Jake Tapper Whined and Wheedled His Leftwing Celebrity Twitter Frenz to Plug His Godawful New "Book."<br>It Still Flopped.

Jake Tapper Whined and Wheedled His Leftwing Celebrity Twitter Frenz to Plug His Godawful New "Book."
It Still Flopped.

I read about five chapters of his first "novel."

It was a bad imitation of The DaVinci Code. He just kept giving you these "facts" about the DC area like "the Smithsonian is 90,000 square feet in area, and, given the tall ceilings, is 350,000 cubic feet. You could fit three Nimitz-class aircraft carriers inside the Smithsonian."

That's not an exact quote but he does that. He was describing a park along the Potomac River. Instead of drawing a mental image of the park -- you know, instead of giving you a sense-impression of what you'd see and feel if you were in the park -- he started babbling about when it the land was zoned for Park Use by the district and how many square miles it encompasses. Like, shit he got straight off the brochure he got at the park Visitors Booth.

He then has his blatant self-insert hero -- a reporter patterned exactly on Jake Tapper, except good looking, and with a "nose for news" (Jesus save me) -- attend a DC soiree featuring lots of politicos and movie stars from the 1950s. He seriously just copy-pastes a run-down of movies and hit songs released in 1953 to really prove to you he's done his research.

I renamed it Wikipedia: The Novel.

Anyway he wrote a sequel to Wikipedia: The Novel.

It's called All the Demons Are Here: A Thriller.

A thriller? For serious?

Well, I guess random factoids about how many biplanes can fit inside the Capitol Rotunda are "thrilling" for some people.

Jake Tapper Got His Celebrity Friends To Plug His New Book. It Still Flopped.

So-called thriller marred by 'overwrought prose' and 'wildly improbable plot developments'
Andrew Stiles
November 8, 2023
What happened: CNN host Jake Tapper persuaded (begged?) dozens of his liberal celebrity friends and journalist colleagues to publicly endorse his latest book, All the Demons Are Here: A Thriller, which came out this summer.

* The list of lib celebs who plugged Tapper's book includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jimmy Kimmel, Jake Gyllenhaal, Seth Meyers, Paul Rudd, Adam Scott, Ben Stiller, Judd Apatow, Whoopi Goldberg, Conan O'Brien, Christian Slater, Elizabeth Banks, and "Weird Al" Yankovic, among others. Kimmel urged his 11.4 million followers to buy a copy "for yourself or to send a copy to Trump in jail."
* Practically all of Tapper's colleagues at CNN, at least the ones who appear regularly on television, posted their own endorsements of the book on social media. They were joined by several other journalists at rival networks, including former Clinton spokesman George Stephanopoulos.
What happened next: The book still flopped--sort of like the time all those celebrities endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 but no one cared. All the Demons Are Here has sold just 13,196 copies since its release on July 11, according to the Daily Beast.
Crucial context: That's not very good.
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• Promotional material for the elder Tapper's thriller described it as "an absolute page-turner" that "transports readers to the 1970s underground world of cults, celebrities, tabloid journalism, serial killers, disco, and UFOs."
What they're saying: Some readers disagreed with that assessment. Kirkus Reviews described All the Demons Are Here as "a quasi-mystery in search of authenticity."
* Publisher's Weekly complained that the author's "overwrought prose" served to exacerbate "some wildly improbable plot developments."

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1 Jake Tapper can write?

Posted by: Ann at November 10, 2023 03:39 PM (4neFu)

2 Podium

Posted by: Skip at November 10, 2023 03:40 PM (fwDg9)

3 I thought Jake already had a book that bombed.

Posted by: dantesed at November 10, 2023 03:41 PM (88xKn)

4 Did Jake get actual celebrities or did he get cocktail "celebrity in their own mind" circuit celebrities to try and flog his book?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(z5vMw) at November 10, 2023 03:41 PM (z5vMw)

5 Did he still get the Leftists payment of millions for a book no one will buy?

Posted by: Skip at November 10, 2023 03:42 PM (fwDg9)

6 Jake "My book bombed" Tapper will now tell us of the horrific bombing he endured.

Which might actually be funny, if Jake had a sense of humor.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(z5vMw) at November 10, 2023 03:42 PM (z5vMw)

7 What happened next: The book still flopped--sort of like the time all those celebrities endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 but no one cared. All the Demons Are Here has sold just 13,196 copies since its release on July 11, according to the Daily Beast.

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It's unfair that his books sell more than mine.

Unfair!

*weeps bitterly but manfully*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 03:42 PM (GBKbO)

8 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

9 He strong-armed Weird Al to shill his book?!

Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 10, 2023 03:42 PM (GTqXr)

10 How much of the "profits" does he use to support the troops?

Posted by: Jake Tapper's Diseased Snapper at November 10, 2023 03:42 PM (KFhLj)

11 LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at November 10, 2023 03:43 PM (bs+z0)

12 I had no idea he wrote a book. That's mainly because I don't do the Twatters. And also mainly because I give no fucks about him or his celebrity friendsh.

Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 03:43 PM (bWsRe)

13 He thought Tom Clancy was successful doing it that he should copy him.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 03:43 PM (MNhXM)

14 Jake Tapper Is A No Talent Ass Clown.

No Talent. Ass. Clown.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 10, 2023 03:43 PM (R/m4+)

15 Jake Tapper is the Stormy Daniels of Keith Olbermann's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)

16 5 Did he still get the Leftists payment of millions for a book no one will buy?
Posted by: Skip at November 10, 2023 03:42 PM (fwDg9)

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Uncalled for.

Posted by: The Mooch at November 10, 2023 03:43 PM (bWsRe)

17 Apropros of nothing, here's an article about some group trying to draft a Romney Manchin ticket to save America and give people a set of politicians they can feel good about voting for instead of the lesser of two evils.

https://tinyurl.com/4yrbeywz

Notable bit of news: old Mitt canceled his plan to run for president earlier this year when he found out it would hurt Biden and help Trump.

Posted by: GanGanowicz at November 10, 2023 03:44 PM (AxRGS)

18 "Did you read Christian Slater's latest book recommendation?"

- Said nobody ever

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 10, 2023 03:45 PM (N3zMI)

19 The list of lib celebs who plugged Tapper's book includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jimmy Kimmel, Jake Gyllenhaal, Seth Meyers, Paul Rudd, Adam Scott, Ben Stiller, Judd Apatow, Whoopi Goldberg, Conan O'Brien, Christian Slater, Elizabeth Banks, and "Weird Al" Yankovic,

That's a pretty significant list of useless assholes, right there.

Oh how disappointing it is to have Weird Al on there. So much for me ever giving him a dime ever again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)

20 I would imagine that potential readers, seeing the title, "All the Demons are Here, " about Washington DC, shrug and say, "Ya, tell us something we don't know ".

Posted by: Just Lily at November 10, 2023 03:46 PM (0zVlk)

21 It's unfair that his books sell more than mine.

Unfair!

*weeps bitterly but manfully*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 03:42 PM (GBKbO)

You wrote a book?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 10, 2023 03:46 PM (/HDaX)

22 17 Apropros of nothing, here's an article about some group trying to draft a Romney Manchin ticket to save America and give people a set of politicians they can feel good about voting for instead of the lesser of two evils.

https://tinyurl.com/4yrbeywz

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Saw a segment of The Young Turks talking about this. Ana is hoping for this to happen so he can be humiliated. Chunk also noticed he got a new haircut, which is true. His old haircut is parted in the middle to look more "West Virginia". Now that the has aspirations of running for prezzy he has the hair parted on teh side and looks more PRESIDENTIAL.

TYT can be pretty fun sometimes.

Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 03:46 PM (bWsRe)

23 The Fapperer - Jake "I see nothing" Tapper

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 10, 2023 03:46 PM (NtVYv)

24 I don't think I'll be promoting it on the Sunday Morning Book Thread any time soon...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2023 03:46 PM (QxAkH)

25 21 You wrote a book?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 10, 2023 03:46 PM (/HDaX)

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"book"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 03:46 PM (GBKbO)

26 I still plan on attempting to write a children’s book. That’s where the money is. All you need to do is discover what’s the newest thing kid’s are obsessed with.

Have not made that discovery yet .

TMJ you are in perfect position to make that discovery.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 03:47 PM (MNhXM)

27 Ben Stiller... Z-dog's BFF?

Posted by: wth at November 10, 2023 03:47 PM (v0R5T)

28 is it book season or something? or is this the final act of the covid play?

I've seen so many celebrity books come out this year, especially in the last couple months there's a new "tell all" book each week it seems.

must have been they were stuck at home and had to do something to pretend they still mattered...

Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 03:47 PM (KZaqS)

29 The IDF has surrounded Al-Shifa hospital.

There are people in the Hamas command bunker under the hospital s**tting bricks at the moment.

A small rocket hit the hospital - the hospital director immediately blamed the Jooos, of course, but the IDF says it was an off-course rocket that Hamas fired at nearby Israeli troops.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 10, 2023 03:48 PM (YAtuc)

30 Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) apologized to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for dismissing his past criticism of the primary system, as the lawmaker makes a long-shot bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

“I have an apology to make to @BernieSanders,” Phillips wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “I had long dismissed his complaints about the rigged Democratic Party primary system. But you know what? He was right. And I apologize, Bernie,” he added.

Bernie was not suggesting that the votes in the primaries were rigged -- only the process. Phillips sounds like he is trying to justify his inevitable loss.

Ranked Choice Voting in the primaries and in the general election would fix this problem! The parties are petrified of it because they want their guy to be our only choice.

There wasn't even a problem with the process, as that one guy tried to claim. Obama didn't have a problem with it. The Clintons didn't have a problem with it. Gore and Kerry didn't have a problem with it. Just because he didn't like the process because voters didn't like him doesn't mean the process was flawed.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 10, 2023 03:48 PM (NCgXW)

31 TYT can be pretty fun sometimes.
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 03:46 PM (bWsRe)
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Bring up the Armenian genocide for maximum lulz.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at November 10, 2023 03:48 PM (ScR16)

32 Christian Slater stopped being a celebrity somewhere around Bill Clinton's first inauguration.

Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 03:48 PM (bWsRe)

33 "Hi has been, would you like to appear on my 'show' and tell me how great my book is while promoting whatever desperate effort you are undertaking to promote yourself" signed Jake Tapper

Posted by: Greg61 at November 10, 2023 03:48 PM (99YkD)

34 Any dirigibles in this one?

Posted by: dirigible fan at November 10, 2023 03:48 PM (RRBiz)

35 26 I still plan on attempting to write a children’s book. That’s where the money is. All you need to do is discover what’s the newest thing kid’s are obsessed with.

Have not made that discovery yet .

TMJ you are in perfect position to make that discovery.
Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 03:47 PM (MNhXM)

Pro-Tip: It's NOT Prometheus.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 10, 2023 03:48 PM (N3zMI)

36 Shitty book? Maybe it'll win a Poo-litzer.

get it? Shit = poo? Kinda sounds like Pul-

never mind

Posted by: DB - at November 10, 2023 03:49 PM (geLO8)

37 Why can't these idiots just stick to the coffee table book genre rather than going for the weighty tome no one will read?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(z5vMw) at November 10, 2023 03:49 PM (z5vMw)

38 Christian Slater stopped being a celebrity somewhere around Bill Clinton's first inauguration.
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 03:48 PM (bWsRe)

Slater lost his last big role when Archer ended.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 03:49 PM (MNhXM)

39 26 I still plan on attempting to write a children’s book. That’s where the money is. All you need to do is discover what’s the newest thing kid’s are obsessed with.

Have not made that discovery yet .

TMJ you are in perfect position to make that discovery.
Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 03:47 PM (MNhXM)

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The writing process:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ2cvGNAHjw

The Final Draft:

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

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 03:49 PM (GBKbO)

40 a "nose for news" (Jesus save me)

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:40 PM

Nope.

It should be "Moses save me.

Tapper is a Jew...sort of. His religion is of course progressivism, but he squawks about Judaism now and then.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 10, 2023 03:49 PM (3Gtis)

41 More at the link.

WHY?

Posted by: Paladin at November 10, 2023 03:49 PM (quX0S)

42 Tapper is 54, all he knows about the 70s is the Saturday Morning Cartoons.

Write what you know, dude.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 03:50 PM (eoQWY)

43 Pro-Tip: It's NOT Prometheus.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 10, 2023 03:48 PM (N3zMI)
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Prometheus: The coloring book, ages 2 through 8.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(z5vMw) at November 10, 2023 03:50 PM (z5vMw)

44
I know the park. Fort Marcy Park was where the Clintons had Vince Foster's body dumped after they had him murdered in the White House.

Posted by: Speller at November 10, 2023 03:50 PM (pSotA)

45 30 Ranked Choice Voting in the primaries and in the general election would fix this problem! The parties are petrified of it because they want their guy to be our only choice.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 10, 2023 03:48 PM (NCgXW)

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The idea that ranked choice voting is some kind of panacea instead of a literal way to rig the game behind smoke and mirrors is pretty funny, if you ask me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 03:51 PM (GBKbO)

46 Tapper is a Jew...sort of. His religion is of course progressivism, but he squawks about Judaism now and then.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 10, 2023 03:49 PM (3Gti

Did he change his name to hide that fact?

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 03:51 PM (MNhXM)

47 When you are corrupt you expect payment. Liberal publishers are willing to publish a book that is boring to repay the author who is corrupt.

Posted by: Redenzo at November 10, 2023 03:51 PM (V/pbu)

48 1 Jake Tapper can write?
Posted by: Ann at November 10, 2023 03:39 PM (4neFu)

No, not really.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 10, 2023 03:51 PM (i9ffA)

49 The idea that ranked choice voting is some kind of panacea instead of a literal way to rig the game behind smoke and mirrors is pretty funny, if you ask me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 03:51 PM (GBKbO)

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SHUT THE FUCK UP

Posted by: Alaska's Democrat Congresswoman at November 10, 2023 03:52 PM (bWsRe)

50 26 I still plan on attempting to write a children’s book. That’s where the money is. All you need to do is discover what’s the newest thing kid’s are obsessed with.

Have not made that discovery yet .

TMJ you are in perfect position to make that discovery.
Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 03:47 PM (MNhXM)

Pro-Tip: It's NOT Prometheus.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 10, 2023 03:48 PM (N3zMI)

Its always dinosaurs for the boys. Being huge and dangerous is a huge pull for the monsters who are neither at that point.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 03:52 PM (eoQWY)

51 It transports readers to a time of tabloid journalism.

Journalism was better in the time of Jeane Dixon and Batboy than it is in the time of nonexistent peepee tapes and journalists implanted in Hamas.

Posted by: Wally at November 10, 2023 03:52 PM (hqVaF)

52 Who the hell are Adam Scott and Elizabeth Banks?
No wait. Please don't tell me.

Posted by: wth at November 10, 2023 03:52 PM (v0R5T)

53 The idea that ranked choice voting is some kind of panacea instead of a literal way to rig the game behind smoke and mirrors is pretty funny, if you ask me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 03:51 PM (GBKbO)

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SHUT THE FUCK UP
Posted by: Alaska's Democrat Congresswoman at November 10, 2023 03:52 PM (bWsRe)

I used to work with a dude who would come up and try and convince me it was better. I said it was pap for people who can't make up their damn mind. And also the fraud, of course.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 03:53 PM (eoQWY)

54 This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Dorothy Parker

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 10, 2023 03:53 PM (HcZ09)

55 What they're saying: Some readers disagreed with that assessment. Kirkus Reviews described All the Demons Are Here as "a quasi-mystery in search of authenticity."

* Publisher's Weekly complained that the author's "overwrought prose" served to exacerbate "some wildly improbable plot developments."

Archimedes calls it a load of tripe pulled out of his capacious arse.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 10, 2023 03:53 PM (I/Qkd)

56 >>>Jake Tapper Got His Celebrity Friends To Plug His New Book.

Phrasing?

Posted by: m at November 10, 2023 03:53 PM (ASp1y)

57 32 Christian Slater stopped being a celebrity somewhere around Bill Clinton's first inauguration.
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 03:48 PM (bWsRe)

Well, I like Broken Arrow but it was carried by Travolta and Howie Long.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 10, 2023 03:53 PM (N3zMI)

58 Who the hell are Adam Scott and Elizabeth Banks?
No wait. Please don't tell me.
Posted by: wth at November 10, 2023 03:52 PM (v0R5T)

Banks was probably pretty in the 80s and 90s which is where this list was made up.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 03:54 PM (eoQWY)

59 Am I supposed to know who Judd Apatow is, too?

Posted by: wth at November 10, 2023 03:54 PM (v0R5T)

60 Can't say ever cared to Google Jake Tapper

Posted by: Skip at November 10, 2023 03:54 PM (fwDg9)

61 Well, I like Broken Arrow but it was carried by Travolta and Howie Long.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 10, 2023 03:53 PM (N3zMI)
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"Please do not shoot at the thermonuclear weapon" is a classic line.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(z5vMw) at November 10, 2023 03:54 PM (z5vMw)

62 I read that as "the author's overweight prose."

Still fits, I guess.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 10, 2023 03:54 PM (J2vNu)

63 Elizabeth Banks used to be a hottie who I think is a really good comedic actress. Unfortunately her level of Leftism after she made it made her off putting to me.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 03:54 PM (MNhXM)

64 Anyway he wrote a sequel to Wikipedia: The Novel.

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Should have titled it: ChatGPT: The Novel.

Posted by: ShainS -- Too Male, Too Pale, Too Stale at November 10, 2023 03:55 PM (Jd8FD)

65 Who the hell are Adam Scott and Elizabeth Banks?
No wait. Please don't tell me.
Posted by: wth at November 10, 2023 03:52 PM (v0R5T)

didn't she show her rack off in some movie with nic cage?

Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 03:55 PM (KZaqS)

66 Elizabeth Banks was pretty in the 80s? Who are you, Joe Biden?

Posted by: Wally at November 10, 2023 03:55 PM (hqVaF)

67 didn't she show her rack off in some movie with nic cage?
Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 03:55 PM (KZaqS)
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Might be confusing her with Elizabeth Shue in "Leaving Las Vegas."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(z5vMw) at November 10, 2023 03:56 PM (z5vMw)

68 65 Who the hell are Adam Scott and Elizabeth Banks?
No wait. Please don't tell me.
Posted by: wth at November 10, 2023 03:52 PM (v0R5T)

didn't she show her rack off in some movie with nic cage?
Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 03:55 PM (KZaqS)
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She was the slutty girl in The 40 Year Old Virgin.

She was pretty hot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

69 Posted by: wth at November 10, 2023 03:52 PM (v0R5T)

Banks can act. Although since she is friends with Tapper she is clearly a retard.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 10, 2023 03:56 PM (3Gtis)

70 In Alaska the Dem got 39% of the vote. The two Reps got 59% of the vote combined. The Dem won the seat.

That's what ranked choice is all about. But there are imbecilic Republicans who will happily support that in their state, because, well, they're imbeciles.

Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 03:56 PM (bWsRe)

71 The list of lib celebs who plugged Tapper's book includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jimmy Kimmel, Jake Gyllenhaal, Seth Meyers, Paul Rudd, Adam Scott, Ben Stiller, Judd Apatow, Whoopi Goldberg, Conan O'Brien, Christian Slater, Elizabeth Banks, and "Weird Al" Yankovic,
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Are we sure all these worthies can actually read?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 03:57 PM (PNB8i)

72 Reviewed by Jazz Shaw on Hot Air! Favorably, even.

Posted by: Severe Conservative at November 10, 2023 03:57 PM (rRbZU)

73 60 Can't say ever cared to Google Jake Tapper
Posted by: Skip at November 10, 2023 03:54 PM (fwDg9)

Also phrasing?

Posted by: m at November 10, 2023 03:57 PM (ASp1y)

74 Is Elizabeth Banks the hot one from 40 Year Old Virgin? Too lazy to look it up.

Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 03:57 PM (bWsRe)

75 I always refer to him as Jake Fapper.

Sounds like he got one of his interns to write the book for him...in between beejers.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 10, 2023 03:57 PM (l10hq)

76 70 Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 03:56 PM (bWsRe)

The republican party will throw themselves in the ovens, "no no love you'll hurt your back let me hop in."

Posted by: sven at November 10, 2023 03:57 PM (X0I7i)

77 Well, "The DaVinci Code" is unreadable dogshit, so I can't imagine what a bad imitation is like.

Posted by: UGAdawg at November 10, 2023 03:57 PM (tRd71)

78 I'm betting Tapper put more thought into his wardrobe and the poses for the author pics on his "books" than he did for story and characters in the books.

Posted by: Biergood at November 10, 2023 03:57 PM (PwgSL)

79 I still plan on attempting to write a children’s book. That’s where the money is. All you need to do is discover what’s the newest thing kid’s are obsessed with.

Have not made that discovery yet .

TMJ you are in perfect position to make that discovery.
Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 03:47 PM (MNhXM)

Kaepernick wrote a children's book. I found out at the son's school's Scholastic Book Fair. *eyeroll*

Posted by: Catherine at November 10, 2023 03:58 PM (ZSsrh)

80 It's not Sunday.
Do we have to put pants on for this book thread?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2023 03:58 PM (TzW+Y)

81 1 Posted by: Ann at November 10, 2023 03:39 PM (4neFu)

Fake Jake had one of Don Le Mon's underpaid fluffers ghostwrite the damned thing.

Posted by: sven at November 10, 2023 03:58 PM (X0I7i)

82 Trump lies and his breath still stinks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Dorcus Blimline at November 10, 2023 03:58 PM (PYJJG)

83 If Tapper wanted a successful book with lots of mystery and skullduggery he could have written one about how the 2020 election was stolen/rigged. Or the covid scam. Orr the Russia collaboration hoax. Plenty of material there and he could have gotten people to talk off the record. He could even have written it as a fiction. Of course that would have required going against the narrative and outside his comprehension.

Posted by: Ripley at November 10, 2023 03:59 PM (JojsZ)

84 79 Posted by: Catherine at November 10, 2023 03:58 PM (ZSsrh)

Wayciss, Wyaciss, Wayciss! is a pretty simple literary endeavor.

Posted by: sven at November 10, 2023 03:59 PM (X0I7i)

85 didn't she show her rack off in some movie with nic cage?
Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 03:55 PM (KZaqS)
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Might be confusing her with Elizabeth Shue in "Leaving Las Vegas."
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(z5vMw) at November 10, 2023 03:56 PM (z5vMw)

Thanks, that might have been it, but i knew Shue was in vegas. and she looked good in that for sure.

considering my first thought was the missus from Mary Poppins, this si a better thought.

tho Julie Andrews was a looker...

Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 03:59 PM (KZaqS)

86 It's not Sunday.
Do we have to put pants on for this book thread?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2023 03:58 PM (TzW+Y)

Wait.....the Sunday Book Thread requires pants?!?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)

87 Kaepernick wrote a children's book. I found out at the son's school's Scholastic Book Fair. *eyeroll*
Posted by: Catherine at November 10, 2023 03:58 PM (ZSsrh)

If its about his pet turtle it might be all right, he seemed to like the turtle before he got woke.

If its about football its probably crap. He gave up on that a long time ago.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 04:00 PM (eoQWY)

88 82 Posted by: Dorcus Blimline at November 10, 2023 03:58 PM (PYJJG)

Your sack of shit is losing to our designated sack of shit these days....

so evidently 2 dollar gas is a breath mint to a lot of the country retard.

Posted by: sven at November 10, 2023 04:00 PM (X0I7i)

89 This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Dorothy Parker

**snort** thread winner!

Posted by: Paladin at November 10, 2023 04:00 PM (quX0S)

90 So Ace didn't even get to the part in the book where Brian Dennehy fought the volcano?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2023 04:00 PM (TzW+Y)

91 Regardless of the number of sales, his bio in a few years will read "best selling author".

Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:00 PM (bWsRe)

92 Are we sure all these worthies can actually read?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 03:57 PM (PNB8i)
......

I'm pretty sure Ben Stiller and Whoopie can't.

Posted by: wth at November 10, 2023 04:00 PM (v0R5T)

93
Jake Tapper can write?
Posted by: Ann at November 10, 2023 03:39 PM (4neFu)

His staffer can.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 10, 2023 04:00 PM (MoZTd)

94 53 The idea that ranked choice voting is some kind of panacea instead of a literal way to rig the game behind smoke and mirrors is pretty funny, if you ask me.

Its lazy. How do you declare the winner, in any election ? He or she who gets over half the vote ?

What do you do when you let three people run ? And you should let three people run. Piss on the DNC and GOP picking who can run.

But how do you pick a winner, in a three candidate race, when none of them make 50% ? You eliminate the guy that came in last, line up and go again.

Ranked choice tries to outsmart that by half. But you literally can not present a buffet of choices to simulate how your choices will change - in a three or more candidate field - without eliminating the lowest runner and going again.

You can not do it. It would take filling in a matrix, rather than a ballot.

Posted by: Nic Of The Day at November 10, 2023 04:00 PM (2PkBC)

95
Are we sure all these worthies can actually read?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 03:57 PM (PNB8i)

They get some intern to read it to see if their name appears anywhere.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 10, 2023 04:01 PM (MoZTd)

96 77 Posted by: UGAdawg at November 10, 2023 03:57 PM (tRd71)

It is a lot like Clancy, the only book Clancy ever wrote fiction wise that had human character development was 'without remorse' which Amazon butchered the unholy hell out of by the way.

If you are in the mood to hurt yourself and not up to self-inflicted groin shots with a 7 pound hammer give it a whirl.

Posted by: sven at November 10, 2023 04:01 PM (X0I7i)

97 Book reviews FTW

Posted by: MAC V SOG at November 10, 2023 04:01 PM (P4Pk9)

98 Nic Of The Day

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You're overthinking it. It's a way for Dems to cheat. Full stop.

Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:02 PM (bWsRe)

99 I pretty much never google anything.

I even put Opera on my Android phone.

Even though I know, yes, google knows most of what I do because Android phone. It's the principal of the thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)

100 It was a dark and DM'y night.....

Posted by: x at November 10, 2023 04:02 PM (frATP)

101 The hallways were quiet. Too quiet.

The hallways were wide enough to drive a Ford Pinto down their 246 and a half foot length.. Two if there was no gravity and you maximized the volume of their 10 foot height by driving the second Pinto on the ceiling.

But then the quietness of the hallways would be shattered. Just like the confidence that I once had in the scoop provided by the assistant deputy for mid-eastern affairs who was my source for the emoluments scandal that turned out to be a dry well.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at November 10, 2023 04:02 PM (LaNzR)

102 Wait.....the Sunday Book Thread requires pants?!?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)
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It's in the official AoSHQ Code of Conduct...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2023 04:03 PM (YIVH2)

103 I only read Hunt For Red October which was good but as snarked above by me , Clancy got into the technical details bigley.

Did he do this in all his books?

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 04:03 PM (MNhXM)

104 It was a dark and DM'y night.....
Posted by: x at November 10, 2023 04:02 PM (frATP)

----------------

Yeah, that made me laugh.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(z5vMw) at November 10, 2023 04:03 PM (z5vMw)

105 This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Dorothy Parker
_______________

Classic comment of a reviewer of a manuscript submitted for publication: "this paper should either be reduced 50%, or oxidized 100%."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 04:03 PM (PNB8i)

106 The FBI has just seized NYC Mayor Eric Adams cell phone and iPad.

insert Nelson Muntz laugh here.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2023 04:04 PM (ZLI7S)

107 Wait.....the Sunday Book Thread requires pants?!?
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Yes, it's classy like that.

Sometime i even put on my smoking jacket.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2023 04:04 PM (TzW+Y)

108 ---
It's in the official AoSHQ Code of Conduct...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2023 04:03 PM (YIVH2)

Shit.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)

109 Did he do this in all his books?
Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 04:03 PM (MNhXM)
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Pretty much.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at November 10, 2023 04:04 PM (ScR16)

110 103 Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 04:03 PM (MNhXM)

All but without remorse and perhaps arguably Cardinal of the Kremlin...

Rainbow Six was not as bad down that rabbit hole, but counter-intuitively when he started renting out his name to ghostwriters they took "Clancy writes too much tech spec pron" as a challenge not a caution.

Posted by: sven at November 10, 2023 04:04 PM (X0I7i)

111 Clancy had a gift for technical narrative but his characters were all pure cardboard.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 10, 2023 04:04 PM (N3zMI)

112 Regardless of the number of sales, his bio in a few years will read "best selling author".
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:00 PM (bWsRe)
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They just have to say "NYT Best Seller." That list is so corrupt that it's impossible to say just what that means, so lots of authors can get away with it, regardless of sales.

It *sounds* good, though.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2023 04:04 PM (YIVH2)

113 He wrote a non-fiction book about a remote outpost in Afghanistan named Camp Keating that was pretty good, and was also a decent movie.

Posted by: Jim Don Bob at November 10, 2023 04:04 PM (7T9N+)

114 Perhaps true, but I salute the tropes.

Posted by: Jake's Twapper at November 10, 2023 04:04 PM (F6McX)

115 This is funny, from Wiki about the Alaska congressional seat

Nick Begich
Elected in 1970.
Went missing October 16, 1972.
Re-elected posthumously in 1972.
Declared dead December 29, 1972.

Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:04 PM (bWsRe)

116 Ranked choice tries to outsmart that by half. But you literally can not present a buffet of choices to simulate how your choices will change - in a three or more candidate field - without eliminating the lowest runner and going again.

You can not do it. It would take filling in a matrix, rather than a ballot.
Posted by: Nic Of The Day at November 10, 2023 04:00 PM (2PkBC)

If Your Loser first vote doesn't win, you don't get to vote again unless my winning first choice gets to count a second time.

So it fails one man one vote and equity. It promotes splinter parties that can throw their 1 percent in exchange for bribes. I don't like dirty deals, and third parties should either get incorporated into the mainstream or stay in the wilderness forever. Major parties had to appeal to broad issues, splinter parties don't have to.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 04:05 PM (eoQWY)

117 I am so Happy that my true love (Dorcus) is back..... I hope you gained some more weight from eating 100 Twinkees a day.... You hopefully have achieved Snow-Pig Level of Beauty for the Winter Soltice and now we can sacrifice a large sow for your evening snack..........

Posted by: Franklin Stein at November 10, 2023 04:05 PM (Mig/N)

118 You're overthinking it. It's a way for Dems to cheat. Full stop.

I know. But its one of those bullshit ideas that sounds "smart" to some, until you show the details. I just did.

You can't make a guaranteed 10% was something us rubes understood. But the brightest in NYC, lacking the details, gave their money to Madoff anyway.

Posted by: Nic Of The Day at November 10, 2023 04:05 PM (2PkBC)

119 80 It's not Sunday.
Do we have to put pants on for this book thread?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2023 03:58 PM (TzW+Y)

It's not like they have to be your pants. Also acceptable: a decorative codpiece.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 10, 2023 04:06 PM (z+89e)

120 Are we sure all these worthies can actually read?
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Of course.
Here's a picture of me reading the first page.
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Le Brony James.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2023 04:06 PM (TzW+Y)

121 He wrote a non-fiction book about a remote outpost in Afghanistan named Camp Keating that was pretty good, and was also a decent movie.
Posted by: Jim Don Bob at November 10, 2023 04:04 PM (7T9N+)
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"Into the Storm," about VII Corps in the First Gulf War is also quite goo.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at November 10, 2023 04:06 PM (ScR16)

122 Regardless of the number of sales, his bio in a few years will read "best selling author".
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:00 PM (bWsRe)
________________

"Award-winning author."

RUN!!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 04:06 PM (PNB8i)

123 You could fit three Nimitz-class aircraft carriers inside the Smithsonian."

*******

Wait until you get to the part where he waxes lyrical about the size and shape of the Washington Monument...and how many fully turgid penises could fit inside it.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 10, 2023 04:06 PM (991eG)

124 So-called thriller marred by 'overwrought prose' and 'wildly improbable plot developments

This sounds like a cue to craft a Horde sourced novel.

I'll start:

"Take that, you dastardly shelves," the cracker jack jack of all trades declaimed as he stroked his luxurious pelt. "Your even more dastardly attempt to thwart my mastery of the carpentry arts by making the drill engage in a manner unforeseen shall not conquer my wit and dashing good looks!"

Posted by: kderien at November 10, 2023 04:06 PM (7uj2f)

125 That would make a great movie.

Posted by: Hollywood at November 10, 2023 04:06 PM (cHOHf)

126 I've actually never had a "novel" thought in my life.

Posted by: Jake's Twapper at November 10, 2023 04:07 PM (F6McX)

127 Over/under on Tapper having been to Epstein's Island.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:07 PM (Zz0t1)

128 Are we sure all these worthies can actually read?
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Of course.
Here's a picture of me reading the first page.
---
Le Brony James.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2023 04:06 PM (TzW+Y)
_____________

Uh ... Le Brony ... the book is upside down.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 04:07 PM (PNB8i)

129 125 That would make a great movie.
Posted by: Hollywood at November 10, 2023 04:06 PM (cHOHf)

=======

"We'll spend a billion dollars on the adaptation."
-Amazon

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

130 Sometime i even put on my smoking jacket.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2023 04:04 PM (TzW+Y)

You should put it out first. It might burst into flames again when you move.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 10, 2023 04:07 PM (HcZ09)

131 It was a dark and stormy night. The kind of night well documented by the National Weather Service in publications located in Row 12 of Subbasement D in the Library of Congress, which only became handicapped accessible in 1984, over Ronald Reagan's opposition.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at November 10, 2023 04:07 PM (KFhLj)

132 So it fails one man one vote and equity.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 04:05 PM (eoQWY)

Exactly. I don't know how courts can allow this. If I vote for the 3rd place candidate, I then get to vote again, through my 2nd choice vote. If you vote for the first place candidate, you don't get to vote again. I get 2 votes, you get 1 vote. How in the hell is that constitutional?

Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:07 PM (bWsRe)

133 Working at CNN, you'd think Tapper was accustomed to writing fiction.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 04:07 PM (PNB8i)

134 quite good.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at November 10, 2023 04:08 PM (ScR16)

135 Kimmel urged his 11.4 million followers to buy a copy "for yourself or to send a copy to Trump in jail."

***

I swear Kimmel couldn't be funny if you duct taped him to Jim Breuer.

Posted by: Azathoth at November 10, 2023 04:08 PM (wb1YC)

136 Man! If Woopie says its good you know it must be.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 10, 2023 04:08 PM (lrEMD)

137 Man! If Woopie says its good you know it must be.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 10, 2023 04:08 PM (lrEMD)

Did she read it or EAT it?

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 04:08 PM (eoQWY)

138 Journalists. Is there anything they don't know?

Posted by: Homer Simpson at November 10, 2023 04:08 PM (8I1xD)

139 The FBI has just seized NYC Mayor Eric Adams cell phone and iPad.

insert Nelson Muntz laugh here.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2023 04:04 PM (ZLI7S)
......

ATTENTION: all big city mayors. THIS COULD BE YOU.
Act accordingly.

Posted by: wth at November 10, 2023 04:08 PM (v0R5T)

140 If Your Loser first vote doesn't win, you don't get to vote again unless my winning first choice gets to count a second time.

See ... bullshit. I can vote for a loser every damn time I please. This is why complicated methods do not work - conservatives will try to game the system as well.

Posted by: Nic Of The Day at November 10, 2023 04:08 PM (2PkBC)

141
"Take that, you dastardly shelves," the cracker jack jack of all trades declaimed as he stroked his luxurious pelt. "Your even more dastardly attempt to thwart my mastery of the carpentry arts by making the drill engage in a manner unforeseen shall not conquer my wit and dashing good looks!"
Posted by: kderien at November 10, 2023 04:06 PM (7uj2f)

"...as the drill whirled endlessly, "WHY IS IT ONLY GOING IN 3 INCHES!??" The neighbor is heard spouting "That's what she said!!!" as the drill launches across the room."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:08 PM (Zz0t1)

142 I swear Kimmel couldn't be funny if you duct taped him to Jim Breuer.
Posted by: Azathoth at November 10, 2023 04:08 PM (wb1YC)
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Duct-taping him to a wolverine, on the other hand, would yield many yuks.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at November 10, 2023 04:09 PM (ScR16)

143 "this paper should either be reduced 50%, or oxidized 100%."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

*******

I heard this one somewhereL
"I am sitting in the smallest room in the house with your manuscript in front of me. Soon it will be behind me."

Posted by: Muldoon at November 10, 2023 04:10 PM (991eG)

144 I thought a synecdoche was a half drunken cocktail.

Posted by: Jake's Twapper at November 10, 2023 04:10 PM (F6McX)

145 I would still like to know if at any point after The Man Show, Adam Corolla told Kimmel to GFY for turning into a liberal asshole and selling out to the leftist mob.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:10 PM (Zz0t1)

146 The FBI has just seized NYC Mayor Eric Adams cell phone and iPad.

__

LOL. This is what happens when you go against the regime on illegal immigration. Dissent will not be tolerated.

Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:10 PM (bWsRe)

147 So it fails one man one vote and equity. It promotes splinter parties that can throw their 1 percent in exchange for bribes. I don't like dirty deals, and third parties should either get incorporated into the mainstream or stay in the wilderness forever. Major parties had to appeal to broad issues, splinter parties don't have to.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 04:05 PM (eoQWY)
________________

Exactly the problem with parliamentary democracies. It empowers the Monster Raving Loony Party to extort concessions from a major party that falls just short of a majority in parliament.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 04:11 PM (PNB8i)

148 I heard this one somewhereL
"I am sitting in the smallest room in the house with your manuscript in front of me. Soon it will be behind me."
Posted by: Muldoon at November 10, 2023 04:10 PM (991eG)
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It was quoted by Spider Robinson many, many moons ago.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at November 10, 2023 04:11 PM (ScR16)

149 145 I would still like to know if at any point after The Man Show, Adam Corolla told Kimmel to GFY for turning into a liberal asshole and selling out to the leftist mob.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:10 PM (Zz0t1)

__

Judging by what Adam says on his podcast, they're still friends and hang out all the time.

Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:11 PM (bWsRe)

150 The FBI has just seized NYC Mayor Eric Adams cell phone and iPad.

__

LOL. This is what happens when you go against the regime on illegal immigration. Dissent will not be tolerated.
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:10 PM (bWsRe)

ExACTly......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:11 PM (Zz0t1)

151 You could fit three Nimitz-class aircraft carriers inside the Smithsonian."

*******

Wait until you get to the part where he waxes lyrical about the size and shape of the Washington Monument...and how many fully turgid penises could fit inside it.
Posted by: Muldoon at November 10, 2023 04:06 PM (991eG)

At least the Camel or Elephant scale is something people have experienced. You might as well say you can fit one and a quarter Imperial Star Destroyers. Few see an aircraft carrier up close

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 04:11 PM (eoQWY)

152 Is there anything this man cannot do?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2023 04:11 PM (RIvkX)

153 I swear Kimmel couldn't be funny if you duct taped him to Jim Breuer.
Posted by: Azathoth at November 10, 2023 04:08 PM (wb1YC)
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Duct-taping him to a wolverine, on the other hand, would yield many yuks.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at November 10, 2023 04:09 PM (ScR16)
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and earn millions if it's live on PPV. Vegas may even want to put up a "how does Kimmel survive" betting line.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(z5vMw) at November 10, 2023 04:11 PM (z5vMw)

154 So the FBI is having a seizure?

Posted by: Just got here at November 10, 2023 04:11 PM (8I1xD)

155 __

Judging by what Adam says on his podcast, they're still friends and hang out all the time.
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:11 PM (bWsRe)

Well, that's disappointing.

Sure I have liberal friends, but Kimmel is an embarrassing leftist asshole that should be shunned by all.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:12 PM (Zz0t1)

156 I metonymy my wife in a brothel.

Posted by: Jake's Twapper at November 10, 2023 04:12 PM (F6McX)

157 Oh how disappointing it is to have Weird Al on there. So much for me ever giving him a dime ever again.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)

Right?! I love him. It is very disappointing to see him with those losers.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at November 10, 2023 04:12 PM (6xRrr)

158 Judging by what Adam says on his podcast, they're still friends and hang out all the time.
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:11 PM (bWsRe)
===

His friend is a real pr*ck.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2023 04:12 PM (RIvkX)

159 So it fails one man one vote and equity.
--
That's what blows my mind. How is it Constitutional that some people get 2 or more votes through the rounds but others get their vote voided in later rounds?

Note: The Dems are not pushing it in deep blue states.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2023 04:12 PM (TzW+Y)

160 Why can’t they be satisfied with having to get a certain percentage of the vote or there is a run off?

Doesn’t that give you chance to vote for a loser the second time?

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 04:13 PM (MNhXM)

161 So the FBI is having a seizure?
Posted by: Just got here at November 10, 2023 04:11 PM (8I1xD)

And here I thought they had all been vaxxed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 10, 2023 04:13 PM (HcZ09)

162 I guess this is the vocabulary thread.

Posted by: Furrows brow at November 10, 2023 04:13 PM (8I1xD)

163 At least the Camel or Elephant scale is something people have experienced. You might as well say you can fit one and a quarter Imperial Star Destroyers. Few see an aircraft carrier up close

I thought giraffes were the accepted unit of measure.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 10, 2023 04:13 PM (I/Qkd)

164 I'm running out of grammar and literary puns. Stop fucking around Muldoon and help out.

Posted by: Jake's Twapper at November 10, 2023 04:13 PM (F6McX)

165 To stay famous, Kimmel had 2 choices after Carolla dumped him - 1. Be funny; or 2. Suck politically correct dick. Give him credit for knowing his limitations.

Posted by: Wally at November 10, 2023 04:13 PM (hqVaF)

166 160 Why can’t they be satisfied with having to get a certain percentage of the vote or there is a run off?

Doesn’t that give you chance to vote for a loser the second time?
Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 04:13 PM (MNhXM)

It does. But everyone gets the same number of votes. With ranked choice, some get 1 vote, some get 2 votes, some get 3 votes, etc.

Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:14 PM (bWsRe)

167 Exactly the problem with parliamentary democracies. It empowers the Monster Raving Loony Party to extort concessions from a major party that falls just short of a majority in parliament.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 04:11 PM (PNB8i)

Well the barrier there is that some Loony must actually win a seat, which rarely happens. But another garbage idea is the proportional legislation which assures that garbage parties get presence they don't deserve.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 04:14 PM (eoQWY)

168 You could fit three Nimitz-class aircraft carriers inside the Smithsonian."

----
How many helicarriers does it hold? And does it have a large underground parking garage?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Nick Fury at November 10, 2023 04:14 PM (YIVH2)

169 I swear Kimmel couldn't be funny if you duct taped him to Jim Breuer.
Posted by: Azathoth at November 10, 2023 04:08 PM (wb1YC)

dropping him in the walled off Gaza with endless cases of Thunderbird would bring even more hilarity

Posted by: DanMan at November 10, 2023 04:14 PM (8uzBS)

170 So the FBI is having a seizure?

Maybe it's a pounceure.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2023 04:14 PM (JrojV)

171
I thought giraffes were the accepted unit of measure.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 10, 2023 04:13 PM (I/Qkd)

You all may suck my ass.

Posted by: Stacy Abrams at November 10, 2023 04:14 PM (Zz0t1)

172 I renamed it Wikipedia: The Novel.

***

There needs to be a new game show along the lines of Jeff Foxworthy's show "Are You smarter than a 5th Grader"

You take a handful of journalists and take away all their electronics and ask them a battery of questions about basic subjects like geography, science, and math.

And every time they got a question wrong, the other contestants received electric shocks.

Posted by: Azathoth at November 10, 2023 04:14 PM (wb1YC)

173
dropping him in the walled off Gaza with endless cases of Thunderbird would bring even more hilarity
Posted by: DanMan at November 10, 2023 04:14 PM (8uzBS)

Send him into Gaza City in a goat costume, ala Trading Places.

"WHERE'S BEEKS!??!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:15 PM (Zz0t1)

174 I'm running out of grammar and literary puns. Stop fucking around Muldoon and help out.

He's still trying to think of a rhyme for "monofilament."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2023 04:15 PM (JrojV)

175 So how many Ford class carriers will it hold?

Posted by: Acktshually at November 10, 2023 04:15 PM (8I1xD)

176 I am pro a parliamentary system because that increases the odds of a parliamentarian by hit by a chair substantially.

Posted by: kderien at November 10, 2023 04:15 PM (7uj2f)

177 160 Why can’t they be satisfied with having to get a certain percentage of the vote or there is a run off?

Doesn’t that give you chance to vote for a loser the second time?
Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 04:13 PM (MNhXM)

It does. But everyone gets the same number of votes. With ranked choice, some get 1 vote, some get 2 votes, some get 3 votes, etc.
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:14 PM (bWsRe)

I am against run offs requirements. Its the same thing, give losers a chance to unite against the leader.

Having to appeal to enough people to get representation is the only way to have the government be responsible.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 04:16 PM (eoQWY)

178 You take a handful of journalists and take away all their electronics and ask them a battery of questions about basic subjects like geography, science, and math.
------------
We've already seen Wolf Blitzer go into negative numbers on Jeopardy.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at November 10, 2023 04:16 PM (ScR16)

179 Stop fucking around Muldoon and help out.

Yeah. I'm quite sure Muldoon doesn't want to see that shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:16 PM (Zz0t1)

180 Judging by what Adam says on his podcast, they're still friends and hang out all the time.
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:11 PM (bWsRe)

He’s says they are still friends but I don’t recall him saying they hang out together very much.

By the way, if you guys haven’t seen Road Hard you’re missing a really good movie.

Corolla is 2 for 2 for writing movies. The Hammer is excellent too.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 04:16 PM (MNhXM)

181 Dick Johnson: Into The Darkness, A thriller by Jake Tapper

His irony comes across as metallic
And his Napoleon complex is Gallic
But you'll really be annoyed
In the chapter about Freud
Every piece of symbolism is phallic

Posted by: Muldoon at November 10, 2023 04:16 PM (991eG)

182 LOL. This is the first I'd heard about it. At all.

Shows how much attention I pay to Tapper or what any of his leftist friends say or do.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at November 10, 2023 04:16 PM (Qt4kF)

183 He's still trying to think of a rhyme for "monofilament."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2023 04:15 PM (JrojV)

mondo bill a mint

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 04:17 PM (eoQWY)

184 There needs to be a new game show along the lines of Jeff Foxworthy's show "Are You smarter than a 5th Grader"

You take a handful of journalists and take away all their electronics and ask them a battery of questions about basic subjects like geography, science, and math.

And every time they got a question wrong, the other contestants received electric shocks.
Posted by: Azathoth at November 10, 2023 04:14 PM (wb1YC)
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They'd all be dead of electrocution by round two.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2023 04:17 PM (YIVH2)

185 I can't think of a single line to say about monofilament.

Posted by: Nobody asked me but at November 10, 2023 04:17 PM (8I1xD)

186 But another garbage idea is the proportional legislation which assures that garbage parties get presence they don't deserve.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 04:14 PM (eoQWY)

__

I like that idea. I've always thought the primary and general election should be backwards. The general election is a vote for parties only. Then the second vote is for the people inside the party. So first vote is Democrats win 40%, Republicans win 40%, Party X wins 20%. 40% of 435 is 174 house members. Then the second vote is basically the primary, where those 174 Republicans are chosen by Republicans voters. Same with Dems for their 174 and Party X for theirs.

Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:17 PM (bWsRe)

187 I am pro a parliamentary system because that increases the odds of a parliamentarian by hit by a chair substantially.
Posted by: kderien at November 10, 2023 04:15 PM (7uj2f)

I think the seats in Canada's Parliament are screwed to the floor, so the Members are reduced to screwing the voters.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 10, 2023 04:17 PM (HcZ09)

188 Favorito case - so the lawyers defending the Fulton County election clerks walked out because the clerks destroyed the ballots, which is apparently against federal law

what's next?

Posted by: DanMan at November 10, 2023 04:17 PM (8uzBS)

189 Dick Johnson: Into The Darkness, A thriller by Jake Tapper

His irony comes across as metallic
And his Napoleon complex is Gallic
But you'll really be annoyed
In the chapter about Freud
Every piece of symbolism is phallic
Posted by: Muldoon at November 10, 2023 04:16 PM (991eG)

bravo

*golf clap*

Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 04:18 PM (KZaqS)

190 Doesn't Kimmel's kid have some kind of medical issue? Maybe that's contributing to his derangement.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2023 04:18 PM (JrojV)

191
You take a handful of journalists and take away all their electronics and ask them a battery of questions about basic subjects like geography, science, and math.
--
Celebrity Jeopardy (way dumbed down for the contestants )with Wolf Blitzer rolling into Final Jeopardy with a negative balance....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2023 04:18 PM (TzW+Y)

192 Why can’t they be satisfied with having to get a certain percentage of the vote or there is a run off?

Hence why these rules started. And they started around the time of Ross Peroit. Because people back then had an inkling that two parties were controlling their choices. They were right.

But the idea that a guy could leap that far forward, if only he did not come in last, was a pipe dream. Smart gamers in both parties took that idea and ran with it. Hence, the jungle primary.

Posted by: Nic Of The Day at November 10, 2023 04:18 PM (2PkBC)

193 He's still trying to think of a rhyme for "monofilament."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2023 04:15 PM (JrojV)
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Parliament.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(z5vMw) at November 10, 2023 04:18 PM (z5vMw)

194 You take a handful of journalists and take away all their electronics and ask them a battery of questions about basic subjects like geography, science, and math.

And every time they got a question wrong, the other contestants received electric shocks.
Posted by: Azathoth at November 10, 2023 04:14 PM (wb1YC)
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They'd all be dead of electrocution by round two.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2023 04:17 PM (YIVH2)

so what's the down side?

Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 04:18 PM (KZaqS)

195 "He’s says they are still friends but I don’t recall him saying they hang out together very much."

___

They watch football together a lot. And Adam has performed at Jimmy's Las Vegas club a bunch of times. I don't know their exact itineraries, but it does sound like they're still in each other's lives quite a bit.

Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:19 PM (bWsRe)

196 If you're annoyed by Freud you'll consider Skinner a winner.

Posted by: Hey you started it at November 10, 2023 04:19 PM (8I1xD)

197 Doesn't Kimmel's kid have some kind of medical issue? Maybe that's contributing to his derangement.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2023 04:18 PM (JrojV)

Yes. His incredibly wealthy ass was SCREAMING at Americans for hating on Owebamacare because HIS KID NEEDS HELP.......

Oh, I can't WAIT for that guy to die in a freak accident while on vacation so I can not weep for him.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:19 PM (Zz0t1)

198 You take a handful of journalists and take away all their electronics and ask them a battery of questions about basic subjects like geography, science, and math.
--
Celebrity Jeopardy (way dumbed down for the contestants )with Wolf Blitzer rolling into Final Jeopardy with a negative balance....

As I recall, Lara Logan did quite well.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2023 04:19 PM (JrojV)

199 And every time they got a question wrong, the other contestants received electric shocks.
Posted by: Azathoth at November 10, 2023 04:14 PM (wb1YC)
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They'd all be dead of electrocution by round two.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2023 04:17 PM (YIVH2)

so what's the down side?
Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 04:18 PM (KZaqS)
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The associated drinking game is gonna kill the rest of us.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2023 04:19 PM (YIVH2)

200 Disappointed the Carolla got a divorce but the odds are always over 50% that will happen.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 04:19 PM (MNhXM)

201 Really, Ace? Making fun of Jake Tapper's book sales so close to pride month?

SMDH.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at November 10, 2023 04:20 PM (jleHU)

202 ait.....the Sunday Book Thread requires pants?!?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)
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It's in the official AoSHQ Code of Conduct...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2023 04:03 PM

Not all SBT readers are loyal to The Empire. There are some rebels who are known to not wear pants at times.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 10, 2023 04:20 PM (a3Q+t)

203 The associated drinking game is gonna kill the rest of us.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2023 04:19 PM (YIVH2)
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But what a way to go.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at November 10, 2023 04:20 PM (ScR16)

204 But the idea that a guy could leap that far forward, if only he did not come in last, was a pipe dream. Smart gamers in both parties took that idea and ran with it. Hence, the jungle primary.
Posted by: Nic Of The Day at November 10, 2023 04:18 PM (2PkBC)

A primary is an election to choose the candidate for a party. The jungle primary is the end of democracy. I live in a dictatorship here in CA. Its even worse than Illinois was.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 04:20 PM (eoQWY)

205 Kimmel became unhinged when he became best friends with Howard Stern.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 04:20 PM (MNhXM)

206
They watch football together a lot. And Adam has performed at Jimmy's Las Vegas club a bunch of times. I don't know their exact itineraries, but it does sound like they're still in each other's lives quite a bit.
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:19 PM (bWsRe)

What club does Kimmel own? I would love to eat at an all you can eat buffet, then leave a shit there if I'm ever in Vegas.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:20 PM (Zz0t1)

207 What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?

Posted by: Monty Python at November 10, 2023 04:20 PM (8I1xD)

208 172 You take a handful of journalists
Posted by: Azathoth at November 10, 2023 04:14 PM (wb1YC)

Pass!

Posted by: m at November 10, 2023 04:20 PM (ASp1y)

209 He's still trying to think of a rhyme for "monofilament."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2023 04:15 PM (JrojV)
-----------------

Parliament.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(z5vMw) at November 10, 2023 04:18 PM (z5vMw)

Funkadelic?

we 'bout to turn this mutha out?!?

Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 04:21 PM (KZaqS)

210 leftover

Decadent Uzbeks have drunk my battery fluid.

Posted by: DaveA at November 10, 2023 04:21 PM (FhXTo)

211 What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?
Posted by: Monty Python at November 10, 2023 04:20 PM (8I1xD)
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African, or European?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at November 10, 2023 04:21 PM (ScR16)

212 Heh, just heard a recent clip of Gutfeld savaging Hillary for her remarks comparing Trump to Hitler (one line in a longer rant):

"So take your Nazi smear and shove it where Bill hasn't been since the 1970s."

https://is.gd/Mm23ds

Posted by: ShainS -- Too Male, Too Pale, Too Stale at November 10, 2023 04:21 PM (BhqmB)

213 Did you all know November is Domestic Violence Awareness Month? Now you're aware domestic violence exists. You're welcome everybody.

Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:21 PM (bWsRe)

214 What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?
Posted by: Monty Python at November 10, 2023 04:20 PM (8I1xD)

Kamala wouldn't know that one...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 10, 2023 04:21 PM (HcZ09)

215 What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?
Posted by: Monty Python at November 10, 2023 04:20 PM (8I1xD)
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What's the bird being a virgin got to do with anything?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:22 PM (Zz0t1)

216 Yes. His incredibly wealthy ass was SCREAMING at Americans for hating on Owebamacare because HIS KID NEEDS HELP.......

Oh, I can't WAIT for that guy to die in a freak accident while on vacation so I can not weep for him.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:19 PM (Zz0t1)

Like hell that dude ever put his kid in a regular Obamacare ward. He's skipping the line all the way.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 04:22 PM (eoQWY)

217 Oh man... if this site had DM's ol Jake would be sliding himself right in there to bitch at you, Ace...

Posted by: Inogame at November 10, 2023 04:22 PM (53oGX)

218 I am against run offs requirements. Its the same thing, give losers a chance to unite against the leader.

You post as a man that always assumes you will have a seat at the table.

At the rate we are going, Dems will also insist on an "all or nothing" format. After all, why give these wreckers and bitchers and all the rest a chance to stop progress ? You know, getting in the way of the winners.

Posted by: Nic Of The Day at November 10, 2023 04:22 PM (2PkBC)

219 216
Like hell that dude ever put his kid in a regular Obamacare ward. He's skipping the line all the way.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 04:22 PM (eoQWY)

========

Oh, and the percentage of uninsured hasn't changed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

220
Like hell that dude ever put his kid in a regular Obamacare ward. He's skipping the line all the way.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 04:22 PM (eoQWY)

Why his monologue rant was the biggest load of shit I'd ever seen......Not that I ever watched his show, but one of the webloggers posted it somewhere pointing out his stunning hypocrisy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:23 PM (Zz0t1)

221 Kimmel acted like he had no knowledge of CHIP that had been around for years before Obamacare.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 04:24 PM (MNhXM)

222 Favorito case - so the lawyers defending the Fulton County election clerks walked out because the clerks destroyed the ballots, which is apparently against federal law

what's next?
Posted by: DanMan at November 10, 2023 04:17 PM (8uzBS)

Has it been confirmed the ballots were destroyed?

Because, if so, I can absolutely see defense counsel bailing the hell out before they get every possible book thrown at them. There's spoliation and then there's that.

Also, if those ballots were destroyed, it is only fair to presume that the GA election was, in fact, stolen.

Nothing adverse will happen to anyone, of course.

Posted by: kderien at November 10, 2023 04:24 PM (7uj2f)

223 And every time they got a question wrong, the other contestants received electric shocks.
Posted by: Azathoth at November 10, 2023 04:14 PM (wb1YC)
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They'd all be dead of electrocution by round two.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2023 04:17 PM (YIVH2)

so what's the down side?
Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 04:18 PM (KZaqS)
----
The associated drinking game is gonna kill the rest of us.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2023 04:19 PM (YIVH2)

good, so i can die peacefully unconscious, not screaming like the rest of the passengers in the car...

Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 04:24 PM (KZaqS)

224 I miss Leno.

Posted by: He was funny at November 10, 2023 04:24 PM (8I1xD)

225 ========

Oh, and the percentage of uninsured hasn't changed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

Yes. They made healthcare 3x more expensive for everyone else, to give insurance to the 10% that didn't have it, so now there's a different 10% that isn't covered.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:24 PM (Zz0t1)

226 222 Also, if those ballots were destroyed, it is only fair to presume that the GA election was, in fact, stolen.

Nothing adverse will happen to anyone, of course.
Posted by: kderien at November 10, 2023 04:24 PM (7uj2f)

========

But asking for some kind of audit beyond just recounting votes is insurrection.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 04:25 PM (GBKbO)

227
I heard this one somewhereL
"I am sitting in the smallest room in the house with your manuscript in front of me. Soon it will be behind me."
Posted by: Muldoon at November 10, 2023 04:10 PM (991eG)

Supposedly it was the composer Max Reger, who wrote to the critic Rudolf Louis after a negative review of one of Reger's works, "Ich sitze in dem kleinsten Zimmer in meinem Hause. Ich habe Ihre Kritik vor mir. Im nächsten Augenblick wird sie hinter mir sein!" ("I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it will be behind me!")

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 10, 2023 04:25 PM (MoZTd)

228 106 The FBI has just seized NYC Mayor Eric Adams cell phone and iPad.

insert Nelson Muntz laugh here.
Posted by: JackStraw

His usefulness has ended and it's his turn to be Trotskied?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 10, 2023 04:25 PM (sAmhv)

229 Must see

Lara Logan
Episode 5&6
Fed-surrection

Re: Ray Epps

Posted by: kactus at November 10, 2023 04:25 PM (rkpIx)

230 I am waiting for any of the Girls on Trampolines to come forward and say Jimmy Kimmel did x to me or I had to Suck his to get the part, he has that vibe.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at November 10, 2023 04:25 PM (dv8rv)

231 I am against run offs requirements. Its the same thing, give losers a chance to unite against the leader.

You post as a man that always assumes you will have a seat at the table.

At the rate we are going, Dems will also insist on an "all or nothing" format. After all, why give these wreckers and bitchers and all the rest a chance to stop progress ? You know, getting in the way of the winners.
Posted by: Nic Of The Day at November 10, 2023 04:22 PM (2PkBC)

Quite the contrary. When I lived in Illinois the Reps didn't run anyone in my district. In California now I get to choose for Two Democrats due to Jungle Primaries.

I don't even have the chance to be betrayed by my representatives. The system betrays me from the start.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 04:25 PM (eoQWY)

232
========

But asking for some kind of audit beyond just recounting votes is insurrection.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 04:25 PM (GBKbO)

And Trump really better stop talking about election fraud or he'll get beat by 50 points in 2024.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:25 PM (Zz0t1)

233 I miss Leno.

***

I'd set every late night host with a show right now on fire to get Johnny Carson back in his prime.

Posted by: Azathoth at November 10, 2023 04:25 PM (wb1YC)

234 She was the slutty girl in The 40 Year Old Virgin.

She was pretty hot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
---

"Walk of Shame" is pretty funny as well and she looks good in that. She is dumb as a post however, evidenced by her calling out Steven Spielberg for not making a movie with a female lead. Someone in the audience then called out "The Color Purple".

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/L_fGuFvIBz0

Posted by: Darth Randall at November 10, 2023 04:25 PM (f1kZG)

235 I miss Leno.

How's he been doing since that incident where he got badly injured?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2023 04:26 PM (JrojV)

236 The FBI has just seized NYC Mayor Eric Adams cell phone and iPad.

insert Nelson Muntz laugh here.
Posted by: JackStraw

His usefulness has ended and it's his turn to be Trotskied?
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 10, 2023 04:25 PM (sAmhv)
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Have they been shopping at "Ice Axes R Us?"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at November 10, 2023 04:26 PM (ScR16)

237 All O-Care did was make insurance companies the administrative arm of government run health insurance. The govt sets prices, sets rules, sets coverages. Aetna and Blue Cross just do the paperwork on behalf of the govt.

Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:26 PM (bWsRe)

238
Also, if those ballots were destroyed, it is only fair to presume that the GA election was, in fact, stolen.

Look, stuff happens. They didn't have enough room to keep them around. And it's not like it was widespread.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 10, 2023 04:26 PM (MoZTd)

239 Just saw a report claiming that the final assault on Shifa Hospital has begun, that a column of Israeli tanks has reached it.
This "hospital" is well known as Hamas HQ. This will be quite something to monitor.

and noticed something else Israel is doing that is quite brilliant; there are at least 4 major hospitals being used as bases by Hamas in Gaza City; Israel knows they will be criticized fiercely for attacking any one of them. So they appear to be attacking all 4 on the ground simultaneously. Same amount of criticism, 4 times the impact Brilliant.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 10, 2023 04:26 PM (i9ffA)

240 Please remove the grotesque in-ad video re "atopic dermatitis" and other ads appearing on almost every screen. It creeps me out and if it doesn't disappear soon, I will disappear as a long-time lurker and fan here.

Posted by: J T at November 10, 2023 04:27 PM (9InI2)

241 OK horde, these sidebar ads are skeeving me out. The ones with the things that look like beans or ticks take your pick, moving around on skin.

What the hell are those things?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 10, 2023 04:27 PM (FCbAQ)

242 What a p*tz that guy Tapper is

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at November 10, 2023 04:27 PM (We9fe)

243 234 "Walk of Shame" is pretty funny as well and she looks good in that. She is dumb as a post however, evidenced by her calling out Steven Spielberg for not making a movie with a female lead. Someone in the audience then called out "The Color Purple".

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/L_fGuFvIBz0
Posted by: Darth Randall at November 10, 2023 04:25 PM (f1kZG)

========

Which was his first attempt as Oscar bait. He knew, in the mid-80s, that the way to critical and official inner circles was by telling "underrepresented stories".

That grift has been going on for decades now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 04:27 PM (GBKbO)

244 "It was almost 4:00 pm on K Street and and almost not 4:00 pm on K Street, it was a time for Starbucks, it was a time for bagels, it was a moment of waiting, it was a moment of leaving..." an excerpt from Jake Trapper's A Tale of Two News Rooms.

I just swooned. Call a fucking ambulance.

Posted by: lost in space at November 10, 2023 04:27 PM (ND7Ld)

245 Holocaust 2.0 is trending on Twitter-

Jonathan Allen
@jonathanallen44

I never thought I’d see this
@UofMaryland
, my alma mater.

Students chanting “there is only one solution - intifada revolution.”

“Holocaust 2.0” written on campus.

A university with the 4th largest Jewish student population in the country—over 6,000 students (20% of campus).

https://tinyurl.com/ybzwm5uj

Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2023 04:27 PM (NpAcC)

246 *I'd set every late night host with a show right now on fire to get Johnny Carson back in his prime.*

So you're saying there's a chance?

Posted by: Strokes chin at November 10, 2023 04:27 PM (8I1xD)

247 I miss Leno.
How's he been doing since that incident where he got badly injured?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

He was pretty steamed.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 10, 2023 04:28 PM (sRF2S)

248 You can Google the answers Wolf got wrong.

Yes, he got several politics answers wrong--supposedly his wheelhouse

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2023 04:28 PM (TzW+Y)

249 and noticed something else Israel is doing that is quite brilliant; there are at least 4 major hospitals being used as bases by Hamas in Gaza City; Israel knows they will be criticized fiercely for attacking any one of them. So they appear to be attacking all 4 on the ground simultaneously. Same amount of criticism, 4 times the impact Brilliant.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 10, 2023 04:26 PM (i9ffA)

Also keeps the Hamas from reinforcing the one they are attacking from the others.

And Hamas burn supplies on all the attacks, because likely they don't have good fire discipline.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 04:28 PM (eoQWY)

250 A university with the 4th largest Jewish student population in the country—over 6,000 students (20% of campus).

___

And 5800 of them happily voted for Democrats. Wonder how many it will be in 2024.

Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:29 PM (bWsRe)

251
Please remove the grotesque in-ad video re "atopic dermatitis" and other ads appearing on almost every screen.

Ace's mange and hot spots improved immeasurably after treatment with this product.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 10, 2023 04:29 PM (MoZTd)

252 >>His usefulness has ended and it's his turn to be Trotskied?

I assume this is payback for his very vocal condemnation of the Biden regime for dumping illegals on him and breaking the NYC budget.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2023 04:29 PM (ZLI7S)

253 A primary is an election to choose the candidate for a party. The jungle primary is the end of democracy. I live in a dictatorship here in CA. Its even worse than Illinois was.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 04:20 PM (eoQWY)

I have been yelling this for years, and I don't live in CA.

Posted by: pookysgirl has to deal with the non-binding caucus system at November 10, 2023 04:30 PM (dtlDP)

254 "It was almost 4:00 pm on K Street and and almost not 4:00 pm on K Street, it was a time for Starbucks, it was a time for bagels, it was a moment of waiting, it was a moment of leaving..." an excerpt from Jake Trapper's A Tale of Two News Rooms.

I just swooned. Call a fucking ambulance.
Posted by: lost in space at November 10, 2023 04:27 PM (ND7Ld)

Starbucks at 4 PM? And from a newsman in the 70s? Get yourself a real damn drink.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 04:30 PM (eoQWY)

255 His usefulness has ended and it's his turn to be Trotskied?

His enemies aren't too picky about how to do it, either.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2023 04:30 PM (JrojV)

256 I don't even have the chance to be betrayed by my representatives. The system betrays me from the start.

Then if only you had the option of backing a fringe party, and maybe getting five percent influence on ... something.

Two party rule is a bitch, when you're not in either. The Turtle approves.

Posted by: Nic Of The Day at November 10, 2023 04:30 PM (2PkBC)

257 Jake Crapper's new thriller well received in out houses world wide

Posted by: Ben Had at November 10, 2023 04:31 PM (MRnni)

258 A primary is an election to choose the candidate for a party. The jungle primary is the end of democracy. I live in a dictatorship here in CA. Its even worse than Illinois was.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 04:20 PM (eoQWY)

I have been yelling this for years, and I don't live in CA.
Posted by: pookysgirl has to deal with the non-binding caucus system at November 10, 2023 04:30 PM (dtlDP)

Thanks pookysgirl, since my friend died probably of vax a while back I don't even get to vent much. I appreciate it.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 04:32 PM (eoQWY)

259 And 5800 of them happily voted for Democrats. Wonder how many it will be in 2024.
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:29 PM (bWsRe)
*****
I hope this is a wakeup call for them.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2023 04:32 PM (NpAcC)

260 "It was almost 4:00 pm on K Street and and almost not 4:00 pm on K Street, it was a time for Starbucks, it was a time for bagels, it was a moment of waiting, it was a moment of leaving...

And then the murders began.

Posted by: Ripley at November 10, 2023 04:32 PM (JojsZ)

261 Jake Crapper's new thriller well received in out houses world wide

I'm still working through my stock of Korans in mine.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2023 04:32 PM (JrojV)

262 Leno had a rough couple of months.

Steam vechicle accident: November 15, 2022
Motorcycle accident: Jan 2023

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 10, 2023 04:32 PM (sRF2S)

263 Jack Trapper is the guy, if you had the misfortune to get stuck in a fishing lodge with him, would spend the entire time telling you about everything in his tackle box and that every item was expensive. Six fucking times.

Posted by: lost in space at November 10, 2023 04:32 PM (ND7Ld)

264 "The jungle primary is the end of democracy. "

"Democracy" doesn't need parties to exist. I'm no fan of the jungle primaries myself but your statement is a bit of a stretch.

Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:33 PM (bWsRe)

265 Weird "Al" Yankovic
Strait A Student
Valedictorian at 16
+12 million albums sold
5 Grammys, 11 nominations
4 Gold, 6 platinum records
Own movie
Own TV show

0 assault charges
0 Domestic violence charges
0 Drug Arrests
0 Dog fighting scandles

Posted by: Inogame at November 10, 2023 04:33 PM (53oGX)

266 85
tho Julie Andrews was a looker...

Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 03:59 PM (KZaqS)
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She did bare bewbs in 10. Totally outclassed by Bo Derek's.

Posted by: Ciampino - Kelvin, Centigrade, Celsius - where words originate. at November 10, 2023 04:33 PM (qfLjt)

267 265 0 assault charges
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Posted by: Inogame at November 10, 2023 04:33 PM (53oGX)

========

Well, you obviously missed his biopic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

268 0 assault charges
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Posted by: Inogame at November 10, 2023 04:33 PM (53oGX)

____

He sounds like a white supremacist.

Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:34 PM (bWsRe)

269 "Walk of Shame" is pretty funny as well and she looks good in that. She is dumb as a post however, evidenced by her calling out Steven Spielberg for not making a movie with a female lead. Someone in the audience then called out "The Color Purple".

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/L_fGuFvIBz0
Posted by: Darth Randall at November 10, 2023 04:25 PM (f1kZG)
........

full of herself

0/10

WNB

Posted by: wth at November 10, 2023 04:34 PM (v0R5T)

270 "The jungle primary is the end of democracy. "

"Democracy" doesn't need parties to exist. I'm no fan of the jungle primaries myself but your statement is a bit of a stretch.
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 04:33 PM (bWsRe)

I have had no candidates for state office I could vote for ever since that law came in, except once for governor. Not even on the ballot. At least your loony party vote shows up on the official results.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 04:35 PM (eoQWY)

271 tho Julie Andrews was a looker...

The female singing voice is sexy. Julie was a hottie for me on that basis alone.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2023 04:35 PM (JrojV)

272 OK Oldcat - what exactly is your bitch ? That the Illinois GOP sucks yet its the party for you ? How, exactly, are your views on primaries supposed to change that fact ?

Posted by: Nic of the Day at November 10, 2023 04:36 PM (2PkBC)

273 Tapper should have hired a ghost writer (or paid more for a better one).

Posted by: illiniwek at November 10, 2023 04:36 PM (Cus5s)

274 Lara Logan needs to shrink, I can't believe I'm saying this, the boobs a bit.

I mean, yeah, they're fake, but geez.....they pop out of the top of her suit jacket in that part 2 video and look like she's got tupperware bowls inserted.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:37 PM (Zz0t1)

275 Elizabeth Banks directed Cocaine Bear which is hilarious if you like that kind of late 80s raunchy horror comedy and godawful if you do not.

Posted by: kderien at November 10, 2023 04:37 PM (7uj2f)

276 Tapper's book is the one you cut out the pages, stash a pistol in it, then put it back on the shelf.
Nobody would ever touch it.

Posted by: wth at November 10, 2023 04:37 PM (v0R5T)

277
Well, I guess random factoids about how many biplanes can fit inside the Capitol Rotunda are "thrilling" for some people.

Biplanes are so 1920s -- transplanes are the planes for the 2020s!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 10, 2023 04:37 PM (xG4kz)

278 For some reason, I seem to think it was from here, I'm reminded of some TV/streaming show that was mentioned. Not actually watched, just an imperfect memory of a synopsis.

A middling writer of fiction somehow manages to front the money/support to have his stories turned into a TV series. It's set in a hospital, but the doctors have guns to rooty-tooty with as the plot demands. The show is stylishly bad, but apparently the actual streaming series involves the 'writer' commenting like in special features.

I get that feeling from this Jake Tapper story.

As an aside, I'm reminded of decades ago, when Jake Tapper first got on the scene. A couple of people vouched for his journalistic bonafides. I can't remember whom; all I know is that they were Upstanding Republicans... and likely crew members of the old National Review Yacht Club. The ones that outed themselves for the RINOs they were.

Posted by: Another Anon at November 10, 2023 04:37 PM (hwP7U)

279 Biplanes are so 1920s -- transplanes are the planes for the 2020s!

Fokk that.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2023 04:38 PM (JrojV)

280 tho Julie Andrews was a looker...

Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 03:59 PM (KZaqS)
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She did bare bewbs in 10. Totally outclassed by Bo Derek's.
Posted by: Ciampino - Kelvin, Centigrade, Celsius - where words originate. at November 10, 2023 04:33 PM (qfLjt)

i'mma have to go do some... research, yeah that's the ticket...

Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 04:39 PM (KZaqS)

281 233 I miss Leno.

***

I'd set every late night host with a show right now on fire to get Johnny Carson back in his prime.
Posted by: Azathoth at November 10, 2023 04:25 PM (wb1YC)

Prime?
I'd trade him right now!

Posted by: Inogame at November 10, 2023 04:39 PM (53oGX)

282 tho Julie Andrews was a looker...

Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 03:59 PM (KZaqS)
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She did bare bewbs in 10. Totally outclassed by Bo Derek's.

Was it 10? I thought it was some other pic.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2023 04:40 PM (JrojV)

283
Jake "Tapper" Tapper -- cocksman extraordinaire!

He "tappered" her trapper
She trappered his tapper
And all night long
He was tappered and trappered

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 10, 2023 04:40 PM (xG4kz)

284 tho Julie Andrews was a looker...

Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 03:59 PM (KZaqS)
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She did bare bewbs in 10. Totally outclassed by Bo Derek's.
Posted by: Ciampino - Kelvin, Centigrade, Celsius - where words originate. at November 10, 2023 04:33 PM (qfLjt)
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No, it was "S. O. B." An entirely different movie.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at November 10, 2023 04:40 PM (ScR16)

285 Heh.

Thursday previews for The Marvels were several million dollars below The Flash's Thursday preview numbers.

Bomb territory.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 04:41 PM (GBKbO)

286 No, it was "S. O. B." An entirely different movie.

That's it. Blake Edwards, her husband.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2023 04:41 PM (JrojV)

287
I thought Jake already had a book that bombed.
Posted by: dantesed

Yes, "Doctor Mrs. Tapper: Horse Vet" or some such ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 10, 2023 04:41 PM (xG4kz)

288 Aside from Sound of Music and Mary Poppins, Julie's film career pretty much stank. She was not well-served by her agent.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2023 04:42 PM (JrojV)

289
The list of lib celebs who plugged Tapper's book includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jimmy Kimmel, Jake Gyllenhaal, Seth Meyers, Paul Rudd, Adam Scott, Ben Stiller, Judd Apatow, Whoopi Goldberg, Conan O'Brien, Christian Slater, Elizabeth Banks, and "Weird Al" Yankovic, among others. Kimmel urged his 11.4 million followers to buy a copy "for yourself or to send a copy to Trump in jail."

A coffee can of planaria have more brains and backbone than those lackwits.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 10, 2023 04:43 PM (xG4kz)

290 Well, you obviously missed his biopic.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

That was a meme going around...
did Al get weird?

Posted by: Inogame at November 10, 2023 04:43 PM (53oGX)

291 274 Lara Logan needs to shrink, I can't believe I'm saying this, the boobs a bit.

I mean, yeah, they're fake, but geez.....they pop out of the top of her suit jacket in that part 2 video and look like she's got tupperware bowls inserted.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:37 PM (Zz0t1)

Sponge,
out of respect I'm just going to ask you to take five min to reassess.

Posted by: Inogame at November 10, 2023 04:44 PM (53oGX)

292 Union strikers in Maine are granted unemployment benefits.

Lord help us.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 04:45 PM (MNhXM)

293 Tapper? I just met her!

Posted by: Wait, wut? at November 10, 2023 04:46 PM (8I1xD)

294 Lara Logan needs to shrink, I can't believe I'm saying this, the boobs a bit.

I mean, yeah, they're fake, but geez.....they pop out of the top of her suit jacket in that part 2 video and look like she's got tupperware bowls inserted.
Posted by: Sponge

Who knows how her experience in Cairo affected her?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2023 04:46 PM (JrojV)

295 Heh.

Thursday previews for The Marvels were several million dollars below The Flash's Thursday preview numbers.

Bomb territory.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Needed naked tits I am hearing.

Posted by: lost in space at November 10, 2023 04:46 PM (ND7Ld)

296 The funny thing for me while reading the Dan Brown books was that the stories were enjoyable to read, but I never saw The Problem that people were willing to kill to hide. It’s as if there was a medical underground mafia searching for someone who had an ingrown toenail.

Posted by: Advo at November 10, 2023 04:48 PM (VHN21)

297 We're real and we're spectacular!

Posted by: Lara's boobage at November 10, 2023 04:49 PM (8I1xD)

298 The funny thing for me while reading the Dan Brown books was that the stories were enjoyable to read, but I never saw The Problem that people were willing to kill to hide. It’s as if there was a medical underground mafia searching for someone who had an ingrown toenail.

McGuffin: The Novel?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2023 04:49 PM (JrojV)

299 I'll give Lara a pass on changing anything

Posted by: Skip at November 10, 2023 04:50 PM (fwDg9)

300 I loved when Ted Cruz kicked Jimmy Kimmel’s ass in the one on one basketball challenge.

They were both terrible but Kimmel was even worse than Obama.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 04:50 PM (MNhXM)

301 I find this set of factoids very interesting.
Interesting like right up there with that little dyke school shootiers manifesto getting leaked the the government reaction to the leak is more telling than the content of the screed.

For some time, years now, we have heard about politicians and other figures getting scores if not hundreds of telephoned death threats. Rarely does anybody get arrested but the 'threats' are often the basis for new despotic rules of order or enhanced punishment for those that had no connection to the 'threats'. J6 persecutions being the elephant in the phone booth sized room while left wing nuts invading congressional sessions or burning building just outside the White House are waved off. Very sketchy.

All calls are screened by NSA (etc.) in real time and almost certainly transcribe into a phonetic alphabet (language independent). Not just the 'metadata'. Even if you have an oldschool landline it is converted to IP at the switchboard. For all the death threats prog pols had received, never an arrest, but always the depots wratched down the control of the people a bit more.

Until now - MTG and a death threat and the caller was arrested. Oops.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 10, 2023 04:54 PM (cOq4q)

302

Who knows how her experience in Cairo affected her?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2023 04:46 PM (JrojV)

That's an odd take.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:55 PM (Zz0t1)

303 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:56 PM (Zz0t1)

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Jake Tapper Whined and Wheedled His Leftwing Celebrity Twitter Frenz to Plug His Godawful New "Book."
It Still Flopped.