Surprise! Taylor Lorenz (America's Oldest Teenager) Was Such a "Heavy User" of Twitter's Complaint/Censorship System That She Was Given Special Access To It

Those of you who are not on Twitter do not understand, and probably could never understand, how absolutely central to "journalists'" identities and senses of self-worth was being part of "The Twitter Elite."

You know how people really like private clubs and will pay a lot of money to join a good one? They thought of Twitter as their Public Private Club, and loved being waited on so attentively by the Twitter Service Staff.

You don't understand this, because you're not insane.

But just to explain: People who are not celebrities but who would like to think of themselves as celebrities are obsessed with collecting the little trivial status-markers of celebrity.

That's why going to the White House Correspondent's Dinner is so important to them -- it brings them into the vicinity of (B-list and C-list and D-list) celebrities. They are constantly networking, and going to industry events, not just for the minor career advantages of doing so, but because these events feature actual celebrities (or at least famous people) and therefore make them feel like celebrities too.

Being part of the "Twitter Elite" and having that oh-so-precious Blue Checkmark is an absurdly trivial "marker of celebrity," but people on the very lowest rungs of wannabe-celebrity need all the affirmation and validation they can get.

You will never understand how much of a blow it is to the thing that matters most to these people, these "journalists," that losing their Private Club and Fake Celebrity-Conferrer was and continues to be.

Again, because you're not insane.

Now I'm not on Twitter anymore. Well, I have an account because you need one to see many posts. But I don't post there.

So I don't care about Twitter per se.

But I know how important Twitter is to these lunatics and authoritarians and Nazis.

And that's why I do care about it: I want to take it from them. I want to hurt them.

And believe me, this hurts them.

Again, you can't understand that, because you're not insane.

Anyway, that's a big part of the reason for hating Elon Musk.

The other part is... Musk took away the special power the previous Twitter regime had granted them to choose which accounts that Twitter should censor and bans.

The left, as you may have noticed, now asserts its absolute control over what is permitted to be said. And what is required to be said. I don't think there is a leftwing agenda item of higher priority than this.

Not even pedophilia!

Paul D. Thacker
@thackerpd
1. New internal internal #TwitterFiles help explain why privileged reporter hate @elonmusk and Twitter 2.0.
Musk denied access to Twitter's formerly "trusted reporters" and allowed inside entree to more independent journalists.
2. During my trip to Twitter's HQ in San Francisco, I uncovered several documents that explain why reporters now hate Twitter 2.0
Musk fired their friends and cut off their privileged access.
3. For years, Twitter provided favoured access to "disinformation" reporters, giving them access to new products and silencing accounts.
4. Musk ended this access and brought in new reporters to go through the company's documents--something no CEO has ever done before.
5. When Twitter rolled out Birdwatch to label "misinformation" they gave NBC News Ben Collins @oneunderscore__ a demo and exclusive access.
Collins was actually part of the feature's "product development."

Ben Collins is NBC's Chief Censorship Officer. That's not his official title, but all he does all day long is make charges of Wrongthink, and then pressure social media companies to deplatform people. He does not believe that any conservatives should be allowed to speak publicly without the express prior permission of a leftwing authoritarian like himself. And by the way, that authorization will not be forthcoming, Bigot.

He's a slimy little shit who has a lot of karma coming his way.

6. Collins was really loved inside Twitter, even suggesting him to moderate one of their panels. When they met w/ reporters in NYC, he admitted that Twitter helped propel his professional profile and helped him get on NPR and TV.

Here's Twitter's own notes about Ben Collins, Thanking Him For His Service (In Censoring Conservatives and Other Wrongthinkers):

7. Musk has now unveiled "community notes" which allows more users to comment than Birdwatch. This hasn't worked out for "fact checkers" like Glenn Kessler at The Washington Post.

8. Reporters apparently also help Twitter by flipping them bills under consideration.
"Our DC-based tech reporters have gotten advance copies of at least five bills .... that would give more power to regulators."

Screencap of an email from a "journalist" alerting Twitter to possible legislative action at the link.

9. Twitter dealt with bills to moderate them from suspending conservatives by ducking behind trade associations "to do the heavy lifting ... as engaging or commenting ... would give them more attention."
10. Twitter met w/ NYC reporters to "solidify key relationships, encourage intel sharing ... reinforce comm's network of trusted reporters."
(I was not invited)
11. One "trusted reporter" was Makena Kelly of Vox
"She'll be reporting out of a deep red state--will mis disinformation resonate?"
This implied Twitter & Makena knew the "disinformation" paradigm doesn't translate outside liberal talking circle.
12. Kelly showed no interest in Democratic Party "misinformation"
"Looking into 'Republican Party Hype House' on TikTok--tied to Turning Point USA?"
13. CNN glad hander Brian Stelter: "Willing to come to San Francisco, wherever to meet 1:1 with spokespeople even for introductory conversations."
CNN's Oliver Darcy: "Would love to hear pitches from us."
14. CNN also asked if Twitter could create a "read only mode" to protect their reporters from "harassment."
(How often to reporters ask a company they cover to modify company policies?)
15. CNN's Donie O'Sullivan: "Always interested in account enforcement such as Rep Marjorie Taylor Green."
Other Twitter Files show "disinformation" reporters obsessed with this Congresswoman.
16. Fox News producer for Dana Perino: "Is really eager to get us on the show .... Dana would be fair and not any more tough than the nicest person to question us in Congress." (I laughed when I first read this)

LOL. I'm laughing too. No, I don't think Dana Perino would be especially "tough" when questioning her liberal pals.

17. Fox News tech reporter Brook Singman: "I think we have a good opportunity to influence this coverage and potentially the reputations of congressional newcomers."

Thayer did a follow-up thread... this time about Tay-Tay Lorenz.

This self-admitted mentally-ill Twitter Addict conducted a one-(elderly)-woman war on free speech.

Paul D. Thacker
@thackerpd
1. Twitter Provided Privileged Access to Banning Queen, Taylor Lorenz #TwitterFiles
Twitter engineer walking me through their reporting system, "Wow! She's a heavy user."

2. Shortly after @elonmusk bought Twitter, @TaylorLorenz got apoplectic, writing that Twitter was "opening the gates of hell" by letting banned accounts back.
(Take a wild guess what Taylor did the month prior....)
3. The month prior, Taylor Lorenz got this tiny account banned. Surprise!
The account detailed Lorenz as a Manhattan rich girl, who attended Swiss boarding school, and whose uncle owns Internet Archive, thus erasing her past.

4. But did @fearthefloof violate Twitter's rules?
Nope. No ban evasion, abuse, harassment toward Taylor Lorenz, platform manipulation, or the sharing of personal information.
"The account was generally healthy and mostly conversational or commentary in nature."

That's from Twitter's own report about the Neville the Cat account. I'm not posting all of the documentation, only some of it. If you want the full details, you'll have to go to the account itself.

Nonetheless, Twitter suspended the account because it "violates the Twitter Media Policy."
The account then deactivated.

Taylor Lorenz was also a prime driver of the censorship of Dr. Jay Battachayra, one of the few prominent doctors to be 100% right on covid and lockdowns.

But Tay-Tay fancies herself a Lover of Science, and knows that real "Science" is done by Twitter "Journalists" and hypochondriacs with an admitted history of mental illness.

6. A month prior to that, Lorenz went after @DrJBhattacharya for tweeting an email by her friend and itinerant blogger @WalkerBragman. Bhattacharya tweeted a harassing email Bragman sent him and it had Bragman's contact info.

7. Bragman played this all up on Twitter of course to call attention to himself, retweeting Bhattcharya's tweet, before people made fun of him for "doxing himself."
Manhattan rich kids playing at journalist are easily bruised, it seems.
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8. Bragman's game is to constantly accuse people of being "Koch funded."
FYI: Soros funded me to give the plenary talk at a 2019 BMJ conference on investigative journalism, but that does not make me a "Soros funded" journalist.
9. Several of Lorenz's past reporting targets tell me she seems to work in concert with her sources. After Lorenz doxed @libsoftiktok in the Post, Alejandra Caraballo sent Twitter a "private letter" to remove Libs of TikTok.
Lorenz quoted Caraballo in the Post that next month.

That's the nasty tranny "academic" in the very rigorous field of "queer studies" (seems like he really aced that course, eh?) and spends all day trying to get people banned from Twitter and TV and print and their jobs.

10. The letter was sent by Caraballo and several groups including the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a favored source in Lorenz essays on banning.

11. I asked Caraballo what came of the meeting w/ Twitter and to see the letter they sent. But got no response. I also don't know if Libs of TikTok was successful in getting Caraballo suspended for harassment.
12. It's hard to understand Lorenz's concerns about doxxing when she has done this so many times herself. Here's one allegation in a defamation lawsuit by @littlemissjacob against Lorenz that is still working it's way through the courts.

Twitter circulated an internal email putting the company on high alert when Tucker Carlson ran a segment ridiculing her:

13. Lorenz had more than special reporting access to get accounts banned. When Tucker Carlson did a piece ridiculing her, Twitter put out an alert-"We need to be careful with her."
I couldn't [find] evidence that Twitter provided this support to other reporters. I never got it. [That is, the same kind of support from Twitter. -- ace]
14. Taylor also provided special support to a source in stories she wrote for the Atlantic, NY Times, and recently for the Post. When Jackson Weimer's account was suspended, Lorenz put this in front of Twitter.

I'm not posting the screenshot, but it's Tay-Tay asking her Very Good Frenz at Twitter to please unsuspend her fren, please....? Just a clique of Frenz all doing little favors for their frenz.

15. Lorenz has incredibly unorthodox (is that the right word?) reporting tactics. Here's an affidavit signed by someone she quoted in the article about @littlemissjacob

FYI: this person was a minor.

See the thread for the affidavit. It's about Taylor Lorenz pressuring a minor to say negative things about one of her hit-piece targets, Arianna Jacobs. The minor alleges that Taylor kept feeding her negative information from other people and pressuring her to say similar things or to agree to the claims her other "sources" were feeding her.

Jacobs ultimately sued Lorenz for defamation. I think a liberal judge threw the case out, which is what they a liberal "journalist" is sued for defamation.

16. Here's an affidavit signed by a Lorenz source for a NY Times story about Arya Toufanian

Again, see the thread; it's another case of someone suing Lorenz for defamation and alleging that Lorenz makes up defamations against her targets. (We've seen her lie and lie in other hit pieces on people.)

But here's the real point:

17. Toufanian told me he sued Lorenz over the article, and she then began sending messages to gin up a DOJ investigation against him.
This email Lorenz is sending around is for an Assistant US Attorney in NY.

This miserable, mentally-ill, whiny c*nt spends half her days trying to get her Twitter Enemies deplatformed, and the other half trying to get her Twitter Enemies prosecuted.

Her c*nty whining got results:

18. Toufanian later received a subpoena from the Southern District that reads like a rip and read of Lorenz's article.
The investigation dragged on for 3 years. He recently received this email to pick up his laptop that was confiscated. "I was never charged."

19. Neither Lorenz nor Cameron Barr with the Post responded to questions.
Thanks so much to @TexasLindsay_ for helping to collect/organize these #TwitterFiles.

Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger
The FBI & Democrats say the whistleblowers who testified today are "a threat to our national security," but they're not. Rather they are honorable public servants who are being attacked for exposing abuses of power related to January 6.

Why the FBI And Democrats Are Attacking Whistleblowers

FBI says it won�t release Jan 6 surveillance video because it would show too many undercover government agents and informants

by @galexybrane & @shellenberger

The FBI whistleblowers who testified before Congress today are�
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) May 19, 2023

After the paywall� pic.twitter.com/daaznvMyOn
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) May 19, 2023

Thanks to Andycanuck.

Posted by: Ace at 02:04 PM

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Posted by: GF at May 19, 2023 02:04 PM (aJxr8)

2 It's all widening!

Posted by: froando at May 19, 2023 02:05 PM (p4bXn)

3 Taylor Lorenz blows, just like the margins

Posted by: Halfhand at May 19, 2023 02:05 PM (Ud/Am)

4 I'm feeling wide.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 19, 2023 02:05 PM (oRtbV)

5 and 4

Posted by: froando at May 19, 2023 02:05 PM (p4bXn)

6 Perfect! Now if we can get the font to be Dr. Suess size.

Posted by: JROD at May 19, 2023 02:05 PM (IlL6s)

7 The blog. It's so big.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at May 19, 2023 02:05 PM (GD2xa)

8 Wow. Wide lanes. Roomy.

Posted by: WEFt-Schismed Ouroboros at May 19, 2023 02:05 PM (+0goo)

9 something's wrong

Posted by: DB - at May 19, 2023 02:05 PM (geLO8)

10
*lights cigarette*

Posted by: The Margins at May 19, 2023 02:05 PM (n+4am)

11 Anybody have a cigarette?

Posted by: Margins at May 19, 2023 02:05 PM (N39Ws)

12 Perfect format for the Chris Christie announcement.

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 19, 2023 02:05 PM (jzzG8)

13 Wwiiiiidddeee

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 19, 2023 02:06 PM (xT8gx)

14 This is some wide assed shit.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 02:06 PM (4eKPg)

15 The margins are proportional to Taylor's age.

Posted by: TexasDan at May 19, 2023 02:06 PM (z/ifB)

16 I love this place.

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 19, 2023 02:06 PM (4jwtW)

17 You will see thangs, wonderful to tell. You shall see a cow on the roof of a cotton house."

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 02:06 PM (4eKPg)

18 *lights cigarette*

Posted by: The Margins at May 19, 2023 02:06 PM (Wnv9h)

19 WHOA! BLOWN!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 19, 2023 02:07 PM (Mzdiz)

20 The measure of a man.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 02:07 PM (Vwz3I)

21 Yowza!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 19, 2023 02:07 PM (2hlEI)

22 Taylor Lorenz is a POC: Pyrsyn of C*ntitude.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 19, 2023 02:07 PM (rfH7L)

23 i never bought stock on margin maybe that has something to do with it.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 19, 2023 02:07 PM (B1FKF)

24 And the blog is getting laaaaarger!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 19, 2023 02:07 PM (Wnv9h)

25 That's something epic right there...

Talking about Lorenz's age, of course.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 02:07 PM (LvTSG)

26 Margins blown. AOC in the house ?

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 19, 2023 02:07 PM (W8S/J)

27 I like it. Makes my readers and all the painkillers I'm spun out on more tolerable.

Posted by: JROD at May 19, 2023 02:07 PM (IlL6s)

28 Hell, even we can't read this fine print.

Posted by: Ants at May 19, 2023 02:07 PM (zztN+)

29 I need to get my aged 29 readers to see this on my iPad. If I had some. Which I should, probably. Let’s just not talk about it, okay?

Posted by: Piper at May 19, 2023 02:07 PM (ZdaMQ)

30 Time for the blog to take some ex-lax it seems.

Posted by: Bosk at May 19, 2023 02:08 PM (VMFAF)

31 Please keep paragraphs to one line.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 19, 2023 02:08 PM (W8S/J)

32 Blownest margins evah!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 19, 2023 02:08 PM (RIvkX)

33 Business group owner - "DID ANYONE F*CKING ACCEPTANCE TEST THIS SHIT!!??"

Developers/Testing Group -

"Yes?"

Posted by: Tonypete at May 19, 2023 02:08 PM (oRtbV)

34 Wide is wild.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 19, 2023 02:08 PM (Q4IgG)

35 Also from below, hi JT!

Posted by: Piper at May 19, 2023 02:08 PM (ZdaMQ)

36 The blog is almost as fat as Taylor Lorenz...

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at May 19, 2023 02:08 PM (yRved)

37 Holy shit. No can do on an iPhone. See you next thread.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2023 02:08 PM (Y2tls)

38 I've never once heard of Taylor Lorenz before seeing her the object of scorn and mockery here. I've never once again heard of Taylor Lorenz other than being the object of scorn and mockery here. Does this nutty girl actually exist?

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2023 02:08 PM (iFTx/)

39 Ah, the wide open spaces of the AoSHQ. Just like Montana.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 02:08 PM (5+1HQ)

40 She swallowed.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 19, 2023 02:08 PM (W8S/J)

41 yikes

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 19, 2023 02:09 PM (Xrfse)

42 Ace!

Don't resave...I fixed it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 19, 2023 02:09 PM (ZCCyW)

43 Please keep paragraphs to one line.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know

It's the first embedded pic of the Twitter files.

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 19, 2023 02:09 PM (jzzG8)

44 ace fixed it and ruined all the fun. You are a horrible person, boss

Posted by: Halfhand at May 19, 2023 02:09 PM (Ud/Am)

45 Comments confirmed I was not having a stroke.

Posted by: Crazy to be sane at May 19, 2023 02:09 PM (51Eqz)

46 There are not two more opposite humans than Bhattacharya and Lorenz. The former is brilliant, thoughtful, professional and competent…. And Lorenz got him banned… for being right?? Clown world

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 19, 2023 02:09 PM (xT8gx)

47 Sum Ting Wong
We Too Wide
Ho Lee Fuk!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2023 02:09 PM (i9ffA)

48 Gotta cover from sideline to sideline.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 19, 2023 02:10 PM (rJ48h)

49 I've never used the Twitter so its just one more element of the culture from which I am alienated.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 19, 2023 02:10 PM (RIvkX)

50 Next you'll be telling me she was a FBI and CIA plant.

Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2023 02:10 PM (t6rP7)

51 I've never once heard of Taylor Lorenz before seeing her the object of scorn and mockery here. I've never once again heard of Taylor Lorenz other than being the object of scorn and mockery here. Does this nutty girl actually exist?
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2023 02:08 PM (iFTx/)

She works for the Waah! Poo!, not readable by humans.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 19, 2023 02:11 PM (rfH7L)

52 50 Next you'll be telling me she was a FBI and CIA plant.
Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2023 02:10 PM (t6rP7)

========

A Japanese peace lily?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 02:11 PM (LvTSG)

53 During the Cold War the left argued that anything restricted as "national security" was done so to hide wrong doing.

And here we see everything they hide due "national security", "ongoing investigations", "privacy" etc is to...hide wrong doing.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 19, 2023 02:11 PM (lc5cP)

54 You know how people really like private clubs and will pay a lot of money to join a good one?

Some people reportedly bribed Twitter employees thousands of dollars to get a blue checkmark under the Old Regime.

Quite the scam.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 19, 2023 02:11 PM (2tUFv)

55
The thread had been widened to accommodate plus-sized commenters. That's what air travel will be like soon.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 19, 2023 02:11 PM (lCaJd)

56 Also from below, hi JT!
Posted by: Piper

Posted by: JT at May 19, 2023 02:12 PM (T4tVD)

57 You have to admit Lorenz looks pretty good for being 52.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 19, 2023 02:12 PM (17s+e)

58 Every night, Taylor Lorenz dreams of having a sub-machine gun (full-auto) and a license to kill. To kill anyone and everyone she chooses.

Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2023 02:12 PM (AMIL/)

59 Well. This is new.

Posted by: Emmie -- MoMe-curious AR morons and Farmer, please email me at May 19, 2023 02:13 PM (Emce2)

60 I kind of remember this chick. She's profoundly dumb.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 02:13 PM (4eKPg)

61 Thanks for the info, ace. Gotta say that I still don't give a rat's ass about this bint.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 19, 2023 02:13 PM (Xrfse)

62 I don't know why they hate Musk so much.

Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger · 17h
Why the FBI And Democrats Are Attacking Whistleblowers

FBI says it won’t release Jan 6 surveillance video because it would show too many undercover government agents and informants

by @galexybrane & @shellenberger

The FBI whistleblowers who testified before Congress today are… Show more

Elon Musk @elonmusk
“FBI says it won’t release Jan 6 surveillance video because it would show too many undercover government agents and informants”

Uhh … this is insane!!

How many were there? I’m mean ... just approximately.
https://tinyurl.com/yuzs6fpx

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 02:13 PM (Vwz3I)

63 Every night, Taylor Lorenz dreams of having a sub-machine gun (full-auto) and a license to kill. To kill anyone and everyone she chooses.
Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2023 02:12 PM (AMIL/)

How very Modern Warfare. She should enjoy the future.

Or not.

Posted by: trev006 at May 19, 2023 02:13 PM (wFLK/)

64 CBD is on the ball today!

Posted by: Emmie -- MoMe-curious AR morons and Farmer, please email me at May 19, 2023 02:14 PM (Emce2)

65 hanks for the info, ace. Gotta say that I still don't give a rat's ass about this bint.

Posted by: Notorious BFD
===

Yep but she cares about you and stopping your free speech.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 19, 2023 02:15 PM (17s+e)

66 How many were there? I’m mean ... just approximately.
https://tinyurl.com/yuzs6fpx
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Given Patriot Front fell out with 150 Imma gonna guess at least 300. Then there is the Park Police and other Fed agencies with police forces. DC is the most policed city in North America and surprisingly there's a shit ton of crime.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 02:15 PM (4eKPg)

67 When Jonah left NRO to start the Dispatch there was a weekend when he didn't have his Blue Check. He made a "jokey" (or not) comment about how much it bothered him.

Posted by: duke at May 19, 2023 02:15 PM (uyAU7)

68 62 Elon Musk @elonmusk
“FBI says it won’t release Jan 6 surveillance video because it would show too many undercover government agents and informants”

Uhh … this is insane!!

How many were there? I’m mean ... just approximately.
https://tinyurl.com/yuzs6fpx
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 02:13 PM (Vwz3I)

==========

It's impossibly to centrally control the flow of information, especially with information flowing as fast as the Internet. Even without Musk owning Twitter and allowing such things to flourish, the news was getting out.

Hence the shutting down of ballot counting is six states all at once to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall.

If this were a political battle, it would be no battle. Unfortunately, our opponents have moved beyond the legal to the extralegal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 02:16 PM (LvTSG)

69 You have to admit Lorenz looks pretty good for being 52.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 19, 2023 02:12 PM (17s+e)

If she hasn't dropped a whelp yet, there's now a pretty good chance she never will.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 19, 2023 02:16 PM (rfH7L)

70 There once was a fencer named Fisk
Whose play was exceedingly brisk
So fast was his action
The Lorenz Contraction
Reduced his rapier to a disk.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 19, 2023 02:16 PM (2hlEI)

71 >>>42 Ace!
Don't resave...I fixed it.

thank you... where was the problem?

Posted by: ace at May 19, 2023 02:16 PM (iHBZj)

72 If she hasn't dropped a whelp yet, there's now a pretty good chance she never will.
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At 52 there is no chance.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 02:17 PM (4eKPg)

73 Yep but she cares about you and stopping your free speech.

It won't be her that achieves that.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 19, 2023 02:17 PM (Xrfse)

74 We were talking about that shithole San Francisco on the last thread. Does anybody know what condition Monterey is in these days? Has it gone down the shitter, too, or is it still relatively decent?

I have very fond memories of that place.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 02:18 PM (5+1HQ)

75 71 >>>42 Ace!
Don't resave...I fixed it.

thank you... where was the problem?
Posted by: ace at May 19, 2023 02:16 PM (iHBZj)

=======

"No problem..."
-The Margins, relaxing

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 02:18 PM (LvTSG)

76 "What in the Wide World of #Woke is a-goin' on here? I hired you people to get some pedos laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Twitterati faggots!"

Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2023 02:18 PM (YGw7M)

77 Why does this story remind me of the concept of the 'death button', given to a random person?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 02:18 PM (zZu0s)

78 thank you... where was the problem?
Posted by: ace at May 19, 2023 02:16 PM (iHBZj)
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Wide supremacy.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 19, 2023 02:18 PM (2hlEI)

79 Don't resave...I fixed it.

thank you... where was the problem?
Posted by: ace

The two spurving bearings were not in a direct line with the panametric fan.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 19, 2023 02:18 PM (oRtbV)

80 This is why I AM on Twitter and brought the blue check. First, because I want to support the changes Elon is making and ensure Twitter stays open as a relatively pro-free-speech site.

But second, and more importantly, it demoralizes and hurts the old blue-check "elite" to see their attempts to set false narratives with their garbage tweets get overrun and shouted down with mocking replies and slapped with Community Notes by paying customers like me, who get a boost from the algorithm that they no longer have.

Posted by: The Deuce at May 19, 2023 02:19 PM (h/2sk)

81 I've still got a twitter account, although I'm currently serving a 1 week ban for mentioning pharma execs and guillotines in the same post. Naughty naughty. I haven't gotten the blue check, but considering it as it's a cheap way to annoy the right people.

Larry Correia (Monster Hunter Nation) is fun to follow. btw, he's said that it was absolutely impossible for a conservative to get the vaunted "blue check" before Musk took over. They were all internally blacklisted.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2023 02:19 PM (i9ffA)

82 Why does this story remind me of the concept of the 'death button', given to a random person?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop

Was Lea Thompson in that?

Posted by: Tonypete at May 19, 2023 02:19 PM (oRtbV)

83 Newest Twitter Files release 'unrolled' as an ordinary webpage:
https://tinyurl.com/2bu3dpzr

It's about Twitter censor and doxxer, Taylor Lorenz, who got e.g. Libs of TikTok banned before Musk restored the account; and orchestrated a court case against a man named Arya Toufanian.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 02:19 PM (Vwz3I)

84 So it was basically far worse, more evil and a total trampling of truth, justice and the American way than anyone outside the evil Twitter cabal could dream of.

Comet Pizza, Covid China Flu and J6 FBI Sex-O-Rama come to mind.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 19, 2023 02:19 PM (R/m4+)

85 We had to reverse the polarity of the electron bottle to maximize the flow through the Heisenberg compensators.

Scotty is down in a Jefferies Tube doing it now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 02:20 PM (zZu0s)

86 Was Lea Thompson in that?
Posted by: Tonypete at May 19, 2023 02:19 PM (oRtbV)

Yep, right there next to Travolta.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 02:20 PM (zZu0s)

87 Hmmm. odd.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 02:21 PM (zZu0s)

88 Echo!

Echo!

Echo!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 02:21 PM (zZu0s)

89 where was the problem?

Posted by: ace at May 19, 2023 02:16 PM (iHBZj)

First graphic was 1462 pixels wide...that may be a new record!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 19, 2023 02:21 PM (ZCCyW)

90 Lorenz reminds me of overactive (addicted) customers in gaming communities. They contribute playing time, mods, skins, forum posts, etc., maybe even work their up the moderator ranks, and they feel some false ownership of the product and community.

It's always messy when those folks get snapped off for bad behavior or a change in management or ownership.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 19, 2023 02:21 PM (k1Qly)

91 Now batting for Pedro Barbone, Matti Mota!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 02:22 PM (zZu0s)

92 Echo!

Echo!

Echo!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 02:21 PM (zZu0s)
-----------
Pinch-hitting for Pedro Borbon - Manny Mota...Mota..Mota...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 19, 2023 02:22 PM (2hlEI)

93 The native language of the Left is Lies.

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2023 02:22 PM (i7w5R)

94
Ben Collins's notes embiggened:
https://tinyurl.com/yc3j5jdb

Here's the best part for me:

"Appreciates and admits that his Tweet threads get way more clicks/referrals to his news stories from Twitter than from the NBC news or other wegbsites -- actually conducts other interviews (NPR, TV, etc.) due to his Tweets."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 19, 2023 02:22 PM (lCaJd)

95 Wide supremacy.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 19, 2023 02:18 PM (2hlEI)

Lol!

Posted by: Emmie -- MoMe-curious AR morons and Farmer, please email me at May 19, 2023 02:22 PM (Emce2)

96 First graphic was 1462 pixels wide...that may be a new record!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 19, 2023 02:21 PM (ZCCyW)

Rubs tender spot.

Posted by: The Planet Pluto (and a damned fine one, too!) at May 19, 2023 02:22 PM (rfH7L)

97 Gee, I wonder if someday people attacked by leftists will stop trying to go to the law for redress?

It would be a shame if a series of unfortunate incidents started happening to leftists. A crying shame.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 19, 2023 02:23 PM (Angsy)

98 I posted this at the end of last thread. Seven homeless men are alleging that they were paid to pretend they were veterans who were being thrown out if their rooms in the hotel in the town of Newburgh. A nit for profit run by a woman named Sharon Toey -Finch was allegedly trying to get bigger grants from NYS and feds. Reported by mid Hudson need an Albany Times Union. Scumbag.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2023 02:23 PM (lRky4)

99 FYI: Soros funded me to give the plenary talk at a 2019 BMJ conference on investigative journalism, but that does not make me a "Soros funded" journalist.

Actually, it fucking does.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at May 19, 2023 02:23 PM (ppBhU)

100 The pintoozler fell and hit the doohickey.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 02:23 PM (5+1HQ)

101 *ahem*
*shower singing voice*

You're a cheater, you turn 'em in
Start to dox them, and then they're gone
Looking out for another, anyone will do
You're in the mood for bans
And when you get the chance

You are the Banning Queen....

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 19, 2023 02:24 PM (fs1hN)

102 Scotty is down in a Jefferies Tube doing it now.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop

He's down there drinking Scotch again, on duty.

Mr. Scott!

Posted by: Captain James T. Kirk, of course at May 19, 2023 02:24 PM (vcOmj)

103 If you fuck a 40-something woman who acts like a tween girl, does that make you a pedo? What if she thinks she IS a tween girl?

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2023 02:24 PM (iFTx/)

104 It's always messy when those folks get snapped off for bad behavior or a change in management or ownership.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 19, 2023 02:21 PM (k1Qly)

A LOT of people, when given any taste of power and motivation, become utter tyrants.

It is why we find men such as Cincinnatus or George Washington to be so remarkable. This is the thing with guys like Gates or Soros- they think they are paragons, but they are just like every other two bit hood if given the power they have- they would use it viciously, and the only thing that changes is how smart they are and how high their ambitions rise.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 02:25 PM (zZu0s)

105 A nit for profit run by a woman named Sharon Toey -Finch was allegedly trying to get bigger grants from NYS and feds. Reported by mid Hudson need an Albany Times Union. Scumbag.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2023 02:23 PM (lRky4)

That's a lousy way to run a business.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 19, 2023 02:25 PM (rfH7L)

106 But just to explain: People who are not celebrities but who would like to think of themselves as celebrities are obsessed with collecting the little trivial status-markers of celebrity.

Word.

State spoon collectors are the worst.

Ooh. Everybody look at me, I've got an Iowa state spoon from when I stopped at a truck stop in Des Moines.

La de da.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 19, 2023 02:25 PM (3WbVe)

107 If she hasn't dropped a whelp yet, there's now a pretty good chance she never will.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 19, 2023 02:16 PM (rfH7L)

Which benefits society as a whole.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 19, 2023 02:25 PM (+Wcyp)

108 Biden is teaching Ukrainians to fly fighter jets

Hope they learn how to land

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2023 02:25 PM (i7w5R)

109 @74 Bulgaroctonus-Monterey is still pretty nice. Tourist spots are well kept. Was there a couple months ago.

Posted by: JROD at May 19, 2023 02:26 PM (IlL6s)

110 The pintoozler fell and hit the doohickey.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

A pintoozler works in a bowling alley, right ?

Posted by: JT at May 19, 2023 02:26 PM (T4tVD)

111 I never understood what the "blue check" meant, and I still don't. Oh sure, I could spend 5 seconds googling it, but I so don't give a rat's ass about these shiteaters that even 5 seconds wouldn't be worth my time.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2023 02:27 PM (iFTx/)

112 ZeroHedge has a great takedown of all of this.

Her uncle owns the Internet archive, a.k.a. the way back machine.

Was able to erase all her embarrassing, Internet trails

She also attended a very expensive Swiss boarding school

Posted by: Equate at May 19, 2023 02:27 PM (eBuPU)

113 The margins need a cigarette

Posted by: Amy Schumer at May 19, 2023 02:27 PM (flINI)

114 Word.

State spoon collectors are the worst.

Ooh. Everybody look at me, I've got an Iowa state spoon from when I stopped at a truck stop in Des Moines.

La de da.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 19, 2023 02:25 PM (3WbVe)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 02:27 PM (zZu0s)

115 Darn I missed the thread for stomping on Tar Jay.

I crossed them off stores I will shop at way back when they were early "trannies can use our ladies bathrooms" and then doubled down with "You are just a phobic crybaby" when young women and women who had been assaulted in the past expressed their concerns.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 19, 2023 02:27 PM (3cGpq)

116 kind of remember this chick. She's profoundly dumb.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 02:13 PM (4eKPg)

HEY!!!

Posted by: profoundly dumb at May 19, 2023 02:27 PM (i7w5R)

117 If you fuck a 40-something woman who acts like a tween girl, does that make you a pedo? What if she thinks she IS a tween girl?
Posted by: Elric Blade

If you're older than that 40 something who acts like a tween, then I think it's just....fun. It's over and you leave. Don't look back. Somebody may be gaining on you!

Posted by: Roger Daltrey knows what he is talking about at May 19, 2023 02:27 PM (vcOmj)

118 It is why we find men such as Cincinnatus or George Washington to be so remarkable. This is the thing with guys like Gates or Soros- they think they are paragons, but they are just like every other two bit hood if given the power they have- they would use it viciously, and the only thing that changes is how smart they are and how high their ambitions rise.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 02:25 PM (zZu0s)

To rise above the ambition and pride of ordinary men requires a person who deeply believes in something far greater and more important than himself.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2023 02:28 PM (i9ffA)

119 *She also attended a very expensive Swiss boarding school.*

Are there any cheap ones?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 19, 2023 02:28 PM (DhOHl)

120 Second look at the Russian government?

The Russian Foreign Ministry imposed sanctions against two American comedians and TV presenters: Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 19, 2023 02:28 PM (2tUFv)

121 For a few minutes there, the blog didn’t have a functioning phalange…. Never get on an airplane or a blog without a phalange. - Phoebe Buffet

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 19, 2023 02:28 PM (xT8gx)

122 >>Again, you can't understand that, because you're not insane.

That's what I keep telling the dog but he insists I'm nuts.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 19, 2023 02:28 PM (ZLI7S)

123 109 Thanks, JROD. Good to hear.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 02:29 PM (5+1HQ)

124 To rise above the ambition and pride of ordinary men requires a person who deeply believes in something far greater and more important than himself.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2023 02:28 PM (i9ffA)

Well said.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 02:29 PM (zZu0s)

125 If you fuck a 40-something woman who acts like a tween girl, does that make you a pedo? What if she thinks she IS a tween girl?

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2023 02:24 PM (iFTx/)

---------

Unsurprisingly, the Left is arguing the converse now: children virtually of any age can identify as "adult"and thus "consent" to being sexualized, mutilated, and raped.

Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2023 02:29 PM (vs8J/)

126 I've visited Monterey in the last year.
The downtown area had some closures, same as all downtowns. A few bums about. Seems like the waterfront area was doing OK.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 19, 2023 02:29 PM (MeG8a)

127 If you fuck a 40-something woman who acts like a tween girl, does that make you a pedo? What if she thinks she IS a tween girl?
Posted by: Elric Blade

Meh, I don't care how much Taylor acts like a tween, she's not massaging lil Bill. TOO OLD

Posted by: Pedo Bill Clinton at May 19, 2023 02:29 PM (lc5cP)

128 That's from Twitter's own report about the Neville the Cat account. I'm not posting all of the documentation, only some of it. If you want the full details, you'll have to go to the account itself.

Or just ask around here, lol. He has friends that frequent this establishment.

Posted by: Bert G at May 19, 2023 02:29 PM (VARTN)

129 You know how people really like private clubs and will pay a lot of money to join a good one?
__________

I understand that. But Twitter hasn't got moorings, or tees, or even a bar and restaurant. So what the fuck is the point?

Posted by: Eeyore at May 19, 2023 02:30 PM (TgBWG)

130 That's the nasty tranny "academic" in the very rigorous field of "queer studies" (seems like he really aced that course, eh?) and spends all day trying to get people banned from Twitter and TV and print and their jobs.
----------
Head of the class!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 02:30 PM (Vwz3I)

131 For a few minutes there, the blog didn’t have a functioning phalange…. Never get on an airplane or a blog without a phalange. - Phoebe Buffet
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 19, 2023 02:28 PM (xT8gx)

Concur.

Posted by: Francisco Franco at May 19, 2023 02:30 PM (rfH7L)

132 The problem with America is that there are SO MANY Taylor Lorenz' out there. Its a serious problem and always has been for all of human history: women who abuse their status and use emotional and psychological attacks to destroy people without a shred of consequence. She's just found a platform to do it with.

To me, the big difference between men and women on this is that men face consequences for their poor behavior. If a guy is abusive, or violent, or sexually predatory, or abuses his position, he pays a price, unless unusually protected (Biden, Kennedy, et al). Men are terrible too, but almost always face a cost for their terrible behavior.

Women almost never do.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 02:30 PM (0hOvj)

133 111 I never understood what the "blue check" meant, and I still don't. Oh sure, I could spend 5 seconds googling it, but I so don't give a rat's ass about these shiteaters that even 5 seconds wouldn't be worth my time.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2023 02:27 PM (iFTx/)

it gave those who had it special privileges, and let them tell everyone else they were part of the 'Kool Kids Klub". Now it still has some extra features, but it's just a thing anyone can buy for $8.00 a month.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2023 02:30 PM (i9ffA)

134 @103 Eric Blade-only if you're a 60-something male and single 60-something females catch you.

Posted by: JROD at May 19, 2023 02:30 PM (IlL6s)

135 Unsurprisingly, the Left is arguing the converse now: children virtually of any age can identify as "adult"and thus "consent" to being sexualized, mutilated, and raped.

First: LIES! We just want gay marriage, this has nothing to do with kids

Then: You know maybe we shouldn't hate on Minor Attracted Persons. They were born that way you know

Finally: If you don't let me groom your kid you are hateful and a bigot!

Posted by: The Left at May 19, 2023 02:31 PM (lc5cP)

136 The two spurving bearings were not in a direct line with the panametric fan.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 19, 2023 02:18 PM (oRtbV)

Direct line is just a rule of thumb approximation. The bearings need to be concentric to avoid harmonic slap at the nodal frequencies, which unfortunately are clustered around the optimized transmission specs.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 19, 2023 02:31 PM (xhaym)

137 *She also attended a very expensive Swiss boarding school.*

Are there any cheap ones?
Posted by: Just Wondering at May 19, 2023 02:28 PM (DhOHl)
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Yes, but you have to join the Swiss Army.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 19, 2023 02:31 PM (2hlEI)

138 re: Target (previous thread)

Downtown Minneapolis flagship store on Nicollet Mall now closes at 6pm everyday. Police have been parking four cruisers (three empty) on those street corners there since George Floyd.

They can't possibly be turning a profit there, and Target been hemorrhaging downtown office jobs like everyone else, but that store will remain open until the very last day.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 19, 2023 02:31 PM (k1Qly)

139 Most of Twitter is bots.

Change my mind.

Posted by: Change my mind at May 19, 2023 02:32 PM (DhOHl)

140 139 Most of Twitter is bots.

Change my mind.
Posted by: Change my mind at May 19, 2023 02:32 PM (DhOHl)

Didn't they just do a bot purge?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 02:33 PM (zZu0s)

141 The native language of the Left is Lies.

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2023 02:22 PM (i7w5R)

(sniff, wipes away tear)

Taking after their dear old dad.

Posted by: Guy with Pitchfork at May 19, 2023 02:33 PM (Angsy)

142 Unsurprisingly, the Left is arguing the converse now: children virtually of any age can identify as "adult"and thus "consent" to being sexualized, mutilated, and raped.

Was it the same one NK Dear Leader went to?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 19, 2023 02:33 PM (lc5cP)

143 Yes, but you have to join the Swiss Army.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 19, 2023 02:31 PM (2hlEI)

And you get a cool knife!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 19, 2023 02:33 PM (rfH7L)

144 Who is this Taylor Lawrenz again? She sounds like a real phony bitch whoever she is.

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2023 02:34 PM (LBrhR)

145 but people on the very lowest rungs of wannabe-celebrity need all the affirmation and validation they can get.

I have an Emerald Membership Card here, awarded by a CoB himself.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 19, 2023 02:34 PM (a3Q+t)

146
And you get a cool knife!

That's not a knife.

And Crikey that's not a sheila!

Posted by: Crocodile Dundee at May 19, 2023 02:34 PM (lc5cP)

147 Are there any cheap ones?
Posted by: Just Wondering at May 19, 2023 02:28 PM (DhOHl)

Ummmmmmmm….yes.

Posted by: Zurich Finishing Skool And Laundromat, Wash & Fold at May 19, 2023 02:34 PM (R/m4+)

148 So I guess they're just common assholes?

Harry & Meghan’s NYC ‘car chase’ happened because they were too cheap to pay for hotel: source

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 19, 2023 02:34 PM (jzzG8)

149
Why does this story remind me of the concept of the 'death button', given to a random person?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop

I saw that on a Twilight Zone episode.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0734727

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2023 02:35 PM (63Dwl)

150 Most of Twitter is bots.

No, it really is. For real. Its honestly and actually mostly bots.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 02:35 PM (0hOvj)

151 Men are terrible too, but almost always face a cost for their terrible behavior.

Women almost never do.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 02:30 PM (0hOvj)

———-

Men knew this from time immemorial, it’s why we had a patriarchy and women couldn’t vote.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 19, 2023 02:35 PM (1nLaK)

152 Didn't they just do a bot purge?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 02:33 PM (zZu0s)

Yes - that was a big thing for Musk, and part of the controversy during Musk's purchase. Old management was encouraging bots and using the numbers to make it look like they had many times more users than they actually had. It was a fraud, but they got away with it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2023 02:36 PM (i9ffA)

153 Obama has also been banned from Russia amongst the 500.

Don't know about Hillary.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 02:36 PM (Vwz3I)

154 132 The problem with America is that there are SO MANY Taylor Lorenz' out there. Its a serious problem and always has been for all of human history: women who abuse their status and use emotional and psychological attacks to destroy people without a shred of consequence.

To me, the big difference between men and women on this is that men face consequences for their poor behavior. If a guy is abusive, or violent, or sexually predatory, or abuses his position, he pays a price, unless unusually protected (Biden, Kennedy, et al).

Women almost never do.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 02:30 PM (0hOvj)
____________

Social media is the perfect forum for these kinds of women. Like the catty, bitchy, back-stabbing, toxic mean girls from high school. Boys can be assholes too, but they generally worked out their problems in public in direct confrontations. Dominance displays, sometimes actual fights, but almost always face-to-face. Not so the girls. They were always scheming, and conniving, and lying, and back-stabbing in the dark. That's a method of attack that's much more conducive to social media than direct confrontation.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2023 02:36 PM (iFTx/)

155 Word.

State spoon collectors are the worst.

Ooh. Everybody look at me, I've got an Iowa state spoon from when I stopped at a truck stop in Des Moines.

La de da.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 19, 2023 02:25 PM (3WbVe)

A spoon?! All we get is $20 each at the truck stop!!

Posted by: The Bulwark Crew at May 19, 2023 02:36 PM (Angsy)

156 I rejoined twitter after Elon bought it.
As soon as I signed in I had dozens of youngish women "followers". No last names.
Obvious bots.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 19, 2023 02:36 PM (MeG8a)

157 harmonic slap at the nodal frequencies,
Posted by: Kindltot at May 19, 2023 02:31 PM

I am very interested in harmonic claps. Would you, perchance, have a newsletter?

Posted by: Jeb! at May 19, 2023 02:37 PM (a3Q+t)

158 126 Thanks, Gourmand.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 02:37 PM (5+1HQ)

159 @104: "A LOT of people, when given any taste of power and motivation, become utter tyrants."

There was an old quote in Wired magazine twenty years ago. I think it was Larry Ellison of Oracle or someone similar. The gist was that even the most avowed of libertarians will be seduced by the reach and power of government once they've been allowed behind the curtain, and the smartest guys are always the ones who imagine themselves to be the next philosopher king.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 19, 2023 02:38 PM (k1Qly)

160 Men are terrible too, but almost always face a cost for their terrible behavior.

Women almost never do.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 02:30 PM (0hOvj)

***

"I think of a man and then I remove reason and accountability".

Posted by: Melvin Udall at May 19, 2023 02:38 PM (flINI)

161 I rejoined twitter after Elon bought it.
As soon as I signed in I had dozens of youngish women "followers". No last names.
Obvious bots.

Can you boot followers?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at May 19, 2023 02:39 PM (ppBhU)

162 Men knew this from time immemorial, it’s why we had a patriarchy and women couldn’t vote.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 19, 2023 02:35 PM (1nLaK)

You know, this is something I wonder about. In one of the Roman podcasts, the narrator goes to great lengths to try to be fair to several of the ladies in the history (Livia, Agrippina the Younger, etc etc) by going on about the 'wicked stepmother' motif that pops up in a lot of Roman history. My point: maybe these were spoiled, vicious, evil women.

Even he gives lie to his own musings because the 'virgin Mary' motif of women of exceptional virtue and morals pop up just as often.

People are people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 02:39 PM (zZu0s)

163 If a guy is abusive, or violent, or sexually predatory, or abuses his position, he pays a price, unless unusually protected (Biden, Kennedy, et al). Men are terrible too, but almost always face a cost for their terrible behavior.

Women almost never do.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May

You mean public figures pay? Because I am here to tell you, the cost that should be paid isn’t always out here in nobody land.

Posted by: Piper at May 19, 2023 02:39 PM (ZdaMQ)

164 Well, he isn't all evil, I suppose.
‏
@thatdayin1992 4h
Assad removed his interpreter earpiece during Zelensky's speech at the Arab League summit. Lol.

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 19, 2023 02:39 PM (jzzG8)

165 "I think of a man and then I remove reason and accountability".
Posted by: Melvin Udall at May 19, 2023 02:38 PM (flINI)

Helen Hunt was hot in that movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 02:40 PM (zZu0s)

166 The problem with America is that there are SO MANY Taylor Lorenz' out there. Its a serious problem and always has been for all of human history: women who abuse their status and use emotional and psychological attacks to destroy people without a shred of consequence.

No kidding, Potiphar's wife is such a bitch.

Turned out OK for me in the end, though.

Posted by: Joseph (son of Jacob) at May 19, 2023 02:40 PM (YXHzG)

167 Can you boot followers?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at May 19, 2023 02:39 PM

I do. Constantly.

Posted by: Max at May 19, 2023 02:40 PM (a3Q+t)

168 Men knew this from time immemorial, it’s why we had a patriarchy and women couldn’t vote.

I know this sounds terrible and nasty and sexist and maybe it is. Ettes can hit me with tomatoes if they want.

But you're right. This was the way that society formed its self to control the worst aspects of women's behavior. We had laws and duels and honor and so on to control men's worst behavior. We had "the patriarchy" to control women's.

What do you do when all those controls are taken away, what happens to society? What happens to culture? Especially if you remove the moral core of a society?

We get... today.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 02:41 PM (0hOvj)

169 Can you boot followers?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

You can 'block' or 'mute' accounts.

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 19, 2023 02:41 PM (jzzG8)

170 twiiter is like giving the crazy of 30 years ago a mike and a speaker wall

the age of hyper self expression will not well

Posted by: REDACTED at May 19, 2023 02:41 PM (us2H3)

171 Why does this story remind me of the concept of the 'death button', given to a random person?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop

I don't want a "Death Button". I want a "Instantly Taze someone who annoys me on the Internet" Button. Now that would be fun.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2023 02:41 PM (i9ffA)

172 167 Can you boot followers?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at May 19, 2023 02:39 PM

I do. Constantly.
Posted by: Max at May 19, 2023 02:40 PM (a3Q+t)

Fedora!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 02:41 PM (zZu0s)

173 I actually know very little about twitter. I reopened my account just to get to ace's links at the cafe.
Never tried to boot a follower, but I did in fact block someone by accident. I understand that is perceived as a hostile act, as if I cared. LOL

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 19, 2023 02:41 PM (MeG8a)

174 Assad supported AQ when we were in Iraq.

He deserves the uprising he got.

But...the Syrian people didn't. At least after Obama let Assad kill most of the non-Jihadis

Posted by: 18-1 at May 19, 2023 02:41 PM (lc5cP)

175 I wouldn't join any club that would accept Taylor Lorenz as a member.

Posted by: Groucho Marx at May 19, 2023 02:42 PM (sWM8x)

176 I saw the Banning Queen open for Agent Orange at The Troubadour in '79.

Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2023 02:42 PM (l0Tk4)

177 That was a big movie review.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 19, 2023 02:42 PM (ufFY8)

178 You mean public figures pay?

This is the flaw with responding to a quote of a part of a post instead of the full post which clearly stated some get away with it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 02:42 PM (0hOvj)

179 161 I rejoined twitter after Elon bought it.
As soon as I signed in I had dozens of youngish women "followers". No last names.
Obvious bots.

Can you boot followers?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at May 19, 2023 02:39 PM (ppBhU)

so the kids say "boot" when they mean "date" ??

Posted by: REDACTED at May 19, 2023 02:43 PM (us2H3)

180 @154: "Like the catty, bitchy, back-stabbing, toxic mean girls ..."

Reputation destruction is the psychological term, statistically more common in women, and it's one of those things that everyone completely forgot about during the early days of social media, and seemed shocked -- shocked! -- to rediscover once it was too late to engineer disincentives into those systems.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 19, 2023 02:43 PM (k1Qly)

181
You know what this means? This means that Google, Facebook, and YouTube are working harder than ever to suppress free speech.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 19, 2023 02:43 PM (lCaJd)

182 Pentagon accounting 'mishap' could allow US to send Ukraine billions more in aid without Congressional approval
Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh explained that officials allegedly overestimated the value of the weapons already provided to Ukraine by over $3 billion.
____

That's so nice they went through the effort to pretend they aren't breaking the law.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 19, 2023 02:44 PM (fs1hN)

183 I saw the Banning Queen open for Agent Orange at The Troubadour in '79.

Must have been one of Agent Orange's first shows, since their EP didn't even come out until '80.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 19, 2023 02:44 PM (Bd6X8)

184 but people on the very lowest rungs of wannabe-celebrity need all the affirmation and validation they can get.

I have an Emerald Membership Card here, awarded by a CoB himself.

Just sayin'.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 19, 2023 02:34 PM

Pffft. I take pride in my Restaurant Grease Trap level membership. My goal is to sink to the Jiffy Lube used oil level.

Posted by: Beartooth at May 19, 2023 02:44 PM (qayCr)

185 REPORT: The NJ Fatman is throwing his gastro band into the presidential ring in a few days.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 19, 2023 02:44 PM (N5C4b)

186 so if a girl follower turns out to be a 31 year old Nigerian male

that's a bot ??

Posted by: REDACTED at May 19, 2023 02:44 PM (us2H3)

187 Oh, goody; Have we started the "Women have no accountability and reason" and "Stop women voting now?" part of the thread? . I am thankful for the men who don't feel a need to pile on in respect to that.

See you later folks. I am going to bring someone who is homebound communion and pray with them which sounds like a pleasanter way to spend the afternoon.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 19, 2023 02:45 PM (Keyt1)

188 Even he gives lie to his own musings because the 'virgin Mary' motif of women of exceptional virtue and morals pop up just as often.

People are people.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 02:39 PM (zZu0s)

Goddesses, whores, wives, and slaves - in the ancient world, it always comes down to that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2023 02:45 PM (i9ffA)

189 185 REPORT: The NJ Fatman is throwing his gastro band into the presidential ring in a few days.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 19, 2023 02:44 PM (N5C4b)

I just hope he says he's "running for President"

lmao

Posted by: REDACTED at May 19, 2023 02:46 PM (us2H3)

190 I have two choices on how to spend my afternoon:

- Scroll through an Instapundit Open Thread

- Read an Ace post

Posted by: MartynWW at May 19, 2023 02:46 PM (Ur3df)

191 159 Old joke:

Q. What’s the difference between God and Larry Ellison?

A. God doesn’t think he’s Larry Ellison.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 02:46 PM (5+1HQ)

192 so if a girl follower turns out to be a 31 year old Nigerian male

that's a bot ??

Posted by: REDACTED at May 19, 2023 02:44 PM (us2H3)

Wait. That's not amore?

Posted by: Dino at May 19, 2023 02:46 PM (Angsy)

193 the age of hyper self expression will not well
Posted by: REDACTED at May 19, 2023 02:41 PM (us2H3)

In academic pursuits, self-expression has supplanted actual communication.

Posted by: Emmie -- MoMe-curious AR morons and Farmer, please email me at May 19, 2023 02:46 PM (Emce2)

194 Kari Lake trial is in its last day.
No clue as to how it is going.

Seems that Maricopa County has a fucked up signature verification system. (Duh!)

County is trying to be hyperspecific, and muddying the waters where it can.

Robert Gouveia Esq. on YouTube right now.
Super dry testimony.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 19, 2023 02:46 PM (ufFY8)

195 WTF is Bill Clinton doing in Bulgaria ??

Posted by: REDACTED at May 19, 2023 02:47 PM (us2H3)

196 179 161 I rejoined twitter after Elon bought it.
As soon as I signed in I had dozens of youngish women "followers". No last names.
Obvious bots."

psst.... they're real, and each one of them has got a package in their pants for you.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2023 02:47 PM (i9ffA)

197 @187: "Oh, goody ..."

To be fair, reputation destruction isn't exclusively female, and there's been a large uptick among "extremely online" males, and I've never said anything about repealing the nineteenth amendment.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 19, 2023 02:48 PM (k1Qly)

198 I watched in the background the last couple of days. Her legal and 'expert' team sucks IMO. Dollar Tree lawyers.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 19, 2023 02:48 PM (N5C4b)

199 No clue as to how it is going.

Narrator: Kari Lake cannot be allowed to win. Doesn't matter what the facts are.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 02:48 PM (0hOvj)

200
The problem with America is that there are SO MANY Taylor Lorenz' out there. Its a serious problem and always has been for all of human history: women who abuse their status and use emotional and psychological attacks to destroy people without a shred of consequence.

To me, the big difference between men and women on this is that men face consequences for their poor behavior. If a guy is abusive, or violent, or sexually predatory, or abuses his position, he pays a price, unless unusually protected (Biden, Kennedy, et al).

Women almost never do.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

===========

If you withhold formal power from women, they'll exercise their power informally. It's up to you, an insufferable home life or women voting. See it up close in the Middle East and (less so now, but formerly) the Far East.

Oh, and nice job on slavery and the Civil War, gentlemen.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 19, 2023 02:48 PM (lCaJd)

201 WTF is Bill Clinton doing in Bulgaria ??

Posted by: REDACTED at May 19, 2023 02:47 PM (us2H3)

Fvcking young Bulgarian hookers.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 19, 2023 02:48 PM (ZCCyW)

202 I am really struggling with not wishing for serious harm to befall this asshole.

Is that wrong?

Posted by: Black JEM at May 19, 2023 02:48 PM (UVyKP)

203 >>194 Kari Lake trial is in its last day.
No clue as to how it is going.

198 I watched in the background the last couple of days. Her legal and 'expert' team sucks IMO. Dollar Tree lawyers.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 19, 2023 02:49 PM (N5C4b)

204 Ace keeps claiming we're not insane...It's almost as if he doesn't read the comments around here...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2023 02:49 PM (YIVH2)

205 I'm not in the market for romance.
Perhaps for live in domestic help.
The missus would even be ok with that.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 19, 2023 02:50 PM (MeG8a)

206 >>Narrator: Kari Lake cannot be allowed to win. Doesn't matter what the facts are.

This too.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 19, 2023 02:51 PM (N5C4b)

207 To me, the big difference between men and women on this is that men face consequences for their poor behavior. If a guy is abusive, or violent, or sexually predatory, or abuses his position, he pays a price, unless unusually protected (Biden, Kennedy, et al).

Women almost never do.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

We must be living in different worlds. I know plenty of abusive bastards that never face any consequences until probably the afterlife.

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2023 02:51 PM (GkLNv)

208 REPORT: The NJ Fatman is throwing his gastro band into the presidential ring in a few days.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 19, 2023 02:44 PM (N5C4b)

---------

Tank Abrams/Krispy Christie Unity Ticket 2024 -- Setting the Planet on a New Trajectory Together!

Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2023 02:51 PM (P7h5i)

209 205 I'm not in the market for romance.
Perhaps for live in domestic help.
The missus would even be ok with that.
--------------
So your wife is okay with a three way?

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 02:51 PM (4eKPg)

210 Men knew this from time immemorial, it’s why we had a patriarchy and women couldn’t vote.

HERODUTUS in DIODRUS SICULUS asserts that "the men were the slaves of the women in Egypt, and that it is stipulated in the marriage contract that the women shall be the ruler of her husband..."

NYMPHODORUS continues: "Sesotris, finding the population of Egypt increasing, fearing that he should not be able to govern the people or keep them united under one head, obliged the men to assume the occupations of women, in order that they might be rendered effeminate"

Sophocles also agrees and write that women and men swapped roles with women transacting and the men in the homes weaving cloth...

Posted by: Joseph (son of Jacob) at May 19, 2023 02:51 PM (YXHzG)

211 Every time I bring up repeal of the 19th Amendment, my wife reminds me that the election of Woodrow Wilson was completely the fault of male voters.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 02:52 PM (5+1HQ)

212 Related to the OP, I read on Instapundit the other day that Musk is going to turn Twitter into an “everything app”. I figure if he was going to get a shitty deal in buying Twitter, he will do something big to try to recover his loss.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 19, 2023 02:52 PM (1nLaK)

213 >>WTF is Bill Clinton doing in Bulgaria ??

Same thing the Clintons have been doing for years when they travel overseas, collecting money.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 19, 2023 02:52 PM (ZLI7S)

214 To be fair, reputation destruction isn't exclusively female

Yeah it happens with men who are extremely feminine in their nature as well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 02:52 PM (0hOvj)

215 Wow! Ms. Tay Tay just got back her 15 minutes of fame with this thread. I can't believe you would waste this much ink on this pos.

Posted by: sidney at May 19, 2023 02:52 PM (Uy/WF)

216 Oh, and nice job on slavery and the Civil War, gentlemen.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 19, 2023 02:48 PM (lCaJd)

A lot of men died for those, ma'am.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 02:52 PM (zZu0s)

217 I'm not in the market for romance.
Perhaps for live in domestic help.
The missus would even be ok with that.

These are different markets?

Posted by: Arnold Schwarzenegger at May 19, 2023 02:53 PM (ppBhU)

218 We must be living in different worlds. I know plenty of abusive bastards that never face any consequences until probably the afterlife.
Posted by: ... at May 19, 2023 02:51 PM (GkLNv)

Thank you.

Posted by: Piper at May 19, 2023 02:53 PM (ZdaMQ)

219 Ace keeps claiming we're not insane...It's almost as if he doesn't read the comments around here...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2023 02:49 PM (YIVH2)

I believe it…. I believe it.

They keep saying I wouldn’t believe it, but I believe it, I believe it.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 19, 2023 02:53 PM (R/m4+)

220 If Elon wanted to know approximately how many agents and informants were part of the "insurrection", he can just do an image search for khaki.

Posted by: Roy at May 19, 2023 02:54 PM (rqgpJ)

221 If you withhold formal power from women, they'll exercise their power informally. It's up to you, an insufferable home life or women voting. See it up close in the Middle East and (less so now, but formerly) the Far East.

With fallen Egyptian and Assyrian empires due to women taking up roles of authority.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 19, 2023 02:54 PM (YXHzG)

222 211 Every time I bring up repeal of the 19th Amendment, my wife reminds me that the election of Woodrow Wilson was completely the fault of male voters.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 02:52 PM (5+1HQ)

———-

Yes. But let’s look at how all the elections since the 19th amendment would’ve turned out if women didn’t vote.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 19, 2023 02:54 PM (1nLaK)

223 Every time I bring up repeal of the 19th Amendment, my wife reminds me that the election of Woodrow Wilson was completely the fault of male voters.

Yeah men vote stupidly all the time as well, almost nobody has ever won based exclusively on female votes. I would not support overturning the 19th amendment.

I'm just noting that socially, women's worst behavior and nature is almost wholly without consequence. A woman can be horrific and she gets support, praise, and promotion. Men being horrific usually results in severe consequences and punishment. As always, the richer ad more powerful you are, the easier -- but not always -- it is to get away with it, for longer, at least.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 02:54 PM (0hOvj)

224 No 3 way. More like a live in granny.
Think Aunt Bea.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 19, 2023 02:54 PM (MeG8a)

225 211 Every time I bring up repeal of the 19th Amendment, my wife reminds me that the election of Woodrow Wilson was completely the fault of male voters.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 02:52 PM (5+1HQ)

=========

I blame Teddy Roosevelt deciding that he was going to intentionally throw the election to Woodrow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 02:55 PM (LvTSG)

226 Narrator: Kari Lake cannot be allowed to win. Doesn't matter what the facts are.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 02:48 PM (0hOvj)

It is a bench trial, and the judge was trying to limit Kari to proving that NO level 2 and level 3 signature checks were made. (A signature that did not match at level 1 gets kicked up a level).

LOL, 3099 ballots out of 1.4 MILLION votes were rejected.
They just finished testimony. Closing arguments at 1:30 AZ time.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 19, 2023 02:55 PM (ufFY8)

227 Oh, and nice job on slavery and the Civil War, gentlemen.

Uh...our bad. Wait, wut?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 19, 2023 02:55 PM (Xrfse)

228 @220: "... he can just do an image search for khaki"

And tactical watches; so many tactical watches.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 19, 2023 02:56 PM (k1Qly)

229 Being part of the "Twitter Elite" and having that oh-so-precious Blue Checkmark is an absurdly trivial "marker of celebrity," but people on the very lowest rungs of wannabe-celebrity need all the affirmation and validation they can get.
++++
Thus the rage at its removal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 02:56 PM (DU+/6)

230 "Ah, that's because your not insane..."
And "a one (elderly) woman war..."

The cruelty here has hints of leather and earth and a touch of cardemom.

Posted by: Zek at May 19, 2023 02:56 PM (5FPX4)

231 They tell me that if women ruled the world there would be no more wars.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2023 02:56 PM (63Dwl)

232 Ace keeps claiming we're not insane...It's almost as if he doesn't read the comments around here...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2023 02:49 PM

In fairness, if we don't read the content, should he be expected to read the comments?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 19, 2023 02:56 PM (a3Q+t)

233 With fallen Egyptian and Assyrian empires due to women taking up roles of authority.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 19, 2023 02:54 PM (YXHzG)

Eh, historically it is a mixed bag- same as with men. You have decent/good (Catherine the Great, Queen Elizabeth) and the very bad (The aforementioned, the grandmother of Elagabalus... Julia Mamia? It's one of the Julias there were about three in that time period.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 02:56 PM (zZu0s)

234 208 REPORT: The NJ Fatman is throwing his gastro band into the presidential ring in a few days.

Him and Scott and Pence... It will be a free for all...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 19, 2023 02:56 PM (bs+z0)

235 224 No 3 way. More like a live in granny.
Think Aunt Bea.
-------------
Aunt Bea is Super Freaky in the bed. Just sayin.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 02:57 PM (4eKPg)

236 Every time I bring up repeal of the 19th Amendment, my wife reminds me that the election of Woodrow Wilson was completely the fault of male voters.

See her Woodrow Wilson and raise her a Warren Harding, the most corrupt President ever, until recently replaced by the current figurehead. (if you believe that #FJB was actually elected) put in place overwhelmingly by women whose first vote was on that miserable piece of shit - because he was good looking.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 19, 2023 02:57 PM (YXHzG)

237 I would give Taylor a good spanking and send her to bed without supper

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2023 02:57 PM (aLw92)

238 Oh, Andy!!!

Posted by: Aunt Bea at May 19, 2023 02:58 PM (DhOHl)

239 I love how "social conservative" Pence is throwing in with the groomers, Bud Light, Disney, et al.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 19, 2023 02:58 PM (MeG8a)

240 Julia Misa?
Julia Mamia...

And then there was Alexander Severus' mom, Julia... something. Dammit. Have to look it up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 02:58 PM (zZu0s)

241 231 They tell me that if women ruled the world there would be no more wars.
--------------
So Bloody Mary was an outlier?

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 02:58 PM (4eKPg)

242 So I'm sorta confused here. I know these sheltered lefty censorship-complex journos understand the power of censorship, in theory.

But I don't know how many of them really understand that this is a bright red line - a real one, not an Obama one - beyond which at some point they're going to get thrown out of a fucking helicopter.

It's not funny, and we're not amused as we watch these people destroy our society. Is it because they're generally childless, un-serious adults who don't have as much skin in the game? It it because the ones we actually hear from (vs. those that get laid off and have to learn2code) are living in a salaried bubble where the Biden Economy is roaring and life is good? I can't help but think they're all going to lose their shit when things go irreversibly pear-shaped. The more aware/evil of them probably think they'll just drone all the deplorables into submission but that's not likely to end the way they want it to.

Posted by: somedood at May 19, 2023 02:58 PM (I8nLU)

243 234 208 REPORT: The NJ Fatman is throwing his gastro band into the presidential ring in a few days.

Him and Scott and Pence... It will be a free for all...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 19, 2023 02:56 PM (bs+z0)

========

It's just going to split the Never Trump vote more and more to the point where it will be impossible to consolidate around a single, non-Trump candidate. It will mainly hurt DeSantis.

These people, I don't think, are part of some great conspiracy. I think they just talk to donors who are desperate to unload tens of millions of dollars on whichever Trump Killer is the flavor of the week, and they see an opportunity they can't pass up.

My read of the Democrat primary was wrong (I really thought there would be a bloodbath, but nope), but it looks like my read of the GOP primary was spot on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 02:58 PM (LvTSG)

244
We were talking about that shithole San Francisco on the last thread. Does anybody know what condition Monterey is in these days? Has it gone down the shitter, too, or is it still relatively decent?

I have very fond memories of that place.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

===========

Monterey is in fantastic shape. As of a year ago, real estate was exploding in Monterey, possibly because of the Bay Area Exodus. Homeless almost non-existent, bored cops, local news station always searching fruitlessly for stories and having to resort to the police blotter, which is almost exclusively Hispanic-surnamed criminals in Salinas.

Solid blue vote, but they're actually conservative. The last time I watched local news, the all-Dem city council had passed a raft of typical Dem bills, and a stunned electorate pulled them all back with double-digit-supported referenda (I mean like in the 30% range). As I said, that was the last time I watched local news, but I'm sure the latest elections have kept Dems in charge, possibly the same ones.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 19, 2023 02:59 PM (lCaJd)

245 Ace keeps claiming we're not insane...It's almost as if he doesn't read the comments around here...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2023 02:49 PM

Also, let's not disappoint him more than we already do.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 19, 2023 02:59 PM (a3Q+t)

246 WTF is Bill Clinton doing in Bulgaria ??

Posted by: REDACTED at May 19, 2023 02:47 PM (us2H3)

Fvcking young Bulgarian hookers.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 19, 2023 02:48 PM (ZCCyW)

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Out: The Energizer Bunny.
In: The Teenager Bulgarian.

Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2023 02:59 PM (8TAvB)

247 244 Monterey is in fantastic shape. As of a year ago, real estate was exploding in Monterey, possibly because of the Bay Area Exodus. Homeless almost non-existent, bored cops, local news station always searching fruitlessly for stories and having to resort to the police blotter, which is almost exclusively Hispanic-surnamed criminals in Salinas.

Solid blue vote, but they're actually conservative. The last time I watched local news, the all-Dem city council had passed a raft of typical Dem bills, and a stunned electorate pulled them all back with double-digit-supported referenda (I mean like in the 30% range). As I said, that was the last time I watched local news, but I'm sure the latest elections have kept Dems in charge, possibly the same ones.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 19, 2023 02:59 PM (lCaJd)

=========

Conservatives in SF fled the state. Progressives in SF fled to Monterey.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 02:59 PM (LvTSG)

248 @234: "Him and Scott and Pence... It will be a free for all..."

Both parties really know how to cover themselves in glory during non-incumbent presidential primary years.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 19, 2023 03:00 PM (k1Qly)

249 I can't figure out whether issuing the proxy banhammer to unaccountable idiot propagandists like Lorenz is better or worse than issuing the proxy banhammer to unaccountable government stooges and thugs.

Probably the latter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 03:00 PM (DU+/6)

250 I would give Taylor a good spanking and send her to bed without supper
Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2023 02:57 PM (aLw92)

Replace Taylor with Marjorie Taylor Greene and you got a deal.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 19, 2023 03:00 PM (ufFY8)

251 231 They tell me that if women ruled the world there would be no more wars.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May

They would be wrong. 😃

Posted by: Piper at May 19, 2023 03:00 PM (ZdaMQ)

252 225 Yeah, Teddy’s got a lot to answer for.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 03:00 PM (5+1HQ)

253 RE: Side Bar .... Richard, Cliff.
I forgot those songs were by Cliff Richard. Easy to forget, after his one and only TRUE hit, of course I speak of .... Devil Woman.
For your listening pleasure.

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=IgomTOOgl8M

Posted by: Kwai Chang Mandelblit at May 19, 2023 03:00 PM (0AUR/)

254 252 225 Yeah, Teddy’s got a lot to answer for.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 03:00 PM (5+1HQ)

==========

Teddy was a piece of shit who was good at marketing his own image.

He intentionally tanked 1912 for his fellow progressive Woodrow Wilson because Taft wasn't pure enough, or whatever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 03:01 PM (LvTSG)

255 Every time I bring up repeal of the 19th Amendment, my wife reminds me that the election of Woodrow Wilson was completely the fault of male voters.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 02:52 PM (5+1HQ)

Nope. Mostly it was the fault of Teddy Roosevelt.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 19, 2023 03:01 PM (ZCCyW)

256 So Bloody Mary was an outlier?
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 02:58 PM (4eKPg)

'Bloody Mary' killed fewer men than Queen Elizabeth.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 03:01 PM (zZu0s)

257 I would give Taylor a good spanking and send her to bed without supper
Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2023 02:57 PM

What about after the spanking?

Posted by: Sister Zoot at May 19, 2023 03:01 PM (a3Q+t)

258 >>They tell me that if women ruled the world there would be no more wars.

Ching Shih was one of the most successful pirates of all time with an army of pirates that numbered around 80,000 at her peak power. She was smart and vicious.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 19, 2023 03:02 PM (ZLI7S)

259 CLIFF!!!!!!!!

Posted by: The Young Ones at May 19, 2023 03:02 PM (xPJvm)

260 the White House Correspondent's Dinner is so important to them -- it brings them into the vicinity of (B-list and C-list and D-list) celebrities

D-cup celebrity > D-list celebrity

Posted by: Hands at May 19, 2023 03:02 PM (786Ro)

261 This brunette with roller skates and but of underboob has made her friends promise to stage an intervention if she ever becomes a middle-aged mean girl like Taylor Lorenz:
https://is.gd/rWMNJp

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 03:02 PM (DU+/6)

262 What exactly does that blue checkmark provide?

Posted by: That Northern skulker at May 19, 2023 03:02 PM (Pq/Oy)

263 I don’t know why I looked at it, but Taylor Lorenz’s wiki bio is a hoot.

Born: October 21 c. 1984 - 1987

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 19, 2023 03:02 PM (1nLaK)

264 254 252 225 Yeah, Teddy’s got a lot to answer for.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 03:00 PM (5+1HQ)

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Teddy was a piece of shit who was good at marketing his own image.

He intentionally tanked 1912 for his fellow progressive Woodrow Wilson because Taft wasn't pure enough, or whatever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 03:01 PM (LvTSG)

Excellent! TR was the first, and original, neocon. He was enamored by the likes of Trotsky also.

Posted by: Kwai Chang Mandelblit at May 19, 2023 03:02 PM (0AUR/)

265 244 Thanks, Blonde Morticia. That’s great to hear.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 03:03 PM (5+1HQ)

266 I would give Taylor a good spanking and send her to bed without supper
Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2023 02:57 PM (aLw92)
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Kinky bedroom antics *and* a diet plan? This might work to get you a date with Lorenz, but not to help put her on the right path...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 03:03 PM (DU+/6)

267 Posted by: Ace at 2:04 pm
.......

That's a lot of attention even for an attention whore.

Posted by: wth at May 19, 2023 03:04 PM (v0R5T)

268 256 So Bloody Mary was an outlier?
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 02:58 PM (4eKPg)

'Bloody Mary' killed fewer men than Queen Elizabeth.
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Queen Elizabeth wasn't a Catholic.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 03:04 PM (4eKPg)

269 Ching Shih was one of the most successful pirates of all time with an army of pirates that numbered around 80,000 at her peak power. She was smart and vicious.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 19, 2023 03:02 PM (ZLI7S)

I get the feeling this is a fantasy of sailor Jack's. To be boarded by the Dread pirate lady and become her slave...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 03:04 PM (zZu0s)

270 Solid blue vote, but they're actually conservative. The last time I watched local news, the all-Dem city council had passed a raft of typical Dem bills, and a stunned electorate pulled them all back with double-digit-supported referenda (I mean like in the 30% range). As I said, that was the last time I watched local news, but I'm sure the latest elections have kept Dems in charge, possibly the same ones.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 19, 2023 02:59 PM (lCaJd)
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I will never understand this.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 03:04 PM (DU+/6)

271
Teddy was a piece of shit who was good at marketing his own image.

He intentionally tanked 1912 for his fellow progressive Woodrow Wilson because Taft wasn't pure enough, or whatever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 03:01 PM (LvTSG)

——-

2024 repeat with Biden, DeSantis and Trump

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 19, 2023 03:04 PM (1nLaK)

272 Heh...

Indy 5 has a 47% on Rotten Tomatoes after its premiere at Cannes.

That's not going to help build the hype train.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 03:04 PM (LvTSG)

273 @242: "... understand that this is a bright red line ..."

It's a generational thing. Big newsrooms were willing to tolerate young folks clawing their way to social media celebrity because it was the future of online news engagement and moneymaking. No one ever told them no and editors probably didn't know the full extent of what was happening at the time; three wise monkeys.

Most of the young folks turn out to care much more about their personal brands than institutional reputations, and we all suffer in the end.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 19, 2023 03:05 PM (k1Qly)

274 13. CNN glad hander Brian Stelter: "Willing to come to San Francisco, wherever to meet 1:1 with spokespeople even for introductory conversations."

If Tater's going
To San, Fran, Cisco
Be sure he wears
Some scalp on his hair

Posted by: Hands at May 19, 2023 03:05 PM (786Ro)

275 This brunette with roller skates and but of underboob has made her friends promise to stage an intervention if she ever becomes a middle-aged mean girl like Taylor Lorenz:
https://is.gd/rWMNJp
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 03:02 PM (DU+/6)
........

Love the shirt.

Posted by: wth at May 19, 2023 03:05 PM (v0R5T)

276 I will never understand this.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 03:04 PM (DU+/6)

Can't vote for icky Republicans... Wine Moms

Posted by: It's me donna at May 19, 2023 03:05 PM (bs+z0)

277 I would give Taylor a good spanking and send her to bed without supper

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2023 02:57 PM (aLw92)

Or, with a sausage, eh?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 19, 2023 03:05 PM (Angsy)

278 Queen Elizabeth wasn't a Catholic.
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 03:04 PM (4eKPg)

Do protestants get some sort of pass? Did I miss a meeting?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 03:05 PM (zZu0s)

279 > What exactly does that blue checkmark provide?
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Priority seating at Waffle House

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 19, 2023 03:05 PM (Q4IgG)

280 We need to talk about the issue of mental health problems among well-off white women, and the large, and lucrative, culture that enables and sustains, and perhaps contributes to, them

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 19, 2023 03:05 PM (i7Q7S)

281 I can't figure out whether issuing the proxy banhammer to unaccountable idiot propagandists like Lorenz is better or worse than issuing the proxy banhammer to unaccountable government stooges and thugs.

The problem is that there's no constitution preventing private businesses from constantly violating rights and censoring people. Yes, some lawyers have managed to apply the constitution to private citizens (a serious problem) but there isn't one for business.

The founders could not even imagine a situation in which companies abandoned basic earning and business concepts in order to promote a lunatic ideology. Remember, the Business of America is Business. The original slogan on US money was "mind your business."

It was inconceivable that we would reach a point where businesses deliberately drove away customers and ruined their bottom line to promote a perverted and insane religion. So they never even considered something like that might be needed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 03:05 PM (0hOvj)

282 They tell me that if women ruled the world there would be no more wars.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May

They would be wrong. 😃
Posted by: Piper at May 19, 2023 03:00 PM (ZdaMQ)

My mother told me when I was young that working with women was far worse than working with men. Too much drama with women coworkers.

She worked the teletype in a steel mill back in the day before we were around.
Also worked at the JC Penny catalog,when we started school.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 19, 2023 03:05 PM (ufFY8)

283 Teddy at least was patriotic. You can’t really say that about Wilson.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 03:06 PM (5+1HQ)

284 Indy 5 has a 47% on Rotten Tomatoes after its premiere at Cannes.

That's not going to help build the hype train.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 03:04 PM (LvTSG)
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It scored less than half from the Cannes crowd?

Maybe it's actually non-shite. Doubtful, but somewhere inside the universe of possibility.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 03:06 PM (DU+/6)

285 278 Queen Elizabeth wasn't a Catholic.
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 03:04 PM (4eKPg)

Do protestants get some sort of pass? Did I miss a meeting?
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To be fair, there is no cocktail named in honor of Queen Elizabeth.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 03:06 PM (4eKPg)

286 279 > What exactly does that blue checkmark provide?
__________
Priority seating at Waffle House
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 19, 2023 03:05 PM (Q4IgG)

I'm on it then.

Posted by: Kwai Chang Mandelblit at May 19, 2023 03:06 PM (0AUR/)

287 @243: "These people, I don't think, are part of some great conspiracy."

Maybe not among the candidates and donors, but the media will be methodical about fluffing and overexposing each and every one of them until Trump is nominated.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 19, 2023 03:06 PM (k1Qly)

288 >>My mother told me when I was young that working with women was far worse than working with men.

Try working for one. Nightmare.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 19, 2023 03:07 PM (ZLI7S)

289 To be fair, there is no cocktail named in honor of Queen Elizabeth.
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 03:06 PM (4eKPg)

Virgin Daquiris?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 03:07 PM (zZu0s)

290 I don’t know why I looked at it, but Taylor Lorenz’s wiki bio is a hoot.

Born: October 21 c. 1984 - 1987

Posted by: MAGA_Ken

That's a long time for her mom to be in labor.

Posted by: Hands at May 19, 2023 03:07 PM (786Ro)

291 'Bloody Mary' killed fewer men than Queen Elizabeth.

Well, yeah she only had a few months.

And as I see it, ACE is not so much promoting Taylor Lorenz or posting specifically about her, as he is using her to point out a severe, ridiculous problem with Twitter and telling how it worked ... and maybe still does.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 03:07 PM (0hOvj)

292 284 It scored less than half from the Cannes crowd?

Maybe it's actually non-shite. Doubtful, but somewhere inside the universe of possibility.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 03:06 PM (DU+/6)

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20 reviews at the moment, back down to 45%, it seems. Indy 4 has a 77%.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 03:07 PM (LvTSG)

293 Prince Albert wasn't in a can.

Posted by: Hands at May 19, 2023 03:08 PM (786Ro)

294 283 Teddy at least was patriotic. You can’t really say that about Wilson.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 03:06 PM (5+1HQ)

Teddy was "patriotic" as far as it served him. He really was a POS.

Posted by: Kwai Chang Mandelblit at May 19, 2023 03:08 PM (0AUR/)

295 20 reviews at the moment, back down to 45%, it seems. Indy 4 has a 77%.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 03:07 PM (LvTSG)

Crystal Skull worked that well. How does Last Crusade fare?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 03:08 PM (zZu0s)

296 288 >>My mother told me when I was young that working with women was far worse than working with men.

And she was right... I worked for years with women.. You will never find a group of more back stabbing, petty, gossiping people. At least the group I worked with...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 19, 2023 03:08 PM (bs+z0)

297 The founders could not even imagine a situation in which companies abandoned basic earning and business concepts in order to promote a lunatic ideology. Remember, the Business of America is Business. The original slogan on US money was "mind your business."

It was inconceivable that we would reach a point where businesses deliberately drove away customers and ruined their bottom line to promote a perverted and insane religion. So they never even considered something like that might be needed.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 03:05 PM (0hOvj)
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They assumed - probably accurately - that such businesses would be punished by the customers because the customers would go elsewhere. Also, companies of this size were probably inconceivable.

But the core assumption - customer-based self-correction - was probably correct. There are network effects that are hard to overcome, but not impossible. The problem is that these monopolies are deliberately maintained (and competitors destroyed), *and* the government actively defends these outfits and uses them to do its bidding. That is already flatly illegal. It doesn't matter. We're post-law.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 03:08 PM (DU+/6)

298 "Every time I bring up repeal of the 19th Amendment, my wife reminds me that the election of Woodrow Wilson was completely the fault of male voters"

=====

How about reminding her that we have almost completely outsourced K-12 "learning" in America to women.

That has turned out well, right?

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 19, 2023 03:08 PM (i7Q7S)

299 The weekend is coming

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2023 03:08 PM (aLw92)

300 You could say that Teddy taught the Uniparty how to Uni.

Posted by: Kwai Chang Mandelblit at May 19, 2023 03:09 PM (0AUR/)

301 Trailer for Scorsese's new movie, Killers of the Flower Moon:

https://tinyurl.com/4h6ty835

Just made the connection that it really feels a bit more like a Paul Thomas Anderson movie more than a Scorsese movie. Probably just the similar setting to There Will be Blood.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 03:09 PM (LvTSG)

302 Last Crusade has a 66% metacritic (88 on rotten tomatoes.)

These people are fricking idiots.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 03:09 PM (zZu0s)

303 295 20 reviews at the moment, back down to 45%, it seems. Indy 4 has a 77%.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 03:07 PM (LvTSG)

Crystal Skull worked that well. How does Last Crusade fare?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 03:08 PM (zZu0s)

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Indy 3 - 84
Indy 2 - 76
Indy 1 - 93

But those historical ratings are questionable since they tend to oversample retrospective reviews rather than contemporary ones.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 03:10 PM (LvTSG)

304 302 Last Crusade has a 66% metacritic (88 on rotten tomatoes.)

These people are fricking idiots.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 03:09 PM (zZu0s)

I liked the last Crusade

Posted by: It's me donna at May 19, 2023 03:10 PM (bs+z0)

305 Indy 5 has a 47% on Rotten Tomatoes after its premiere at Cannes.

The messages are really mixed. They gave the film a 5 minute standing ovation, but Variety described it as "tepid". How does that work??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 03:10 PM (0hOvj)

306 Democracy NOW! reports that a CIA whistle-blower told him that presidential pardons from Trump were for sale at $2 million a pop.

Something tells me that this is total bullshit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 03:10 PM (DU+/6)

307 CNN glad hander Brian Stelter: "Willing to come to San Francisco, wherever to meet 1:1 with spokespeople even for introductory conversations."

If Tater's going
To San, Fran, Cisco
Be sure he wears
Some scalp on his hair

Posted by: Hands at May 19, 2023 03:05 PM (786Ro)

Psst, Tater. Plenty of hookups for you in the Castro District....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 19, 2023 03:10 PM (Angsy)

308 I liked the last Crusade
Posted by: It's me donna at May 19, 2023 03:10 PM (bs+z0)

Most of the real Crusades were mismanaged shit shows, if I recall.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 19, 2023 03:11 PM (ufFY8)

309 Oh, and the guy fencing the "$2 million a pop for pardons" story to the "whistle-blower" was a "Giuliani Aide."

Sure, Jan.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 03:11 PM (DU+/6)

310 Every time I bring up repeal of the 19th Amendment, my wife reminds me that the election of Woodrow Wilson was completely the fault of male voters.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 02:52 PM (5+1HQ)

The Hell you say, that was Teddy Roosevelt's fault for splitting the Republican vote

Posted by: Kindltot at May 19, 2023 03:11 PM (xhaym)

311 But those historical ratings are questionable since they tend to oversample retrospective reviews rather than contemporary ones.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 03:10 PM (LvTSG)

In hindsight (damn we were spoiled) I actually like Temple of Doom. Kate Capshaw not figured in. It does not quite have the dash or élan of the more judeo-christian movies, but it is fun.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 03:11 PM (zZu0s)

312 305 Indy 5 has a 47% on Rotten Tomatoes after its premiere at Cannes.

The messages are really mixed. They gave the film a 5 minute standing ovation, but Variety described it as "tepid". How does that work??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 03:10 PM (0hOvj)

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Everything at Cannes gets a standing ovation. Everything. It's become a thing where reading the tea leaves of reaction amounts to measuring the amount of time it lasts and how enthusiastic the clapping is.

I'd read observations of people in the theater talking during the movie. Critics...at Cannes...talking during a movie. I mean...that's bored and disrespectful right there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 03:12 PM (LvTSG)

313 I liked the last Crusade

Me too, I loved it, other than how they portrayed Brodie. He was an academic and interesting and smart, then he suddenly looks like a dumbass?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 03:12 PM (0hOvj)

314 They gave the film a 5 minute standing ovation, but Variety described it as "tepid". How does that work??
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Cuz everyone knows the star is gonna die soon and there are big money studios watching?

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 03:12 PM (4eKPg)

315 309 Oh, and the guy fencing the "$2 million a pop for pardons" story to the "whistle-blower" was a "Giuliani Aide."

Sure, Jan.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 03:11 PM (DU+/6)

Well we know Clinton sold pardons but I doubt Trump did.. This is real as the Russian Collusion stuff

Posted by: It's me donna at May 19, 2023 03:12 PM (bs+z0)

316 311 In hindsight (damn we were spoiled) I actually like Temple of Doom. Kate Capshaw not figured in. It does not quite have the dash or élan of the more judeo-christian movies, but it is fun.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 03:11 PM (zZu0s)

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I like it, too. The whole original trilogy is fun stuff.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 03:12 PM (LvTSG)

317 Me too, I loved it, other than how they portrayed Brodie. He was an academic and interesting and smart, then he suddenly looks like a dumbass?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 03:12 PM (0hOvj)

It was the flaw worked into the persian carpet, because perfection is reserved for the divine.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 03:13 PM (zZu0s)

318
My mother told me when I was young that working with women was far worse than working with men. Too much drama with women coworkers.

She worked the teletype in a steel mill back in the day before we were around.
Also worked at the JC Penny catalog,when we started school.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at

I think that is true for some women, they can be catty for sure. But not all women play this game. I find it exhausting behavior in women and men.

I bet her stories are fascinating. I love hearing about roles like this, what she saw, how she learned the teletype, etc.

Posted by: Piper at May 19, 2023 03:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

319 317 Me too, I loved it, other than how they portrayed Brodie. He was an academic and interesting and smart, then he suddenly looks like a dumbass?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 03:12 PM (0hOvj)

It was the flaw worked into the persian carpet, because perfection is reserved for the divine.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 03:13 PM (zZu0s)

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Brodie isn't a field man!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 03:14 PM (LvTSG)

320 Calls are growing for the Justice Department to investigate Donald Trump’s attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for allegedly plotting to sell presidential pardons during the Trump administration, after his former employee Noelle Dunphy filed a $10 million lawsuit against Giuliani accusing him of sexual assault and other misconduct. The complaint alleges Giuliani “asked Ms. Dunphy if she knew anyone in need of a pardon, telling her that he was selling pardons for $2 million, which he and President Trump would split.” Dunphy is not the first person to publicly reveal this scheme; CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou has previously divulged that he was among those asked to pay up in return for a clean slate. “This lawsuit is the first that I heard that money was supposed to be split with President Trump,” he tells Democracy Now!

I reiterate: Sure, Jan. They probably just want to ice Giuliani for some reason (no real point anymore) and if they can tar some Trump some more, then cool. Bonus points.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 03:14 PM (DU+/6)

321 Everything at Cannes gets a standing ovation. Everything.

That's asinine but not really surprising. Its a stupid pretentious event full of self important windbags. Its just a silly stunt to stand up cheering for everything.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 03:15 PM (0hOvj)

322 Wow. History being rewritten as I read the comments.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 19, 2023 03:15 PM (Xrfse)

323 nood - immigration racket

Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2023 03:15 PM (AMIL/)

324 Brodie isn't a field man!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 03:14 PM (LvTSG)

It would have actually been cooler if Indy's description of him (Brodie) to the bad guy had been real.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 03:15 PM (zZu0s)

325 I must say I'm a little surprised to hear that Lawrence Taylor has transitioned.

Posted by: That Northern skulker at May 19, 2023 03:16 PM (Pq/Oy)

326 320 Calls are growing for the Justice Department to investigate Donald Trump’s attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani

LOL... Like he hasn't been investigated ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 19, 2023 03:16 PM (bs+z0)

327 Casting Connery as Indy’s dad was genius.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 03:16 PM (5+1HQ)

328 299 The weekend is coming
Posted by: Skip at May 19

The goose is getting fat! Oh wait, that is a different song.

Posted by: Piper at May 19, 2023 03:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

329 I got a Twatter account last week. First time evah! Looking forward to the Tucker stuff more than anything, but it's nice for animal videos and the memes too. The Left is clearly insane and they are good for a laugh too.

Posted by: Fool Otto at May 19, 2023 03:17 PM (DB16e)

330 Temple of Doom is definitely the low point in the trilogy but its still better than Crystal Skull, and likely the next one. I get what Lucas was going for and God bless him for trying to make fun serials like his past favorite movies as a kid.

Its just there's too much that makes me cringe or wish hadn't taken place to really enjoy it like the other films.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 03:18 PM (0hOvj)

331
I will never understand this.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

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Allergy to the letter "R," but also Republican messaging sucks.

Imagine a Republican saying, "The bills you rolled back are EXACTLY the ones I opposed in my campaign, and the ones you supported are EXACTLY the ones I proposed. You could have saved yourself the expense of multiple referenda and been ahead in other ways if you'd voted for me to begin with."

Also, I think Republicans should simply start using tricks. Run as a Democrat, get in office as a Democrat, do a bunch of Republican things that everyone loves, and then start an incremental formal switch. Next election, run with no party affiliation, continue doing Republican things that everyone loves. Next election, run as a Republican.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 19, 2023 03:22 PM (lCaJd)

332 It would have actually been cooler if Indy's description of him (Brodie) to the bad guy had been real.

I agree, they threw away all that for a cheap gag and a reason for him to be captured. They wrote that as the way he ends up caught and the bad guys get the info they want but they sacrificed his entire character to do it, and he acts like an imbecile from that point on.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2023 03:23 PM (0hOvj)

333 They tell me that if women ruled the world there would be no more wars.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot

Hair pulling eye clawing screech fest every 20 minutes like clockwork. But that's technically not "war".

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 19, 2023 03:28 PM (Wy1BU)

334 "FBI says it won’t release Jan 6 surveillance video because it would show too many undercover government agents and informants"

Massive self own.

Posted by: Heresolong at May 19, 2023 03:52 PM (FSbq+)

335 "FBI says it won’t release Jan 6 surveillance video because it would show too many undercover government agents and informants"

And folks wondered why I was always dubious about that entire clusterfuck's value. Well, at least it's obvious now what the actual point of it was...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at May 19, 2023 03:58 PM (OUMaO)

336 Christie is another one of the bunch that insists Trump can't win and baggage and new directions. I remember things being pretty much stress and anxiety free.

Oh and I forgot about the indictments. tsk-tsk.

Posted by: micky at May 19, 2023 03:59 PM (3byMq)

337 An over extended article on this pos Taylor and the scum come out of the woodwork basically spewing women should not have been allowed to vote? W T F if you are that put off by women, kill yourself. Please.

Posted by: sidney at May 19, 2023 04:14 PM (Uy/WF)

338 And all of those hundreds of Feds followed orders without blinking...

Posted by: richard mcenroe at May 19, 2023 06:08 PM (8fxF+)

339 #211 Cuck Never Sleeps.

Posted by: richard mcenroe at May 19, 2023 06:09 PM (8fxF+)

340 Also, I think Republicans should simply start using tricks. Run as a Democrat, get in office as a Democrat,

I was looking for information in my last local election. There was nothing from the Republican party. Literally nothing even when I specifically called them and asked.

Then I went to the local Democrat party website. They had guides on who to vote for and why.

So it would be hard to run as a stealth Dem because they will actually vet you before they let you run as them.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 20, 2023 01:04 AM (lc5cP)

341

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