)

483 424 Job at today but otherwise off and on is a massive multi year job, lots of union guys. Just hearing banter in elevator and around them but never saying myself they have no love for Democrats or Sundowner.
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2022 06:40 PM (k8B25)

Was asked 'paper of plastic' at the grocery store for bags..

Said 'well, they are still letting us grow trees, but not drill for oil, so paper I guess'...

Checker and bag boy both laughed, then said something to the effect of yeah, how dumb is that...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 02, 2022 06:54 PM (oHd/0)

484 You could call he Thick Lizzy

Posted by: Braenyard at August 02, 2022 06:55 PM (UmCFK)

485 Hope you're doing well today!
Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at August 02, 2022 06:49 PM (Zg/67)

Thanks; I am and I wish you the same.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 02, 2022 06:57 PM (fL5aK)

486 Bless you Fen.
Posted by: Infidel at August 02, 2022 06:13 PM (mn1Pi)

I agree with Fen
Posted by: It's me donna

I agree with both of youse.

Posted by: JT at August 02, 2022 06:57 PM (T4tVD)

487 My favorite revenge tragedies are "The White Devil" and "The Duchess of Malfi"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 02, 2022 07:06 PM (fL5aK)

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Posted by: 42 at August 02, 2022 07:34 PM (tSEMw)

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Posted by: Sarah at August 02, 2022 08:25 PM (Ye1bR)

490 If you don't vote for Dark Brandon, you ain't black!

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - the ungrateful colonial maniac at August 02, 2022 08:45 PM (gao0c)

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