"Bloodbath" at Paramount Globan/CBS, As 800 Are Fired, Including 20 CBS "Journalists"

Oh no -- Not the journalists! Anyone but them!

Among the fired "journalists" is an actual journalist, Catherine Herridge, who was presumably fired for breaking the wrong kind of story.

Other than her: to hell with them all.

Learn to podcast.

Several CBS News reporters were caught up in layoffs at Paramount Global that claimed 800 jobs, including one who is embroiled in a high-stakes First Amendment fight -- and another who has reportedly weathered HR probes over his workplace behavior, The Post has learned.
...

"Everybody in the newsroom is pissed that [Paramount Global CEO] Bob Bakish is making over $30 million and he's making these cuts," one insider fumed.
Elsewhere, some suspected the layoffs were more than just cost-cutting. Sources said Herridge had clashed with CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews -- a sharp-elbowed executive who was investigated in 2021 over favoritism and discriminatory hiring and management practices, as revealed by The Post.
Sources said CBS News' Washington bureau, where Herridge covered national security and intelligence, was hit particularly hard.
Among the other Washington casualties, sources said, was CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues, who had weathered HR probes over his workplace behavior, including an alleged incident in which he dressed down a female colleague in a "20-minute rant."

Pegues is black, which is why this background is relevant. But the NY Post can't just say that.

When the incident was investigated in 2021, insiders said, Ciprian-Matthews -- who insiders have accused of promoting minorities while unfairly sidelining white journalists -- attempted to "blame" the female correspondent and eventually gave Pegues a promotion.
That's despite prior allegations that Pegues had been "lashing out" and "bullying" younger female reporters who "outworked" him, a former CBS manager told The Post.
"She got rid of her enemies under the guise of budget cuts," one source said of Ciprian-Matthews after Tuesday's layoffs. "She cleared the deck and she had to sacrifice some others like Pegues."

BREAKING: Respected American journalist Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) has just been fired by @CBS after her recent reporting, including this. https://t.co/sleNjgmdVu
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) February 13, 2024

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:20 PM

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1 FIRST!

Posted by: runner at February 13, 2024 04:20 PM (V13WU)

2 I want to see more of their pain.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 13, 2024 04:20 PM (zjgNU)

3 ""Everybody in the newsroom is pissed that [Paramount Global CEO] Bob Bakish is making over $30 million and he's making these cuts," one insider fumed."

===============

Ah yes, the old "compare my salary to the CEO" trope.

Why, it is almost as if J school turned out a bunch of useless dullards, or something.

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 13, 2024 04:20 PM (i7Q7S)

4 I am not telling them..they are engaged in pr0n. Discussion. And seem to be enjoying themselves long time.

Posted by: runner at February 13, 2024 04:20 PM (V13WU)

5 The media STILL hasn't learned. So the pain will continue.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 13, 2024 04:21 PM (zjgNU)

6 And the entire market just puked. It isn't just the Dow, but almost all the components of Biden's "greatest market ever" had some of their worst days since this buffoon became president. It's now continuing into the after market trading. It's ugly.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 13, 2024 04:22 PM (dmH0a)

7 "he dressed down a female colleague in a "20-minute rant."

============

Beta male.

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 13, 2024 04:22 PM (i7Q7S)

8 Oh no!

Anyway...

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 13, 2024 04:23 PM (fKIdX)

9 Catherine Herridge was excellent while she was at Fox. She was one of the few worthy of respect, so obviously she had to go.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2024 04:23 PM (CsUN+)

10 Sounds like very Lemonesque behavior from Pegues. (That's my word; I'm trademarking it.)

Posted by: Dr. T at February 13, 2024 04:23 PM (tlKpr)

11 nice

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 04:23 PM (xcxpd)

12 Courage

Posted by: Dan "The Man" Rather at February 13, 2024 04:24 PM (z+89e)

13 CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews -- a sharp-elbowed executive

We'll be the judges of that.

Posted by: spindrift at February 13, 2024 04:24 PM (MqhXY)

14 I can't imagine anyone watching CBS Evening News. I guess it's a bunch of 80 year olds who never owned a computer.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at February 13, 2024 04:24 PM (qUkBO)

15 Funny how, in decades gone by, if you landed a network gig you were set for years, if not for life. Maybe it was because back then the "news" bureaus made a good pretense at reporting actual facts instead of doing hit jobs on politicians they didn't like. As a result they had good ratings and didn't have to cut costs by firing people as often.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2024 04:24 PM (omVj0)

16 13 CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews -- a sharp-elbowed executive

We'll be the judges of that.
Posted by: spindrift at February 13, 2024 04:24 PM (MqhXY)

a 0

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 04:25 PM (xcxpd)

17 "...a sharp-elbowed executive."

would not. no photo necessary.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 13, 2024 04:25 PM (wzAuc)

18 Maybe it was because back then the "news" bureaus made a good pretense at reporting actual facts instead of doing hit jobs on politicians they didn't like.

We define "good" differently.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2024 04:25 PM (CsUN+)

19 When will anyone think of the journalists!

They're on the front lines, in the trenches, protecting our rights to.... idk, tell kids it'd be a great thing to cut off their genitals or whatever.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 13, 2024 04:25 PM (fKIdX)

20 Catherine Herridge ?? sounds familiar...*looks up

Oh, ok. She used to be at Fox. Covered the Pentagon I think.

Posted by: runner at February 13, 2024 04:26 PM (V13WU)

21 "Shares, which are down about 13% since the start of the year, fell 4% Tuesday following the news."

--I hope they fall 40% tomorrow

"On the TV side, Paramount saw adjusted operating profits drop 12% annually to $3.6 billion, burdened by a 14% slump in linear ad revenue.

Paramount ended the nine-month period with more than $15.6 billion in long-term debt and about $1.8 billion in cash."

---LOL, what a great business model!

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 13, 2024 04:26 PM (i7Q7S)

22 CBS didn't sell a lot of ad time during the Super Bowl. I saw a lot of self promotion. I also saw local ads before the first half was even over.

In my opinion, they probably lost their shirts.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2024 04:26 PM (DGlaL)

23 Herridge was fairly straightforward, and now she's fired for journalisming...

buy the ticket, take the ride

Posted by: Don Black at February 13, 2024 04:27 PM (geLO8)

24 Am I the only one who doesn't watch the evening news?

Posted by: dantesed at February 13, 2024 04:27 PM (DHHFk)

25 And the entire market just puked. It isn't just the Dow, but almost all the components of Biden's "greatest market ever" had some of their worst days since this buffoon became president. It's now continuing into the after market trading. It's ugly.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 13, 2024 04:22 PM (dmH0a)

A lot of people bought the lie that "INFLATION IS UNDER CONTROL"

Meanwhile the government is spending money hand over first.

Oh yeah. The best and brightest rule over us all.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 13, 2024 04:27 PM (zjgNU)

26 Big Sausage Pizza Delivery Driver, unlike you people who apparently have been bought by Big Penguin, nooded.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 13, 2024 04:27 PM (a3Q+t)

27 If Herridge wants to work, there are other outlets that will be happy to have her.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 13, 2024 04:27 PM (pohLc)

28 >>"Everybody in the newsroom is pissed that [Paramount Global CEO] Bob Bakish is making over $30 million and he's making these cuts,"

Do you want to tell them?
He is making that money *to* make the cuts. He gets paid to decrease waste and increase profits.
Put down the phone and ponder on that, loser.

Posted by: PFC Obvious at February 13, 2024 04:27 PM (aJ/Rj)

29 I remember back in my American History course when we had that entire section about "yellow journalism" and how newspapers were understood to just be propaganda outlets.

That was nice. We should go back to that.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 13, 2024 04:27 PM (fKIdX)

30 PARA is only down 42% over the last year.

Buy now!!!

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 13, 2024 04:28 PM (i7Q7S)

31 You know who else worked at CBS News? Walter "Tet Offensive" Cronkite.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at February 13, 2024 04:28 PM (AiZBA)

32 So they fired 800 people so the silencing of Herridge wouldn't stick out.

Wasn't that the premise of a Jack Reacher movie.

Posted by: WisRich at February 13, 2024 04:28 PM (G0vdT)

33 CBS spent a lot of SB ad time pimping upcoming CBS programming

I also fervently pray I've heard the last of Tony Romo

fire THAT meathead

Posted by: Don Black at February 13, 2024 04:28 PM (geLO8)

34 "Who speaks Truth to Power when the Democrats are in power?"
"The Party decides what is True, comrade."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2024 04:28 PM (cSaKW)

35 It's now continuing into the after market trading. It's ugly.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 13, 2024 04:22 PM (dmH0a)

My top 10 stocks by value are all up or unchanged after hours.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 04:28 PM (gSZYf)

36 Hopefully Tony romo got fired

Posted by: nckate at February 13, 2024 04:29 PM (ZGGD+)

37 "Miss me yet?"

-- The #BadOrangeMan

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 13, 2024 04:29 PM (lhQvK)

38 Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews -- a sharp-elbowed executive

Well, that explains a lot.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 13, 2024 04:29 PM (V8he0)

39 ""Everybody in the newsroom is pissed that [Paramount Global CEO] Bob Bakish is making over $30 million and he's making these cuts," one insider fumed."

---

Breaking, person who thinks their degree qualifies them to speak authoritatively on any topic thinks they can speak authoritatively about their boss's job.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 13, 2024 04:29 PM (fKIdX)

40 What do these people need any staff at all? Just have the apparatchiks in the WH and Kalorama and the Capitol read into voice recognition software. Hire a developer to make a website that automatically publishes those transcripts under phony bylines, when submitted by people on the whitelist of approved regime operatives.

There. Done. You just eliminated the entire payroll.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2024 04:29 PM (0FoWg)

41 "...how newspapers were understood to just be propaganda outlets."

And it was right there on their masthead. The Republican Gazette, the Press Democrat, The Independent, etc.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 13, 2024 04:29 PM (MeG8a)

42 Like El Chapo bombing an airliner full of people to kill one enemy.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 13, 2024 04:29 PM (pohLc)

43 Hmmmm, imagine if Catherine Herridge teamed up with Tucker Carlson.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at February 13, 2024 04:29 PM (qoLdL)

44 I also fervently pray I've heard the last of Tony Romo

fire THAT meathead
Posted by: Don Black

Awww. Tony is a cutie pie. I'd not throw him out of bed for eating cookies.

He's just been hit in the head too many times.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2024 04:29 PM (DGlaL)

45 How many people in the "reporting" arena does/did CBS employ to be able to cut 600?

The phrase "overstaffed" comes to mind and it ain't something Fani Willis does.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2024 04:30 PM (Q4IgG)

46 also Jim Nance has lost a step, commentator-wise

Posted by: Don Black at February 13, 2024 04:30 PM (geLO8)

47 Sergio Romo > Tony Romo

Posted by: SFGoth at February 13, 2024 04:30 PM (KAi1n)

48 Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews ran the CBS Washington bureau for a short time a year or so ago, after being the DEI Chief Commissar, and today's layoff hit that bureau "particularly hard". Coincidence, or was she getting even?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 13, 2024 04:30 PM (3/Dku)

49 My top 10 stocks by value are all up or unchanged after hours.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 04:28 PM

Are there that many maple syrup producers and sous vide bag manufacturers?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 13, 2024 04:30 PM (a3Q+t)

50 9 Catherine Herridge was excellent while she was at Fox. She was one of the few worthy of respect, so obviously she had to go.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2024 04:23 PM (CsUN+)

Seems like she'd be tailor-made for a job on the X board...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 13, 2024 04:30 PM (exHjb)

51 Catherine Herridge is a fabulous journalist and it’s probably for the best she was let go , since we’ve heard so little from her since leaving Fox.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2024 04:30 PM (Hkcdp)

52 >Awww. Tony is a cutie pie. I'd not throw him out of bed for eating cookies.

He's just been hit in the head too many times.

Posted by: nurse ratched

Fine. Just keep him in the yard.

Posted by: Don Black at February 13, 2024 04:30 PM (geLO8)

53 CBS didn't sell a lot of ad time during the Super Bowl. I saw a lot of self promotion.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2024 04:26 PM (DGlaL)

Excellent point. I noticed that too, and was genuinely puzzled. My first thought that the self promotion for the Super Bowl itself was paid for by Apple (the half-time sponsor), but now I think I was wrong.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 04:30 PM (gSZYf)

54 "She got rid of her enemies under the guise of budget cuts," one source said of Ciprian-Matthews after Tuesday's layoffs. "She cleared the deck and she had to sacrifice some others like Pegues."
++++
How unusual. Big-shot executives never use larger layoffs as a smokescreen to carry out purges. This is unprecedented.

(/sarc, just in case)

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 04:31 PM (yjAVs)

55

"CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews -- a sharp-elbowed executive "

LOL, you can just smell her.

These types are always just awful people.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at February 13, 2024 04:31 PM (et1vG)

56 In before Capt Stabbin.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 04:31 PM (nSDU/)

57 Are there that many maple syrup producers and sous vide bag manufacturers?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 13, 2024 04:30 PM (a3Q+t)

Arugula farms!

[you might be too young to remember that!]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 04:31 PM (gSZYf)

58 *shakes fist*

Next non-nooding, I wanna see bodies in the Barrel! There must be consequences!

(Big Sausage Pizza Delivery Driver gets a bye)

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 13, 2024 04:31 PM (T+Iwg)

59 also Jim Nance has lost a step, commentator-wise
Posted by: Don Black at February 13, 2024 04:30 PM

TBF, there are a number of others around here of whom that could be said.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 13, 2024 04:31 PM (a3Q+t)

60 "Bloodbath" at Paramount Globan/CBS, As 800 Are Fired, Including 20 CBS "Journalists"

I'm sorry this is happening to you.

Learn to code.

Hopefully, Catherine Herridge lands somewhere else. She's actually a reporter, who reports.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 13, 2024 04:31 PM (sAmhv)

61 32 So they fired 800 people so the silencing of Herridge wouldn't stick out.

Posted by: WisRich

Typical layoff is that upper management sets a quota and GMs or VPs or whomever get to pick and choose. They take this opportunity to get rid of all their problems, as well as the low performers and that bitch in marketing who things a BJ on a business trip means I am going to pay for lunch every Friday.

Posted by: PFC Obvious at February 13, 2024 04:31 PM (aJ/Rj)

62
Ace, since this is happening all across mediatopia the question I have, (which you have probably answered) would be:

Is this just a money thing, or a political purge?

Posted by: Auspex at February 13, 2024 04:32 PM (j4U/Z)

63 Personally, I wouldn't admit I watched the fukkin super bowl. And in fact, I didn't. No support for woke NFL.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 13, 2024 04:32 PM (pohLc)

64 Sharp-elbowed = Beyooooootch

Right?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2024 04:32 PM (Hkcdp)

65 Lol, did the article discuss that more and more news is AI generated?

Good thing they have degrees that are multidisciplinary and can be transferred to a different industry?

Learn to coal.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2024 04:32 PM (cSaKW)

66 13 CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews -- a sharp-elbowed executive

We'll be the judges of that.
Posted by: spindrift at February 13, 2024 04:24 PM (MqhXY)

I miss the pointy elbow posts.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at February 13, 2024 04:32 PM (lg881)

67 What do these people need any staff at all? Just have the apparatchiks in the WH and Kalorama and the Capitol read into voice recognition software. Hire a developer to make a website that automatically publishes those transcripts under phony bylines, when submitted by people on the whitelist of approved regime operatives.

There. Done. You just eliminated the entire payroll.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2024 04:29 PM (0FoWg)
++++
That's no way to keep up appearances!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 04:33 PM (yjAVs)

68 Catherine Herridge is a dutiful stenographer for the Deep State.......she will land on her feet.

Posted by: Monica at February 13, 2024 04:33 PM (Tz42o)

69 >TBF, there are a number of others around here of whom that could be said.

Posted by: Duncanthrax

are you ah, casting diversions or what

Posted by: Don Black at February 13, 2024 04:33 PM (geLO8)

70 Jim Nance should stick to golf. How hard is it to cover play by play on golf.

Posted by: dantesed at February 13, 2024 04:33 PM (DHHFk)

71 Inflation is just not coming down like we were promised. The Fed acted too slowly and didn't raise rates high enough.

I just don't know what Powell's political allegiance is to, does he give a rate cut right before November to juice markets? The stock market being on a tear for so long has had a wealth effect and people feel better about things than they should.

Posted by: Blago at February 13, 2024 04:33 PM (wMRY8)

72
"Everybody in the newsroom is pissed that [Paramount Global CEO] Bob Bakish is making over $30 million and he's making these cuts," one insider fumed.

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So if he took a $10 million pay cut, that would free up $12,500 apiece for the fired 800.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 13, 2024 04:33 PM (QKfZJ)

73 24 Am I the only one who doesn't watch the evening news?

Posted by: dantesed at February 13, 2024 04:27 PM (DHHFk)

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

Killed the TV 15 years ago.

Was tempted to go Full Elvis on it ... had a friend back in the day who took his to an outdoor shooting range to do it in.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 13, 2024 04:33 PM (lhQvK)

74 The percentage of blacks who are racist seems significantly higher than the number of whites.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2024 04:33 PM (LkLld)

75 They pay Norah O'Donnell $7 million per year to do an evening news program nobody watches.

Why not have an AI version of a news reader created for a few hundred thousand?

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 13, 2024 04:33 PM (i7Q7S)

76 I would have laughed harder at:

'Learn to Blog'.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 04:33 PM (nSDU/)

77 I miss Tony Roma ribs

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 04:34 PM (xcxpd)

78 Herridge's speciality is investigative reporting. She can join Tucker on his platform.

Posted by: runner at February 13, 2024 04:34 PM (V13WU)

79 Typical layoff is that upper management sets a quota and GMs or VPs or whomever get to pick and choose. They take this opportunity to get rid of all their problems, as well as the low performers and that bitch in marketing who things a BJ on a business trip means I am going to pay for lunch every Friday.
Posted by: PFC Obvious at February 13, 2024 04:31 PM (aJ/Rj)
++++
Yup. Layoffs are mostly genuine staff reductions for whatever reason.
*All* layoffs are also a smokescreen to get rid of particular people you don't like.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 04:34 PM (yjAVs)

80 What if Catherine Herrridge went to work with Tucker Carlson?

Wouldn't that be something? Wouldn't it?

And there is some suspicion that Tucker is actually "controlled" opposition. Don't know if that is true or not.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at February 13, 2024 04:34 PM (vcOmj)

81 >No support for woke NFL.

Posted by: Xipe Totec

Good for you. Stick to your guns, hero.

Posted by: Don Black at February 13, 2024 04:34 PM (geLO8)

82 That’s 20 more well paying high tech jobs for migrants.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 13, 2024 04:34 PM (OoV6H)

83 Herridge's speciality is investigative reporting. She can join Tucker on his platform.
Posted by: runner

You literally beat me to that by seconds.

I feel run-over.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at February 13, 2024 04:35 PM (vcOmj)

84 Broadcast is long dead and Paramount is a weak sister in the streaming world. Their best bet is to wear something sexy and go talk to Tim Cook.

And don't forget which side of the plate Timmy is swinging from. Think Village People not Village Bicycle.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 13, 2024 04:35 PM (z+89e)

85 You literally beat me to that by seconds.

==

You got silver !

Posted by: runner at February 13, 2024 04:35 PM (V13WU)

86 Could someone please add Captain Hate to the Absent Friends list on the sidebar?

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 13, 2024 04:35 PM (USTAS)

87 CBS didn't sell a lot of ad time during the Super Bowl. I saw a lot of self promotion.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2024 04:26 PM (DGlaL)
---------

Speaking of self promotion. I accidently turned to the CBS evening news last night (first and last time). The last segment Norah O'Donnell was a network promotion telling everyone not only is John Daily is back! But he's on Comedy Central!! Which is part of Paramount Plus+!!!

So much for serious news.

Posted by: WisRich at February 13, 2024 04:35 PM (G0vdT)

88
CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues, who had weathered HR probes over his workplace behavior, including an alleged incident in which he dressed down a female colleague in a "20-minute rant."

Pegues is black, which is why this background is relevant. But the NY Post can't just say that.

-------

He's gay, right?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 13, 2024 04:36 PM (QKfZJ)

89 Can you even sell a barely used 50+" Screen TV these days?

Would someone want it?

I have one on my wall that has not been turned on in over 5 years. Pretty much brand new.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 04:36 PM (nSDU/)

90 L
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Posted by: Eeyore at February 13, 2024 04:36 PM (1bNHn)

91 The NFL doesn't have a ratings problem. They're actually up a lot. 7%. Excellent year for them. Best in nearly a decade. Not because of Tay Tay, either... That was across all games, the whole season.

If advertisers aren't buying SB spots, something else is up. I'm guessing a general loss of confidence in TV advertising, combined with reallocation of ad dollars toward digital spend.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2024 04:36 PM (0FoWg)

92 And there is some suspicion that Tucker is actually "controlled" opposition. Don't know if that is true or not.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at February 13, 2024 04:34 PM (vcOmj)

Now that I've read Ace's update in the sidebar, I have to wonder.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 13, 2024 04:36 PM (tlKpr)

93 Sounds like very Lemonesque behavior from Pegues. (That's my word; I'm trademarking it.)
Posted by: Dr. T at February 13, 2024 04:23 PM (tlKpr)

Is his name pronounced "Peg-ees"?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2024 04:36 PM (tkR6S)

94 You know who else bullies female associates?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 04:37 PM (di6C2)

95 LOL

Too bad about Herridge.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 13, 2024 04:37 PM (ufFY8)

96 93 Sounds like very Lemonesque behavior from Pegues. (That's my word; I'm trademarking it.)
Posted by: Dr. T at February 13, 2024 04:23 PM (tlKpr)

Is his name pronounced "Peg-ees"?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2024 04:36 PM (tkR6S)

Probably something trashy like 'PEG-Way'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 04:37 PM (di6C2)

97 Jim Nance should stick to golf. How hard is it to cover play by play on golf.

Posted by: dantesed at February 13, 2024 04:33 PM (DHHFk)

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

It's been all downhill since Carl the Gardner.

[h/t Bill Murray]

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 13, 2024 04:37 PM (ov3uv)

98 Catherine Herridge is a dutiful stenographer for the Deep State.

Posted by: Monica at February 13, 2024 04:33 PM (Tz42o)

Except...she isn't.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 04:37 PM (gSZYf)

99 71 Inflation is just not coming down like we were promised. The Fed acted too slowly and didn't raise rates high enough.

Posted by: Blago

False. The old tools do not work when production is offshored.
China is suffering deflation, so I think it worked exactly as planned to cut demand, only it is not US demand so we still have inflation. China is suffering labor glut. Most of our economy is federal transfer payments of salaries (which never get cut) so we have no tool to fight inflation except the cost of energy,.... but we are no longer the driving force behind energy prices,... since the biggest user is China and they are cutting their own deals.

The 70s era tools have been broken by the offshoring and rape of US economy.

Posted by: PFC Obvious at February 13, 2024 04:38 PM (aJ/Rj)

100 Now there's no one to inform the masses of asses of Biden's Alzheimer's Hijinx.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 13, 2024 04:38 PM (os8zY)

101 93 Sounds like very Lemonesque behavior from Pegues. (That's my word; I'm trademarking it.)
Posted by: Dr. T at February 13, 2024 04:23 PM (tlKpr)

Is his name pronounced "Peg-ees"?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2024 04:36 PM (tkR6S)

Not quite. The 's' is silent.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at February 13, 2024 04:38 PM (lg881)

102 Gambling saved professional sports. Just the advertising dollars alone, much less the increased viewership.

Posted by: Blago at February 13, 2024 04:38 PM (wMRY8)

103 I don't watch any news - cable, tv, streaming.

My news comes from local news sites and conservative ones...the locals give me the other side, and actual coverage of crap I might care about in my town/state. So, if I need liberal coverage, I'll keep the tiny website in business...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 13, 2024 04:38 PM (exHjb)

104 40 What do these people need any staff at all? Just have the apparatchiks in the WH and Kalorama and the Capitol read into voice recognition software. Hire a developer to make a website that automatically publishes those transcripts under phony bylines, when submitted by people on the whitelist of approved regime operatives.

There. Done. You just eliminated the entire payroll.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Same reason as they want a big house, preferably multiple, are driven around in overly large SUVs, fly private jets, etc. They want people to wait on them hand and foot and depend on that elite for their sufferance. Gives credence to their internal monologue of deserving to rule the hoi polloi and the elites compete over the size of their entourage.

Nasty creatures that make Gollum look wholesome.

Posted by: The Who at February 13, 2024 04:38 PM (bk5GW)

105 Off topic - Tucker Carlson is showing signs of losing his mind. I think he has drank a bit too much of his own koolaid.

Posted by: Black JEM at February 13, 2024 04:38 PM (GZYu7)

106 If Tony Romo ever made some stupid ass remark about Jan 6 I missed it. Joe "Brian Siknick (sp?), who died defending the Capitol" Buck can eat shit and die.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 13, 2024 04:38 PM (llON8)

107 > My top 10 stocks by value are all up or unchanged after hours.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
____________

Interestingly.... Disney was up about 1% or $1.17/share.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2024 04:39 PM (Q4IgG)

108 56 In before Capt Stabbin.
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 04:31 PM (nSDU/)

He always creeped me out.

I'm more of a MILF Hunter fan

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 04:39 PM (xcxpd)

109 Ingrid’s bio says she’s Dominican and first job was at NPR Spanish language news. Then CNN NY, then CBS.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2024 04:39 PM (Hkcdp)

110 >>Catherine Herridge is a dutiful stenographer for the Deep State.

I agree. Though, many here do not.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 04:39 PM (nSDU/)

111 ...Probably something trashy like 'PEG-Way'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 04:37 PM (di6C2)

Si se pwadway. DOCTOR Jill Biden.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at February 13, 2024 04:39 PM (AiZBA)

112 102 Gambling saved professional sports. Just the advertising dollars alone, much less the increased viewership.
Posted by: Blago at February 13, 2024 04:38 PM (wMRY

Wait, wasn't that the argument by the villain in the movie 'Last Boy Scout' from the early 90s?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 04:39 PM (di6C2)

113 >>He always creeped me out.

Creepy or no...guy had access to a boat, a GoPro and a dream?

I mean. Good for him. He made it work I guess?

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 04:40 PM (nSDU/)

114 17 "...a sharp-elbowed executive."

would not. no photo necessary.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 13, 2024 04:25 PM (wzAuc)
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I don't trust people with hyphenated names. Women claim they want to preserve their maiden name to be against the patriarchy but forget that the maiden name is that of their Dad and paternal Granddad.

Posted by: Ciampino - Cats are awake at February 13, 2024 04:40 PM (qfLjt)

115 108 56 In before Capt Stabbin.
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 04:31 PM (nSDU/)

He always creeped me out.

I'm more of a MILF Hunter fan
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 04:39 PM (xcxpd)

*blink*

I have no idea what or who you may be talking about.

*clears throat*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 04:40 PM (di6C2)

116 re: Tucker, he did "clarify " , "He clarified that his comments, which did not mention Hamas, were not in reference to “any specific region of conflict,” but said he was “deeply offended by” U.S. conduct abroad. "

Posted by: runner at February 13, 2024 04:40 PM (V13WU)

117 Lrn 2 Kode

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 04:41 PM (YofvK)

118 After hitting "Post" I read my comment and see all the typos.
This makes me sad.

Posted by: PFC Obvious at February 13, 2024 04:41 PM (aJ/Rj)

119 If advertisers aren't buying SB spots, something else is up. I'm guessing a general loss of confidence in TV advertising, combined with reallocation of ad dollars toward digital spend.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Digital ads are not doing all that either. Marketing is easy to cut when profits are pinched. At the end of the day, you have to have actual product produced in order to generate enough profits to pay for ancillary products like advertising or DEI.

Posted by: The Who at February 13, 2024 04:41 PM (bk5GW)

120 I guess if they can't learn to code, there is always only fans.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2024 04:41 PM (lTGtQ)

121 I couldn’t name a single CBS news reporter.
So … no loss.
I expect Herridge will be fine.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2024 04:42 PM (Hkcdp)

122
105 Off topic - Tucker Carlson is showing signs of losing his mind. I think he has drank a bit too much of his own koolaid.
Posted by: Black JEM at February 13, 2024 04:38 PM (GZYu7)

What did he do/say?

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 04:42 PM (YofvK)

123
Catherine Herridge

I am sorry to hear that she got the axe at CBS.

The remaining CBS urinalists can go screw.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 13, 2024 04:42 PM (xG4kz)

124 The only reason NFL ratings are up is because gambling is out in the open like never before.

Nothing to do with the quality of games or new audience outreach.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 13, 2024 04:42 PM (os8zY)

125 I have the Hawaiian Electric Company's earnings call on right now. (I own some shares - they took a dump after the fire.)

Sigh.

These fuckers are fellating about renewables.
And they have like 101 lawsuits pending.

Dividend rate is currently 10%.
If they keep the dividend, I may buy more.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 13, 2024 04:42 PM (ufFY8)

126 Probably something trashy like 'PEG-Way'
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Si', say pweg-way.

Posted by: DOCTOR Jill at February 13, 2024 04:42 PM (KAi1n)

127 My 18 year old son was in his business class today, and his professor decided to show some black history month videos.
Boy got up and walked out.

Posted by: Jmel at February 13, 2024 04:43 PM (bVhJi)

128 They could take up fishing.

Learn to cod.

Posted by: Warlord Sarris at February 13, 2024 04:43 PM (0gvpA)

129 Off topic - Tucker Carlson is showing signs of losing his mind. I think he has drank a bit too much of his own koolaid.
Posted by: Black JEM at February 13, 2024 04:38 PM (GZYu7)

I don't mind him reaming out U.S. foreign policy, but he's getting dangerously close to "Blame the Joos!" territory.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 13, 2024 04:43 PM (tlKpr)

130 105 Off topic - Tucker Carlson is showing signs of losing his mind. I think he has drank a bit too much of his own koolaid.
Posted by: Black JEM at February 13, 2024 04:38 PM (GZYu7)

What did he do/say?
Posted by: Montec

Yes, please elaborate
(He was always a little nuts.)

Posted by: PFC Obvious at February 13, 2024 04:43 PM (aJ/Rj)

131 My comment from about an hour ago. Re: Herridge

Not surprising at all. FOX wanted to silence her, but couldn't fire her outright. They got CBS to sign her to a contract, so that was a win-win for both. FOX got rid of a true-believing pest, and CBS could say they hired conservatives. CBS then proceeded to embargo every story Herridge broke. It was only a matter of time before she was quietly cashiered. Problem solved.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 13, 2024 04:43 PM (4M29A)

132 Most advertising is a waste of money. If you have a new product to sell, yeah you need to tell the world about it. But does Come need o tell people it exists
88,000 times a year? Not really.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 04:43 PM (YofvK)

133 Every network hosting the SB does lots of self promotion. When you have 100m sets of eyeballs watching, who wouldn't.

Posted by: WisRich at February 13, 2024 04:44 PM (G0vdT)

134 Arugula (or rucola, as it's sometimes called), is an annual plant from the family of Brassicaceae. It has a tart, bitter and peppery flavor, and many health benefits. The plant and its taste was well known throughout the antiquity and the Middle Ages. It’s now available pretty much all over the globe including the US where it has found many applications as an addition to spicy recipes.

Interest in arugula become especially high in the 1970s when experimenting with foreign foods and dishes become the norm, and CBD was contemplating attending UC Berkeley.

Arugula is used for the manufacture of sweet alcoholic beverage called Rucolino in the Gulf of Naples. Small quantities of this liqueur are traditionally consumed after the meal.

It is nicknamed “garden rocket”, due to the fact that arugula grows extremely fast, and leaves are ready for the harvest 40 days after sowing of seed.

Arugula is frequently cultivated near the basil and parsley in the gardens because it repels pests (and trolls in the Food Thread) with its spicy smell and taste.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at February 13, 2024 04:44 PM (a3Q+t)

135
Anyone doubting the fall of western civilization need only review coverage of the Waste Management Golf Tournament last weekend.

Posted by: Auspex at February 13, 2024 04:44 PM (j4U/Z)

136 Coke damn it.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 04:44 PM (YofvK)

137 I couldn’t name a single CBS news reporter.

Formerly hot AF Norah O'Donnell.

But I never watched her.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 13, 2024 04:44 PM (ufFY8)

138 If advertisers aren't buying SB spots, something else is up. I'm guessing a general loss of confidence in TV advertising, combined with reallocation of ad dollars toward digital spend.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Television viewing is less than half of what it was a decade or so ago. And streaming can't compete on cost, because so much content is effectively free. There is no good way to make money in broadcasting anymore. A similar thing happened to music several years ago. It is hard to sell records when your music can be downloaded for free.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2024 04:44 PM (lTGtQ)

139 Most advertising is a waste of money. If you have a new product to sell, yeah you need to tell the world about it. But does Come need o tell people it exists
88,000 times a year? Not really.
Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 04:43 PM (YofvK)
++++
"Everybody knows that half of all advertising dollars are wasted, but nobody knows which half."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 04:44 PM (yjAVs)

140
CBS didn't sell a lot of ad time during the Super Bowl. I saw a lot of self promotion. I also saw local ads before the first half was even over.

In my opinion, they probably lost their shirts.
Posted by: nurse ratched

But it was the second most watched TV program in history. Second only to the Moon landing. That's what Glenn Beck said this morning.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2024 04:45 PM (63Dwl)

141 Remember folks. When you first heard of Tucker Carlson he was a CNN employee, wearing a bowtie.

Later, he declared Hunter Biden a 'Decent Human being'.

Put your faith not in men.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 04:45 PM (nSDU/)

142 I guess I'd be interested to know if the other propaganda outlets are also planning on ditching their so-called "conservative" talking heads. Seems like a good ploy if you're a leftist propaganda outlet beholden to the junta.

And makes getting the proper narratives to the unwashed masses just a little bit easier.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2024 04:45 PM (Q4IgG)

143 Yawn.

Happy Hour yet?

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 13, 2024 04:45 PM (JF/W5)

144 Printing presses go brr, inflation follows. You would think this lesson would have been learned by any student of economics for the last 100 years.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 13, 2024 04:45 PM (MeG8a)

145 Catherine Herridge is a dutiful stenographer for the Deep State.

Posted by: Monica

If so, she'd still be at CBS.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 13, 2024 04:45 PM (sAmhv)

146 But does Come need o tell people it exists
88,000 times a year? Not really.
Posted by: Montec

huh? They exist? Who the hell are they?

136 Coke damn it.
Posted by: Montec

Oh....

Posted by: PFC Obvious at February 13, 2024 04:45 PM (aJ/Rj)

147 Arugula is frequently cultivated near the basil and parsley in the gardens because it repels pests (and trolls in the Food Thread) with its spicy smell and taste.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at February 13, 2024 04:44 PM (a3Q+t)

I love that shit, up my ass

Posted by: Bronco Bama at February 13, 2024 04:45 PM (NtVYv)

148 Dividend rate is currently 10%.
If they keep the dividend, I may buy more.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

A dividend of 10% is normally a bad signal, as in it can't continue.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2024 04:45 PM (lTGtQ)

149 Tucker Carlson is probably controlled oppo. He's a child of privilege and has the inside track. Heck, even him getting fired from Fox may have been an op. It's hard to trust.

I'll never be his fan.

I'll view him as a tool. He's useful when he's useful, and not when he's not.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 04:45 PM (xcxpd)

150 What did he do/say?
Posted by: Montec

Yes, please elaborate
(He was always a little nuts.)
Posted by: PFC Obvious at February 13, 2024 04:43 PM (aJ/Rj)

Said that America had lost its moral authority by not calling for a ceasefire in the Israel/Hamas war. Ace has it in the sidebar.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 13, 2024 04:45 PM (tlKpr)

151 But does Come need o tell people it exists
88,000 times a year? Not really.
Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 04:43 PM

We can help.

Posted by: Pineapple Juice at February 13, 2024 04:45 PM (a3Q+t)

152 Herridge needs to team up with Sheryl Attkisson in Full Measure. They would be a powerhouse team.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2024 04:46 PM (lf83v)

153 But it was the second most watched TV program in history. Second only to the Moon landing. That's what Glenn Beck said this morning.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2024 04:45 PM (63Dwl)
++++
And it might be that despite that, $7 million for a 30-second spot is simply too steep.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 04:46 PM (yjAVs)

154 The good thing is that with Substack, Herridge can probably make more money there than with CBS.

It's why the Regime Media hates Substack.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 13, 2024 04:46 PM (YAtuc)

155 Are any of these so-called "journalists" capable of learning a useful skill?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2024 04:46 PM (7fElN)

156 127 My 18 year old son was in his business class today, and his professor decided to show some black history month videos.
Boy got up and walked out.
Posted by: Jmel at February 13, 2024 04:43 PM (bVhJi)

+1 for your son. And you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 04:46 PM (di6C2)

157 141 Remember folks. When you first heard of Tucker Carlson he was a CNN employee, wearing a bowtie.

Later, he declared Hunter Biden a 'Decent Human being'.

Put your faith not in men.
Posted by: garrett

THIS!!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 13, 2024 04:46 PM (sAmhv)

158 >>If so, she'd still be at CBS.

You assume that the Deep State is always in alignment with the DNC...or, even, itself.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 04:46 PM (nSDU/)

159 "Arugula . . . has a tart, bitter and peppery flavor, and many health benefits."

Actually, while it has a variety of phytonutrients, it doesn't really have much of any of them. There are better lettuces.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 13, 2024 04:47 PM (KAi1n)

160
Fired CBS urinalists are a delightful breakfast burrito!

-- "Jill", Scholar of Colours, Shapes and Numbers

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 13, 2024 04:47 PM (xG4kz)

161 My 18 year old son was in his business class today, and his professor decided to show some black history month videos.
Boy got up and walked out.
Posted by: Jmel at February 13, 2024 04:43 PM (bVhJi)

You son sounds like a fine young man.

A future leader of men.

Keep up the good work.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 13, 2024 04:47 PM (JF/W5)

162 Why not have an AI version of a news reader created for a few hundred thousand?

Posted by: Jay in PA

M-M-M-M-My time as come again! AH!

Posted by: Max Headroom at February 13, 2024 04:48 PM (OUMaO)

163 >>My 18 year old son was in his business class today, and his professor decided to show some black history month videos.
Boy got up and walked out.

Awesome.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 04:48 PM (nSDU/)

164 Lara Logan, Sheryl Attkisson and Catherine Herridge.

Unbeatable.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2024 04:48 PM (lf83v)

165 TuCa is pro-Hamas? Didn’t see that coming.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 04:49 PM (YofvK)

166 Simon Ateba might be the best reporter in the world right now.

As an actual African, as in a natural born citizen of an African country of black African decent you'd think the FNM would be celebrating this guy.

Oh wait...but he actually delivers...news.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 04:49 PM (ibTVg)

167 155 Are any of these so-called "journalists" capable of learning a useful skill?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2024 04:46 PM (7fElN)
————

[Bats eyes]

—- Kamala Harris

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2024 04:49 PM (16aOn)

168 My 18 year old son was in his business class today, and his professor decided to show some black history month videos.
Boy got up and walked out.

Be careful and borrow some dipshit's notes since it will probably be 90% of the final

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 13, 2024 04:49 PM (PQ4m2)

169 151 But does Come need o tell people it exists
88,000 times a year? Not really.
Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 04:43 PM

We can help.
Posted by: Pineapple Juice at February 13, 2024 04:45 PM (a3Q+t)

Angela White to the white courtesy phone, please.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 04:49 PM (di6C2)

170 Yes, Coke does needs advertising but the metrics on ROI are terrible -- they never know what to do, or if it works.

(The old joke is that 90% of advertising is a waste, and some genius will become a millionaire if he figures out how to tell which 90%)

(You can tell how old the joke is since it is millionaire, which is chump change today)

Google claims to be that genius, but I am not so sure. I think they turned into just another 10% agent sucking off the teat of most industries without making advertising any more efficient, unless it is for someone searching for a specific service in a specific market.

Posted by: PFC Obvious at February 13, 2024 04:49 PM (aJ/Rj)

171 M-M-M-M-My time as come again! AH!
Posted by: Max Headroom at February 13, 2024 04:48 PM (OUMaO)

Matt... Frewer(?) passed away not too long ago, no?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 04:50 PM (di6C2)

172 165 TuCa is pro-Hamas? Didn’t see that coming.
Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 04:49 PM (YofvK)

I like Tucker but on this I vehemently disagree

Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2024 04:50 PM (Akjoo)

173 Uhm, I think that was Pablo Escobar who blew the plane up. And the guy he was trying to kill didn’t take that flight.

Posted by: Timur Lenk at February 13, 2024 04:50 PM (QH5EB)

174 A dividend of 10% is normally a bad signal, as in it can't continue.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2024 04:45 PM (lTGtQ)

I know, that is why I am listening.
They are still profitable, and a regulated utility, except for their bank ("unregulated").
I think the stock dumped because of the lawsuits related to the fire, which I think will be minimal in a sane world, but, Hawaii

They ain't going out of business if they want lights.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 13, 2024 04:50 PM (ufFY8)

175 Later, he declared Hunter Biden a 'Decent Human being'.

Remember that video where Hunter kept demanding that crying underage hooker say into his phone that he did not hurt her.

Now if that isn't a decent human being I don't know what is...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 04:50 PM (ibTVg)

176 "Learn to code"

efff that...

#learn2coalmine

Posted by: Outside of Life at February 13, 2024 04:50 PM (89Sog)

177
Remember folks. When you first heard of Tucker Carlson he was a CNN employee, wearing a bowtie.

Tucker, Laura Ingraham and Michael Savage each had shows on MSNBC when it first started.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2024 04:50 PM (63Dwl)

178 In Business class, one should teach business.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 13, 2024 04:50 PM (R4t5M)

179 >Arugula (or rucola, as it's sometimes called), is an annual plant from the family of Brassicaceae.
---

it's a a veh-geh-ta-bul

Posted by: Don Black at February 13, 2024 04:50 PM (geLO8)

180 Actually, while it has a variety of phytonutrients, it doesn't really have much of any of them. There are better lettuces.
Posted by: SFGoth at February 13, 2024 04:47 PM

So you're recommending we should consume others, i.e. lettuce prey?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 13, 2024 04:51 PM (a3Q+t)

181 My 18 year old son was in his business class today, and his professor decided to show some black history month videos.
Boy got up and walked out.

That's what has changed, and it's how we got here. Get up and walk out twenty years ago ? Many of the same folks today cheering would auto default to "that's unacceptable, where is the respect".

But this shit got rolling thirty, even forty years ago. That's been the trick of the New Communists. Getting their victims to support the very institutions aimed against them.

And it still works. Because a lifetime of knee-jerk reaction just doesn't change on a dime.

Posted by: That's How You Do It at February 13, 2024 04:51 PM (sEYxj)

182 >>it's a a veh-geh-ta-bul

Loved that Movie when I first saw it.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 04:51 PM (nSDU/)

183 141 Remember folks. When you first heard of Tucker Carlson he was a CNN employee, wearing a bowtie.

Later, he declared Hunter Biden a 'Decent Human being'.

Put your faith not in men.
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 04:45 PM (nSDU/)

Agreed that all these personalities are, at their heart, entertainers. That said, Hunter was a neighbor of Tucker's in DC, and he told the story (in interviews) how Hunter's wife enlisted Tucker's help in trying to get him sober (Tucker hasn't had a drink in over 20 years, it turns out). I can see how, in that light, Tucker would not be eager to trash the guy in public.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 13, 2024 04:52 PM (4M29A)

184 >>>But does Come need o tell people it exists
88,000 times a year? Not really.
Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 04:43 PM

We can help.
Posted by: Pineapple Juice at February 13, 2024 04:45 PM (a3Q+t)

======

Hah, took me second. I am a little over 29, after all.

Posted by: Turn 2 at February 13, 2024 04:52 PM (JfxgE)

185 Catherine Herridge was excellent while she was at Fox. She was one of the few worthy of respect, so obviously she had to go.

"Follow the Pen." She's one of the few who won't have to learn to code. She does journalism right.

Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2024 04:52 PM (qNE3H)

186 >>There are better lettuces.

Deer Tongue is Beat Lettuce.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 04:52 PM (nSDU/)

187 126 Probably something trashy like 'PEG-Way'
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Si', say pweg-way.

Posted by: DOCTOR Jill at February 13, 2024 04:42 PM (KAi1n)
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Wasn't there a male Russian or Ukrainian TV scammer nicknamed 'Peggy"?

Posted by: Ciampino - what's the frequency? at February 13, 2024 04:52 PM (qfLjt)

188 (The old joke is that 90% of advertising is a waste, and some genius will become a millionaire if he figures out how to tell which 90%)

I have bought products and services that are new to me because of advertising.

I have a long list of existing products and services I will NOT buy because of their advertising and I don't think I've ever seen an ad that made me more likely to buy a product or service.

I'm probably not the norm, but in my case the best budget for advertising for someone like Coca Cola would be...zero.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 04:52 PM (ibTVg)

189 >Loved that Movie when I first saw it.

Posted by: garrett

my biggest laugh was 'Cuz you could melt all this stuff'

Posted by: Don Black at February 13, 2024 04:52 PM (geLO8)

190 Uhm, I think that was Pablo Escobar who blew the plane up. And the guy he was trying to kill didn’t take that flight.
Posted by: Timur Lenk at February 13, 2024 04:50 PM (QH5EB)

He probably felt remorse for 10 seconds or so.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 13, 2024 04:53 PM (R4t5M)

191 Tucker, Laura Ingraham and Michael Savage each had shows on MSNBC when it first started.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2024 04:50 PM (63Dwl)

The MS in MSNBC originally stood for Microsoft. When it stated out it want the left wing freak show it became. It was a mix of left and right and actual news content as well.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 04:53 PM (YofvK)

192 I wish Elon Musk would buy CBS.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2024 04:53 PM (NpAcC)

193 Yup. Layoffs are mostly genuine staff reductions for whatever reason.
*All* layoffs are also a smokescreen to get rid of particular people you don't like.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 04:34 PM (yjAVs)

I survived three massive layoffs in the corporation I worked for. And I'm definitely not the corporate type. So something else was working for me. Maybe my good looks and charm. 🤬

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 13, 2024 04:53 PM (BdMk6)

194 Many of our enemies and also our friends do not quite get how some of us view our media/politicians. We do not think they are courageous (although many are) or perfect embodiments of virtue. We like them because they at least say some of the right things and they absolutely infuriate our enemies.

This is why when enemies/friends point out the feet of clay we shrug our shoulders and say 'so?' These guys are not our heroes, they are tools.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 04:53 PM (di6C2)

195 Remember folks. When you first heard of Tucker Carlson he was a CNN employee, wearing a bowtie.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 04:45 PM (nSDU/)

The f*cking Purity Brigade is here!

People change their minds all of the time. In fact, I would say that people who change their minds display intelligence compared to people who slavishly adhere to orthodoxy.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 04:54 PM (gSZYf)

196 In Business class, one should teach business.

I got kicked out of class, sophomore year in high school, because the JA enthusiastic teacher wanted us all to make a poster. So I made one of all the Carpenter's Union locals in the United States.

That was what my dad did, so that's what I drew. He brought me home the hand-book of all the locals. Get this - teachers have been pushing personal agendas for a long, long time. Sometimes you like them. Sometimes you don't.

Posted by: That's How You Do It at February 13, 2024 04:54 PM (sEYxj)

197 Remember that Tucker said that while being interviewed in Dubai. A muslim country with secret police where you could vanish into the desert forever. I did watch it and wouldn't characterize the statement as pro-Hamas, rather anti-war. Labeling him as pro-Hamas is about as useful as the Left calling him pro-Putin just because he gave Putin an interview.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 13, 2024 04:54 PM (MeG8a)

198 800? They needed 800 people to basically repackage Democrat talking points for a newscast?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2024 04:54 PM (lf83v)

199 Arugula is frequently cultivated near the basil and parsley in the gardens because it repels pests (and trolls in the Food Thread) with its spicy smell and taste.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at February 13, 2024 04:44 PM (a3Q+t)

I lined my garden with it and it kept the groundhogs and bunnies out, too.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 13, 2024 04:54 PM (zjgNU)

200 People change their minds all of the time. In fact, I would say that people who change their minds display intelligence compared to people who slavishly adhere to orthodoxy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 04:54 PM (gSZYf)

Like a shaken Manhattan?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 04:55 PM (di6C2)

201 >>I have bought products and services that are new to me because of advertising.

Did it yesterday. Coffee Co that advertises with People's Pundit / Rich Barris.

Too good a deal not to at least try and give them my biz. $24.00 or so for 3 12 oz Bags. You gotta sign up for a subscription to get the best deal...but you can always cancel those if you want to.

Who knows? Maybe they make good enough coffee that I won't need to cancel?

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 04:55 PM (nSDU/)

202
I've been on both sides of layoffs and I agree the managers making the decision ARE thinking of the people they are laying off.

Now if some high level guy is getting rid of your whole department it doesn't mean he doesn't like you...but it quite possibly means he doesn't like your VP/director/whatever.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 04:55 PM (ibTVg)

203 Just remember, former Paramount employees, Joe Biden said he got this economy back on its feet.

Never better.

Joe.

Biden.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2024 04:55 PM (lf83v)

204 Oh please. Tucker isn’t going to be vanished by secret police.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 04:56 PM (YofvK)

205 Too bad. What a shame. I can offer them a job but first...

Also, Catherine Herridge was fired at CBS after dust up with their DEI exec. Sounds like someone is going to need a lawyer.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2024 04:56 PM (eYF7X)

206 I'm probably not the norm, but in my case the best budget for advertising for someone like Coca Cola would be...zero.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 04:52 PM (ibTVg)
----

Yeah, put me in the camp of: "If you offend me with your advertising, I will avoid your products like the plague" camp.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at February 13, 2024 04:56 PM (tT6L1)

207 I lined my garden with it and it kept the groundhogs and bunnies out, too.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 13, 2024 04:54 PM (zjgNU)

It would keep me out of there, too. Unless I spied some nice cherry tomatoes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2024 04:56 PM (tkR6S)

208 Matt... Frewer(?) passed away not too long ago, no?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 04:50 PM (di6C2)

No. He's 65 and still kicking.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 13, 2024 04:56 PM (/HDaX)

209 >>>People change their minds all of the time. In fact, I would say that people who change their minds display intelligence compared to people who slavishly adhere to orthodoxy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 04:54 PM (gSZYf)

======

CBD, that is nothing but bullsh*t!

But now that I think about it, you make an excellent point.

Posted by: Turn 2 at February 13, 2024 04:57 PM (JfxgE)

210 I voiced my distrust of Tucker when he first was going to "air the J6 tapes". I said it would never happen, and it was going to be a whitewash.

Ace refuted me in the sidebar!

Well it turned out that he was picked to whitewash it, but took a stand. What does that mean? I have no idea.

Posted by: PFC Obvious at February 13, 2024 04:57 PM (aJ/Rj)

211 So that sidebar......

Maybe that should be its own post, because it sure feels like a el Rushbo identified drive-by media hit.

I don't care what Israel does but we don't need to send them any more fucking money. They're a real 1st world country, they can fund themselves. I'm fucking tired of sending everyone else money, and then having illegal rapists ALSO get free money when they enter the country.

Sorry lil' Ben Shapiro got so assblasted for being called out on being Israel first, America third that he has to now pretend he cares and is going to the border and also going to Killadelphia to see how destroyed that city is.

Posted by: UwU_Power at February 13, 2024 04:57 PM (tFwWo)

212 195 Remember folks. When you first heard of Tucker Carlson he was a CNN employee, wearing a bowtie.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 04:45 PM (nSDU/)

The f*cking Purity Brigade is here!

People change their minds all of the time. In fact, I would say that people who change their minds display intelligence compared to people who slavishly adhere to orthodoxy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 04:54 PM (gSZYf)

When he was doing that show with Bob Novak, Jon Stewart famously appeared on the show to trash it - and Tucker in particular. CNN canceled the show shortly thereafter. That was about 20 years ago. Today, Tucker is more famous and powerful than ever. Stewart resembles a haggard old man, yelling at clouds.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 13, 2024 04:57 PM (4M29A)

213 Arugula is my favorite lettuce.

Posted by: Michelle O. at February 13, 2024 04:57 PM (a3Q+t)

214 Getting or not getting laid off is also a function of what you’re working on. If it’s some multi year initiative and you’re integral to that project yiure most likely safe. If you’re just doing admin type work with no real visibility, you’re in the chopping block.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 04:57 PM (YofvK)

215 Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 13, 2024 04:54 PM (MeG8a)

I genuinely don't think Tucker is pro-Hamas. But he's being so reflexively antiwar that it's pushing him into some nonsensical positions, even into making statements which, at the end of the day, benefit Hamas a lot more than Israel.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 13, 2024 04:57 PM (tlKpr)

216 And the entire market just puked. It isn't just the Dow, but almost all the components of Biden's "greatest market ever" had some of their worst days since this buffoon became president. It's now continuing into the after market trading. It's ugly.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 13, 2024 04:22 PM (dmH0a)

Since tomorrow is Valentines Day, this is like a bonus Friday afternoon to bury bad news.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 13, 2024 04:58 PM (eoQWY)

217 >>People change their minds all of the time. In fact, I would say that people who change their minds display intelligence compared to people who slavishly adhere to orthodoxy.

If one chooses ones orthodoxy well...

or, is merely lucky enough to land on a tenable one...

there would be no problem with adherence, would there?

I'm just pointing out that Tucker never PASSED the Purity Test you would accuse me of applying to him.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 04:58 PM (nSDU/)

218 Descendants of enslaved who built Missouri university want over $70 billion for unpaid slave labor

http://tinyurl.com/7t4ba6ba

Posted by: Ciampino - I want a million too at February 13, 2024 04:58 PM (qfLjt)

219 98 Catherine Herridge is a dutiful stenographer for the Deep State.

Posted by: Monica at February 13, 2024 04:33 PM (Tz42o)

Except...she isn't.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 04:37 PM (gSZYf)

When CBS hired her away from Fox, I knew this day would not be long in coming. Female reporters like Herridge and Atkisson don't fit the mold for leftist female propagandists in Big Media.

Posted by: Gref at February 13, 2024 04:58 PM (5fDan)

220 I did watch it and wouldn't characterize the statement as pro-Hamas, rather anti-war.

anti-war and anti foreign aid, a position which years of pointless wars and pointless foreign aid spending has increased on the right and Tucker is representing that view (sincerely or not who knows)

Posted by: brak at February 13, 2024 04:58 PM (AR07F)

221 Maybe they make good enough coffee that I won't need to cancel?

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 04:55 PM (nSDU/)

Got some great coffee in your neck of the woods, but it sure was pricey.

Black Coffee Roasting in Missoula. And yes, they are hipsters.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 04:58 PM (gSZYf)

222 Ailes was an ABC executive when Murdoch pulled him to run Fox.

Posted by: runner at February 13, 2024 04:58 PM (V13WU)

223 I refuse to buy anything from a company that can afford to advertise. They ain't wasting my money!

Posted by: PFC Obvious at February 13, 2024 04:58 PM (aJ/Rj)

224 The leads of 'My Blue Heaven' were supposed to be reversed. I can't imagine Rick Moranis as a wiseguy laying low...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 04:58 PM (xcxpd)

225 Actually, while it has a variety of phytonutrients, it doesn't really have much of any of them. There are better lettuces.
Posted by: SFGoth at February 13, 2024 04:47 PM

So you're recommending we should consume others, i.e. lettuce prey?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Lettuce prey? Call for the priest, I'm dying.

Posted by: Rob Halford at February 13, 2024 04:59 PM (KAi1n)

226 Normalcy bias: thinking that just because something hasn't happened yet therefore it can't happen.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 13, 2024 04:59 PM (MeG8a)

227 Descendants of enslaved who built Missouri university want over $70 billion for unpaid slave labor

Can white decedents of serfs seek reparations from the various European states?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 04:59 PM (ibTVg)

228 There was a time, back in the day, when CNN was the absolute best straight news. That day has passed.

Posted by: Pepperidge Farm Remembers at February 13, 2024 04:59 PM (DgKCv)

229 Stock Market Today: Dow Drops More Than 500 Points After Inflation Data

Lyft, Airbnb and Coke were among the companies that reported earnings

Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2024 05:00 PM (RovqD)

230 anti-war and anti foreign aid, a position which years of pointless wars and pointless foreign aid spending has increased on the right and Tucker is representing that view (sincerely or not who knows)

My position is aid to Israel should be zero'd out. But...I'd offer to bomb the shit out of Gaza with them until every American hostage is returned.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 05:00 PM (ibTVg)

231 The market didn’t puke. 500 points is nothing at 38k. Barely 1%. Some of you need to readjust your perspective. It’s not 1987.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 05:00 PM (YofvK)

232 >>Black Coffee Roasting in Missoula. And yes, they are hipsters.

They do Roast good Coffee.
email me sometime and I will tell you all about the history of that biz.
It started in my kitchen.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 05:01 PM (nSDU/)

233 164 Lara Logan, Sheryl Attkisson and Catherine Herridge.

Unbeatable.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot

Yes, they area, even more so considering Logan was beaten & sexually assaulted in Egypt in 2011; Attkisson harassed by O&FJB administration, and Fox News was sued in 2010 by EEOC for retaliation against Herridge after she complained to Fox that she was subjected to disparate pay and unequal employment opportunities because of her gender and age.

Posted by: L - And now the King of BS can't remember last evening so let it go at February 13, 2024 05:01 PM (GshMh)

234 CBD, that is nothing but bullsh*t!

But now that I think about it, you make an excellent point.

Posted by: Turn 2 at February 13, 2024 04:57 PM (JfxgE)

Hah!

I think I'll set up my bar for this evening's cocktails.

An Old Fashioned? Or something new?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 05:01 PM (gSZYf)

235 >Google claims to be that genius, but I am not so sure. I think they turned into just another 10% agent sucking off the teat of most industries without making advertising any more efficient, unless it is for someone searching for a specific service in a specific market.

----

Google is a keyword arbitrage platform. Companies jockey to outbid competitors for search rank relevance for common keywords. It's very lucrative for Google. Business benefit is dicey at best.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 13, 2024 05:01 PM (GTqXr)

236 are, not area

Posted by: L - And now the King of BS can't remember last evening so let it go at February 13, 2024 05:01 PM (GshMh)

237 It started in my kitchen.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 05:01 PM (nSDU/)

Messenger bags made from hemp?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 05:01 PM (gSZYf)

238 I also fervently pray I've heard the last of Tony Romo

fire THAT meathead
Posted by: Don Black

Awww. Tony is a cutie pie. I'd not throw him out of bed for eating cookies.

He's just been hit in the head too many times.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2024 04:29 PM (DGlaL)

Gotta cut him some slack for doing God's work and losing in spectacular fashion when with the Dallas Cowboys

Posted by: Oldcat at February 13, 2024 05:02 PM (eoQWY)

239 When CBS hired her away from Fox, I knew this day would not be long in coming. Female reporters like Herridge and Atkisson don't fit the mold for leftist female propagandists in Big Media.
Posted by: Gref at February 13, 2024 04:58 PM (5fDan)
*******
I knew it was just a matter of time, especially since this was an election year.

Maybe Fox will hire her back. I was under the impression that they didn't want her to leave.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2024 05:02 PM (NpAcC)

240 Worst layoff I ever experienced...and I should have wrote a country song about it: separated from to be ex wife right at Thanksgiving, car ate the transmission about that time, no car, living with friends and, right at Christmas, no more job.

Probably would never have sold, though, because no one would believe it.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at February 13, 2024 05:02 PM (tT6L1)

241 For some reason ace has a hard on for Tucker. I listened to the whole thing and never once thought of Hamas. However that area of the talk was Ukraine v Russia and that's the war he was referencing.

"If you see a nation with awesome power abetting war for its own sake, you have a leadership that has no moral authority, that is illegitimate," Carlson said.

Does that not sound like Ukraine.

Tucker went on to talk of Russia's manufacturing capabilities far outstripping what is being reported in US media.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 13, 2024 05:02 PM (9kzJm)

242 228 There was a time, back in the day, when CNN was the absolute best straight news. That day has passed.
Posted by: Pepperidge Farm Remembers at February 13, 2024 04:59 PM (DgKCv)

They had the best tasting poison.
But it was still poison.

The Press is the enemy of the people and always has been.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 05:02 PM (xcxpd)

243 An Old Fashioned? Or something new?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 05:01 PM (gSZYf)

A New Fangled? What could we put in it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2024 05:02 PM (tkR6S)

244 >>>I think I'll set up my bar for this evening's cocktails.

An Old Fashioned? Or something new?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 05:01 PM (gSZYf)

=====

Whiskey Old Fashion. Two cherries please.

Posted by: Turn 2 at February 13, 2024 05:02 PM (JfxgE)

245 I prefer Doma, btw.

Carmela's Blend is the one I rate all Medium Roasts against.

Drum Coffee, also Missoula and also Hipster Douchebags, Honduran Single Origin is fantastic.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 05:02 PM (nSDU/)

246 The Legacy Media is dead or dying

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 13, 2024 05:03 PM (PQ4m2)

247 My position is aid to Israel should be zero'd out.

This is where I'm at, but I'm also for zeroing out all foreign aid, including the aid we seem bound and determined to give to its enemies, like Iran.

Posted by: Taking my money at gunpoint to give to foreigners doesn't sit well with me at February 13, 2024 05:03 PM (UMHqX)

248 House Republicans are planning another attempt to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, scheduling a second vote for Tuesday night after an embarrassing defeat last week.

Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2024 05:03 PM (RovqD)

249 No. He's 65 and still kicking.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 13, 2024 04:56 PM (/HDaX)

Crap, my brain's still stuck in 2023. Frewer's 66.

But it does appear he basically retired at the end of 2020.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 13, 2024 05:03 PM (/HDaX)

250 If one chooses ones orthodoxy well...
or, is merely lucky enough to land on a tenable one...
there would be no problem with adherence, would there?

Life is not a game with a fixed set of rules. Everything changes. What makes sense today is suicide tomorrow.

That is, seriously, one of the problems with Conservatism. The craving of constants. Absolutes. Life is so much more gray than you'd wish. Not as gray as the Current Communists portray. But not as black and white as Contemporary Conservatives insist either.

Said simply. There is no single decision you can make, today, that is the right decision and you never have to think about it again for decades. That isn't how things work, or how they've ever worked.

Posted by: Pepperidge Farm Remembers at February 13, 2024 05:03 PM (DgKCv)

251 Dear God in heaven, I hate the smell of weed. I cannot see how potheads stand it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 05:03 PM (di6C2)

252 This is where I'm at, but I'm also for zeroing out all foreign aid, including the aid we seem bound and determined to give to its enemies, like Iran.

agreed

Posted by: brak at February 13, 2024 05:04 PM (AR07F)

253 ‘I’m a journalist and I’m ok…….’

Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2024 05:04 PM (NxC5+)

254 The Dow is down, quick lets pump another $50 billion into the Ukraine.

- Mitt R

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 13, 2024 05:04 PM (xT7BI)

255 Crap, my brain's still stuck in 2023. Frewer's 66.

But it does appear he basically retired at the end of 2020.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 13, 2024 05:03 PM (/HDaX)

Well, good for him. He had a long run as a weird guy character actor.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 05:04 PM (di6C2)

256 WSJ - Walmart in Talks to Buy TV Maker Vizio
Retail giant discussing a more than $2 billion deal that would boost its advertising business in battle with Amazon

Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2024 05:04 PM (RovqD)

257 This is where I'm at, but I'm also for zeroing out all foreign aid, including the aid we seem bound and determined to give to its enemies, like Iran.

Agreed.

There might be room for "foreign aid" when we are literally in a war and buying an ally. But...we aren't formally at war with anyone therefore our total foreign aid budget should be...zero.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 05:04 PM (ibTVg)

258
Today... Her Majesty... said... I... was... right... and... she was... wrong...

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2024 05:04 PM (MoZTd)

259 >>>Probably would never have sold, though, because no one would believe it.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at February 13, 2024 05:02 PM (tT6L1)

======

But only because you forgot to include the ex-wife getting your dog.

Posted by: Turn 2 at February 13, 2024 05:04 PM (JfxgE)

260 224 The leads of 'My Blue Heaven' were supposed to be reversed. I can't imagine Rick Moranis as a wiseguy laying low...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 04:58 PM (xcxpd)

oh man that is one of Steve Martin's best roles! Love that movie.
"Your shoes are Tragic."

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 13, 2024 05:04 PM (i9ffA)

261 228 There was a time, back in the day, when CNN was the absolute best straight news. That day has passed.

Posted by: Pepperidge Farm Remembers at February 13, 2024 04:59 PM (DgKCv)

The CNN Headline News channel, running 30-minute long hard news segments 24/7 was a terrific source for big breaking news items. IMHO

Posted by: Gref at February 13, 2024 05:04 PM (5fDan)

262 They all were *somewhere* before Fox existed. News was not so blatantly biased and woke as it is today. You can tell they had biases, but at least it was considered gauche to rub them in your face.

Posted by: runner at February 13, 2024 05:04 PM (V13WU)

263 Any of you constitutional scholars read Trumps SCOTUS petition.

I'm not a lawyer but it seemed like he's got some valid points.

Of course, the press dishonestly reports his position.

Posted by: WisRich at February 13, 2024 05:05 PM (G0vdT)

264 254 The Dow is down, quick lets pump another $50 billion into the Ukraine.

- Mitt R
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 13, 2024 05:04 PM (xT7BI)

Yeah. 'Inflation is up? We need to give Ukraine MORE money to make up for the fact that the money we are shoveling their way is worth less!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 05:05 PM (di6C2)

265 >It's not 1987.

Whitesnake, Here I Go Again

https://youtu.be/WyF8RHM1OCg?si=KwyZM5IzIygpT2IW

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 13, 2024 05:06 PM (cf/0E)

266 Can you even sell a barely used 50+" Screen TV these days?

Would someone want it?

I have one on my wall that has not been turned on in over 5 years. Pretty much brand new.
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 04:36 PM (nSDU/)

You can forward YT videos to it and keep using it.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 13, 2024 05:06 PM (eoQWY)

267 Today... Her Majesty... said... I... was... right... and... she was... wrong...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2024 05:04 PM (MoZTd)
----

Obviously she has an ulterior motive. Do you have a large life insurance policy? Because those words may have been her first attempt.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at February 13, 2024 05:06 PM (tT6L1)

268 Did Herridge find FBI spyware on her home computer?

Posted by: Right in the Atkins at February 13, 2024 05:06 PM (qUkBO)

269 >>Posted by: Pepperidge Farm Remembers at February 13, 2024 05:03 PM (DgKCv)

Valid point.

But you are scoring based on outcome.

Try scoring your decisions based on the process by which you arrived at them rather than on the success they have in providing your most desired outcome.

See if that doesn't change your perspective.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 05:06 PM (nSDU/)

270 Isnt Santos House seat in NY up for grabs in an election tonight? Any tea leaves?

The guy was obviously a douche, I just can't believe they were able to whip up that much hysteria over a guy lying about his resume.

Posted by: Blago at February 13, 2024 05:06 PM (wMRY8)

271 265 >It's not 1987.

Whitesnake, Here I Go Again

https://youtu.be/WyF8RHM1OCg?si=KwyZM5IzIygpT2IW
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 13, 2024 05:06 PM (cf/0E)

'Like a twister I was born to walk alone!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 05:06 PM (di6C2)

272 Pet Blacklist

When Moskowitz tried to fly with her dog, an English cocker spaniel named Maci, to visit family in Indiana, she says United Airlines agents at Newark Liberty International Airport wouldn’t let Maci on the plane.

She says the agents took photos of Maci and informed her that Maci was permanently banned from traveling with the airline.

Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2024 05:06 PM (RovqD)

273 BLS has been faking the numbers for a long time and then trying to quietly revise them. Nobody believes them, but some people were still playing the game and trying to squeeze a few gains while keeping a lot on the side. It's going to get interesting. You can still pick some good value stocks, but you have to watch them closely. Make sure your stops are in.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 13, 2024 05:07 PM (YmKky)

274 270 Isnt Santos House seat in NY up for grabs in an election tonight? Any tea leaves?

Well, The Dem was ahead in the polls so who knows..

Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2024 05:07 PM (Akjoo)

275 Any of you constitutional scholars read Trumps SCOTUS petition.

He's already down 0-3, before he turned in a damn thing. I don't bother reading the shit anymore. I also quit bothering putting in serious thought about the outcome of Ricky Steamboat vs Ric Flair sometime in my early teens.

Because the game is rigged. Why pour through the prelims like a gambler on the backside staring at the racing form ?

Posted by: Pepperidge Farm Remembers at February 13, 2024 05:07 PM (DgKCv)

276 Just saw the latest from Tucker on the ceasefire. Disappointing. Why can't people understand what Israel is up against?

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 13, 2024 05:08 PM (bLfZS)

277 At DM, "Covid wreaks havoc on women's sex lives for months after infection - ruining libido and slashing orgasms"

COVID: What can't it do?

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at February 13, 2024 05:08 PM (MvF+J)

278 Of course, the press dishonestly reports his position.

Posted by: WisRich at February 13, 2024 05:05 PM (G0vdT)

"Trump Claims Constitutional Justification For Imprisoning All SCOTUS Women Justices."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 05:08 PM (gSZYf)

279 The market didn’t puke. 500 points is nothing at 38k. Barely 1%. Some of you need to readjust your perspective. It’s not 1987.
Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 05:00 PM (YofvK)

This is true.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 13, 2024 05:08 PM (BdMk6)

280 NYT’s Paul Krugman Is Depressed About Biden’s Mental Decline, So You Know Things Are Bad - The Federalist

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2024 05:08 PM (eYF7X)

281 256 WSJ - Walmart in Talks to Buy TV Maker Vizio
Retail giant discussing a more than $2 billion deal that would boost its advertising business in battle with Amazon

Posted by: SMOD
--------------------

Walmart needs to decide whether it wants to sell merchandise or its customers.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 13, 2024 05:08 PM (9kzJm)

282 Can you even sell a barely used 50+" Screen TV these days?

—-

Amazon has them for $150. So I doubt anyone would pay more than $25 for a used one.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 05:08 PM (YofvK)

283 >>Amazon has them for $150. So I doubt anyone would pay more than $25 for a used one.

This was my assumption. And also, the reason it is still on my wall and plugged into nothing.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 05:09 PM (nSDU/)

284 Sidebar on Tucker - this has been a big topic of discussion on X, pro and con, and most seem to feel that Tucker was mainly talking about Ukraine, not Israel. Although Tucker did not say what he meant very clearly, and it was his mistake to leave his remarks open ended enough to leave room for speculation.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 13, 2024 05:09 PM (i9ffA)

285 274 270 Isnt Santos House seat in NY up for grabs in an election tonight? Any tea leaves?

Well, The Dem was ahead in the polls so who knows..
Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2024 05:07 PM (Akjoo)

Thanks, Long Island NY GOP! You got the result you always wanted. Couldn't leave a win as a win.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 13, 2024 05:09 PM (4M29A)

286 263 … but it seemed like he's got some valid points.

… there were comments made that the appeals court did a sloppy job of it, completely not addressing a few of the lawyers arguments

Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2024 05:09 PM (RovqD)

287 >>>Today... Her Majesty... said... I... was... right... and... she was... wrong...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2024 05:04 PM (MoZTd)

=====
I shan't believe. Video or it never happened.

Posted by: Turn 2 at February 13, 2024 05:09 PM (JfxgE)

288 >I think I'll set up my bar for this evening's cocktails.

An Old Fashioned? Or something new?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 05:01 PM (gSZYf)

Well, no paczki for me today. I will also enjoy a Fat Tuesday libation. Thinking a Martinez will be a nice change of pace.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 13, 2024 05:10 PM (GTqXr)

289
Walmart needs to decide whether it wants to sell merchandise or its customers.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 13, 2024 05:08 PM (9kzJm)

Why not both?

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 05:10 PM (YofvK)

290 Nkechi Diallo formerly known as Rachel Dolezal is now on OF guys. Down crash the server in your rush to see her.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2024 05:10 PM (eYF7X)

291 Yo yo yo, new CBS national security reporteress is IN DA HOUSE!

Posted by: LaQuinta S. Thompson, Journalish, 3 Bills at February 13, 2024 05:10 PM (qUkBO)

292 287 >>>Today... Her Majesty... said... I... was... right... and... she was... wrong...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2024 05:04 PM (MoZTd

Hope you have something for Her for tomorrow

Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2024 05:10 PM (Akjoo)

293 Linemen in Hawaii are in demand.

Trouble is, the median single family home is $1m.

And, crazy fucking libtarded Hawaiians.

Maize Hirono, anyone?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 13, 2024 05:10 PM (ufFY8)

294 Can you even sell a barely used 50+" Screen TV these days?

—-

Amazon has them for $150. So I doubt anyone would pay more than $25 for a used one.
Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 05:08 PM (YofvK)

It would make a good target for the thousand-yard rifle range.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2024 05:10 PM (tkR6S)

295 George Santos was more conservative than Eyepatch McCain, so fuck everyone who voted to expel him. Let the flamboyant gay be an attack dog on your side for once.

Posted by: UwU_Power at February 13, 2024 05:10 PM (tFwWo)

296 Today... Her Majesty... said... I... was... right... and... she was... wrong...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2024 05:04 PM (MoZTd)

Anyone check on that Seventh Seal?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 05:11 PM (di6C2)

297 Thinking a Martinez will be a nice change of pace.

Nice. Me likee.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at February 13, 2024 05:11 PM (bGzMl)

298 Google is a keyword arbitrage platform. Companies jockey to outbid competitors for search rank relevance for common keywords. It's very lucrative for Google. Business benefit is dicey at best.
Posted by: Heavy Meta

Well, my point was that they get rich. And I said I am not so sure they accomplished anything except a way to profit. Advertising is not really more efficient. Well, it is more efficient since you know exactly the return on each dollar (in theory) but you have to spend a lot more.
I wish there was a better way, like a competitive ranking company for those keywords ("pizza", "toothache",...) instead of a tech monopoly. I don't know - I build shit, I don't advertise.

Posted by: PFC Obvious at February 13, 2024 05:11 PM (aJ/Rj)

299 Isnt Santos House seat in NY up for grabs in an election tonight? Any tea leaves?

Well, The Dem was ahead in the polls so who knows..
Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2024 05:07 PM (Akjoo)
******
Add crappy weather for low voter turnout today.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2024 05:11 PM (NpAcC)

300 The market didn’t puke. 500 points is nothing at 38k. Barely 1%. Some of you need to readjust your perspective. It’s not 1987.
Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 05:00 PM (YofvK)

Yeah, that's just another brick in the wall of my indifference to stock news. You think you are talking real things and you don't mention the percentages alone?

Its like weathermen and wind chill/heat index because actual factual useful numbers aren't sexy enough.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 13, 2024 05:11 PM (eoQWY)

301 I guess immigration has taken center stage in that special House election, with NY obviously having their issues and freaking out over a few busloads.

Here's to hoping that message resonates as I would argue it's the strongest issue we have in November.

Posted by: Blago at February 13, 2024 05:11 PM (wMRY8)

302 Boss, want to have some fun? Check out what the USACE is doing to give "emergency aid" to Lahaina. Volunteers will be trained for three days at the Hilton Promenade at Branson Landing. Then they'll be flown to Hawaii for a month.
Guess the Corps finally figured out how to get in on all that sweet, sweet graft.

Posted by: creeper at February 13, 2024 05:12 PM (cTCuP)

303 Of this 800+ layoffs, any out of HR or DEI office?

Posted by: WisRich at February 13, 2024 05:12 PM (G0vdT)

304 >>>Although Tucker did not say what he meant very clearly, and it was his mistake to leave his remarks open ended enough to leave room for speculation.

Posted by: Tom Servo
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Did you watch it?
There was no conversation about Hamas or Israel but there was plenty of conversation about Russia and Putin.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 13, 2024 05:12 PM (9kzJm)

305 I like Tucker Carlson, but his comments are nonsensical.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 05:12 PM (gSZYf)

306 Whitesnake is pretty good, actually. David Coverdale could really sing.

Plus....80's Tawny Kitaen. Rowr.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 05:12 PM (xcxpd)

307 278 Of course, the press dishonestly reports his position.

Posted by: WisRich at February 13, 2024 05:05 PM (G0vdT)

"Trump Claims Constitutional Justification For Imprisoning All SCOTUS Women Justices."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 05:08 PM (gSZYf)

"Trump says he'll issue an executive order requiring female justices to dance in cage during oral argument accompanied by Motley Crue's Dr. Feelgood."

Posted by: Make the gorillas dance! at February 13, 2024 05:12 PM (UMHqX)

308 Try scoring your decisions based on the process by which you arrived at them rather than on the success they have in providing your most desired outcome.

I kinda' get it, I think. Yet, at the same time, I absolutely and making decisions not based on the end, but how you get there.

For example. If the sum of the decisions is always make the choice such that the store shelves are full, and there is minimal upset to the status quo ? No thanks. But that is also a Contemporary Conservative choice. Not mentioned as often as, say, even five years ago.

I get it, if what you are saying that the journey is more important than the destination. Because we all die in the end. My point has always been, the journey doesn't have to be easy. It's OK to travel hard and light. That is not the message sold by today's GOP.

Posted by: Pepperidge Farm Remembers at February 13, 2024 05:13 PM (DgKCv)

309 295 George Santos was more conservative than Eyepatch McCain, so fuck everyone who voted to expel him. Let the flamboyant gay be an attack dog on your side for once.

Posted by: UwU_Power at February 13, 2024 05:10 PM (tFwWo)

Your nic makes me think of something. Oddly, I cannot find a sfw pic to link...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 05:13 PM (di6C2)

310 My problem with Tucker's statement was that he equivocated Destruction with Categorical Evil -- which is naive pablum; however, Destroying Evil (e.g. Hamas) is Categorically Good.

Per Psalm 97:10 -- if you love God, you must hate evil.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 13, 2024 05:13 PM (QSLiO)

311 "This Was CBS!" (chord plays)

Posted by: Another Anon at February 13, 2024 05:13 PM (hwP7U)

312 251 Dear God in heaven, I hate the smell of weed. I cannot see how potheads stand it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 05:03 PM

---

Was up in the mountains a few weeks ago. Smelled a skunk. Turns out it was an actual skunk. Got all nostalgic.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 13, 2024 05:13 PM (wzAuc)

313 294 Can you even sell a barely used 50+" Screen TV these days?

—-

Amazon has them for $150. So I doubt anyone would pay more than $25 for a used one.
Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 05:08 PM (YofvK)

It would make a good target for the thousand-yard rifle range.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2024 05:10 PM (tkR6S)

————

Hell Walmart had a 85” Samsung for $698

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 13, 2024 05:14 PM (2fIO4)

314 Of course, the press dishonestly reports his position.

Posted by: WisRich at February 13, 2024 05:05 PM (G0vdT)

"Trump Claims Constitutional Justification For Imprisoning All SCOTUS Women Justices."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 05:08 PM (gSZYf)

Well there's nothing in it *against* such things. And all those penumbras are relevant.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 13, 2024 05:14 PM (eoQWY)

315 Whitesnake had an ok guitarist, too.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 05:14 PM (nSDU/)

316 312 251 Dear God in heaven, I hate the smell of weed. I cannot see how potheads stand it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 05:03 PM

Neighbor at the corner has been smoking it for years... I get high everytime I walk by his house

Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2024 05:14 PM (Akjoo)

317 This was my assumption. And also, the reason it is still on my wall and plugged into nothing.
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 05:09 PM

You know who else has a large-screen video monitor mounted on their wall?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 13, 2024 05:15 PM (a3Q+t)

318 289
Walmart needs to decide whether it wants to sell merchandise or its customers.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 13, 2024 05:08 PM (9kzJm)

Why not both?

Posted by: Montec
------------------

Well, in this world of children raised with no ability to discriminate that may be a successful business model. Count me out.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 13, 2024 05:15 PM (9kzJm)

319 I also fervently pray I've heard the last of Tony Romo

fire THAT meathead

Posted by: Don Black at February 13, 2024 04:28 PM (geLO

Dull, annoying voice, irrelevant stories, consistently wrong. He could work for CBS news division.

Posted by: kathysaysso at February 13, 2024 05:15 PM (yACxx)

320 275: I also quit bothering putting in serious thought about the outcome of Ricky Steamboat vs Ric Flair sometime in my early teens.

Ricky Steamboat had that won if it wasn't for interference from the Andersen Brothers.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 13, 2024 05:15 PM (sAmhv)

321 263 … but it seemed like he's got some valid points.

… there were comments made that the appeals court did a sloppy job of it, completely not addressing a few of the lawyers arguments
Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2024 05:09 PM (RovqD)
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I couldn't believe they not only wouldn't allow an embanc hearing but that he had to appeal to SCOTUS in what, 5 days or else the trial started asap.

I mean, wtf.

Posted by: WisRich at February 13, 2024 05:16 PM (G0vdT)

322 All I care about is how an elected person will vote. What they do outside of that, is irrelevant. But the gop being the gop had to get riding a reliable vote because Santos reasons. Imbeciles.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 05:16 PM (YofvK)

323 Moskowitz should be thankful, Maci is still alive.

After all United Airlines managed to kill a very expensive giant rabbit on one of their flights.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2024 05:16 PM (Mi8Re)

324 Thinking a Martinez will be a nice change of pace.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 13, 2024 05:10 PM (GTqXr)

Classic cocktail!

I don't have the correct vermouth though...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 05:16 PM (gSZYf)

325 I have no issues with Tony Romo.

Posted by: WisRich at February 13, 2024 05:16 PM (G0vdT)

326 Boss, want to have some fun? Check out what the USACE is doing to give "emergency aid" to Lahaina. Volunteers will be trained for three days at the Hilton Promenade at Branson Landing. Then they'll be flown to Hawaii for a month.
Guess the Corps finally figured out how to get in on all that sweet, sweet graft.
Posted by: creeper at February 13, 2024 05:12 PM (cTCuP)

Just wait till an igloo in Nome Alaska collapses and they divert the do-gooders there instead.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 13, 2024 05:16 PM (eoQWY)

327 305 I like Tucker Carlson, but his comments are nonsensical.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 05:12 PM (gSZYf)

Our foreign aid and conduct abroad is pretty shit. Does the fact that he did not isolate Israel Aid in that statement mean it inviolate the whole idea? So, would you vote for the 85/15(or whatever the lions share was for the Ukes) Ukraine/Israel aid thing because at least it gives money to Israel?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 05:17 PM (di6C2)

328 I must say, Rachel Dolezal has a nice body.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2024 05:17 PM (eYF7X)

329 I hear the Lahaina residents are being offered a very nice bribe if they agree to not sue any state agencies.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2024 05:18 PM (Mi8Re)

330 >>I get it, if what you are saying that the journey is more important than the destination. Because we all die in the end. My point has always been, the journey doesn't have to be easy. It's OK to travel hard and light. That is not the message sold by today's GOP.

Too much concordance in the comments for my liking.

Longbows are clearly the superior bows.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 05:18 PM (nSDU/)

331 I'm sure it's been said. There are going to be some real journalists caught up in these needed bloodlettings... but the skilled will find a way.
The others... well... there are always discussions on hot dogs being a sandwich...

Posted by: Inogame at February 13, 2024 05:18 PM (53oGX)

332
Hell Walmart had a 85” Samsung for $698
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 13, 2024 05:14 PM (2fIO4)

Jeeeezuz! In 2010ish I paid $1500 for a 55 inch which at the time was top of the line high end shit. I still have it and it’s been a great TV. But damn TVs are cheap today.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 05:18 PM (YofvK)

333 The interest up and the stock markets down
And you only get mugged if you go down town

Posted by: Hank Jr at February 13, 2024 05:19 PM (NtVYv)

334 The others... well... there are always discussions on hot dogs being a sandwich...
Posted by: Inogame at February 13, 2024 05:18 PM (53oGX)

Hey man, how's the wife and baby doing?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 05:19 PM (di6C2)

335 All I care about is how an elected person will vote. What they do outside of that, is irrelevant. But the gop being the gop had to get riding a reliable vote because Santos reasons. Imbeciles.
Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 05:16 PM (YofvK)

It's my understanding that he posed as gay to get votes from the sort of 'tards that would vote for a candidate just because he was gay. There's no crime in deceiving Liberal 'tards.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2024 05:19 PM (tkR6S)

336 doing to give "emergency aid" to Lahaina. Volunteers will be trained for three days at the

And Hawaiian Electric (HE) contributed $75m to a $175m fund to help. I am sure they are hoping some of this will reduce litigation

In the earnings call, they mentioned a suspended dividend, but I think this was the subsidiary bank (ASB) dividend to the holding company. The Electric Company issued $13m in quarterly dividend cash. Now I need to figure out if it lines up with the $0.36/share number.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 13, 2024 05:19 PM (ufFY8)

337 Walmart needs to decide whether it wants to sell merchandise or its customers.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 13, 2024 05:08 PM

Have you seen the People of Walmart?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 13, 2024 05:19 PM (a3Q+t)

338 I like Tucker Carlson, but his comments are nonsensical.

For a dude that's never held a shovel in his life, and was the heir to the Swanson fortune ? Even being slightly connected is pretty remarkable. And he is.

But he's still got that bone of a dude that never served a day in his life, yet sees an opportunity to send the troops the same way SEC fans see a bowl game and wonder why they ain't in it.

Yet, still, he's way ahead of Hannity.

Posted by: Pepperidge Farm Remembers at February 13, 2024 05:19 PM (DgKCv)

339 I must say, Rachel Dolezal has a nice body.

Just like a cracker, objectifying black bodies.

Posted by: She's maxed out the crazy axis of the hot-crazy matrix at February 13, 2024 05:20 PM (UMHqX)

340 "Trump Claims Constitutional Justification For Imprisoning All SCOTUS Women Justices."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 05:08 PM (gSZYf)

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

Benedict Roberts hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 13, 2024 05:20 PM (lUpAT)

341 Too much concordance in the comments for my liking.

Longbows are clearly the superior bows.
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 05:18 PM (nSDU/)

Not on horseback

Posted by: Oldcat at February 13, 2024 05:20 PM (eoQWY)

342 War Crime Nood

Posted by: Inogame at February 13, 2024 05:20 PM (53oGX)

343 >> All I care about is how an elected person will vote. What they do outside of that, is irrelevant. But the gop being the gop had to get riding a reliable vote because Santos reasons. Imbeciles.

You want a Knight of Infinite Faith.

You would settle for a Knight of Infinite Resignation.

You'll get neither.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 05:21 PM (nSDU/)

344 Longbows are clearly the superior bows.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 05:18 PM (nSDU/)

Matching crocs, messenger bags, and a Vespa are gay. End of discussion.

Posted by: Pepperidge Farm Remembers at February 13, 2024 05:21 PM (DgKCv)

345 Tucker is not that smart.

Also, Tucker was talking an Abaddababo, with an audience filled with men with dish towels on their heads.

I knew this was going to get him in trouble, and I watched the f-ing speech but turned it off too soon, I guess so I missed the ceasefire comment.

Posted by: PFC Obvious at February 13, 2024 05:21 PM (aJ/Rj)

346 >I don't have the correct vermouth though...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 05:16 PM (gSZYf)

Hmmm. I typically use Carpano Antica when mixing a Manhattan. For a Martinez, I like Punt e Mes. I like the bitter edge against the gin.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 13, 2024 05:21 PM (GTqXr)

347 Does the fact that he did not isolate Israel Aid in that statement mean it inviolate the whole idea?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2024 05:17 PM (di6C2)

No. His simile of a family was stupid, and it makes no sense in the context of any war we are funding.

I have no problem with people who are against foreign aide for our allies and others. Just make a rational and consistent argument.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 05:21 PM (gSZYf)

348 After all United Airlines managed to kill a very expensive giant rabbit on one of their flights.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Hey, let's not start splittin' hares, here!

Posted by: Bugs Bunny at February 13, 2024 05:22 PM (vcOmj)

349 Mrs. Meta gifted me a set of Nick and Nora glasses for Xmas. I feel all sophisticated and shit now.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 13, 2024 05:22 PM (GTqXr)

350 I hear the Lahaina residents are being offered a very nice bribe if they agree to not sue any state agencies.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2024 05:18 PM (Mi8Re)

Yep.
Or the utility.
Part of that fund I mentioned.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 13, 2024 05:22 PM (ufFY8)

351 I typically use Carpano Antica when mixing a Manhattan.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 13, 2024 05:21 PM (GTqXr)

I use Dolin now...I moved away from Carpano Antica because it was taking center stage, and I want my Old Fashioneds and Manhattans to showcase the Rye.

But for a Martinez I would go with Carpano!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 05:22 PM (gSZYf)

352 @303 doubtful the CBS CEO is a hyphenated woke woman

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2024 05:24 PM (DgSZ/)

353 Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@realchrisrufo

EXCLUSIVE: In January 2021, then-Disney chairman Bob Iger told employees he was committing the company to "taking a stand" on politics because of January 6, then praised himself for making Black Panther, which he said was an example of "diversity and inclusion."

http://tinyurl.com/bdwx8nas

Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2024 05:25 PM (NpAcC)

354 I have no problem with people who are against foreign aide for our allies and others. Just make a rational and consistent argument.

Then I'll make the same argument shit on here back when Rand Paul made it, to the Knesset. The sooner you get off US military aid ? The sooner you won't have to listen to us meddle against your best interests, and we do meddle against your best interests. End of story.

Posted by: Pepperidge Farm Remembers at February 13, 2024 05:26 PM (DgKCv)

355 I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
Because I used a longbow

Posted by: International Brotherhood of Hobos and Associated Hermits at February 13, 2024 05:30 PM (dzZCL)

356 240 Worst layoff I ever experienced...and I should have wrote a country song about it: separated from to be ex wife right at Thanksgiving, car ate the transmission about that time, no car, living with friends and, right at Christmas, no more job.
Probably would never have sold, though, because no one would believe it.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at February 13, 2024 05:02 PM (tT6L1)

Holidays 2007 for me: Escorted out of my house by the PO-lice courtesy of my eventual X-2 the week before Thanksgiving; two weeks later the company I'd been working at for 15 years decides to shut down by Feb '08; two weeks later my car gets totaled on the way to work.

But at least it wasn't a heart attack that I had two weeks after that, just esophageal spasms that mimic one.

Posted by: goozer at February 13, 2024 05:36 PM (5aMWQ)

357 Catherine Herridge@CBS_Herridge.
@JudiciaryGOP @GOPoversight @WaysandMeansGOP
“The Committees require this (Biden/Hur interview) transcript..there is concern that President Biden may have retained sensitive documents related to specific countries involving his family’s foreign business dealings…” by Feb. 19

"Well, son of a bitch. She got fired."

Posted by: Dave (in MA) at February 13, 2024 05:36 PM (/WiVa)

358 I'd say "Learn To Code" but all those jobs have/will be given to DEI candidates.

Learn To Mop

Posted by: Ripley at February 13, 2024 06:18 PM (PTDkx)

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