Stelter Doubles Down On His Claim That "Journalism" Doesn't Require Fairness, and That It's "Dangerous" to Criticize the Leftwing Media (But <i>Only</i> the <i>Left</i>wing Media)

Stelter Doubles Down On His Claim That "Journalism" Doesn't Require Fairness, and That It's "Dangerous" to Criticize the Leftwing Media (But Only the Leftwing Media)

The Potato stands much as he did at the seventh grade dance when he pooped his pants: Alone and upwind from the crowd.

Joe Concha pointed out that Tater has been making these claims for years, but especially over the last few months, as he's been arguing over CNN's airwaves that CNN's new owners at Warner Discovery, and its new major activist investor John Malone, are wrong that CNN is a leftwing "news" organization.

And he's also been making the alternative argument that the truth is itself biased, and to demand "journalist" to be non-partisan is effectively asking them to lie.

So without naming them, he's essentially been calling them Republican shills, liars, and hacks who just want to force The Truth-Telling Tater to lie to fit in with the new regime.

But The Steltz is here to tell these Rethuglikkkans: This Pugnacious Potato Don't Roll Over Like That For Nobody!

He continued that no-charm offensive against his bosses -- well, ex-bosses -- in his last show.

Curtis Houck
@CurtisHouck
We're barely five minutes into the final Reliable Sources and the arrogance and hatred for conservatives that "the truth is not neutral" with Stelter and Carl Bernstein is flowing.
They've already shown why it's being canceled.

This Sunday, I did what I usually do, and remained completely oblivious to the existence of Brian Stelter. So I didn't post a thread about his last show.

But some other people watched it, and posted clips.

He continued claiming, as he often did, that any criticism of the media constituted a kind of violence and terrorism against the media.

I mean criticism of the leftwing media, of course-- his show and most of his network attacked Fox and the few conservative journalist that exist constantly.

It's only leftwing "journalists" who must be protected against the "dangers" of criticism.

Curtis Houck
@CurtisHouck
Second segment for Brian Stelter's final show -- the risk to the lives of journalists and how dangerous it is to be one in America because of the far-right.
Ah, yes. Being a journalist in America is JUST like reporting in China, Myanmar, North Korea, and Russia!

Curtis Houck
@CurtisHouck
CNN's Brian Stelter decries outside criticism of journalism as a "poisonous cloud" that's spread throughout the country and around the world.
He adds he's "proud" to have worked at a network when they knew they had to fight and attack Trump.

Final moments for @BrianStelter on @ReliableSources . “I know it’s not partisan to stand up for decency and democracy and dialogue. It’s not partisan to stand up to demagogues. It’s required, it’s patriotic. We must make sure we don’t give platforms to those lying to our faces.” pic.twitter.com/HdfV9XKzQq
— Brent Baker 🇺🇦 (@BrentHBaker) August 21, 2022

He claims "we need the full spectrum of debate," but he and his Metrosexual Ethnic Renfield Oliver Darcy's main value-add for CNN was campaigning for the deplatforming of conservatives every week or two. That was their "hook" -- which conservative will we campaign to get banned from social media this week? Which Fox show will we campaign to get de-listed from advertisers? And will be successful?

Is that the "full spectrum of debate" he means -- debating about who we're going to deplatform or censor?

He had on this decrepit propagandist on to argue "We don't have to be fair."

"The truth is not neutral." –@CarlBernstein pic.twitter.com/9QVYgkCZHB
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 21, 2022

Final moments for @BrianStelter on @ReliableSources . “I know it’s not partisan to stand up for decency and democracy and dialogue. It’s not partisan to stand up to demagogues. It’s required, it’s patriotic. We must make sure we don’t give platforms to those lying to our faces.” pic.twitter.com/HdfV9XKzQq
— Brent Baker 🇺🇦 (@BrentHBaker) August 21, 2022

Flashback: "You are full of sanctimony... You are one of the reasons people hate the media."

Another flashback: The Weather Channel's founder tells Stelter to shut up.

Meanwhile: God never closes a door without opening a window.

Maybe Hot Air could use a man like Brian.

Couldn't be worse than the last guy.

We want to hear from you!
Hot Air wants to add a full-time contributor to our ranks to prepare for the 2022 midterms as well as the 2024 presidential election cycle. You'd get a chance to work with a great team and have your work widely read, with the ability to have a real impact on politics. We're looking for someone who can provide volume writing, with accurate and sharp analysis from an independent and conservative point of view.
A good candidate would have demonstrated success in this field, with a track record of publication that matches well with our approach. An established social-media following is always a plus. An ability to write respectfully for a wide-ranging audience with diverse perspectives is a must. We need passion and enthusiasm for this political moment and a driving desire to help shape the future of the country.

Obviously any of the cobloggers here would make a great lead blogger for Hot Air, if they weren't deemed too "toxic" by virtue of being Actually Conservative.

Bonus: The next one to go?

Acosta: "Our elections are fine."

Wolf: "There is fraud in our election system."

Acosta: "You are spreading doubt and fear about our election process."

Wolf: "There has been fraud, illegalities and Zuckerbucks."

Acosta: "You've watched one too many conspiracy films." pic.twitter.com/DMPDOSxyV5
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 21, 2022

Posted by: Ace at 04:54 PM

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1 Hub

Posted by: Blutarski at August 22, 2022 04:55 PM (5suUi)

2 You say potato, I say Sayonara.

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2022 04:56 PM (Tlfom)

3 Roomy thread. Nice. I'll call the others.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 22, 2022 04:56 PM (OjwC3)

4 Yes, yes, the Bernsteins losing their media control is the lights going out in America, etc.

I'd apply for the Hot Air job, but who are we kidding here?

Posted by: trev006 at August 22, 2022 04:57 PM (t1nfs)

5 First

Posted by: Jmel at August 22, 2022 04:57 PM (bVhJi)

6 And I read all the content... like a noob.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 22, 2022 04:58 PM (N1tpc)

7 Reminds me why I never watch CNN!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 22, 2022 04:58 PM (hOUT3)

8 I wanted people to remember me and say, "WOW, now *that* guy got *canned*!"

Posted by: Tater Costanza at August 22, 2022 04:58 PM (6FeV1)

9 That Hot Air ad, though...

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at August 22, 2022 04:59 PM (QYPq3)

10 Smash the Lumpy Tater.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 22, 2022 04:59 PM (LsEU/)

11 I could apply for a job at hotair. My commenting history works as "Proven success in the field", right?

I can guarantee it would be better than what I would be replacing, no matter the determination on that.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 22, 2022 04:59 PM (N1tpc)

12 And I read all the content... like a noob.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Welcome to the slow learner crowd!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 22, 2022 04:59 PM (hOUT3)

13 I used to think well of potatoes.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 22, 2022 04:59 PM (VdGjU)

14 You'd get a chance to work with a great team and have your work widely read, with the ability to have a real impact on politics.
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I would like to see evidence both of "widely read" and "real impact" as I have doubts. Hell, Rick Perry couldn't even remember their name when they were supposedly pushing him.

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2022 04:59 PM (Tlfom)

15 "So I didn't post a thread about his last show."

And yet, here we are.

Posted by: Assigned gp At Birth at August 22, 2022 05:00 PM (qpX6U)

16 Did AllahPundit or Poppinfresh get canned? I guess I missed it.

Posted by: johnd01 at August 22, 2022 05:00 PM (uVQvU)

17 Acosta: "Our elections are fine."

Wolf: "There is fraud in our election system."

Acosta: "You are spreading doubt and fear about our election process."

Note the same people tell you there is an active NEO-NAZI conspiracy to overthrow the US government and that cops routinely murder innocent black yutes because ACAB

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 05:00 PM (ESjRY)

18 >>>The Potato stands much as he did at the seventh grade dance when he pooped his pants: Alone and upwind from the crowd.

If you prick me, Ace, do I not bleed gravy?

Posted by: Tater at August 22, 2022 05:00 PM (yHsuS)

19 I saw Pugnacious Potato open for the Black-Eyed Peas.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 22, 2022 05:00 PM (906pl)

20 >>>Did AllahPundit or Poppinfresh get canned? I guess I missed it.

allahpundit is leaving to spend more time with his alcohol poisoning

Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:00 PM (B3oWe)

21 Usually when you fire someone you shut down their access and have them escorted from the building so they don't pull this kind of sh!t.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 22, 2022 05:01 PM (g1EEm)

22 Asleep at the switch. Got caught up in the hype over the open position at Hot Air.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at August 22, 2022 05:01 PM (R5lpX)

23 I wonder how long this potato famine will last.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 22, 2022 05:01 PM (TNyrE)

24 Yes, yes, the Bernsteins losing their media control is the lights going out in America, etc.
___

It's Berenstain actually.

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2022 05:01 PM (Tlfom)

25 Yeah Buddy

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at August 22, 2022 05:01 PM (R5lpX)

26 >>>Acosta: "Our elections are fine."

Wolf: "There is fraud in our election system."

Acosta: "You are spreading doubt and fear about our election process."

...

why are you gae?

Posted by: Ugandan Talk Show Host at August 22, 2022 05:01 PM (B3oWe)

27 Make fun if you want, but now he has more time to steal your girl.

Posted by: Kratwurst at August 22, 2022 05:01 PM (nIRE6)

28 The left: We aren't biased, the truth is just biased towards us!

Also the left: If people hear the other side they will instantly stop believing us because we are so totally 100% accurate and right.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 05:01 PM (ESjRY)

29 We're barely five minutes into the final Reliable Sources and the arrogance and hatred for conservatives that "the truth is not neutral" with Stelter and Carl Bernstein is flowing.

Ladies and Gents ... his statement should be etched in marble. It's human nature. For once, Stelter told you the truth.

All Stelter is telling you - the only reason the numbers count backward now and again on the blog - is because certain folks really, really like the idea of "Shut Up, I Explain".

And certain folks applaud it. Make no mistake, it's not so simple as "Shut Up, I Explained" and then the crowd approves of the Shut Up. They don't think of the Shut Up in critical terms. Shut Up was said, and a whole bunch of people saw somebody get Shut Up, and approved of the idea of somebody getting a shut up.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 22, 2022 05:01 PM (FUGaR)

30 The truth is not neutral? That's positively negative!

Posted by: fd at August 22, 2022 05:02 PM (sn5EN)

31 Whew! Here I was worried that is was monkeypox.

Posted by: johnd01 at August 22, 2022 05:02 PM (uVQvU)

32 >>>I used to think well of potatoes.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 22, 2022 04:59 PM (VdGjU)

We are torn on whether to sue him or not. One one hand, Brian Stelter has hurt our brand and defamed us. On the other hand, he is our best customer.

Posted by: Idaho at August 22, 2022 05:02 PM (QYPq3)

33 Acosta: "You are spreading doubt and fear about our election process."
___

*Hic* isss Russa's fault.

Posted by: Hillzabub at August 22, 2022 05:02 PM (Tlfom)

34 Someone needs to do a Stelter mashup.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 22, 2022 05:02 PM (g1EEm)

35 Dear Mr. Potato,

*ahem*

You were the one given the platform for lying to people's faces.

(Please read the proceeding in all capital letters, as it was intended to be screamed into your clown-like, lipidinous pastry inlet at maximum Sam Kinison volume.)

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,
Waraiotoko

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 22, 2022 05:02 PM (6FeV1)

36 >>>34 Someone needs to do a Stelter mashup.

like physically ?

Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:03 PM (B3oWe)

37 Usually when you fire someone you shut down their access and have them escorted from the building so they don't pull this kind of sh!t.
Posted by: quantum mechanic

I'd like to think that they were giving him a chance to really crush his future opportunities with anyone respectable. Let him go work for the Bulwark. *spit*

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 22, 2022 05:03 PM (ftFVW)

38 *preceeding

dickhead asshole piece of shit auto-uncorrect.

grumble grumble.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 22, 2022 05:03 PM (6FeV1)

39

Tell me again sir, how you came to have butter, bacon, sour cream and chives up your ass...

Posted by: It's a million to one shot, doc! at August 22, 2022 05:04 PM (H5xrs)

40 Usually when you fire someone you shut down their access and have them escorted from the building so they don't pull this kind of sh!t.
Posted by: quantum mechanic

Imma thinking they wanted to leave no doubt as to why they fired the Tater Tot!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 22, 2022 05:04 PM (hOUT3)

41 Why did CNN give that buttplug a final show once he had been fired?

Posted by: mr tmz at August 22, 2022 05:04 PM (rJ48h)

42 Starchy Bunker?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 22, 2022 05:04 PM (6FeV1)

43 27 Make fun if you want, but now he has more time to steal your girl.
Posted by: Kratwurst at August 22, 2022 05:01 PM (nIRE6)

Jokes on him then. It'll be as productive as finding the Russian who was puppetering Trump they were looking for. Cause my girlfriend is Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Posted by: Hillzabub at August 22, 2022 05:05 PM (Tlfom)

44 "The truth is not neutral."

Other sayings from that belief system:
The law is not neutral.
The science is not neutral.
The government is not neutral.
The medical people are not neutral.
Some people are more equal than others.

Posted by: Gref at August 22, 2022 05:05 PM (AMIL/)

45 Afternoon.

So Stelter is gone. Yay. Here's hoping the new management is serious about making CNN a real no shit new company.

Wait, Oliver Darcy still has a job there?

Oh, fuck it. Forget I said anything.

Who cares how many of the talking heads they fire. They're all imbecilic prima donnas who like yo take all the credit. You've got many more producers and writers behind that camera who quietly spread their poison and just let the fat apes like Stelter take all the grief.

Looks like nothing will change.

Posted by: Robert at August 22, 2022 05:05 PM (1Yy3c)

46 Oo! I can't wait for Tater to start his podcast. You know it's coming, and I guarantee you he'll have tens of subscribers!

Posted by: Fool Otto at August 22, 2022 05:05 PM (DB16e)

47 God-cursed chimptato hybrid.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 22, 2022 05:05 PM (aaGzp)

48 Off Satan's favorite disciple sock.

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2022 05:05 PM (Tlfom)

49 >>>34 Someone needs to do a Stelter mashup.

like physically ?

Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:03 PM (B3oWe)

With Yamiche. They see eye to eye.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 22, 2022 05:05 PM (yHsuS)

50 Ya know, with Stelter leaving to live the good life with Mrs. Potatohead and Allahpundit deciding to spend more time with his collection of cats, who is Ace going to subject to his patented cruelty these days?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2022 05:06 PM (YIVH2)

51 He claims "we need the full spectrum of debate"

Reliable Sources was once a decent show. Say a quarter of a century ago or so. Back when Bernard Kalb ran the show, and to a lesser extent, Howard Kurtz's early years. There was more than one perspective on the show back then. Stelter would know that, except that like most under 40, the dude has no memory of mush of anything earlier than Obama.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 22, 2022 05:06 PM (ppBhU)

52 God never closes a door without opening a window.

Stelter will certainly manage to fall out of it.

Posted by: Paco at August 22, 2022 05:06 PM (njExo)

53 Chuy,
In all fairness---aw screw it. AP was an obnoxious ass that brayed whenever the Dems bid him to. Special Ed's stealth links to him more or less ended me clicking on Insty links at all. It probably hurt John Sexton as he seemed about the only one with his head screwed on straight.

So, Salem is muting its open contempt of its potential audience in order to better sell them on the benefits of invade the world and invite the world and progressive social values.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2022 05:06 PM (CXr4y)

54 1946-1991: Why do you think the Soviets aren't our friends? Admit it you just hate Russian people!

1991-2014: Wow who knew you could make so much money looting Eastern Europe?

2014-now: Russia is literally the source of all the world's problems. If you don't want to nuke Moscow you are a NAZI.

Posted by: The left at August 22, 2022 05:06 PM (ESjRY)

55 >>>Wait, Oliver Darcy still has a job there?

i heard someone, maybe one of the Ruthless podcast guys, saying that some of the people in the Stelter orbit were even more toxic, and would be getting fired in the next little while. I immediately thought: he means Darcy.

Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:06 PM (B3oWe)

56 Usually when you fire someone you shut down their access and have them escorted from the building so they don't pull this kind of sh!t.
Posted by: quantum mechanic

He's fired. He's also saying what every camera-man, sound-man, and on-air talent wishes they could say at CNN.

Who's going to escort him out the door ?

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 22, 2022 05:06 PM (FUGaR)

57 It's Berenstain actually.

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2022 05:01 PM (Tlfom)

Once again quantum consumes us all!

Posted by: trev006 at August 22, 2022 05:07 PM (t1nfs)

58 As a new career, Stelter could open a bar.

A Tater Bar.

Thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the veal and don't forget to tip your waitress!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 22, 2022 05:07 PM (PiwSw)

59 Taterpundit has a nice ring to it.

Posted by: Darth Randall at August 22, 2022 05:07 PM (zL564)

60 Monkeybone (the movie) > Monkeypox > Analpundit

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 05:07 PM (ESjRY)

61 God never closes a door without opening a window.

Stelter will certainly manage to fall out of it.
Posted by: Paco at August 22, 2022 05:06 PM (njExo)
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Only if he can fit through it...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2022 05:07 PM (YIVH2)

62 Thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the veal and don't forget to tip your waitress!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes
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Don't quit your dayjob.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2022 05:07 PM (CXr4y)

63 i heard someone, maybe one of the Ruthless podcast guys, saying that some of the people in the Stelter orbit were even more toxic, and would be getting fired in the next little while. I immediately thought: he means Darcy.
Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:06 PM (B3oWe)

Orrale.

Posted by: Robert at August 22, 2022 05:08 PM (1Yy3c)

64 "Who's going to escort him out the door ?"

The guy with the sturdiest dolly?

Posted by: Assigned gp At Birth at August 22, 2022 05:08 PM (qpX6U)

65 Brian Stelter is Josef Goebbels without the charm. Or good looks.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 22, 2022 05:08 PM (aaGzp)

66 "tHe tRuTh iS nOt nEuTrAL"

Go fuck yourself with a rusty pike

Posted by: deadrody at August 22, 2022 05:08 PM (kYmXc)

67 That Wolf/Acosta video is amazing.

Wolf: There's fraud.
Acosta: Nope.
Wolf: You're saying there's no fraud?
Acosta: There's some fraud.
Wolf: Ok, let's talk about that.
Acosta: There's no fraud, you're spreading FUD, MAGAt.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2022 05:08 PM (eyxn4)

68 Anyone seen Tater today?

Explosive Detonated After Bomb Scare at Federal Courthouse in West Virginia

Bomb also found in W.VA church.

Third bomb was found in suspects house.

No details on suspect.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 22, 2022 05:08 PM (m7R0k)

69 Well... I see what he's shaped like and I still don't want him as a mascot for my wonderful fantasy restaurant.

Posted by: Mickey Rooney at August 22, 2022 05:08 PM (VDLxK)

70 50 Ya know, with Stelter leaving to live the good life with Mrs. Potatohead and Allahpundit deciding to spend more time with his collection of cats, who is Ace going to subject to his patented cruelty these days?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2022 05:06 PM (YIVH2)

garret and Jackstraw probably.

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2022 05:08 PM (Tlfom)

71 Hola Chuy! Que pasa?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 22, 2022 05:09 PM (PiwSw)

72 I don't understand this whole Mandela Effect thing... They always use Berenstain Bears as their example. It's Berenstain. It has always been Berenstain. I have never seen it any other way. A bunch of people being wrong is not an "effect" of any kind. It's just a bunch of people being wrong. Like saying "nucular". Or eating quinoa.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 22, 2022 05:09 PM (6FeV1)

73 There's a reason potatoes are planted under mounds of dirt.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2022 05:10 PM (BFigT)

74 The guy with the sturdiest dolly?
Posted by: Assigned gp At Birth at August 22, 2022 05:08 PM (qpX6U)
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Dolly Parton was pretty sturdy, back in the day.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 22, 2022 05:10 PM (aaGzp)

75 Posted by: whig at August 22, 2022 05:06 PM (CXr4y)

whig - you've been on fire today!

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 22, 2022 05:10 PM (OjwC3)

76 I nominated Ace and JJ for that HotAss job.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 22, 2022 05:10 PM (hwoGt)

77 I bet Tater is feeling kind of fried after this week.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 05:10 PM (ESjRY)

78 They fired him. Only to find him more powerful than ever!

He's-

TATER UNBOUND!!!

Coming Soon to a Theater Near You!

#BigTaterPower

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2022 05:10 PM (5NkmN)

79 It never ceases to amaze me how leftists can to this day insist that our elections are so easy to rig that Trump partnered with Vlad to rig the 2016 election and then in the next instant insist that our elections are totally secure and there is no fraud and they see no in inconsistency in their beliefs.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2022 05:10 PM (ZLI7S)

80
Apparently to graduate high school in Idaho, you have to pass the US citizenship test

Can take as many times as needed from 8th grade on

Posted by: Yo! Ultra MAGA at August 22, 2022 05:11 PM (T5EPT)

81 Dang! I'm starting to get hungry for potato puffs; you know, those little round potato spheres that are hollow inside? I had some at a French restaurant in Boca Raton one time when I got outvoted by my in-laws on my suggestion that we go to Hamburger Heaven. Haven't had any since. Anybody got a recipe?

Posted by: Paco at August 22, 2022 05:11 PM (njExo)

82 >>>No details on suspect.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 22, 2022 05:08 PM (m7R0k)

Assume Trump.

Posted by: FBI at August 22, 2022 05:11 PM (QYPq3)

83 78 They fired him. Only to find him more powerful than ever!

He's-

TATER UNBOUND!!!

50 shades of gravy > tater unbound

Posted by: kulak anachronda at August 22, 2022 05:12 PM (oY6Yp)

84 I nominated Ace and JJ for that HotAss job.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 22, 2022 05:10 PM (hwoGt)

Hah! I was going to say we should see about getting Dave In Fl a gig over there.

Posted by: Robert at August 22, 2022 05:12 PM (1Yy3c)

85 He claims "we need the full spectrum of debate"
***
With Tater, isn't it technically referred to as "with all the fixins'"?

Posted by: LASue at August 22, 2022 05:12 PM (Ed8Zd)

86 It never ceases to amaze me how leftists can to this day insist that our elections are so easy to rig that Trump partnered with Vlad to rig the 2016 election and then in the next instant insist that our elections are totally secure and there is no fraud and they see no in inconsistency in their beliefs.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2022 05:10 PM (ZLI7S)
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Doublethink is a helluva drug!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2022 05:12 PM (YIVH2)

87 The Eyes of Brian Stelter

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 22, 2022 05:12 PM (PiwSw)

88 Acosta: There's no fraud, you're spreading FUD, MAGAt.

This is SOP. Don't investigate fraud, and if someone does get caught its just "an isolated event".

Meanwhile, we know America's police, including the black ones, are in a racist conspiracy to murder black yutes. Why? Because in the last decade there were 5 questionable police killings.

PS: Most of those questionable killings weren't.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 05:12 PM (ESjRY)

89 To heck with this guy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2022 05:12 PM (HJDAV)

90 "But some other people watched it, and posted clips."

===

Didn't they anything better to do -- like, say, picking up the dog crap in the yard?

Posted by: jc at August 22, 2022 05:12 PM (N1WXz)

91 Playing Poop the Potato at Stelter's send off party https://tinyurl.com/2p982uby

Posted by: Commentor What Got a Shirt at August 22, 2022 05:12 PM (EKM4/)

92 Credit Card and Identity theft is really out of control. I must get 5 Scam Emails ads day, plus phone calls saying my credit card has fraudulent charges and to give the caller my information to halt the fraud, or bogus lottery wins and give my bank account information to collect the prize. Their must be millions of losers out there that fall for this crap daily.

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 22, 2022 05:12 PM (EnsGU)

93 Why are the scales of justice balanced and Justice herself blind?

I'm just spitballin' here tater, I know you a Carl a stupid and all, but the truth is neutral. It doesn't care if it makes you happy or not. It doesn't care if you don't like that a man has a penis and a woman does not. It doesn't care about popular opinion, or cultural imperatives. It just is.

Posted by: wholly fcuk he's dumb at August 22, 2022 05:13 PM (409nr)

94 "Anybody got a recipe?"

Potatoes (for the wrappers.)
Air (for the filling.)

Posted by: Assigned gp At Birth at August 22, 2022 05:13 PM (qpX6U)

95 83 78 They fired him. Only to find him more powerful than ever!

He's-

TATER UNBOUND!!!

50 shades of gravy > tater unbound
Posted by: kulak anachronda at August 22, 2022 05:12 PM (oY6Yp)

This post is haram.

Posted by: Robert at August 22, 2022 05:13 PM (1Yy3c)

96 86 It never ceases to amaze me how leftists can to this day insist that our elections are so easy to rig that Trump partnered with Vlad to rig the 2016 election and then in the next instant insist that our elections are totally secure and there is no fraud and they see no in inconsistency in their beliefs.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2022 05:10 PM (ZLI7S)
----
Doublethink is a helluva drug!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Also, timing is everything!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 22, 2022 05:13 PM (hOUT3)

97 >>Hola Chuy! Que pasa?

nada mucho sucede, y por Usted?

Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:13 PM (B3oWe)

98 The truth is not neutral?

Neither are your lies.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 22, 2022 05:13 PM (CecP5)

99 Is there any truth to the rumor there are a bunch of other CNN shitbags that are getting the ax? Some we have come to love and adore?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2022 05:13 PM (BFigT)

100 61. Only if he can fit through it... - Perfessor Squirrel

M'yes...he made need just the tiniest little push.

Posted by: Paco at August 22, 2022 05:13 PM (njExo)

101 Who is this "Stelter" character?

As part of my low-carb diet I've given up potatoes.

Posted by: SamIam at August 22, 2022 05:13 PM (oasF3)

102 Who's going to escort him out the door ?
Posted by: Rinse and Repeat

See those two huge guys standing in the corner? We bring them in for occasions such as these.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 22, 2022 05:14 PM (g1EEm)

103 I bet Stelter crashes Lemon Parties.

He looks the type.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2022 05:14 PM (UcSPO)

104 Sad thing is Putin might be more trustworthy then Biden and the Democrats.

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 22, 2022 05:14 PM (EnsGU)

105 Are we all speaking Spanglish to Chuy?

I'm game.

Que onda, ese.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 22, 2022 05:14 PM (yGmiX)

106 75 Posted by: whig at August 22, 2022 05:06 PM (CXr4y)

whig - you've been on fire today!

Posted by: Darrell Harris
--------------------
Thx. I blame my ancestors who were difficult people as well. Going way back, one of them was one of John Knox's buddies as a minister in Scotland. I find it difficult to hate the sinner but I certainly hate the sins themselves.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2022 05:14 PM (CXr4y)

107 Acosta is on the leaked CNN “tell me what it is you DO here” list along with Jake Tapper and Don LeMon. So Chuy’s suspicions are correct.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 22, 2022 05:14 PM (zm+d5)

108 Poop the Potato https://tinyurl.com/2p982uby

Posted by: Commentor What Got a Shirt at August 22, 2022 05:14 PM (EKM4/)

109 From Yvonne Strahovinsky to Tater Stelter. That is what is known as a mental wrench.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2022 05:14 PM (HJDAV)

110 The left: Anyone that claims that a presidential election can be stolen is a NAZI that should be sent to a prison camp. MAH DEMOCRACY!

Also the left: The presidential elections of 2016, 2004, 2000, and 1980 were all stolen.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 05:14 PM (ESjRY)

111 Potatoes (for the wrappers.)
Air (for the filling.)
Posted by: Assigned gp At Birth at August 22, 2022 05:13 PM (qpX6U)

This is good stuff.

*takes notes*

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 22, 2022 05:15 PM (DRSnL)

112 >>>I don't understand this whole Mandela Effect thing... They always use Berenstain Bears as their example. It's Berenstain. It has always been Berenstain. I have never seen it any other way. A bunch of people being wrong is not an "effect" of any kind.

sounds like someone's trying to cover up for the mistakes in the quantum timeline

Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:15 PM (B3oWe)

113 Wolf: "There has been fraud, illegalities and Zuckerbucks."

Acosta: "You've watched one too many conspiracy films."

=========

Also, Trump drank Hooker pee while sucking on Putin's cock while giving him the nuclear codes he had stored in his basement.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 05:15 PM (LvTSG)

114 upwind from the crowd

Eww. Is that deliberate?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 22, 2022 05:15 PM (yQpMk)

115 Can me and I will return more powerful then you can imagine

Posted by: Can of Taters at August 22, 2022 05:16 PM (ESjRY)

116 Oh that Tater

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 22, 2022 05:16 PM (XvPQV)

117 112 sounds like someone's trying to cover up for the mistakes in the quantum timeline
Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:15 PM (B3oWe)

=========

It was Pizza Hut in Demolition Man!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 05:16 PM (LvTSG)

118 Rachel Campos Duffy is showing off, IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2022 05:16 PM (UcSPO)

119 Stelter is the form of potato blight that caused famine in Ireland.

Posted by: henry at August 22, 2022 05:16 PM (q7vZs)

120 116 Oh that Tater
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 22, 2022 05:16 PM (XvPQV)

==========

Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 05:16 PM (LvTSG)

121 "the truth is not neutral"

Indeed, Tater, Truth will feel like a broomstick up your ass. Prepare for your future!

Posted by: Reality at August 22, 2022 05:16 PM (Jg92y)

122 Ok if there is another Berenstain bears universe can I go there? Because I'm pretty sure it has to be better then this current one.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 05:16 PM (ESjRY)

123 ..... then in the next instant insist that our elections are totally secure and there is no fraud and they see no in inconsistency in their beliefs.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2022 05:10 PM (ZLI7S)
----
Doublethink is a helluva drug!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2022 05:12 PM (YIVH2)

====

It is an impeachable offense to ask the government of a foreign country if an American citizen behaved in a corrupt fashion in their country -- as long as that person might run for Prez --

and it is perfectly fine to send the FBI to raid a future opponent's home over paperwork.

Posted by: jc at August 22, 2022 05:16 PM (N1WXz)

124 104 Sad thing is Putin might be more trustworthy then Biden and the Democrats.
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 22, 2022 05:14 PM (EnsGU)

To be fair, it does seem like Putin likes Russia!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 22, 2022 05:16 PM (hOUT3)

125 Tater emits a poisonous cloud which is worse than Watergate.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 22, 2022 05:17 PM (63Dwl)

126 92 Credit Card and Identity theft is really out of control. I must get 5 Scam Emails ads day, plus phone calls saying my credit card has fraudulent charges and to give the caller my information to halt the fraud, or bogus lottery wins and give my bank account information to collect the prize. Their must be millions of losers out there that fall for this crap daily.

Posted by: Ferd Berfall
-----------------
A lot of elderly people do. But, the scammers don't have anything on the GOPe fundraising machine--they are as bad as the Terminator or the NRA.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2022 05:17 PM (CXr4y)

127 123 and it is perfectly fine to send the FBI to raid a future opponent's home over paperwork.
Posted by: jc at August 22, 2022 05:16 PM (N1WXz)

=======

Unless that person is Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 05:17 PM (LvTSG)

128 >>>Que onda, ese.

is an onda a wave?

Hang on.

Okay, it's a wave. I don't really understand the idiom but it sounds like a nice greeting.

Que onda, nena!

Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:17 PM (B3oWe)

129 The elephant is the sign of the devil. The republican candidates are always shown with a elephant logo.

The elephant = 666, which the sign of mammon !!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 22, 2022 05:17 PM (EnsGU)

130 sounds like someone's trying to cover up for the mistakes in the quantum timeline
Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:15 PM (B3oWe)

I remember an alternate timeline where He-Man was the star of his show.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 22, 2022 05:17 PM (yQpMk)

131 HotAir.com
@hotairblog
·
2h
Join the Team: We're looking for you!

That's hilarious - that's really putting the boot into Allahpundit's firing.

I'm hoping for a complete meltdown on September 2nd, Allahpundit's last day.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 22, 2022 05:18 PM (I2/tG)

132 Tater is one of the biggest dorks I've ever seen. I find it completely absurd that he was ever on television, let alone a talking head. They are usually attractive. He's a giant doofus that I would bet his coworkers bully, constantly and he thinks he's in on the jokes, but he's so not.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 22, 2022 05:18 PM (yGmiX)

133 sounds like someone's trying to cover up for the mistakes in the quantum timeline
Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:15 PM (B3oWe)

Remember that time you used the time machine to wreck my time travel joke?

I'm still salty about that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 22, 2022 05:18 PM (6FeV1)

134 Accusing Trump of Russian collusion was just the truth having a left wing bias.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 05:18 PM (LvTSG)

135 If CNN replaced Tater with Mark Dice, I would tune in to CNN for the first time in fifteen years.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 22, 2022 05:18 PM (+lVUW)

136
Mandela Effect is just false memories, which some "truth is out there" folks try to make a thing about slipping between alternate timelines and such.

Human memory is flawed, and will get things mixed up. I remember the first time that happened to me. I clearly remembered something that happened in a certain way, and then I was confronted with proof that no, that didn't happen anything like you remembered it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 22, 2022 05:18 PM (Mzdiz)

137 Sad thing is Putin might be more trustworthy then Biden and the Democrats.

Putin is a Nationalist. And trying to keep together the remnants of one of two super-powers.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 22, 2022 05:18 PM (FUGaR)

138 "He adds he's "proud" to have worked at a network when they knew they had to fight and attack Trump."

So is he proud now to be fired from a network that knew it had to fight and attack Trump? Mmmmm?

Posted by: Flyover at August 22, 2022 05:19 PM (Rbu5d)

139 Meanwhile: God never closes a door without opening a window.

Your choice, Tater!

Posted by: Air Pinochet at August 22, 2022 05:19 PM (Jg92y)

140 Looks like someone gave Tater a big heaping of sour cream

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 05:19 PM (ESjRY)

141 >>>135 If CNN replaced Tater with Mark Dice, I would tune in to CNN for the first time in fifteen years.

+10,000

Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:19 PM (B3oWe)

142 I don't really understand the idiom but it sounds like a nice greeting.

Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:17 PM (B3oWe)

*In best Cheech voice*

"Whassappening?"

Posted by: Robert at August 22, 2022 05:20 PM (1Yy3c)

143 Shut up and snake my toilet.

That should be the response anytime this guy opens his mouth.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 05:20 PM (mE7cY)

144 I don't really understand the idiom but it sounds like a nice greeting.

What's shakin'? How's it goin'?

Posted by: t-bird at August 22, 2022 05:20 PM (Jg92y)

145 The Press lies. It has always lied. They wouldn't know the truth except to avoid it.

At least two partisan sources can both be expected to attack each other and the reality of any event sorted out by piling the lies up on each side.

The idea that one side has a monopoly on virtue is just another lie. Journalists are ugly whores, treat them as such at best. And at worst? Well, how did we treat Tokyo Rose?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 22, 2022 05:20 PM (XvPQV)

146 Tim Pool said "Well maybe we should hire him..." and got a good round of laughs, before saying he would like someone to top off his drinks etc.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 22, 2022 05:20 PM (44ww/)

147 104 Sad thing is Putin might be more trustworthy then Biden and the Democrats.
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 22, 2022 05:14 PM (EnsGU)

===

might?

At least Putin wants his country to survive and prosper.

Posted by: jc at August 22, 2022 05:20 PM (N1WXz)

148 132 Tater is one of the biggest dorks I've ever seen. I find it completely absurd that he was ever on television, let alone a talking head. They are usually attractive. He's a giant doofus that I would bet his coworkers bully, constantly and he thinks he's in on the jokes, but he's so not.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 22, 2022 05:18 PM (yGmiX)

++++
Spot on.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 22, 2022 05:20 PM (IW8z9)

149 Tater has a future in Idaho weather forecasting.

Posted by: henry at August 22, 2022 05:20 PM (q7vZs)

150 >>>What's shakin'? How's it goin'?

gotcha. I thought that was basically the gist.

Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:21 PM (B3oWe)

151 132 Tater is one of the biggest dorks I've ever seen. I find it completely absurd that he was ever on television, let alone a talking head. They are usually attractive. He's a giant doofus that I would bet his coworkers bully, constantly and he thinks he's in on the jokes, but he's so not.

Posted by: CaliGirl
---------------
Tater was minime to Zucker and knew about Zucker and his cheating with his work wife among other misdeeds. Zucker could count on Tater to act as janitor and mortician for cleaning up and embalming stories that Zucker wanted dead.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2022 05:21 PM (CXr4y)

152 But, the scammers don't have anything on the GOPe fundraising machine--they are as bad as the Terminator or the NRA.
Posted by: whig

I nuked the GOP. And DJT I hate to say. The spam was overwhelming.

Feels like punishment for donating.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 22, 2022 05:21 PM (g1EEm)

153 Shut up and snake my toilet.

I pray that that is not a euphemism.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 22, 2022 05:21 PM (yQpMk)

154 ICYMI from last week's GAINZ thread, Boswell Horde drawings.

https://tinyurl.com/mp7y3dw6

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 22, 2022 05:21 PM (yHsuS)

155 How ironic would it be if CNN actually tacked hard right back to neutral and began reporting on shit like Davos, the Great Reset, the FBI, Russia Gate and Hillary.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 05:21 PM (mE7cY)

156 The "full spectrum" apparently goes from center-left to so-far-you-need-a-space-telescope-to-see-it-left.

Posted by: Brother Tim...as the man said, the die is cast at August 22, 2022 05:21 PM (OUMaO)

157
Okay, it's a wave. I don't really understand the idiom but it sounds like a nice greeting.

Que onda, nena!
Posted by: Chuy at Au

Slang, it means what's up, used as a greeting.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 22, 2022 05:21 PM (yGmiX)

158 Tater is one of the biggest dorks I've ever seen.

The Media gave their highest awards to the dude that wrote the story for the New York Times about how, in Russia, everybody had a job.

This has been going on for a long, long time.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 22, 2022 05:22 PM (FUGaR)

159 "-stein" is a common enough name ending. "-stain" is not. So people insert the common ending in their memory because it doesn't actually matter. And then they find out they're wrong because a bunch of zoomers are gabbling on about it online all at once.

You don't even need Ockham's razor for this. Ockham's baseball bat would cut fine enough.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 22, 2022 05:22 PM (6FeV1)

160 JackStraw at 05:10, the year is 1984 and we are being dared to say otherwise. Those 87000 IRS agents will need assignments once they are recruited.

They will not only be auditing our finances but our attitudes.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at August 22, 2022 05:22 PM (3JfbU)

161 153 Shut up and snake my toilet.

I pray that that is not a euphemism.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 22, 2022 05:21 PM (yQpMk)

Lol. I couldn't think up a worse low level job for Spuds McBlizzard.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 05:22 PM (mE7cY)

162 Tim Pool said "Well maybe we should hire him..." and got a good round of laughs, before saying he would like someone to top off his drinks etc.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 22, 2022 05:20 PM (44ww/)

--------------------
Also on his show today, Steven Crowder offered him a job.

He won't have to learn to code, if he's willing to somewhat prostrate himself.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 22, 2022 05:23 PM (TNyrE)

163 The "full spectrum" apparently goes from center-left to so-far-you-need-a-space-telescope-to-see-it-left.
Posted by: Brother Tim...as the man said, the die is cast at August 22, 2022 05:21 PM (OUMaO)

From Trotsky all the way to Mao. Their opinions are diverse.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 22, 2022 05:23 PM (yQpMk)

164 >>>Slang, it means what's up, used as a greeting.

(finger gun)

Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:23 PM (B3oWe)

165 164 (finger gun)
Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:23 PM (B3oWe)

========

Hands up! Don't shoot!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 05:23 PM (LvTSG)

166 136 Mandela Effect is just false memories, which some "truth is out there" folks try to make a thing about slipping between alternate timelines and such.

oh. i thought it involved necklaces.

Posted by: kulak anachronda at August 22, 2022 05:23 PM (oY6Yp)

167 Interesting/disturbing article linked over at Insty:

https://tinyurl.com/2p85put6

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2022 05:23 PM (HJDAV)

168 ICYMI from last week's GAINZ thread, Boswell Horde drawings.

I LOL'd at "Zod".

Posted by: Brother Tim...as the man said, the die is cast at August 22, 2022 05:23 PM (OUMaO)

169 "Well, how did we treat Tokyo Rose?"

I think she ended up living in Chicago, working at a store near Belmont and Clark. I might have bought my Go set from her.

Posted by: Assigned gp At Birth at August 22, 2022 05:23 PM (qpX6U)

170 Feels like punishment for donating.
Posted by: quantum mechanic

Actually, I'd like to contribute to a few select R candidates, but the email flood I get, even though I have never contributed one cent to any politician, makes me convinced I should save my money!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 22, 2022 05:24 PM (hOUT3)

171 Wonder how Tater's wife is taking the news.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 05:24 PM (mE7cY)

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Posted by: Frank N. Stien at August 22, 2022 05:24 PM (LrYuZ)

173 HotAir.com
@hotairblog
·
2h
Join the Team: We're looking for you!

That's hilarious - that's really putting the boot into Allahpundit's firing.

I'm hoping for a complete meltdown on September 2nd, Allahpundit's last day.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 22, 2022 05:18 PM (I2/tG)

Any unnamed rando, TBD >>> AP

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 22, 2022 05:24 PM (yHsuS)

174 Getting tired of Leftists bull shit

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2022 05:24 PM (k8B25)

175 You know, you might say the walls are closing in on CNN. Or even it is the beginning of the end of CNN.

Posted by: Ripley at August 22, 2022 05:24 PM (MxEKc)

176 >>ICYMI from last week's GAINZ thread, Boswell Horde drawings.

Great. I'm sitting on a case of rum smoking a joint.

I wonder who could have put that idea in Boswell's head?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2022 05:24 PM (ZLI7S)

177 Why did CNN let Tater do one more show? Ratings for the "you want me on that wall, hell, you NEED ME ON THAT WALL" rant.

Posted by: Regular joe at August 22, 2022 05:24 PM (nnp+f)

178 It is really symbolic that the Tater's last guest is Bernstein. He and his co-worker Woodward know a thing or two about lying in the media to bring down a president.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at August 22, 2022 05:24 PM (3JfbU)

179 I suddenly had a dark vision of JJ joining Hot Air...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 05:25 PM (LvTSG)

180 I nuked the GOP. And DJT I hate to say. The spam was overwhelming.

Feels like punishment for donating.

Posted by: quantum mechanic
-------------------
I quit donating years ago. One, most of that money is wasted on administrative overhead (blow and hookers) and on raising more funds by endless harassment of donors. Two, I work in a deep blue industry and consequences can happen to donating to people associated with badthink. Due to medical reasons, I've needed my job for the last decade or so.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2022 05:25 PM (CXr4y)

181 That's hilarious - that's really putting the boot into Allahpundit's firing.

Meanwhile, AP has posted the following articles:

Chuck Todd: Is it time to start believing that Democrats might hold onto the House?

Cheney: I'm coming for all the election deniers

Arizona MAGA Senate candidate: Second look at Mitch McConnell?

and, of course: Is Ukraine a patsy in Darya Dugina's murder?, explaining that just because the Russians have identified the perpetrator, and the Ukrainians have already used several car bombs to blow up Russian officials in occupied Ukraine, doesn't mean that the Ukrainians did it.

I can't decide if AP is going to go to work for The Bulwark, or the Ukrainian Ministry of Information.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 22, 2022 05:25 PM (I2/tG)

182 170 Feels like punishment for donating.
Posted by: quantum mechanic

Actually, I'd like to contribute to a few select R candidates, but the email flood I get, even though I have never contributed one cent to any politician, makes me convinced I should save my money!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 22, 2022 05:24 PM (hOUT3)

========

Western Union some cash?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 05:25 PM (LvTSG)

183 152 But, the scammers don't have anything on the GOPe fundraising machine--they are as bad as the Terminator or the NRA.
Posted by: whig

I nuked the GOP. And DJT I hate to say. The spam was overwhelming.

Feels like punishment for donating.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 22, 2022 05:21 PM (g1EEm)

===

Ditto. Pure crap combined with high pressure sales tactics. If they wanted to fail I can't think of a thing they would do differently.

Posted by: jc at August 22, 2022 05:25 PM (N1WXz)

184 Wonder how Tater's wife is taking the news.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 05:24 PM (mE7cY)

How will he support his wife's children?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 22, 2022 05:25 PM (yQpMk)

185 171 Wonder how Tater's wife is taking the news.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 05:24 PM (mE7cY)

She is, how you say, putting up a brave front.

Posted by: The Paolo at August 22, 2022 05:25 PM (PiwSw)

186 Ireland launched a campaign against greedy landlords with rent control, 52% tax, no deductions, no evictions.

They succeeded & landlords left the market in droves

Now there are 716 homes available to rent in the entire country and 150 queued for this one bed yesterday.

https://bit.ly/3T2K0gx

Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2022 05:25 PM (eyxn4)

187 I wonder when it was that the left started believing in objective Truth?

Posted by: Matt at August 22, 2022 05:26 PM (rSFMX)

188 Great. I'm sitting on a case of rum smoking a joint.

I wonder who could have put that idea in Boswell's head?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2022 05:24 PM (ZLI7S)

Would you rather be a bunny?

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 22, 2022 05:26 PM (DRSnL)

189 Man, a gig at Hot Air. With that kind of pay, I'd only have to resort to prostitution on weekends to pay my mortgage.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 22, 2022 05:26 PM (ppBhU)

190 I have to two posters of Governor Abrams. They fill up my basement walls which is 600 sq feet.

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 22, 2022 05:26 PM (FBf3u)

191 "I wonder when it was that the left started believing in objective Truth?"

Postmodernist philosophy helped a lot.

Posted by: Assigned gp At Birth at August 22, 2022 05:26 PM (qpX6U)

192 Also on his show today, Steven Crowder offered him a job.

I believe the Babylon Bee did, too. Something about him consistently bringing the funny and fake.

Posted by: t-bird at August 22, 2022 05:26 PM (ugV9/)

193 >>>I suddenly had a dark vision of JJ joining Hot Air...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 05:25 PM (LvTSG)

Think again.

Posted by: GeoffBee at August 22, 2022 05:26 PM (QYPq3)

194 184 Wonder how Tater's wife is taking the news.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 05:24 PM (mE7cY)

How will he support his wife's children?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 22, 2022 05:25 PM (yQpMk)

Welcome to Arbys! May I take your order?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 05:26 PM (mE7cY)

195 Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 05:16 PM (LvTSG)

It's kind of a miracle the first LOTR movies turned out so well. Now, 20 years later, we are getting everything we feared New Line's version would be.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 22, 2022 05:26 PM (XvPQV)

196 179 I suddenly had a dark vision of JJ joining Hot Air...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison
----------------------------
JJ would clear the Temple of its miscreants much as another person of Judaic persuasion did millennia ago.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2022 05:27 PM (CXr4y)

197 Are we all speaking Spanglish to Chuy?

El Beero.

Could that count? (I flunked speaking Latin.)

Posted by: Lola at August 22, 2022 05:27 PM (NIYa7)

198 >>Would you rather be a bunny?

I am pretty cuddly.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2022 05:27 PM (ZLI7S)

199 I bet Stelter crashes Lemon Parties.

He looks the type.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2022 05:14 PM (UcSP

He is that employee that takes ALL the leftover food at a company function.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 22, 2022 05:27 PM (m85Ms)

200 TRUTH is always neutral. Always.

If the truth has a "lean" to it, the absolutely neutral and objective search for that truth will be whatever it is.

What he means, of course, is that subjective things such as opinions, feelings, and hopes... are not neutral. And he holds all the correct ones and this makes it a moral imperative to pursue those "truths."

Posted by: Synova at August 22, 2022 05:27 PM (BD/yx)

201 Even the perception that the election process in the 50 states isn't clean and open and fair and honest is absolute POISON to a society - these guys have to know that.

If there's any question about the free and fair electoral process anywhere - these guys should be johnny on the spot assuaging the people's concerns.

Notice, however, that hasn't occurred. At all. Not even a little bit. Why would anyone have any concerns about the people taking a peek under the hood, so to speak?

It you're not doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to hide, what's the big deal?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2022 05:27 PM (a84JH)

202 and, of course: Is Ukraine a patsy in Darya Dugina's murder?, explaining that just because the Russians have identified the perpetrator, and the Ukrainians have already used several car bombs to blow up Russian officials in occupied Ukraine, doesn't mean that the Ukrainians did it.

I can't decide if AP is going to go to work for The Bulwark, or the Ukrainian Ministry of Information.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 22, 2022 05:25 PM (I2/tG)

I don't think being a patsy means you aren't involved, just that you will get the blame. So the Ukranians are involved then, possibly with some aid by Western agencies?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2022 05:27 PM (eoQWY)

203 195 Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 05:16 PM (LvTSG)

It's kind of a miracle the first LOTR movies turned out so well. Now, 20 years later, we are getting everything we feared New Line's version would be.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 22, 2022 05:26 PM (XvPQV)

=========

I'll wait until I actually see it.

Gonna be a few months before I get around to it, though.

Did I ever tell you I saw the first film 7 times in theaters, the second one 6 times, and the third one 8 times?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 05:27 PM (LvTSG)

204 Lol. I couldn't think up a worse low level job for Spuds McBlizzard.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Drool cup emptier?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 22, 2022 05:27 PM (LsEU/)

205 He is that employee that takes ALL the leftover food at a company function.
Posted by: Beartooth at August 22, 2022 05:27 PM (m85Ms)

yeah .. right .. I hate that guy.

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 22, 2022 05:28 PM (yQpMk)

206 I think she ended up living in Chicago, working at a store near Belmont and Clark. I might have bought my Go set from her.

Tagomi Mercantile on Belmont Street.

Years ago, I may have bought a futon from her - the sales clerk was the right age.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 22, 2022 05:28 PM (I2/tG)

207 Didn't you people's mothers ever teach you not to mock the retarded?

Posted by: Minuteman at August 22, 2022 05:28 PM (LaNzR)

208 204 Lol. I couldn't think up a worse low level job for Spuds McBlizzard.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Drool cup emptier?
Posted by: Tonypete at August 22, 2022 05:27 PM (LsEU

Wiping down the booths at the Sex Shop?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 05:28 PM (mE7cY)

209 Wonder how Tater's wife is taking the news.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 05:24 PM (mE7cY)

How will he support his wife's children?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 22, 2022 05:25 PM (yQpMk)

. . . what with the Humpty Dumpty roles drying up.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 22, 2022 05:28 PM (yHsuS)

210 I remember an alternate timeline where He-Man was the star of his show.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

Not alternate timeline. This is a clear case of "good old days."

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 22, 2022 05:29 PM (ftFVW)

211 Please God, let Acosta be next.

Posted by: John Milton's Ghost at August 22, 2022 05:29 PM (PTYkn)

212 189 Man, a gig at Hot Air. With that kind of pay, I'd only have to resort to prostitution on weekends to pay my mortgage.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 22, 2022 05:26 PM (ppBhU)

Is Sarah looking for a second job?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 22, 2022 05:29 PM (OjwC3)

213 On set fluffer.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 05:29 PM (mE7cY)

214 "Is Ukraine a patsy in Darya Dugina's murder?"

I know I didn't do it.

Posted by: Assigned gp At Birth at August 22, 2022 05:29 PM (qpX6U)

215 197 Are we all speaking Spanglish to Chuy?

El Beero.

Could that count? (I flunked speaking Latin.)
Posted by: Lola at August 22, 2022 05:27 PM (NIYa7)

Here's another one that I think is slang too, when you are talking on the phone to someone and instead of saying bye you say, "andale pues". I don't know the literal translation but I take it to mean "okay bye"

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 22, 2022 05:30 PM (yGmiX)

216 Tater still putting the lotion on his skin and he never was in the pit.

That's how desperate he is to be wanted by someone, anyone.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 22, 2022 05:30 PM (Zf0+a)

217 160 JackStraw at 05:10, the year is 1984 and we are being dared to say otherwise. Those 87000 IRS agents will need assignments once they are recruited.

They will not only be auditing our finances but our attitudes.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at August 22, 2022 05:22 PM (3JfbU)

===

It occurs to me that the 87k IRS agents is another way to hire all the FBI, etc., that all sane people want to run out of government.

They will be burrowing in to avoid the storm.

Posted by: jc at August 22, 2022 05:30 PM (N1WXz)

218 Stelter has a real case of; I don't know what the fuck I am talking about.

There are none so blind as those who will not see

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 22, 2022 05:30 PM (M+Lyo)

219 Even the perception that the election process in the 50 states isn't clean and open and fair and honest is absolute POISON to a society - these guys have to know that.

If there's any question about the free and fair electoral process anywhere - these guys should be johnny on the spot assuaging the people's concerns.

Notice, however, that hasn't occurred. At all. Not even a little bit. Why would anyone have any concerns about the people taking a peek under the hood, so to speak?

It you're not doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to hide, what's the big deal?
Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2022 05:27 PM (a84JH)

Its a known fact since forever that inner city and reservations have commonly been involved in vote hustling in close elections by any number of schemes. The lack of interest on both sides in stopping this is notable.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2022 05:30 PM (eoQWY)

220 I'll take that HotAir job. How many servers can I erase before getting thrown out?

Posted by: These Fish Sticks Are Hard As Tits at August 22, 2022 05:30 PM (3AD8C)

221 She is, how you say, putting up a brave front.
Posted by: The Paolo

Which is, how you say, hard to do when bent over.

Posted by: The Paolo at August 22, 2022 05:30 PM (LsEU/)

222 i think "pues" is probably "then"

Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:30 PM (B3oWe)

223 186 Ireland launched a campaign against greedy landlords with rent control, 52% tax, no deductions, no evictions.

They succeeded & landlords left the market in droves

Now there are 716 homes available to rent in the entire country and 150 queued for this one bed yesterday.

https://bit.ly/3T2K0gx

Posted by: bonhomme
----------------------
Government cannot guarantee supply but they sure can cause a shortage. Capital and market strikes happen when you punish producers. They don't produce.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2022 05:30 PM (CXr4y)

224 How we dreamed of being paid to empty drool cups..

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 22, 2022 05:30 PM (yQpMk)

225 What he means, of course, is that subjective things such as opinions, feelings, and hopes... are not neutral. And he holds all the correct ones and this makes it a moral imperative to pursue those "truths."

The only thing Objective is Math. 2+2=5 is a pretty damn short conversation.

But the rest of it ? Language is absolutely subjective. Meanings shift. And hence, all the folks here that wade into every conversation, with their "Do Not Doubt Me, I have the One True Definition" shtick.

Nobody owns the One True Definition. Things are much more subjective than they want to believe.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 22, 2022 05:30 PM (FUGaR)

226 159 "-stein" is a common enough name ending. "-stain" is not. So people insert the common ending in their memory because it doesn't actually matter. And then they find out they're wrong because a bunch of zoomers are gabbling on about it online all at once.

You don't even need Ockham's razor for this. Ockham's baseball bat would cut fine enough.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 22, 2022 05:22 PM (6FeV1)

Next you'll be telling me that the Lamb will lie down with the Wolf and not the Lion.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 22, 2022 05:31 PM (XvPQV)

227 Now there are 716 homes available to rent in the entire country and 150 queued for this one bed yesterday.

https://bit.ly/3T2K0gx
Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2022 05:25 PM (eyxn4)

"Oi, MacEachren, you know what I've been thinking?"

"And what is it you're a thinking, O'Briain?"

"How is it that American city Detroit got to be what it is these days? Why don't let's be doing that wi' the whole of the Gaeltaechta, then!"

"Brilliant, boyo! Brilliant!"

Posted by: Overheard on the stairs of the Taoiseach at August 22, 2022 05:31 PM (6FeV1)

228 It you're not doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to hide, what's the big deal?
Posted by: Common Tater

That's not how "Our Precious Democracy" works!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 22, 2022 05:31 PM (hOUT3)

229 204 Lol. I couldn't think up a worse low level job for Spuds McBlizzard.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Drool cup emptier?
Posted by: Tonypete at August 22, 2022 05:27 PM (LsEU/)

Vomitorium assistant.

Posted by: Shadoutus Mapesus Maximus at August 22, 2022 05:31 PM (PiwSw)

230 Mandela Effect is just false memories, which some "truth is out there" folks try to make a thing about slipping between alternate timelines and such.

I heard about a memory study I found really interesting. Loads of people will claim they remember vivid details about their environment when a large, community experienced event happened. 9/11 or the Challenger disaster for example.

So a group did a study where they had a bunch of people write down a narrative after one of these events. What they were wearing, where they were, who else was there, etc. Then they went back a few years later and had them answer the same questions again.

People got large and small details wrong. People were so convinced their memory was impeccable, they actually accused the researchers of altering their written records.

There's a lot of ongoing study of this, but it appears that when you remember something, you're actually actively re-writing that memory. The more you recall it, the more the memory gets tiny edits.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2022 05:31 PM (eyxn4)

231 *looks in*

The truth is not neutral?

What the actual EFF???
Did Marx write that?

*heads to store*

Posted by: Diogenes at August 22, 2022 05:32 PM (anj39)

232
I nuked the GOP. And DJT I hate to say. The spam was overwhelming.

Feels like punishment for donating.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 22, 2022 05:21 PM (g1EEm)

God, yes!

I was getting up to 20 lame-ass money begging posts each day. Without even donating.

Exactly like punishment. If they wanted to convince me to never ever ever donate to any political candidate ever, well then...Mission accomplished.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2022 05:32 PM (5NkmN)

233 207 Didn't you people's mothers ever teach you not to mock the retarded?
Posted by: Minuteman at August 22, 2022 05:28 PM (LaNzR)

Yes, but a character in blackface in Ben Stiller's best movie, Tropic Thunder, implored the audience to "never go *full* retard".

Posted by: Thrawn at August 22, 2022 05:32 PM (Rl7KJ)

234 " ... Journalists are ugly whores, treat them as such at best. And at worst? Well, how did we treat Tokyo Rose?"

actually, grew up three houses down from her ... she lived very quietly, with relatives, on an unremarkable side street in Chicago.
nobody ever did or said anything mean to / about her that I ever heard, at least in the 60's and 70's.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at August 22, 2022 05:32 PM (+eXoW)

235 So the Ukranians are involved then, possibly with some aid by Western agencies?

The Russians claim that they identified the perpetrator and her car, who brought her young child with her to reduce suspicions at the checkpoints, then moved into Daryl's apartment building, and fled to Estonia after the bombing. Lots of video evidence.

The claim that the Russian government had an interest in killing either her or her father doesn't seem particularly plausible.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 22, 2022 05:32 PM (I2/tG)

236 They are talking about L2,000 pound energy bills in England next year. They will establish price controls then
martial law will come out of inability to provide energy.
Who knows what chaos will follow that.

They better wake up and start digging some coal.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 22, 2022 05:32 PM (QrvWz)

237 I'm a horrible person for finding that fearful panicked struggling that happens right before the light vanishes to be so satisfying. Perhaps it's my anger over the harm these petty tyrants have done to my civilization, my anger over what they've done to the next generation, my anger over what they've done to all the best goods free humanity has accomplished. I'll have to work on my Christian ethic more.

Posted by: mikethemoose at August 22, 2022 05:32 PM (T/vhV)

238 Next you'll be telling me that the Lamb will lie down with the Wolf and not the Lion.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 22, 2022 05:31 PM (XvPQV)

I wouldn't know. I stay away from yiffing conventions.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 22, 2022 05:32 PM (6FeV1)

239 I'll wait until I actually see it.

Gonna be a few months before I get around to it, though.

Did I ever tell you I saw the first film 7 times in theaters, the second one 6 times, and the third one 8 times?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 05:27 PM (LvTSG)

I'd not bother. The odds of today's filmers being able to pull off a decent result even if they were trying is low, given the results and the fact that they are basing the movie on about three paragraphs of Tolkien notes. When they are trying to insult the audience like here, the sky's the limit.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2022 05:33 PM (eoQWY)

240 Potato is in a cheerleader outfit which is on tight. Also he is going really squishy in back from sitting too long in light.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at August 22, 2022 05:33 PM (8HB6f)

241 "andale pues"

It sounds to me like, "Alright. Gotta run."

Posted by: t-bird at August 22, 2022 05:33 PM (Jg92y)

242 Two, I work in a deep blue industry and consequences can happen to donating to people associated with badthink.
Posted by: whig

Yeah, friend of mine pointed out I was on a list of DJT donors that was doing the rounds (I have no idea why. I am nowhere near important enough to be on anyone's list).

But I am self-employed so there's not much anyone can do to me.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 22, 2022 05:33 PM (g1EEm)

243 There's a lot of ongoing study of this, but it appears that when you remember something, you're actually actively re-writing that memory. The more you recall it, the more the memory gets tiny edits.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2022 05:31 PM (eyxn4)

I ain't saying nuttin'.

Posted by: Your Amygdala at August 22, 2022 05:34 PM (PiwSw)

244 Notice, however, that hasn't occurred. At all. Not even a little bit. Why would anyone have any concerns about the people taking a peek under the hood, so to speak?

It you're not doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to hide, what's the big deal?

Posted by: Common Tater
-------------------
Same reason that a host of misdeeds are swept under the rug by the uniparty--foreign purchase of politicians, foreign espionage, corruption of non-profits affiliate with pols, big donors demanding favoritism by government agencies. I can go on and on. Elections are simply the means to entrench a corrupt clientele state. Once govt borrowing became divorced from taxation, the sky is the limit until we lose reserve currency status. By then, the robbers and looters will have stashed their loot in offshore banks.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2022 05:35 PM (CXr4y)

245 Did I ever tell you I saw the first film 7 times in theaters, the second one 6 times, and the third one 8 times?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 05:27 PM (LvTSG)

Nope, good on you.
Dunno what my record on the trilogy was, at least 4 times for each.

I saw Beetlejuice 13 times one semester in college. I don't know what that says about me.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 22, 2022 05:35 PM (XvPQV)

246 orale pues means "alright then" when getting off the phone

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 22, 2022 05:35 PM (M+Lyo)

247 >> when you remember something, you're actually actively re-writing that memory

That's exactly what's going on. You remember something, then you remember the memory, and so on, where you're remembering the memory of the memory of the memory....

Also, the brain fills in all sort of details to make something make sense. This happens automatically. Even the initial memory encoding will have a lot of extrapolation and interpolation in it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 22, 2022 05:35 PM (Mzdiz)

248 Strange little man.

Posted by: runner at August 22, 2022 05:36 PM (LVI60)

249 Update. Stacey Abrams is starving!
Resume

Posted by: Jimco Industries at August 22, 2022 05:36 PM (cMqlu)

250 I saw Beetlejuice 13 times one semester in college. I don't know what that says about me.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 22, 2022 05:35 PM (XvPQV)

You went to college with BSG?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 22, 2022 05:36 PM (6FeV1)

251 Next you'll be telling me that the Lamb will lie down with the Wolf and not the Lion.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 22, 2022 05:31 PM (XvPQV)

I wouldn't know. I stay away from yiffing conventions.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 22, 2022 05:32 PM (6FeV1)

ISWYDT

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 22, 2022 05:36 PM (XvPQV)

252 It you're not doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to hide, what's the big deal?

Hence the Patriot Act, in a nutshell.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 22, 2022 05:36 PM (FUGaR)

253 I saw Beetlejuice 13 times one semester in college. I don't know what that says about me.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 22, 2022 05:35 PM (XvPQV)

You went to college with BSG?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 22, 2022 05:36 PM (6FeV1)

God, I hope not. Naw, Gina Davis was more my speed. I paid cash money to see The Long Kiss Goodnight in theaters...one of the few.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 22, 2022 05:37 PM (XvPQV)

254 >>>There's a lot of ongoing study of this, but it appears that when you remember something, you're actually actively re-writing that memory. The more you recall it, the more the memory gets tiny edits.

When I was a kid I got into a huge fight with my brother because I insisted that Rikki-Tiki-Tavi was a white albino mongoose. I was absolutely certain. Had a perfect visual memory of it.

I had another one of those, can't remember it now, where i was absolutely certain of something that was just completely false.

Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:37 PM (B3oWe)

255 So the Ukranians are involved then, possibly with some aid by Western agencies?

The Russians claim that they identified the perpetrator and her car, who brought her young child with her to reduce suspicions at the checkpoints, then moved into Daryl's apartment building, and fled to Estonia after the bombing. Lots of video evidence.

The claim that the Russian government had an interest in killing either her or her father doesn't seem particularly plausible.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 22, 2022 05:32 PM (I2/tG)

The Russians since the Czar / USSR times has lots of experience with "wet work" and I doubt they'd be so sloppy were it official. Same with the various plots the Brits said were afoot a few years ago, sounded more like bunglers than competent assassins.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2022 05:37 PM (eoQWY)

256 239 I'd not bother. The odds of today's filmers being able to pull off a decent result even if they were trying is low, given the results and the fact that they are basing the movie on about three paragraphs of Tolkien notes. When they are trying to insult the audience like here, the sky's the limit.

they're going to be hard pressed to top surfing on a wave of molten gold, everyone's favorite scene from the hobbit novels.

Posted by: kulak anachronda at August 22, 2022 05:37 PM (oY6Yp)

257 Journalism has become nothing but a HS cliique

maybe always was

they all hang together, all chow together, all agree on who's in and who's out

NYC/DC

it's a sick scene

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2022 05:38 PM (us2H3)

258
Truth is not beauty.

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at August 22, 2022 05:38 PM (sn5EN)

259 Hell, I would pay money to watch Geena Davis throw paper airplanes at a brick wall for three hours.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 22, 2022 05:38 PM (6FeV1)

260 Sounds like a typical FSB hit.

Posted by: runner at August 22, 2022 05:38 PM (LVI60)

261 Two or three people were clapping in the studio background of that sign off clip. Sad. And fitting.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 22, 2022 05:38 PM (es0Dj)

262 Yeah, friend of mine pointed out I was on a list of DJT donors that was doing the rounds (I have no idea why. I am nowhere near important enough to be on anyone's list).

But I am self-employed so there's not much anyone can do to me.

Posted by: quantum mechanic
-------------------
Did not worry too much in the old days as small donors were not singled out much due to lack of computing power. Nowadays, the list is weaponized like what happened to Eich (the guy behind Brave browser) when he was CEO of Mozilla Foundation but down to the small donors.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2022 05:38 PM (CXr4y)

263 Unity Summit?
Unity Summit??!!

BWAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!
Oh stop it. You're killing me here!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 22, 2022 05:38 PM (anj39)

264 God, I hope not. Naw, Gina Davis was more my speed. I paid cash money to see The Long Kiss Goodnight in theaters...one of the few.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 22, 2022 05:37 PM (XvPQV)

Good movie. One of Jackson's best performances. He is still Samuel L enough, but way subdued.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 22, 2022 05:38 PM (yQpMk)

265 If a western Intelligence agency was behind the assassination of Dugina what happens if Putin asks Interpol to arrest them? I think the Russians have an extradition treaty with most EU states.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 05:39 PM (ESjRY)

266 "Once government borrowing is divorced from taxation the sky is the limit until reserve currency status is forfeited."

VERY salient point, though I edited this a bit to my liking.

It matters not what laws or legislation is passed, with a printing press and unlimited money (essentially) Americans are fooked. There's no stopping them.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2022 05:39 PM (a84JH)

267 Chad Wolf had a weak response to "but Bill Bagpipe Barr said elections were fine, Trump lost because he is an arrogant SOB" (my contextual interpretation added)

He should have said something like "But Barr is another tool of the globalists, he hated that Trump brought a hope of renewed Liberty, and he did shit about crimes by open crimes by Hillary and the FBI"

Posted by: illiniwek at August 22, 2022 05:39 PM (Cus5s)

268 Only movie I repeatedly went to see is
The Wild Bunch. It still fascinates me.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 22, 2022 05:39 PM (QrvWz)

269 258
Truth is not beauty.
Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at August 22, 2022 05:38 PM (sn5EN)

Sir, I demand satisfaction!

Posted by: Zombie John Keats at August 22, 2022 05:39 PM (PiwSw)

270 "the risk to the lives of journalists and how dangerous it is to be one in America because of the far-right."

Once again, if we were HALF as dangerous as you accuse of us being, you'd be dead already.

And, yet ...

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at August 22, 2022 05:39 PM (TU8Tj)

271 When I was a kid I got into a huge fight with my brother because I insisted that Rikki-Tiki-Tavi was a white albino mongoose. I was absolutely certain. Had a perfect visual memory of it.

I had another one of those, can't remember it now, where i was absolutely certain of something that was just completely false.
Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:37 PM (B3oWe)

I loved that story as a bambino

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 22, 2022 05:39 PM (M+Lyo)

272 >>>
There's a lot of ongoing study of this, but it appears that when you remember something, you're actually actively re-writing that memory. The more you recall it, the more the memory gets tiny edits.

and of course that's all memory is. Not only is memory just that, but *present* vision of a scene is just the brain "rewriting" ambiguous and incomplete visual data into a coherent picture, too. Even current reality is just something the brain is writing on the fly. Let alone memories of it!

Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:39 PM (B3oWe)

273 Journalism has become nothing but a HS cliique

maybe always was

they all hang together, all chow together, all agree on who's in and who's out

NYC/DC

it's a sick scene
Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2022 05:38 PM (us2H3)

Always was. There used to be reporters, who were blue collar joes. Journalist was when they started being white collar and tony and fully coopted into the system.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2022 05:40 PM (eoQWY)

274
Then there are those classic eye-witnesses are faulty demonstrations they used to use a lot in law school and so forth.

You stage some event, like some thug comes in an robs the professor, or something else dramatic. The idea is to create fear, intense emotion, etc, all the elements of a real crime or accident, etc.

Then you ask all the students to describe what happened, what did the suspect look like. And they all have different versions.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 22, 2022 05:40 PM (Mzdiz)

275 There's a lot of ongoing study of this, but it appears that when you remember something, you're actually actively re-writing that memory. The more you recall it, the more the memory gets tiny edits.
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That's Morton's Headed Records theory of memory. It's actually been around a long time. And it does posit that the more often a memory is recalled, the more it can/will be changed.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 22, 2022 05:40 PM (sWM8x)

276 It matters not what laws or legislation is passed, with a printing press and unlimited money (essentially) Americans are fooked. There's no stopping them.

Modern Monetary Theory. Thanks Ruling Class.

Anybody else wonder why the Ruling Class really, really loves Modern Monetary Theory ?

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 22, 2022 05:40 PM (FUGaR)

277 Posted by: CaliGirl at August 22, 2022 05:30 PM (yGmiX)

"Go on now," says search.

Years ago, I had my immediate supervisor, a true gentleman, teach me a few words - chubby woman, among them - so I'd have a clue what I might hear while out on certain inspections.

He did laugh. Good times.

Posted by: Lola at August 22, 2022 05:41 PM (NIYa7)

278
Beauty is a French phonetic corruption
Of a short cloth neck ornament
Currently in resurgence

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at August 22, 2022 05:41 PM (sn5EN)

279 "andale pues". I don't know the literal translation but I take it to mean "okay bye"
Posted by: CaliGirl"

Pues is sort of a verbal tick in Spanish. It can mean many things such as OK, whatever, sure ... or just added for emphasis. Sometime it gets used to such excess by some people (it's like, you know) that it gets annoying as hell to listen to them.

Posted by: Ripley at August 22, 2022 05:41 PM (MxEKc)

280 They are talking about L2,000 pound energy bills in England next year. They will establish price controls then
martial law will come out of inability to provide energy.
Who knows what chaos will follow that.

They better wake up and start digging some coal.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 22, 2022 05:32 PM

I'm right here, you know.

Posted by: Newcastle at August 22, 2022 05:41 PM (RkC6l)

281 “The first thing people hear or see on the internet is the first thing they believe. No matter what the truth is.”
― James Hauenstein

Posted by: Colin at August 22, 2022 05:41 PM (XecMo)

282 Your scientists have yet to discover how neural networks create self-consciousness, let alone how the human brain processes two-dimensional retinal images into the three-dimensional phenomenon known as perception. Yet you somehow brazenly declare that seeing is believing!

Posted by: The Man in Black at August 22, 2022 05:41 PM (yQpMk)

283 He is right if Marxists get more power to criticize Leftists, it will get sent you to the cooler

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2022 05:41 PM (k8B25)

284 When I was a kid I got into a huge fight with my brother because I insisted that Rikki-Tiki-Tavi was a white albino mongoose. I was absolutely certain. Had a perfect visual memory of it.

I had another one of those, can't remember it now, where i was absolutely certain of something that was just completely false.
Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:37 PM (B3oWe)

I loved that story as a bambino
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 22, 2022 05:39 PM (M+Lyo)

Same here, that lovely Chuck Jones animation made Kipling's story really come to life.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 22, 2022 05:41 PM (XvPQV)

285 i would guess that memory is almost all coded by words not by pictures, because words take up less "RAM." So yo remember things as a series of words. When you visualize an old memory, you're just recalling the keywords associated with the memory and putting together pictures, sounds, and smells associated with those words. you're just reconstructing an image based on the remembered keywords, and the reconstruction will frequently change.

Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:42 PM (B3oWe)

286 264 God, I hope not. Naw, Gina Davis was more my speed. I paid cash money to see The Long Kiss Goodnight in theaters...one of the few.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Sounds like Earth Girls are Easy would be to your liking then.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2022 05:42 PM (CXr4y)

287 ed the full spectrum of debate," but he and his Metrosexual Ethnic Renfield Oliver Darcy

Wow, that's a whole lotta references to reconcile. Nice one.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2022 05:42 PM (/NCI4)

288 wonder if Brandon will bring Flake back from our embassy in Turkey for his Unity confab ?

you know LIz will be a headliner

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2022 05:42 PM (us2H3)

289 Money is always unlimited. Wealth is not. It's not any more complicated than that.

When creepy academics try to pretend something is super complicated and opaque when it isn't, it means they're getting paid to come up with modern and advanced ways of fucking everyone over.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 22, 2022 05:42 PM (6FeV1)

290 With that kind of pay, I'd only have to resort to prostitution on weekends to pay my mortgage.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 22, 2022 05:26 PM (ppBhU)
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Hah. Driving home from the lake via So. IL the strip club had a sign for "College assistance tuition available. Apply inside." Wonder what that was about?

Posted by: olddog in mo, No Cheetos allowed on the 'toon at August 22, 2022 05:42 PM (ju2Fy)

291 Good movie. One of Jackson's best performances. He is still Samuel L enough, but way subdued.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

The scene with Davis's transformation and Jackson getting cleaned up at the motel is about one of my favorite scenes in any movie. The juxtaposition of music and changes is really fun.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 22, 2022 05:43 PM (ftFVW)

292 I'm an EE, and I'm pretty sure if you hammer a galvanized nail in Stelter's forehead, and shove a copper pipe up his ass; that if you wire them together, you'll be able to light a lamp.

Posted by: Roy at August 22, 2022 05:43 PM (Ti+Tv)

293 286 264 God, I hope not. Naw, Gina Davis was more my speed. I paid cash money to see The Long Kiss Goodnight in theaters...one of the few.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Sounds like Earth Girls are Easy would be to your liking then.

earth girls are easy > prometheus

Posted by: kulak anachronda at August 22, 2022 05:43 PM (oY6Yp)

294 Pues is sort of a verbal tick in Spanish. It can mean many things such as OK, whatever, sure ... or just added for emphasis. Sometime it gets used to such excess by some people (it's like, you know) that it gets annoying as hell to listen to them.

It's the Spanish "um" and "you know". Also, so....

Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2022 05:43 PM (/NCI4)

295 Gina Davis was more my speed. I paid cash money to see The Long Kiss Goodnight in theaters...one of the few.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Sounds like Earth Girls are Easy would be to your liking then.
Posted by: whig at August 22, 2022 05:42 PM (CXr4y)

Too much furry pron in it, and too much Julie Brown, but there were parts that I liked. Didn't that have Jeff Goldblum in it too?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 22, 2022 05:44 PM (XvPQV)

296 I'm a horrible person for finding that fearful panicked struggling that happens right before the light vanishes to be so satisfying. Perhaps it's my anger over the harm these petty tyrants have done to my civilization, my anger over what they've done to the next generation, my anger over what they've done to all the best goods free humanity has accomplished. I'll have to work on my Christian ethic more.

Posted by: mikethemoose at August 22, 2022 05:32 PM (T/vhV)

I think that makes you a normal person.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 22, 2022 05:44 PM (yHsuS)

297 They are talking about L2,000 pound energy bills in England next year. They will establish price controls then
martial law will come out of inability to provide energy.
Who knows what chaos will follow that.

They better wake up and start digging some coal.

There's some lovely filth over here!

Posted by: Dennis the peasant's wife at August 22, 2022 05:44 PM (/NCI4)

298 Mandela effect: I remember the Ford logo having the curly que on the cursive ‘o’ not the F. I remember ‘All’s quiet on the western front’ and not ‘All quiet…’. I probably just remembered.

Posted by: Blutarski at August 22, 2022 05:45 PM (BpoYE)

299 Unity ? Dems and Reps ? LOL.. Maybe RINO's but no self respecting Conservative would be seen there...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 22, 2022 05:45 PM (bs+z0)

300 I think the Russians have an extradition treaty with most EU states.

As a matter of policy, Russia will not extradite its own citizens to foreign countries.

The Russians since the Czar / USSR times has lots of experience with "wet work" and I doubt they'd be so sloppy were it official.

Putin is definitely capable of killing people he doesn't like - but I think he likes the Dugins.

I hope we are taking the Ukrainians aside and telling them that car bombings in suburban Moscow are not acceptable.

I know that the Ukrainian government wants World War Three, but I thought that we were trying to avoid it.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 22, 2022 05:45 PM (I2/tG)

301 I think the last movie I paid to see was Chicago

went to the show while letting NYC evening traffic die down so I could drive home

Walked out after 10 minutes and went to a bar

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2022 05:45 PM (us2H3)

302 Does anyone take Tater seriously?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 22, 2022 05:45 PM (eGTCV)

303 Years ago, I had my immediate supervisor, a true gentleman, teach me a few words - chubby woman, among them - so I'd have a clue what I might hear while out on certain inspections.

lol

That's so cruel, VHD is printing it out for his scrapbook.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 22, 2022 05:45 PM (ppBhU)

304 That's Morton's Headed Records theory of memory. It's actually been around a long time. And it does posit that the more often a memory is recalled, the more it can/will be changed.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at

You mean my first trout I caught at 5 years old wasn't 25lbs?

Posted by: Beartooth at August 22, 2022 05:46 PM (m85Ms)

305 I know that the Ukrainian government wants World War Three, but I thought that we were trying to avoid it.

I saw we nuke Moscow today to show Putin who is boss! He'd be too afraid to respond in kind!

Posted by: Some Liberal that lives in NYC at August 22, 2022 05:46 PM (ESjRY)

306 Money is always unlimited. Wealth is not. It's not any more complicated than that.

Yep. Coins are just what we agree to trade. Getting it from our labor, and giving it away for our desires. When the coins lose value, we'll barter.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 22, 2022 05:46 PM (FUGaR)

307 "Even current reality is just something the brain is writing on the fly. Let alone memories of it!"

imo this is the problem with people flooding their brains with Hollywood and MSM ... we can "fight off" the obvious lies, but the subtle influences tend to infiltrate our subconscious and influence our "memory".

"Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television" was an early argument, kinda on this subject (I forget details). But the "zeitgeist" of culture can become dominant. But it happens in many ways, it's just that with the internet and faces glues to their phones in chat, or TikTok ... plus the global Google throttling of alternative voices ... hard to say if in the year, 2025, man is still alive, (at least alive as a independent thinker, to the extent that exists even now)

Posted by: illiniwek at August 22, 2022 05:47 PM (Cus5s)

308 If you ignore air quality coal fired power plants could probably be on line in a year.

The air quality stuff can be engineered to be added later.

Meanwhile build nuclear plants as fast as possible.

Posted by: torabora at August 22, 2022 05:47 PM (EeUOj)

309 Walked out after 10 minutes and went to a bar
Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2022 05:45 PM (us2H3)

"What the hell does any of this fruity dancing around have to do with the Cubs?!?!?!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 22, 2022 05:47 PM (6FeV1)

310 Had to fill out a Monkey pox screening questionnaire at the docs today.

Felt like adding a line Yes/No) about being recently butt fucked.

Posted by: pawn at August 22, 2022 05:47 PM (kYVzH)

311 Hell, I would pay money to watch Geena Davis throw paper airplanes at a brick wall for three hours.

Haven't seen a recent picture of her but yeah, she was cute in a nerdy kind of way circa "Earth Girls Are Easy."

Posted by: Oddbob at August 22, 2022 05:47 PM (nfrXX)

312 "Go on now," says search.

Years ago, I had my immediate supervisor, a true gentleman, teach me a few words - chubby woman, among them - so I'd have a clue what I might hear while out on certain inspections.

He did laugh. Good times.
Posted by: Lola at

That's where I learn it too. Coworkers. I teach them American idioms and slang. One of the guys here on the ranch told me that in Mexico they say cats only have 7 lives. When I told them in America cats have 9 lives he said we take our cats to the vet more than mexico, must explain the difference. He's funny.

Here's an easy one.

Cheapskate is codo, pronounced almost koe -tho, soft th sound. It means elbow. Arms don't work to pick up the check I guess.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 22, 2022 05:47 PM (yGmiX)

313 Reliable Sources was once a decent show. Say a quarter of a century ago or so. Back when Bernard Kalb ran the show, and to a lesser extent, Howard Kurtz's early years.

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I used to watch Howard Kurtz when he moved to Fox but once he got the NeverTrump zeal I avoid his show. I know I miss out on Mollie Hemingway but I just can't stand him or his other guests.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at August 22, 2022 05:47 PM (3JfbU)

314 I think (accent on think) we've reached the end of a cycle. I think (accent on think) a worm is turning. The Shut Up crowd is finally on the defensive. And I think (accent on think) we may be starting to regain some lost ground.

I think.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at August 22, 2022 05:47 PM (Q3oNv)

315 Memory is a funny thing. What you experience, see and do may make a dent, but maybe not. We all have flashes of past events with little significant importance, but we can recall them again and again. What is kind of disheartening is when you believe some shared event with friends or family was something everyone remembers, but sometimes not. Then someone brings up some "shared event" and you can't recall it yourself.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 22, 2022 05:48 PM (IW8z9)

316 @307

>>imo this is the problem with people flooding their brains with Hollywood and MSM

Society was better when your night ended with listening to the star bangled banner followed by color bars and snow.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2022 05:49 PM (UcSPO)

317 292 I'm an EE, and I'm pretty sure if you hammer a galvanized nail in Stelter's forehead, and shove a copper pipe up his ass; that if you wire them together, you'll be able to light a lamp.
Posted by: Roy at August 22, 2022 05:43 PM (Ti+Tv)

I say run a series of tests

just to confirm the data

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2022 05:49 PM (us2H3)

318 War Room today said UK energy prices will quadruple by January. Sorry, Guvnor!

Posted by: Blutarski at August 22, 2022 05:50 PM (BpoYE)

319 i would guess that memory is almost all coded by words not by pictures, because words take up less "RAM." So yo remember things as a series of words. When you visualize an old memory, you're just recalling the keywords associated with the memory and putting together pictures, sounds, and smells associated with those words. you're just reconstructing an image based on the remembered keywords, and the reconstruction will frequently change.

Posted by: Chuy at August 22, 2022 05:42 PM (B3oWe)

It is probably a mixture of words-driven and pictures-driven, which mixture I would assume is highly variable between people.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 22, 2022 05:50 PM (yHsuS)

320 Pues is sort of a verbal tick in Spanish.

"Fuck" or some variation is my verbal tic.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 22, 2022 05:50 PM (hwoGt)

321 Richard Benjamin - Paula Prentiss
Jeff Goldblum - Gina Davis
doppelgangers

Earth Girls are Easy is a classic parody.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 22, 2022 05:50 PM (QrvWz)

322 "i would guess that memory is almost all coded by words not by pictures, because words take up less "RAM." "

I think it's patterns. A particular brain state pattern is associated with a memory. Other patterns may be associated with it. Those patterns are called up and decoded to recreate the entire memory. They aren't words or pictures, they are encoded snapshots.

Posted by: fd's Fully Vetted Facts at August 22, 2022 05:50 PM (sn5EN)

323 Had to fill out a Monkey pox screening questionnaire at the docs today.

New York now has one pediatric case of monkeypox.

This means that it will spread like wildfire through the schools next year, of course.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 22, 2022 05:50 PM (I2/tG)

324
The energy situation in Germany is getting dire as well. There will be rationing and draconian energy usage caps. It's gonna be a cold winter.

One rule is that in workplaces where physical labor is going on, the temp can be set no higher than 15C, call that 60F. In office spaces, they may allow 68F, maybe 66F.

They may try to do this in private homes. Surprise inspection squads coming to check your thermostat.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 22, 2022 05:50 PM (Mzdiz)

325 C'mon, next you'll be telling me my favorite TV puppet adventure show, Candle Cove... was just a figment of my imagination.

Posted by: Static in the Attic at August 22, 2022 05:50 PM (4C21V)

326 309 Walked out after 10 minutes and went to a bar
Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2022 05:45 PM (us2H3)

"What the hell does any of this fruity dancing around have to do with the Cubs?!?!?!"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 22, 2022 05:47 PM (6FeV1)

lol

I was pretty fucking pissed off about the shit

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2022 05:51 PM (us2H3)

327 318 War Room today said UK energy prices will quadruple by January. Sorry, Guvnor!
Posted by: Blutarski at August 22, 2022 05:50 PM (BpoYE)

But they will be green.. Or blue from the cold

Posted by: It's me donna at August 22, 2022 05:51 PM (bs+z0)

328 That's Morton's Headed Records theory of memory. It's actually been around a long time. And it does posit that the more often a memory is recalled, the more it can/will be changed.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis
__________________

And everything looks worse in black and white.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 22, 2022 05:51 PM (es0Dj)

329 Sky News Australia says Greta is out of the in crowd now, How dare they!

Posted by: Colin at August 22, 2022 05:51 PM (XecMo)

330 Tried to watch Fox for a while today.
It's all so contrived.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 22, 2022 05:51 PM (QrvWz)

331 312 That's where I learn it too. Coworkers. I teach them American idioms and slang.

That's so nice you have those working relationships.
You'll remember them as good times, too.

Posted by: Lola at August 22, 2022 05:52 PM (NIYa7)

332 The Shut Up crowd is finally on the defensive.

No. Not even close. The Shut Up crowd is louder than ever. For once, in my lifetime, the Shut Up crowd doesn't even need to pretend to own the means of production.

The Shut Up crowd doesn't even run the blogs anymore where they insist Shut Up. The Shut Up crowd is a combination of Acela Corridor Puritan and Below the Bible Belt Baptist. The current Shut Up Online Karen is one part HOA President, one part Tyranny of the Well Intentioned, and two other parts I Built This Chesterton Fence, Don't You Dare Touch It.

That's four parts, for those of you keeping score at home.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 22, 2022 05:52 PM (FUGaR)

333 Your scientists have yet to discover how neural networks create self-consciousness, let alone how the human brain processes two-dimensional retinal images into the three-dimensional phenomenon known as perception. Yet you somehow brazenly declare that seeing is believing!

My personal favorite "deep thought" goes something like this. From the moment a thing happens in reality, it takes a small amount of time for our perception of that thing to form. We see and observe and think milliseconds after the fact. That means reality exists ahead of our brain, ahead of our consciousness' ability to capture it.

Conclusion: We are literally flying blind in this world. We act and react in a space after events have transpired.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2022 05:52 PM (eyxn4)

334 Then someone brings up some "shared event" and you can't recall it yourself.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 22, 2022 05:48 PM (IW8z9)

The variability in eyewitness accounts of noteworthy events is something to behold.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 22, 2022 05:52 PM (yHsuS)

335 "Money is always unlimited. Wealth is not. It's not any more complicated than that."

well, who issues the money is complicated. "Wealth" can be stolen by those that print money, if they buy real assets with the fake money before people realize they have destroyed the currency.

Plus, they can demand people keep earning the fake currency to pay rising taxes. Then the billionaires/oligarchs that got the trillion dollar bailouts and exemptions, can buy everything, and be happy (still the slave revolt and kill them all).

Posted by: illiniwek at August 22, 2022 05:52 PM (Cus5s)

336 If we alter so much memory, why are some trivial facts accurately retained for long?

Posted by: fd at August 22, 2022 05:52 PM (sn5EN)

337 earth girls are easy > prometheus
Posted by: kulak anachronda at August 22, 2022 05:43 PM

You're not new here; you're just saying that in an attempt to provoke TJM.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2022 05:53 PM (a3Q+t)

338 Putin is definitely capable of killing people he doesn't like - but I think he likes the Dugins.

I hope we are taking the Ukrainians aside and telling them that car bombings in suburban Moscow are not acceptable.

I know that the Ukrainian government wants World War Three, but I thought that we were trying to avoid it.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 22, 2022 05:45 PM (I2/tG)

There is no 'we'. The west in dealing with Ukraine is acting as a collection of factions. The Pentagon, to its credit is bearish, but the neocons have been flogging the hold to the death for every village and no negotiation insanity. Reportedly the UK deep state was the one flogging the Kherson offensive that never happened. Then, of course, the half dozen or so Ukraine factions throw in their own dumb ideas and bomb their own POWs or civilian areas with imported artillery.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2022 05:53 PM (eoQWY)

339 Currency is unlimited, at least for governments. I should not have used the term Money. There is a difference.

Point being, with unlimited currency printing, borrowing and spending, deficits as far as the eye can see etc., there is nothing to stop them.

With even a little bit of fiscal sanity - none of the current shitshow would have been possible. Not even close.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2022 05:53 PM (a84JH)

340 I think it's patterns. A particular brain state pattern is associated with a memory. Other patterns may be associated with it. Those patterns are called up and decoded to recreate the entire memory. They aren't words or pictures, they are encoded snapshots.

They've proved that with chess masters.

You throw a picture of a legitimate chess position onto a screen for a fraction of a second, and a chess master can recreate the position.

Throw a picture of a random assortment of chess pieces on a chess board onto a screen for a fraction of a second, and chess masters are no better than anyone else.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 22, 2022 05:53 PM (I2/tG)

341 War Room today said UK energy prices will quadruple by January. Sorry, Guvnor!
Posted by: Blutarski at August 22, 2022 05:50 PM (BpoYE)

But they will be green.. Or blue from the cold
Posted by: It's me donna at August 22, 2022 05:51 PM (bs+z0)

Amusingly, they will be praying for global warming.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 22, 2022 05:53 PM (yQpMk)

342 I hope we are taking the Ukrainians aside and telling them that car bombings in suburban Moscow are not acceptable.

I know that the Ukrainian government wants World War Three, but I thought that we were trying to avoid it.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 22, 2022 05:45 PM (I2/tG)

Assuming that the "Ukrainians" aren't Vindman's buddies operating out of the Biden regime.

I understand why Ukraine desperately wants to escalate this war (for the second time in two months, the Antonovsky Bridge is permanently out of commission, yaaaay) but it's not going to happen. Russia can send arms into Donbas and Kherson far more quickly than Ukraine can- and the coming winter will shut Ukrainian aid down very quickly indeed.

Posted by: trev006 at August 22, 2022 05:53 PM (tnJ9E)

343
Pues is sort of a verbal tick in Spanish. It can mean many things such as OK, whatever, sure ... or just added for emphasis. Sometime it gets used to such excess by some people (it's like, you know) that it gets annoying as hell to listen to them.
Posted by: Ripley at August 22, 2022 05:41 PM (MxEKc)

I'm learning Spanish. I didn't know what that meant literally, I figure things out by context and I never know how to spell anything I learn that way.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 22, 2022 05:54 PM (yGmiX)

344 Easier than what? Any pics?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at August 22, 2022 05:54 PM (8HB6f)

345 Acosta is a fool. But a very useful fool for the left.

Posted by: LASue at August 22, 2022 05:54 PM (Ed8Zd)

346 Conclusion: We are literally flying blind in this world. We act and react in a space after events have transpired.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2022 05:52 PM (eyxn4)

You can show that by surprising someone with a paperwad thrown right between the eyes.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2022 05:54 PM (eoQWY)

347 323 Had to fill out a Monkey pox screening questionnaire at the docs today.

New York now has one pediatric case of monkeypox.

This means that it will spread like wildfire through the schools next year, of course.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 22, 2022 05:50 PM (I2/tG)

It will if the groomer pedophiles in the schools get hold of enough kids.

Posted by: Roy at August 22, 2022 05:55 PM (Ti+Tv)

348 "What the hell does any of this fruity dancing around have to do with the Cubs?!?!?!"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 22, 2022 05:47 PM

I read that as Cobs.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2022 05:55 PM (a3Q+t)

349 but the neocons have been flogging the hold to the death for every village and no negotiation insanity

The neocons think that we can crush Russia, divide it into a dozen new countries, and that there is not the slightest risk that the Russians will use nukes while we do that.

Duraki.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 22, 2022 05:55 PM (I2/tG)

350 40F (no wind) is OK by me for physical labor and 68F is OK. As much cold as they are used to surprised the temps are that high.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 22, 2022 05:56 PM (QrvWz)

351 I will say this about memory: memory tied to a strong emotion seems to 'stick' more. The first time you saw your first love, a movie scene that really scared you or made you laugh hard enough that your sides hurt.

The stronger the emotion, the more the memory 'sticks'.

Memory can be trained, though. The 'memory house' method does work, where you put memories into rooms or into locations you move between. It's hard work, for me at least, training it. I used to get by on a naturally good memory, but as I get older, it's harder to access stuff.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 22, 2022 05:56 PM (XvPQV)

352 I'm learning Spanish. I didn't know what that meant literally, I figure things out by context and I never know how to spell anything I learn that way.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 22, 2022 05:54 PM (yGmiX)

It's never spelled like I thought !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 22, 2022 05:56 PM (M+Lyo)

353
The variability in eyewitness accounts of noteworthy events is something to behold.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 22, 2022 05:52 PM (yHsuS)

They teach you how unreliable memory is in cop school. My BIL told me that in class they have someone walk in the classroom and then leave. Then they ask everyone to give a description, everyone is wrong, really wrong. Memory is a skill I guess.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 22, 2022 05:57 PM (yGmiX)

354 C'mon, next you'll be telling me my favorite TV puppet adventure show, Candle Cove... was just a figment of my imagination.
Posted by: Static in the Attic

The plot of Toy Story was stolen from a TV Christmas special with live action toys coming to life when children were out of the room. Main story was about a treasured doll who basically got replaced. (Yeah, it's probably all stolen from the idea of Steadfast Tin Soldier, but...)

Multiple interwebs searches haven't turned up that special, but damn if I didn't watch it from a VHS recording 10 times as a kid.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 22, 2022 05:57 PM (ftFVW)

355 > What is kind of disheartening is when you believe some shared event with friends or family was something everyone remembers, but sometimes not. Then someone brings up some "shared event" and you can't recall it yourself.

I remember walking on a dry river bed with two brothers in law and my father in law. At least two people were carrying guns. One of my brothers in law had a negligent discharge. He is a bit stupid.

I asked my FiL a couple of months ago if he remembered that. Nope. You'd think something like that would make an impression. It did not. He remembered the hike. He remembered BiL being there. He didn't remember the ND.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2022 05:57 PM (eyxn4)

356 >>Pues is sort of a verbal tick in Spanish. It can mean many things such as OK, whatever, sure ... or just added for emphasis. Sometime it gets used to such excess by some people (it's like, you know) that it gets annoying as hell to listen to them.

When I was living in PR it was mira.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2022 05:57 PM (ZLI7S)

357 Your scientists have yet to discover how neural networks create self-consciousness....
___________________

Antonio Damasio has been making claims in that regard. I don't believe him.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 22, 2022 05:57 PM (es0Dj)

358 Money is always unlimited. Wealth is not. It's not any more complicated than that."

well, who issues the money is complicated. "Wealth" can be stolen by those that print money, if they buy real assets with the fake money before people realize they have destroyed the currency.

The only thing Paul Krugman ever said that made sense. Government printing of currency, or taxation, or whatever other policy - has a "velocity". Its not hard to understand. It takes time.

And it's not a new idea. Keynes stated the same thing, before our new Ivy League Elites went bat-shit and decided you could get something for nothing just by making the printing presses "print harder".

Who fucking believes such shit ? Apparently, those that live in trailer parks and buy burial insurance. And those that live in the Acela Corridor.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 22, 2022 05:57 PM (FUGaR)

359 Assuming that the "Ukrainians" aren't Vindman's buddies operating out of the Biden regime.

I understand why Ukraine desperately wants to escalate this war (for the second time in two months, the Antonovsky Bridge is permanently out of commission, yaaaay) but it's not going to happen. Russia can send arms into Donbas and Kherson far more quickly than Ukraine can- and the coming winter will shut Ukrainian aid down very quickly indeed.
Posted by: trev006 at August 22, 2022 05:53 PM (tnJ9E)

Its already shut down. NATO has exhausted its stocks a while ago and the US has let its stocks run low despite Pentagon foot-dragging. And the way the Russians are fighting the war, we can't sustain the logistics to match the use of Artillery the Russians can on their doorstep. That was apparent from day 1.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2022 05:57 PM (eoQWY)

360 The truth may not be neutral, but pray that you never believe that the truth is yours alone. Ideological fervor cloaked in Ivy League vernacular and cable news cosmetics is no less dangerous or extreme than their grossly exaggerated alternatives.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 22, 2022 05:58 PM (bM7vb)

361 “I know it’s not partisan to stand up for decency and democracy and dialogue. It’s not partisan to stand up to demagogues. It’s required, it’s patriotic. We must make sure we don’t give platforms to those lying to our faces.”

I mean, on its face, he's not wrong. The problem is that he claims "men can get pregnant, groom children, tranny book reading" is decent. He's claiming defrauding a national election is democracy. He's claiming silencing one's opposition an flooding the market with claims that anyone that disagrees with him is not just wrong but dangerous is dialog.

Then he lies to your face and claims we cannot give a platform to liars.

I mean, this isn't even clever gaslighting or confusion, its flat up staring you in the eye and telling you up is down, good is evil, and money CAN buy me love.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 22, 2022 05:58 PM (Ivdso)

362 We must make sure we don’t give platforms to those lying to our faces.”
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The irony, it burns!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 22, 2022 05:58 PM (5pTK/)

363 Had to fill out a Monkey pox screening questionnaire at the docs today.

Felt like adding a line Yes/No) about being recently butt fucked.
Posted by: pawn at August 22, 2022 05:47 PM (kYVzH)

"Do I look gay?"

Posted by: LASue at August 22, 2022 05:59 PM (Ed8Zd)

364 Conclusion: We are literally flying blind in this world. We act and react in a space after events have transpired.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2022 05:52 PM (eyxn4)

Life is lived forward and understood backwards.

That said, alertness and trained reflexes can help avoid a lot of pain. But not all of it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 22, 2022 05:59 PM (XvPQV)

365 Pawn would have added no butt sex on that in a heartbeat

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2022 05:59 PM (k8B25)

366 Truth is neutral in the sense that it doesn't matter what you feel about it, or who says it, or what it says, as long as its true. Truth is objective, it is outside you and indifferent to your emotional response or who it helps or hurts.

That's neutral as it gets. Truth just is.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 22, 2022 05:59 PM (Ivdso)

367 Memory is the 2nd thing to go.
I forget what is the 1st...

Posted by: gourmand du jour a rare sunny day at August 22, 2022 05:59 PM (jTmQV)

368 Well, bye

Colorado state Sen. Kevin Priola says he is switching his party registration from Republican to Democratic, citing the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and the continued claims by Donald Trump and his supporters that the 2020 presidential election was "stolen."
In a statement released Monday and shared by Axios, Priola says he first became a Republican in 1990, at a time when President Ronald Reagan was "looking out for American interests, not cozying up to Russia" and working "across the aisle on immigration issues."

"I haven't changed much in 30 years, but my party has," Priola — who represents Colorado's 25th District — adds.
Elsewhere in his statement, Priola writes that the modern-day Republican Party is facing a number of "existential" crises, from a failure to distance itself from Trump to a failure to act on climate change.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 22, 2022 05:59 PM (hwoGt)

369 Then they ask everyone to give a description, everyone is wrong, really wrong. Memory is a skill I guess.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 22, 2022 05:57 PM (yGmiX)

It's a two part problem. First, you must train yourself to be aware of and observe the things going on outside of yourself. Second, you must be able to efficiently commit them to memory. I don't which is more problematic for people in general.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 22, 2022 06:00 PM (yHsuS)

370 and the coming winter will shut Ukrainian aid down very quickly indeed.

I think that is the Ukrainians fear, and why Russia has gone over to the defensive and is biding its time.

A number of Western European governments are going to be overthrown this winter, given the upcoming mass industrial shutdown and lack of heating in Western Europe.

Time is not on the Ukrainians side.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 22, 2022 06:00 PM (I2/tG)

371 I'm quite sure Brian "Tuber" Stelter would be the first to advocate for "his truth" or wash his hands.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 22, 2022 06:00 PM (5pTK/)

372 That beatdown by the Weather Channel founder is a classic. I can't stop laughing. You can't write comedy this good.

And I admire people going on CNN to tell the truth: It's easy to go to Fox and be all outrage-y. CNN has more of a reach to brainwashed liberals.

Posted by: Ultra pj at August 22, 2022 06:00 PM (G1dq6)

373 >>> But they will be green.. Or blue from the cold
Posted by: It's me donna at August 22, 2022 05:51 PM (bs+z0)
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First the will be blue from cold they will be
green from rot.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 22, 2022 06:01 PM (QrvWz)

374 "So yo remember things as a series of words. When you visualize an old memory, you're just recalling the keywords associated with the memory and putting together pictures, sounds, and smells associated with those words. you're just reconstructing an image based on the remembered keywords, and the reconstruction will frequently change."

I've heard smell is the strongest memory retained. Smell that smell again and an old event floods back.

I can't see that out memories are reliant on what is most efficiently stored (as far as .doc records in the brain). Do we really transcribe what we see into words, and rely on that "document" for our memory?

never heard of any such research, but I'm not expert. I guess we could look at the importance or The Written Word of God, to see , yes, words are important in certain conceptual abstractions. But personal events ... not sure why images and smells would not be a stored vibrant memory.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 22, 2022 06:01 PM (Cus5s)

375 Hey, Brett Baier is going to have Larry "Cha-Cha" Hogan on, this is appointment television.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2022 06:01 PM (UcSPO)

376 The neocons think that we can crush Russia, divide it into a dozen new countries, and that there is not the slightest risk that the Russians will use nukes while we do that.

Yeah you back Russia into a corner and it will throw nukes around like Moon Knight's "Random BS GO". They have zero concerns except survival, and with some slight justification believe they've been picked on their entire existence. They are... prickly that way.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 22, 2022 06:01 PM (Ivdso)

377 but the neocons have been flogging the hold to the death for every village and no negotiation insanity

The neocons think that we can crush Russia, divide it into a dozen new countries, and that there is not the slightest risk that the Russians will use nukes while we do that.

Duraki.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 22, 2022 05:55 PM (I2/tG)

They needed to define who the "we" was going to be. It wasn't going to be our ground troops, or NATOs, but some mysterious combination of internal failings and sanction blowback. Must not have seen the failure of every sanction program since, oh, the one of Japan in 1941.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2022 06:01 PM (eoQWY)

378 40F (no wind) is OK by me for physical labor and 68F is OK. As much cold as they are used to surprised the temps are that high.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials

I think it depends on the season. After a cold winter 68F can feel hot and 68F in the late summer can feel cold. At least in the northern states.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 22, 2022 06:02 PM (m85Ms)

379 watching "Far from Heaven"

or it's alternate title

"Dumbest Woman who ever lived"

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2022 06:02 PM (us2H3)

380 Coworkers. I teach them American idioms and slang.

I once worked with a recent immigrant from Taiwan*. He tried harder than anyone I've ever seen to learn American culture. He had one of those Far Side tear-off desk calendars and sometimes he would bring me a page and say "Why is this funny?" and I would try to explain.

One time it was a Bizzaro cartoon with a hippie-looking guy with a guitar and a big dog with Beethoven's face. The caption was the guy saying "Roll over." Try to explain that in a few sentences.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 22, 2022 06:02 PM (nfrXX)

381 That's neutral as it gets. Truth just is.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 22, 2022 05:59 PM (Ivdso)

Then enjoy your battle to the death. Because "they're" truth, which they feel just as strongly as you, if not more - according to current events - is just as "objective" to them.

And if "their" reality is just as concrete as "yours" ? Something will have to give.

As I sit here, watching you both knock heads. All over an Objective Truth that I don't agree with, from either side.

Math is Objective. And that's it.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 22, 2022 06:03 PM (FUGaR)

382 we can "fight off" the obvious lies, but the subtle influences tend to infiltrate our subconscious and influence our "memory".
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A huge body of research demonstrates that a direct assertion of fact is less convincing than an indirect, assumed, suggested assertion of fact in generating false memories.

Elizabeth Loftus showed subjects a film of a car wreck. There was no red car (for example) involved. When subjects were asked, "Was there a red car near the accident," subjects correctly answered "no." When the subjects were asked, "Where was the red car when the accident occurred," Many of them answered with the non-existent red car's location. When they were interviewed again much later, these subjects still recalled the red car.

I think this is how a lot of our cultural rot has been promulgated throughout society.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 22, 2022 06:03 PM (sWM8x)

383 Also on War Room they said nat gas prices in US will be about $14/decatherm. Costs about $5 to liquidize it (is that even a word) and transport it then unliquidize it. But it’s selling for $55 /decatherm over there.

Posted by: Blutarski at August 22, 2022 06:03 PM (5suUi)

384 "andale pues". I don't know the literal translation but I take it to mean "okay bye"
Posted by: CaliGirl"

Literal translation is "get on with you, then" and we say "see ya" and "Later" and it means the same thing

(I learned "Chao, pues" which the Mexicans think is affected, but what can you say about people the tack "Oiga" and "Ora le" onto everything?)

Posted by: Kindltot at August 22, 2022 06:03 PM (xhaym)

385 Oh, forgot the footnote for "Taiwan*." iOS's autocomplete didn't want to fill that in.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 22, 2022 06:03 PM (nfrXX)

386 Multiple interwebs searches haven't turned up that special, but damn if I didn't watch it from a VHS recording 10 times as a kid.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 22, 2022 05:57 PM (ftFVW)

I always thought that they borrowed some of the idea from the band Visage (the first new romantic band in 1980). They did a song called mind of a toy, about toys who gets old, beaten up and then abused by mean children and thrown out.

Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at August 22, 2022 06:04 PM (zB/T/)

387 There's a tiny, tiny part of me that wants to applaud Tater and that washed up useless whore Woodward. Journalists shouldn't pretend to be "neutral". That jacked up bullshit is just a leftover microwaved lie from the post-war days, where lying stalinist sympathizers claimed to be "neutral" while spouting a bunch of lies and garbage and getting prizes and blowjobs for their noble efforts. We need a good return to the sleazy days of rampant, partisan, ridiculous Yellow Journalism. All political news should be viewed as rampantly and proudly partisan. The fiction that any journalist can do their job impartially or nobly is one of the most damaging inheritances from the brutally stupid twentieth century.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 22, 2022 06:04 PM (6FeV1)

388 Trans people are now classified as disabled under the ADA thanks to the 4th circuit. Alls ya gotta to is claim to be trans and you get a handicap placard for your car.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 22, 2022 06:05 PM (hwoGt)

389 The energy situation in Germany is getting dire as well. There will be rationing and draconian energy usage caps. It's gonna be a cold winter.

One rule is that in workplaces where physical labor is going on, the temp can be set no higher than 15C, call that 60F. In office spaces, they may allow 68F, maybe 66F.

They may try to do this in private homes. Surprise inspection squads coming to check your thermostat.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 22, 2022 05:50 PM (Mzdiz)

When I was a kid in Washington state, we had an oil furnace with a single vent in the living room. The heater was turned off at night. My dad would light it in the morning before going to work, and I remember getting dressed for school standing over that vent. Germans are just going to have to suck it up, while reflecting on maybe not laughing at Trump when he warned them about this shit.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 22, 2022 06:05 PM (CCf67)

390 How long has the MSM used skewed polls to increase ratings and keep people glue to the set ?

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2022 06:05 PM (us2H3)

391 Acosta been extremely assey lately. Is he still store from getting raw dogged by Trump?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 06:05 PM (mE7cY)

392 I've heard smell is the strongest memory retained. Smell that smell again and an old event floods back.
____________________

Why can we imagine images and sounds, but not smells or tastes?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 22, 2022 06:05 PM (es0Dj)

393 A number of Western European governments are going to be overthrown this winter, given the upcoming mass industrial shutdown and lack of heating in Western Europe.

Time is not on the Ukrainians side.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 22, 2022 06:00 PM (I2/tG)

Ordinarily the Chinese could come to the rescue by dumping imports for Europe- but they have considerable incentive to help Russia tighten the screws if it means cracking apart their rivals in the EU.

By the same token, not aiding Russian economic warfare might convince Putin that the Chinese professions of friendship are lies, or at least flattery. Could go either way.

Posted by: trev006 at August 22, 2022 06:05 PM (deesZ)

394 and the coming winter will shut Ukrainian aid down very quickly indeed.

I think that is the Ukrainians fear, and why Russia has gone over to the defensive and is biding its time.

A number of Western European governments are going to be overthrown this winter, given the upcoming mass industrial shutdown and lack of heating in Western Europe.

Time is not on the Ukrainians side.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 22, 2022 06:00 PM (I2/tG)

Russia is NOT on the defensive across the front. They pick a spot, pulverize it, sweep the fragments aside and take over that area that the Ukrainians have been entrenching in for the last 8 years. Then they resupply and move to the next town, which Zelensky helpfully crams with a few thousand men who will get 50 percent casualties over the next week or so. Soon enough the last of the fortified areas will be taken and then matters may speed up considerably.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2022 06:06 PM (eoQWY)

395 388 Trans people are now classified as disabled under the ADA thanks to the 4th circuit. Alls ya gotta to is claim to be trans and you get a handicap placard for your car.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 22, 2022 06:05 PM (hwoGt

Why are they disabled? Ball chaff from tucking?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 06:06 PM (mE7cY)

396 "Then he lies to your face and claims we cannot give a platform to liars."

thou shalt not surely die ... was the conclusion.

there is a breakdown of the deception of Eve, seven steps or so. But Stelter is not as smooth as Satan, though he is as big a liar.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 22, 2022 06:06 PM (Cus5s)

397
One time it was a Bizzaro cartoon with a hippie-looking guy with a guitar and a big dog with Beethoven's face. The caption was the guy saying "Roll over." Try to explain that in a few sentences.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 22, 2022 06:02 PM (nfrXX)

I'm dying, that's hilarious. Some things just don't translate that easily.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 22, 2022 06:06 PM (yGmiX)

398 Truth is neutral.

The editorial function of which truth gets told, however, is not.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 22, 2022 06:06 PM (6FeV1)

399 Cheapskate is codo, pronounced almost koe -tho, soft th sound. It means elbow. Arms don't work to pick up the check I guess.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 22, 2022 05:47 PM (yGmiX)

"Alligator arms"

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 22, 2022 06:07 PM (ZSK0i)

400 Ya me voy

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 22, 2022 06:07 PM (QrvWz)

401 395 388 Trans people are now classified as disabled under the ADA thanks to the 4th circuit. Alls ya gotta to is claim to be trans and you get a handicap placard for your car.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 22, 2022 06:05 PM (hwoGt

Why are they disabled? Ball chaff from tucking?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 06:06 PM (mE7cY)

I misread that as "bull calf"

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 22, 2022 06:08 PM (yGmiX)

402 By the same token, not aiding Russian economic warfare might convince Putin that the Chinese professions of friendship are lies, or at least flattery. Could go either way.
Posted by: trev006 at August 22, 2022 06:05 PM (deesZ)
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Putin probably understands China looks out for China and realizes China will help Russia as long as it serves Chinese interests.

Putin is astute enough to know how to make the case it's in China's best interest to work with Russia.

Whether or not China thinks Russia makes a good case is another story.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 22, 2022 06:08 PM (5pTK/)

403 40F (no wind) is OK by me for physical labor and 68F is OK. As much cold as they are used to surprised the temps are that high.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials

I think it depends on the season. After a cold winter 68F can feel hot and 68F in the late summer can feel cold. At least in the northern states.
Posted by: Beartooth at August 22, 2022 06:02 PM (m85Ms)

Oh absolutely. In Ohio the first 40 degree day in the fall brought out winter coats and mittens. In March it was no coat and short sleeves.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2022 06:09 PM (eoQWY)

404 I misread that as "bull calf"
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 22, 2022 06:08 PM (yGmiX

Better than calf balls.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 06:09 PM (mE7cY)

405 “The Potato stands much as he did at the seventh grade dance when he pooped his pants: Alone and upwind from the crowd.”

Ace, that is absolute perfection. I almost died laughing!!

Posted by: Mark in SC at August 22, 2022 06:09 PM (ue/3w)

406 Russians are very patient fuckers

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2022 06:09 PM (us2H3)

407 Trans people are now classified as disabled under the ADA thanks to the 4th circuit. Alls ya gotta to is claim to be trans and you get a handicap placard for your car.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 22, 2022 06:05 PM (hwoGt)
.......

handicapped in the brain

Posted by: wth at August 22, 2022 06:09 PM (v0R5T)

408 398 Truth is neutral.

The editorial function of which truth gets told, however, is not.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 22, 2022 06:06 PM (6FeV1)

Facts are neutral. 'Truth' is something else.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2022 06:10 PM (HJDAV)

409 Putin probably understands China looks out for China and realizes China will help Russia as long as it serves Chinese interests.

Putin is astute enough to know how to make the case it's in China's best interest to work with Russia.

Whether or not China thinks Russia makes a good case is another story.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 22, 2022 06:08 PM (5pTK/)

A weakened Russia is in China's interest. Russia has little to offer, and has been a threat to them as long as I've been alive. How many ethnic Chinese remain under Russian rule today? I don't see China doing a lot more than cheering them on from the sidelines.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 22, 2022 06:11 PM (CCf67)

410 Putin probably understands China looks out for China and realizes China will help Russia as long as it serves Chinese interests.

Can't blame Putin more not trusting a United States that constantly rushes in to save a Europe that constantly undercuts the United States.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 22, 2022 06:11 PM (FUGaR)

411 The truth is not neutral. Nor does it demand censorship.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 22, 2022 06:12 PM (sVtYq)

412 Then enjoy your battle to the death. Because "they're" truth, which they feel just as strongly as you, if not more - according to current events - is just as "objective" to them.

Not even remotely accurate. They do NOT believe in objective truth. They very strongly hold to what they feel to be true, but that changes constantly based on their feelings and what their NPC coding has been updated to.

Objective means external, absolute, and not subject to your feelings about it. What the left believes to day, it opposed yesterday, and will change again tomorrow. That is NOT OBJECTIVE. Truth is truth every single day no matter what changes in you.

Math is only objective in that its true. Math is a subset of truth (so is science, etc).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 22, 2022 06:12 PM (Ivdso)

413 ""Where was the red car when the accident occurred," Many of them answered with the non-existent red car's location. When they were interviewed again much later, these subjects still recalled the red car."

don't be a red car (or global warming) denier. interesting study, thx

Posted by: illiniwek at August 22, 2022 06:12 PM (Cus5s)

414 Cheapskate is codo, pronounced almost koe -tho, soft th sound. It means elbow. Arms don't work to pick up the check I guess.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 22, 2022 05:47 PM (yGmiX)

Codo is "elbow" because there is nothing but skin and callus on and elbow. You emphasize it by banking your elbow on the table.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 22, 2022 06:12 PM (xhaym)

415 407 Trans people are now classified as disabled under the ADA thanks to the 4th circui
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mentally

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 22, 2022 06:12 PM (QrvWz)

416 If the red wave materializes on Nov. 8th on the 9th the left will have rediscovered "vote fraud" and "illegalities."

Posted by: Fool Otto at August 22, 2022 06:13 PM (DB16e)

417 Ordinarily the Chinese could come to the rescue by dumping imports for Europe- but they have considerable incentive to help Russia tighten the screws if it means cracking apart their rivals in the EU.

By the same token, not aiding Russian economic warfare might convince Putin that the Chinese professions of friendship are lies, or at least flattery. Could go either way.
Posted by: trev006 at August 22, 2022 06:05 PM (deesZ)

I think for the short term, China/Russia and a good chunk of the unaligned countries are content to make a multilateral world where the dollar doesn't have a stranglehold on commerce, since we showed everyone that we can't be trusted and that unilateral seizing of assets is a weapon that could be turned on anyone.

I think that feeling out this new state will take some time and energy and China has some internal struggles as well so whatever 'world conquest' they may have in mind will move to a back-burner.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2022 06:13 PM (eoQWY)

418 The truth is not neutral. Nor does it demand censorship.

Tell that to those that are convinced they know the truth. We are way, way past the idea of winning in the arena of ideas.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 22, 2022 06:13 PM (FUGaR)

419 You all do know Nood, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2022 06:13 PM (HJDAV)

420 Whether or not China thinks Russia makes a good case is another story.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 22, 2022 06:08 PM (5pTK/)

Yup. And at the end of the day, China at least suspects that NATO will wage economic warfare against it once they're done with Russia. So I suspect the partnership with Russia is at least sincere, even if not as strong as Putin wants.

But Russia has been betrayed by allies before, and already there is a school of thought there encouraging deeper ties with India instead.

Posted by: trev006 at August 22, 2022 06:14 PM (tnJ9E)

421 nood hits

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 22, 2022 06:15 PM (XvPQV)

422 Facts are neutral. 'Truth' is something else.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2022 06:10 PM (HJDAV)

My favorite little go-to for things like this is that there are people who will call you a liar for saying the sun rises in the east, because it actually rises a little bit south or north of east depending on where you are, but then turn around and praise someone for saying the sun rises in the west.

The fine line between Truth and Fact doesn't even matter when reality is completely jettisoned and everything is reduced to a contest of will.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 22, 2022 06:15 PM (6FeV1)

423 Putin probably understands China looks out for China and realizes China will help Russia as long as it serves Chinese interests.
Putin is astute enough to know how to make the case it's in China's best interest to work with Russia.
Whether or not China thinks Russia makes a good case is another story.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 22, 2022 06:08 PM (5pTK/)

Dugin's theory was that the world is more properly multi-centric, and this is what Putin follows. The drive that the West has run to centralize on Western states and dominate the rest of the world is damaging to the smaller states and needs to be resisted.
Any drive to ally with China will probably best be an arms-length agreement, and one that is heavily treatied and demarcated.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 22, 2022 06:16 PM (xhaym)

424 July 10th, larry Hogan said Trump's influence in the GOP was diminished

now he says it isn't

what a fucking toad

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2022 06:16 PM (us2H3)

425 @398

>>Truth is neutral.

The Jungle is neutral, truth is fungible.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2022 06:16 PM (UcSPO)

426 Not even remotely accurate. They do NOT believe in objective truth.

Go tell 'em, Chris. Go tell 'em they're truths are not as solid as yours. Better yet, show 'em all your proofs. Show 'em how you hold all the definitions.

Good luck. My God, you are an idiot.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 22, 2022 06:16 PM (FUGaR)

427 Yup. And at the end of the day, China at least suspects that NATO will wage economic warfare against it once they're done with Russia. So I suspect the partnership with Russia is at least sincere, even if not as strong as Putin wants.

But Russia has been betrayed by allies before, and already there is a school of thought there encouraging deeper ties with India instead.
Posted by: trev006 at August 22, 2022 06:14 PM (tnJ9E)

Pretty clever of the Chinese picking up NATO actually saying it out loud in public several times the last few months.

Russia is going long on building links the Western Navies can't block - rail to China, now just a few weeks ago Canals and rails into Iran to the Indian ocean. Hard to blame them after all this European and our foolishness, they are a serious people.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2022 06:17 PM (eoQWY)

428 I'm under the 11th Circuit. I guess it won't do me any good to embrace my inner lesbian.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 22, 2022 06:18 PM (yQpMk)

429 "Memory can be trained, though. The 'memory house' method does work, where you put memories into rooms or into locations you move between. "

yeah, it takes work, but I might need to start. heh

One run, two zoo, three tree ... etc. The idea is to have "memory tags" ... so you put the new items to remember into your old memory tag list. First item is you running wtih that item, two is the next item held by a monkey, third is in the tree ...

There are tricks like that that work, tied to images, not just words. I think it is in The Memory Book.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 22, 2022 06:19 PM (Cus5s)

430 I've heard smell is the strongest memory retained. Smell that smell again and an old event floods back.
____________________

Why can we imagine images and sounds, but not smells or tastes?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

i'm totally there. i instantly tripped back to basic training, deuce and a half turbo whistle, moldy canves, diesel exhaust. riding out to the rifle range. best damned two weeks i ever had camping

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (MrZQl) - at August 22, 2022 06:20 PM (MrZQl)

431 Did Ace see the new memo from Trump?
Trump now over the FBI, except the leadership Ike Director Wray whom he appointed
Posted by: Paul at August 22, 2022 06:13 PM (9mjNB)

I need a Dunce-to-English translation of this.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 22, 2022 06:20 PM (yQpMk)

432 Meade Lux Lewis

I agree. It's the constant repetition, direct and indirect, of the idea that Republicans are evil and racists. Pretty soon everybody just believes it and really cannot say why. As with Trump too. He's authoritarian, they cry. But they cannot give one instance of that.

Posted by: Ultra pj at August 22, 2022 06:26 PM (G1dq6)

433 C.A.T. I'll give them they are mentally handicap

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2022 06:37 PM (k8B25)

434 Those lips though...

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