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Wednesday Morning Rant
Disney's mission became not to produce movies, but to create and distribute propaganda. The problem with propaganda is that it largely sucks and there's little market for it. To make sales, you have to rook the audience into thinking it's something it isn't. Sometimes this is unsuccessful and nothing can drive demand, but sometimes the lie works. You tell your customers they're buying X because that's what it's always been, but then you sell them Y instead and laugh all the way to the bank.
The deceit play can work by riding reputation, but that has a limited shelf life. Reducing quality while stamping an illustrious name on the product can let you coast for a bit, but eventually this peters out and then your magic symbol - your laboriously and painstakingly developed brand name and reputation - becomes a symbol of disgust. Just ask the foreign owners of the RCA, Westinghouse, Sunbeam and other once-great names in the consumer goods market how long the name will still be synonymous with quality if you pump out indifferent sludge instead of good products. You can still find trash with those names haphazardly glued onto it, but those names are now just an artifact - an echo of an age before they were reduced to irrelevance. And so it is with Pixar, Marvel, 20th Century Fox, Disney itself, AB-InBev, Gillette and so on. One could spend all day listing brands that decided to ride the coattails of their own success right over the cultural cliff. The magic symbols they possessed - their all-powerful, semi-mythical, utterly invulnerable brands - were not magic at all. The big brains of board room and ad agency inverted causality. The brands were great because the products were great. A great brand can not elevate a bad product, but a bad product can certainly demean and devalue the brand. The bigger the brand - and the grander the reputation - the more damage is caused by this inversion. Eventually, even a great brand will elicit not admiration or confidence, but indifference or contempt. The 14% reduction in staff at Pixar is just a down payment on the bill for damage wrought by an idiot elite with the cargo-cult mentality of savages who believed their brands and the accomplishments of their forebears gave them the magic power to dictate terms.Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Inogame at May 22, 2024 11:00 AM (53oGX)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:01 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 22, 2024 11:01 AM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:01 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 11:01 AM (d04cU)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 22, 2024 11:01 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 22, 2024 11:02 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Inogame at May 22, 2024 11:02 AM (53oGX)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 22, 2024 11:02 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BignJames at May 22, 2024 11:03 AM (AwYPR)
more diversity.
I just think they need to commit.
Posted by: Inogame at May 22, 2024 11:03 AM (53oGX)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 22, 2024 11:03 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:04 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Jamaica at May 22, 2024 11:05 AM (fRFTM)
First......George Lucas is incredibly pissed off about what Disney did to Star Wars, he wants to redo Episodes I, II and III.
Second, ExxonMobile says Biden is going to force fuel prices to be 2020 levels by this summer in an effort to bribe his re-election.
Then it will go back up to current levels.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)
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And I had such high hopes for the Pete Doctor era of Pixar.
Well, creatives don't always make good administrators.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 22, 2024 11:05 AM (cD1dp)
Posted by: Doof at May 22, 2024 11:05 AM (h0Z+I)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:01 AM (v6JzV)
Wait....you curse and shake your fist at ME, but when Inogame beats you, it's just damn it?
Bastard.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:06 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2024 11:06 AM (Akjoo)
Sears, Roebuck & Company - (Kenmore, Craftsman)
Montgomery Wards
S.S.Kresge - then KMart
Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2024 11:06 AM (ofCHO)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:06 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:04 AM (v6JzV)
Puddle of Mudd?
Posted by: Doof at May 22, 2024 11:07 AM (h0Z+I)
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at May 22, 2024 11:07 AM (IZjwR)
Posted by: Bob Auger at May 22, 2024 11:08 AM (V5BDR)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 22, 2024 11:08 AM (3CVIc)
Bastard.......
Posted by: Sponge
Fine.
*shakes fist at Inogame*
Happy now?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:08 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 22, 2024 11:08 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 22, 2024 11:08 AM (L/fGl)
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Wait, how is gas going to be under $2 when food prices... Oh man, we're going to be in such uncharted waters.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 22, 2024 11:09 AM (ICJ9S)
*shakes fist at Inogame*
Happy now?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:08 AM (v6JzV)
Yes, actually.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2024 11:10 AM (j093G)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:10 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2024 11:10 AM (0FoWg)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 22, 2024 11:08 AM (2NHgQ)
She likes Minbari?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 22, 2024 11:10 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)
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How? Let's assume pre-COVID, so January of '20.
The price of oil then was about $60 per barrel.
The price of oil now is about $78 per barrel.
Domestic oil consumption is about 20 million barrels per day.
To move the market like that would cost either $360 million per day (about $11 billion per month) or require an increase in production by at least a third.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 11:10 AM (d04cU)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:10 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 22, 2024 11:10 AM (HC6ok)
Posted by: BignJames at May 22, 2024 11:10 AM (AwYPR)
TV, books, video games, table top rpgs, comics: they're all on the LGBT+ propaganda train. Conservatives are always saying "get woke, go broke," but few seem to actually go broke, and the culture is so saturated with this propaganda that short of just abandoning all contemporary pursuits, it's more or less unavoidable. Regardless of what happens to Disney, my sense is that this battle is lost. The propagandists won.
Posted by: DOOM! at May 22, 2024 11:11 AM (TtsS5)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 11:11 AM (CsUN+)
Makes boycotting these fucks all the easier for some folks.
Hopefully they learn that they just really never needed their product.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 22, 2024 11:11 AM (3CVIc)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:04 AM (v6JzV)
Puddle of Mudd?
Posted by: Doof at May 22, 2024 11:07 AM (h0Z+I)
And 3 Inches of Blood
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I May No Longer Be able To Even at May 22, 2024 11:11 AM (xPJvm)
Same goes for the individuals at AB, Target, etc.
The "brand" entities themselves didn't trash the company. The woke retards did.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2024 11:11 AM (Q4IgG)
Excellent....
Posted by: The Democratic Party! at May 22, 2024 11:11 AM (uxCna)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine
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Does that mean she goes after geriatrics in the show?
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2024 11:12 AM (PkS4e)
The ones he wrote and directed? What?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 22, 2024 11:12 AM (BxvY+)
Excellent....
Posted by: The Democratic Party!
Here we go...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:12 AM (v6JzV)
Wait, how is gas going to be under $2 when food prices... Oh man, we're going to be in such uncharted waters.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 22, 2024 11:09 AM (ICJ9S)
First, it's impossible for fuel prices to be lower by that amount simply because he's banned drilling everywhere and refineries can't catch up should that change at any rate.
Second, if he DID mandate something, the oil companies would have to accept losing BILLIONS because there's just no way to drop prices unless a gun is held to their head and they're told to just grin and bear it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 22, 2024 11:12 AM (mUnoX)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2024 11:11 AM (Q4IgG)
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No question. They thought their brands would let them get away with anything. The equivalent of a spoiled kid with a powerful dad shouting, "DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!?!?!" all the time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 11:13 AM (d04cU)
Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2024 11:13 AM (j093G)
Eh. I have no personal stake in Disney. Utter failure is a reward all its own.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 11:13 AM (CsUN+)
TV, books, video games, table top rpgs, comics: they're all on the LGBT+ propaganda train. Conservatives are always saying "get woke, go broke," but few seem to actually go broke, and the culture is so saturated with this propaganda that short of just abandoning all contemporary pursuits, it's more or less unavoidable. Regardless of what happens to Disney, my sense is that this battle is lost. The propagandists won.
Posted by: DOOM! at May 22, 2024 11:11 AM (TtsS5)
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The change isn't by shifting from one institution to another, it's accelerating the shift from centralized entertainment to decentralized.
Mr. Beast is one of the most highly paid celebrities in the world, and he started at 13 making Youtube videos. Still does.
Of course, that's still reliant on a centralized platform, but the creation is diffuse.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 22, 2024 11:13 AM (cD1dp)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:13 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
I can tell you which option they won't take.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 22, 2024 11:13 AM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 22, 2024 11:12 AM (BxvY+)
Yeah......
The first 3 movies starting in the 70's weren't what he wanted because "technology just wasn't where his brain needed it to be," so.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)
George Lucas needs to be pissed off at George Lucas for releasing 4, 5, 6, then 1, 2, 3.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2024 11:14 AM (ofCHO)
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"Well, we'll always have China and the large pedo markets in Hollywood and D.C., h8r!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 22, 2024 11:14 AM (7UNlK)
Second, if he DID mandate something, the oil companies would have to accept losing BILLIONS because there's just no way to drop prices unless a gun is held to their head and they're told to just grin and bear it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)
subsidies
Posted by: BignJames at May 22, 2024 11:14 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 22, 2024 11:12 AM (BxvY+)
Yeah......
The first 3 movies starting in the 70's weren't what he wanted because "technology just wasn't where his brain needed it to be," so.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)
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Which would be 4, 5, and 6.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 22, 2024 11:14 AM (cD1dp)
Seems the NFL has survived their wokeness but not with any help from me.
Posted by: polynikes at May 22, 2024 11:15 AM (SHMXB)
The first 3 movies starting in the 70's weren't what he wanted because "technology just wasn't where his brain needed it to be," so.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)
Han shot first.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes. George, pur version numbers on your movies so we can tell at May 22, 2024 11:15 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 22, 2024 11:15 AM (HC6ok)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2024 11:15 AM (XkYcA)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 11:13 AM (CsUN+)
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I grew up in Burbank. Disney was the hometown brand. I hate what these idiots have done to it.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 22, 2024 11:16 AM (mUnoX)
The first 3 movies starting in the 70's weren't what he wanted because "technology just wasn't where his brain needed it to be," so.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)
Han shot first.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes. George, pur version numbers on your movies so we can tell at May 22, 2024 11:15 AM (PiwSw)
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I read a theory on that that I'd never heard before.
Lucas did it to preserve the PG rating. Resubmitting the first film to the MPAA with Han shooting first might have gotten it a PG-13.
No idea if true, but it's an interesting thought...designed to save Lucas blame from something he chose to do.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 22, 2024 11:16 AM (cD1dp)
We've been spending down almost everything we've inherited while stealing from the future as fast as we can.
Our society is the most selfish society. Everything is sacrificed for present comfort.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 22, 2024 11:16 AM (JMAcK)
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Ha. You can't get more Lucas than that.
Unaware that practical effects and real work was a big part of their appeal.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 22, 2024 11:16 AM (ICJ9S)
Bear in mind that I've been watching BBC stuff on PBS for decades.
Just saw Episode 1 of the latest iteration of "Great Expectations". In which:
Pip is a tweener, not a child
His sister is a dominatrix. Her client is the lawyer, who is Asian.
Estella is- you might want to sit down for this- black.
Miss Haversham is (I read some reviews later) an opium addict.
Self-absorbed youngsters ruining everything.
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at May 22, 2024 11:17 AM (IZjwR)
Posted by: polynikes at May 22, 2024 11:15 AM (SHMXB)
Didn't they stop selling firearms? No other reason I'd shop there.
Posted by: BignJames at May 22, 2024 11:17 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:10 AM (v6JzV)
He's doing Ok. Step-mom is taking care of him alright. He won't let anyone else do anything, so her options are limited, tho.
His dementia isn't progressing too quickly, so there's that.
Thanks for asking.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)
No idea if true, but it's an interesting thought...designed to save Lucas blame from something he chose to do.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
IIRC, PG-13 didn't come around until the 80s and Temple of Doom.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:17 AM (v6JzV)
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I guess shoving tranny dick down our throats wasn't the ratings draw they thought it would be.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 22, 2024 11:17 AM (L/fGl)
Then it will go back up to current levels.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)
Mushhead just 100% depleted the gasoline reserves held in New England. Next weather related disaster hitting NE and they 1970s gas lines will be back.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 22, 2024 11:17 AM (N39Ws)
Same goes for the individuals at AB, Target, etc.
The "brand" entities themselves didn't trash the company. The woke retards did.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Entrepreneurs that create and stamp a company with their personality are always replaced by the grayed out colorless administrators try and fail usually to create their own puerile ideas. The generation of conservers of the legacy give way to the 'reinvention types' and those types generally lead a corporation into a ditch.
Corporate version of rags to riches to rags again in three generations.
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2024 11:17 AM (PkS4e)
Hansel and Gretel is a 1954 stop-motion animated theatrical feature film released by RKO Radio Pictures.
PS - I adored Pixar's 2009's UP while intensely disliking Ed Anser.
Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at May 22, 2024 11:18 AM (NFX2v)
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Make Mad Men Great Again!
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 22, 2024 11:18 AM (7UNlK)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:18 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 11:18 AM (CsUN+)
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Well said.
Executives succeeding founders often mistake their asset management for innovation, and think their positions entitle them to force their beliefs on everyone else. Iger may have destroyed the Disney brand this way.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 22, 2024 11:18 AM (YLId6)
They did a DEI David Copperfield movie also a few years back.
Posted by: polynikes at May 22, 2024 11:18 AM (SHMXB)
No idea if true, but it's an interesting thought...designed to save Lucas blame from something he chose to do.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
IIRC, PG-13 didn't come around until the 80s and Temple of Doom.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:17 AM (v6JzV)
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Han shooting second happened in the re-release, which was the late 90s. Resubmitted for rating.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 22, 2024 11:19 AM (cD1dp)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 11:20 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: polynikes at May 22, 2024 11:15 AM (SHMXB)
Didn't they stop selling firearms? No other reason I'd shop there.
Posted by: BignJames at May 22, 2024 11:17 AM (AwYPR)
For those who are familiar with Maine/NH - you may know of Kittery Trading Post (KTP).
Maine is looking to tighten their gun laws. KTP responded by threatening to move their store from Kittery to somewhere in NH if they go through with it.
With the death of brick and mortar stores, the Kittery Outlets are struggling. KTP brings a lot of traffic to the area. Waiting to see how the Maine Gov. responds.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 22, 2024 11:20 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Ah, I see.
Never try to correct a movie geek, Bulg.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:20 AM (v6JzV)
They're fantastic.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 22, 2024 11:21 AM (ICJ9S)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 22, 2024 11:21 AM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 11:21 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 22, 2024 11:21 AM (MeG8a)
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$5 says MacGregor ends up having sex with a dude by episode 4.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 22, 2024 11:22 AM (cD1dp)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 11:21 AM (CsUN+)
Agreed. I enjoyed watching that series as well.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 22, 2024 11:22 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: DOOM! at May 22, 2024 11:11 AM (TtsS5)
Except people can, and have, simply turned off the propaganda.
It's a victory, for now, but I don't think it's a long term victory.
Just like American car companies thought they could put out crap and the American people would just have to buy it, American media companies are going to find there's a lot of foreign companies that would be happy to take their customers. (Already have been, in fact- see American comics vs. Manga)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 22, 2024 11:23 AM (JMAcK)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 22, 2024 11:22 AM (cD1dp)
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No "filthiest toilet in Moscow?"
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 22, 2024 11:23 AM (mUnoX)
It seems so weird to me that books written by awhite Englishman about a largely white England of the 19th century have to be DEI 'ified. It's the same with a recent version of "Persuasion" which I noted was my favorite Austen novel. Either in the movie of a TV movie they had Captain Wentworth played by an Asian man. So dumb!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2024 11:23 AM (XkYcA)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2024 11:15 AM
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I loved WALL-E, but its whole premise rested on the absurd tiny-world notion that humans could generate enough material waste to overwhelm all of civilization.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at May 22, 2024 11:23 AM (wzAuc)
Posted by: polynikes at May 22, 2024 11:18 AM (SHMXB)
You know, I saw that and on reflection didn't hate it, because it was casting that left the plot alone.
A bit like the DEI Shakespeare's that work fine.
"Much Ado About Nothing" comes to mind.
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at May 22, 2024 11:23 AM (IZjwR)
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Biden is canceling ANOTHER $7.7 billion in student loans. Come see how many votes he wants to buy with this round.
https://shorturl.at/na7CH
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 22, 2024 11:24 AM (L/fGl)
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I guess shoving tranny dick down our throats wasn't the ratings draw they thought it would be.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
I don't understand...it sounds AMAZING! The dick/throat part, I mean...who wants to watch some lame TV bullshit.
Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at May 22, 2024 11:24 AM (yoMt8)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2024 11:24 AM (cCVOS)
Yesterday, I saw a trailer for a new movie whose name escapes me but which features 2 guys kissing in the middle. Is this a good way to attract business? Methinks not.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 11:24 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 22, 2024 11:25 AM (3CVIc)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 11:21 AM (CsUN+)
Time to watch "Death of Stalin" again!
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at May 22, 2024 11:25 AM (IZjwR)
Same!
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2024 11:25 AM (cCVOS)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 22, 2024 11:23 AM (JMAcK)
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I thoroughly expect a bicoastal push to eliminate foreign cultural products from the market. It won't be "censorship," of course, and will be done under the guise of trade policy to protect native industries, but the purpose will be to remove that choice (or make it extremely expensive).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 11:26 AM (d04cU)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2024 11:15 AM (XkYcA)
Yes! Monsters, Inc. was my daughter's first favorite movie (which she called "Boo!" or "Monsuhmovie"). Probably watched it 50 times, fast-forwarding through the really scary part every single time.
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at May 22, 2024 11:26 AM (JCLJi)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22
Monsters, Inc, Finding Nemo. My boys loved those films. And I loved watching them (the first several times, at least).
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2024 11:26 AM (CbDvl)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 22, 2024 11:26 AM (HC6ok)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at May 22, 2024 11:23 AM (wzAuc)
Wall-E has grown on me - I used to think when it 1st came out that the 1st part of the movie was an A+ and the 2nd part was a C+...but now, the 2nd part has literally come to pass, so I have to elevate the forward thinking by the creators...while they got the 1st half wrong (the trash on Earth), they really did get the automaton, weak society ruled by "machines" correct...
Posted by: Nova Local at May 22, 2024 11:26 AM (exHjb)
I guess I don't see that as a very promising vehicle for change or viewpoint diversity, as YouTube has been only too happy to demonetize based on viewpoint. My guess would be that this tendency will increase the more traditional media is displaced. Look at the trouble Musk has incurred by breaking with the thought monopoly on X.
Posted by: DOOM! at May 22, 2024 11:26 AM (TtsS5)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2024
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We do. The original Toy Story and The Incredibles in particular were delightful.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2024 11:26 AM (J2vNu)
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"If we have seen further it is by standing on the necks of Giant White Supremacist Cisheteropatriarchy Assholes, Values, Virtues, NORMZZZZ and children ... but mostly children."
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 22, 2024 11:27 AM (4nwyS)
Incredible. It's as if diversity is not our strength.
Posted by: Ripley at May 22, 2024 11:27 AM (JojsZ)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 22, 2024 11:27 AM (2NHgQ)
And I think I'll stick with the excellent 1946 movie of "Great Expectations".
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2024 11:27 AM (XkYcA)
Posted by: DOOM!
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Not really. A lot of wokeness has been propped up with borrowed money and as that shrivels in the harshness of either formal default or inflating the debt away, much of what the elite class worries about will become trivial.
Essentially almost everywhere the centralization trend that has lasted the past two centuries or so is dying whether culture, music, politics, etc.
Yet, in a forest dying around them, some will always point to the tallest trees surviving and assume that is the norm.
My personal guess is that Big Music, Big Movies, Big Government, Big Media, Big Political Parties, Big Retail, etc are all becoming to complex and expensive to live onwards.
We are rushing toward some reset of massive proportions--the question is exactly how violent it will be until a new equilibrium is reached.
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2024 11:27 AM (PkS4e)
. . . or anything with a pulse!!
Posted by: Captain Jack Harkness, Omni-Pan-Alien-Curious-Sexual at May 22, 2024 11:28 AM (cCVOS)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at May 22, 2024 11:23 AM (wzAuc)
My new benchmark for activities is "Will this lead to becoming a WALL-E recliner person?"
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at May 22, 2024 11:28 AM (IZjwR)
Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2024 11:28 AM (FQmDC)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 22, 2024 11:28 AM (2QA3G)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2024 11:26 AM (J2vNu)
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"The Incredibles" is a Fantastic Four movie done right.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 22, 2024 11:28 AM (mUnoX)
It's because we are in Judgement Day. Division, hatred, and violence will continue until the end, probably in 2033. Here are more than 90 Bible studies that bring the case for this and the probable end of all things visible in 2033.
www.ebiblefellowship.org/chrisaudio/2033
Posted by: Corruption, Top To Bottom at May 22, 2024 11:28 AM (V5BDR)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 11:29 AM (d04cU)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Never try to correct a movie geek, Bulg.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
I always intended to have Han shoot second, because only a Sith deals in absolutes, or shoots first, but it got messed up in editing. That's why I went back and changed it.
It was also critical to my vision to have giant dinosaur lizards walking in front of the camera, and having an out of place, cringe-inducing scene with Jabba right away to remove and mystery or menace.
Posted by: George Lucas at May 22, 2024 11:29 AM (yoMt8)
We do. The original Toy Story and The Incredibles in particular were delightful.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2024 11:26 AM (J2vNu)
The Incredibles is still far and away my favorite Pixar movie. I prefer Toy Story 2 mostly because of Kelsey Grammer.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 22, 2024 11:30 AM (T+Iwg)
Mr. Beast is one of the most highly paid celebrities in the world, and he started at 13 making Youtube videos. Still does.
Of course, that's still reliant on a centralized platform, but the creation is diffuse.
Right, the creators are the brand, not YouTube itself. Alternative platforms do need to be good enough though, as Microsoft discovered trying to float a poor Twitch clone by paying creators.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 22, 2024 11:30 AM (FD5dr)
Uh, those are the three he screwed up himself. I assume you meant the sequel trilogy (7, 8, 9).
Posted by: Gaff at May 22, 2024 11:30 AM (jPS2y)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 22, 2024 11:30 AM (JTwsP)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 22, 2024 11:30 AM (V5eKu)
First you create a sausage with great ingredients. Then once you've got. a strong customer base, you cut the quality of the ingredients without cutting the price.
Eventually customers figure out that you're now a scam, and yoru company dies.
The better method is "continuous process improvement", which mean putting all your effort into making a better product for less cost.
But that's no fun, and actual work
Posted by: Greg the Class Traitor at May 22, 2024 11:30 AM (qE0ap)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 11:29 AM (d04cU)
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This statement is rated "T" for "True."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 22, 2024 11:30 AM (mUnoX)
With the death of brick and mortar stores, the Kittery Outlets are struggling. KTP brings a lot of traffic to the area. Waiting to see how the Maine Gov. responds.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 22, 2024 11:20 AM (N39Ws)
What OCIS didn’t mention is that KTP could move about a mile south and be in NH.
We would welcome that.
Posted by: RI Red at May 22, 2024 11:31 AM (T9WMp)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 22, 2024 11:31 AM (2QA3G)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2024 11:26 AM (CbDvl)
I have seen the first hour of Cars 100 times. After the first hour, the oldest would get bored and go do something else.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at May 22, 2024 11:31 AM (iSfV4)
The Trump campaign is crying "election interference" over a biopic screened at the Cannes Film Festival that depicts a character playing Trump raping a character playing his ex-wife Ivana Trump.
May 21, 2024, 3:26 PM EDT
By Ja'han Jones
Donald Trump is the talk of the Cannes Film Festival, although not for positive reasons.
"After its screening at Cannes on Monday, filmmaker Ali Abbasi’s movie “The Apprentice” has the cinema community buzzing and the Trump campaign fuming. The biopic focuses on the relationship between Trump and his now-deceased former lawyer Roy Cohn. Cohn’s character is played by Jeremy Strong, who starred as Kendall Roy in “Succession,” and Trump’s character is played by Sebastian Stan, who previously appeared in Marvel's “Avengers” franchise and once starred as rocker Tommy Lee in a biopic about Lee and model Pamela Anderson.
Among the aspects that have the MAGA camp up in arms is the inclusion of a scene in which the Trump character sexually assaults a character playing Trump’s then-wife, Ivana Trump."
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Watch gleeful Scarborough & thoughtful Mika in related discussion.
Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at May 22, 2024 11:31 AM (NFX2v)
1. Collect underpants.
2. Burn the entire company to the ground.
3. Profit.
Posted by: Ribbed at May 22, 2024 11:31 AM (Ectld)
Can we assume you'll come back here and apologize if you make it to 2034?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 11:31 AM (CsUN+)
Shame
Posted by: Dan in Philly at May 22, 2024 11:31 AM (KgwaR)
At the end of the article, whoever wrote the thing gratuitously and nonsensically jabs PDJT,
Trump falsely claims his 2020 election defeat resulted from fraud. He included the claim in a fiery speech shortly before hundreds of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Five people died.
Five people died, Reuters? Name them, please.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 22, 2024 11:31 AM (N39Tj)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2024
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"The Incredibles" is a Fantastic Four movie done right.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 22, 2024
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It is . . . and the early Sixties vibe of the clothes, houses, cars, and music merely added to the joy.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2024 11:32 AM (J2vNu)
Trump and his allies have oversold the Biden-is-senile message. Many voters have come to think he is not just old, but drooling and unable to function. The truth is that, though his voice is getting croaky, he messes up words and names sometimes, and he walks quite stiffly, he is very much compos mentis. He has demonstrated this repeatedly; as when he traveled to Kyiv, or Jerusalem, or delivered his State of the Union message complete with unscripted moments. Biden was so sharp at the SOTU, Trump accused him of being drugged.
...Biden also needs a better answer on immigration. Pointing to the GOP’s cynical torpedoing of the immigration bill is one talking point. Even if it’s too late to convince voters that he sees the problem through the same lens they do, he can at least convey through word and deed that he is open to stricter policies.
The majority of the American people have never liked Trump. Biden has given himself two opportunities to convince them that granting Trump another term, however tepid their feelings about the incumbent, would be a disaster.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 22, 2024 11:32 AM (yoMt8)
First you create a sausage with great ingredients. Then once you've got. a strong customer base, you cut the quality of the ingredients without cutting the price.
Eventually customers figure out that you're now a scam, and yoru company dies.
Ahhhhhh. The Chinese Buffet gambit!
Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2024 11:32 AM (ofCHO)
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2024 11:27 AM (PkS4e)
I heard this same kind of talk in the early 2000s about how the Internet was going to democratize things. But that's not been the case at all.
Posted by: DOOM! at May 22, 2024 11:32 AM (TtsS5)
Posted by: George Lucas at May 22, 2024 11:29 AM (yoMt
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And substantially repeats the dialogue from the scene with Greedo.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 22, 2024 11:32 AM (mUnoX)
Uh, those are the three he screwed up himself. I assume you meant the sequel trilogy (7, 8, 9).
Posted by: Gaff at May 22, 2024 11:30 AM (jPS2y)
Well, it's movies, so my barren fields show my concern about the whole thing......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:32 AM (Zz0t1)
@NickFondacaro
ABC host Joy Behar admits that she censors her criticism of Biden because she's "afraid" she "might influence the people who are on the fence" to vote for Trump.
Bill Maher says that's how you "lose all credibility." He adds that his "bond" with his audience is authenticity.
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Joy Behar is a lying sack of shit? Who knew? Then Maher tells The View: "I’m sorry, [Biden] is cadaver-like" (Zombie Biden?) and Joy responds, “His brain is still good.” Yeah, right.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 22, 2024 11:32 AM (L/fGl)
The best Star Wars movie in years was "Fanboys."
Not a great movie, but more heart than any of the recent crap.
Posted by: Captain Jack Harkness, Omni-Pan-Alien-Curious-Sexual at May 22, 2024 11:33 AM (cCVOS)
@NickFondacaro
ABC host Joy Behar admits that she censors her criticism of Biden because she's "afraid" she "might influence the people who are on the fence" to vote for Trump.
Bill Maher says that's how you "lose all credibility." He adds that his "bond" with his audience is authenticity.
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Joy Behar is a lying sack of shit? Who knew? Then Maher tells The View: "I’m sorry, [Biden] is cadaver-like" (Zombie Biden?) and Joy responds, “His brain is still good.” Yeah, right.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 22, 2024 11:32 AM (L/fGl)
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"Joy Behar admits that she is a partisan to Bill Maher who admits to being an ideologue."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 22, 2024 11:33 AM (cD1dp)
Posted by: AlaBAMA
The who
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 22, 2024 11:26 AM (HC6ok)
Eminence Front. It's a put on......It's a put on.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:33 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2024 11:32 AM (J2vNu)
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All of which underscores Lasseter's philosophy that a good story needs to be believable, not realistic.
That philosophy is utterly incompatible with postmodern/critical theory notions that everything must be realistic (diversity, representation, etc.) but nothing should be believable.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 11:33 AM (d04cU)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:17 AM (v6JzV)
*nerd mode on*
PG-13 came about after / because of Temple of Doom (violence almost made it Rated R).
First movie released as PG-13 was Red Dawn.
First movie to actually receive the rating was The Flamingo Kid, but it was released in theaters after Red Dawn.
Posted by: Doof at May 22, 2024 11:33 AM (h0Z+I)
Wow. Mona Charen used to have a brain.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 11:34 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
The problem is that essentially it is the industries fighting a losing battle just as they did about music and video streaming. Even the Chinese who are pretty sophisticated at controlling internet traffic cannot stop the signal, nor the news, etc.
Our governing structures worldwide are simply buckling under the strain because increasing complexity renders determining 2nd, 3rd, and 4th order feedback effects impossible.
Already our Big Economic models are essentially producing junk results because they simply cannot handle the complexity of global trade, capital, and human movements. So everyone relies on static models and calls it a day.
Same as Color Revolutions don't build a stable society either as much as the CIA might want it to.
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2024 11:34 AM (PkS4e)
I disagree... A majority of the American people don't like Biden though
Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2024 11:34 AM (Akjoo)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 11:29 AM (d04cU)
Edna Mode: No capes!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes. George, put version numbers on your movies so we can tell at May 22, 2024 11:34 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: AlaBAMA
The who
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 22, 2024 11:26 AM (HC6ok)
Eminence Front. It's a put on......It's a put on.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:33 AM (Zz0t1)
Let's just hope we WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN!!
Posted by: Doof at May 22, 2024 11:34 AM (h0Z+I)
Also, Monster House was pretty good.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:35 AM (v6JzV)
Our governing structures worldwide are simply buckling under the strain because increasing complexity renders determining 2nd, 3rd, and 4th order feedback effects impossible. ...
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2024 11:34 AM (PkS4e)
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I have serious doubts as to whether the effort to censor foreign cultural products will work very well, but I do expect them to try.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 11:35 AM (d04cU)
Posted by: Gonzotx at May 22, 2024 11:35 AM (MwHgU)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024
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With tremendous action sequences too. The bit where the young son, Dash, learns he can run fast enough to travel on water, and the scene with Mrs. I flying the jet with her kids aboard as the rockets hurtle toward them, were the kind of gems you'd like to see in a live-action movie. But they worked very very well here.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2024 11:35 AM (J2vNu)
It certainly hasn't lived up to the hype, but that's almost always the case. I doubt people here would be happy at all with a return to the late 20th Century, when a few big media companies controlled everything, and there were no alternative outlets. I think we sometimes forget how big a development that has been.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 11:36 AM (CsUN+)
‘ Soviet Union as the collection of thugs, grifters, time-servers’
The story doesn’t work otherwise. Three brave people against a system of incompetence and lies only works if the system is a bad entity.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 22, 2024 11:36 AM (jbnUc)
Right, the creators are the brand, not YouTube itself...
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Except if Mr. Beast moved to Rumble or some other platform - or said COVID shots don't work or some other misinformation, I guess - he would be pulled from the platform and his income drop like a rock.
I don't know what the proper phrase is, but youtube is absolutely the brand. Not the brand that people are buying, but the brand that is burned onto the creators.
I think Tik Tok and Onlyfans are also making headway these days, too. But everyone on it is property of the platform. Maybe not legally or in a contract, but they know they'll crash if they move elsewhere.
It would be very interesting to know if Youtube pays Mr. Beast directly for his presence. I'm betting they do.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 22, 2024 11:36 AM (ICJ9S)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 22, 2024 11:36 AM (2NHgQ)
Soros goons and pAntifa stormed the capitol. This is documented quite extensively.
Just look at the footage of the Ashli Babbitt 'shooting.' They're all pAntifa operatives filmed at various locations across the country.
The fact that Biden is using the "insurrection" as his rally cry when he speaks, should speak volumes.
Why haven't we found the pipe bomb dropper? The same guy littering DC with random coke bags?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:36 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Come and see at May 22, 2024 11:36 AM (YXWH7)
Also, Monster House was pretty good.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:35 AM (v6JzV)
First in theater movie I took my son to was How to Train Your Dragon. It was a spring break re-release (kid’s series, something like that). It was good.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at May 22, 2024 11:36 AM (iSfV4)
How about the hammering?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 11:37 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: Archimedes
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She is and has been owned lock stock and barrel by institutions that impose Invade the World and Invite the World on the rest of us.
A lot of this Beltway nonsense is best handled by red states sending all their tired huddled masses yearning to suck of the taxpayer tit's directly to DC and its perimeter.
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2024 11:37 AM (PkS4e)
Let's just hope we WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN!!
Posted by: Doof at May 22, 2024 11:34 AM (h0Z+I)
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, we won't get fooled again.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:37 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:36 AM (Zz0t1)
EDKH.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes. George, put version numbers on your movies so we can tell at May 22, 2024 11:37 AM (PiwSw)
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They're still pushing that lie?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 22, 2024 11:38 AM (ICJ9S)
Also, Monster House was pretty good.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 22, 2024 11:35 AM (v6JzV)
My kids love Cars. I've seen it many times. It's one of the few movies I don't really love but can stand watching over and over.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 22, 2024 11:38 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Archimedes
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N. Vietnamese could not stop pows from communicating either using a variation of that method.
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2024 11:38 AM (PkS4e)
OMG, the dvd soundtrack for Cars played in our cars for years. Happy music, happy times!
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2024 11:38 AM (cCVOS)
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You mean we could've had two of them?!!!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 22, 2024 11:39 AM (L/fGl)
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They're still pushing that lie?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 22, 2024 11:38 AM (ICJ9S)
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It's either, "There was no fraud," or "There was fraud, but it wasn't widespread."
No definition of widespread, though, for some reason.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 22, 2024 11:39 AM (cD1dp)
Posted by: And you can't argue with results at May 22, 2024 11:39 AM (YXWH7)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 22, 2024 11:36 AM (2NHgQ)
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Real estate inventory is remarkably fluid, depending on the market dynamics at play. Lots of people at any given *could* move if they wanted to, but they won't if they don't see value. "I could sell, but then I'd have to buy something else, so why bother when I don't come out ahead."
At the same time, there are fairly few people who *must* sell for some reason - unemployment, divorce, relocation, etc. They are the margin, and the market moves there very fast. Even a modest increase in "must sell" can move inventory relatively quickly, and if that causes price to decline - and with as inflated as things, that's likely - "could sell, if value's there" inventory floods on to get while the getting's good.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 11:39 AM (d04cU)
Posted by: No one of any consequence. at May 22, 2024 11:39 AM (VuZH8)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 22, 2024 11:25 AM (3CVIc)
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Biden's openly-homosexual and proudly-Satanic "Monkeypox Advisor" Demetre Daskalakis.
https://is.gd/KbWdrI
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 22, 2024 11:40 AM (qLMWS)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 11:29 AM (d04cU
I LOVE The Incredibles. The details of the movie, specifically the MidMod houses? Amazing. Edna, by far, the best zingers.
Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2024 11:40 AM (p4NUW)
*Maher whips out dick*
*smacks Behar in the face with it*
"This was in Ann Coulter."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:40 AM (Zz0t1)
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They're still pushing that lie?
They're just getting started.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 11:40 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2024 11:26 AM
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The 14-year gap between the two Incredibles movies provides a perfect illustration of how woke messaging impedes creativity and humor. I give the second movie points for making the villain a woman, but I couldn't get over my annoyance with the conceit that Helen was somehow overshadowed in the family's previous escapades. She was the hero then, too!
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at May 22, 2024 11:40 AM (wzAuc)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 22, 2024 11:40 AM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2024 11:11 AM
Exactly. This has been a part of the Marxist left's Long March Through the Institutions. Institutions and corporations have not been committing suicide. The Marxist left has been infiltrating them and killing them from the inside.
Which is why I hate this attitude from the right for the past decade plus of just saying "good, let it die". That's not a conservative attitude. So much for wanting to conserve all the good things about America. When the Marxist left has taken all of them over and destroyed them the past couple decades, the response from the right has simply been "that's a shame... anyway..."
Depressing. And people wonder why more and more Americans are taking the same "that's a shame..." attitude about the Marxist left takeover and destruction of America as a whole.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 22, 2024 11:40 AM (P5BPp)
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They're still pushing that lie?
They're just getting started.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 11:40 AM (CsUN+)
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They wouldn't do it if we had a quality candidate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 22, 2024 11:40 AM (cD1dp)
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Holly Hunter went to the trouble of learning and internalizing the "pilot talk" to improve her performance. It worked.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 22, 2024 11:41 AM (mUnoX)
Hell yes: $2.94 instead of $3.09!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2024 11:41 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 22, 2024 11:32 AM (yoMt
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Someone told me that Charen was once on the right.
Posted by: Oglebay at May 22, 2024 11:41 AM (ogTiX)
Our son has a hearing this afternoon to hopefully get
his ex-GF out of his life.
Prayers for a good outcome would be much appreciated.
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at May 22, 2024 11:41 AM (IZjwR)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2024 11:41 AM (/NZ2Z)
Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2024 11:41 AM (FQmDC)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden
I don't know anything about bombs, but the Paolo, he...how you say...lay pipe all over DC.
Posted by: The Paolo at May 22, 2024 11:42 AM (yoMt8)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 22, 2024 11:42 AM (SqeHx)
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Holly Hunter went to the trouble of learning and internalizing the "pilot talk" to improve her performance. It worked.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 22, 2024
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Boy, did it! That is one of the tightest and most exciting scenes in movies since Die Hard.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2024 11:42 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at May 22, 2024 11:41 AM (IZjwR)
Prayers for a good outcome
Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2024 11:42 AM (Akjoo)
Time
Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2024 11:41 AM (FQmDC)
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"Everything we did was legal, including all of the illegal rule changes."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 22, 2024 11:42 AM (cD1dp)
Hell yes: $2.94 instead of $3.09!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2024 11:41 AM (J2vNu)
Pay at the pump stations have started going to putting a $150 to $200 hold on debit cards for fill ups. They'll give you your money back, eventually.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)
At the same time, there are fairly few people who *must* sell for some reason - unemployment, divorce, relocation, etc. They are the margin, and the market moves there very fast. Even a modest increase in "must sell" can move inventory relatively quickly, and if that causes price to decline - and with as inflated as things, that's likely - "could sell, if value's there" inventory floods on to get while the getting's good.
I wonder how much the pullback on RE purchases by outfits like Black Rock has affected the market. If they aren't out there buying houses with cash, a lot of people will feel much less pressure to buy something, anything.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 11:43 AM (CsUN+)
Trump falsely claims his 2020 election defeat resulted from fraud."
They forgot to include "without evidence". The MSM style guide require all claims of fraud in the election include those words. I have seen/heard it literally thousands of time now. Even when evidence is presented.
Posted by: Ripley at May 22, 2024 11:43 AM (JojsZ)
Posted by: Oglebay at May 22, 2024 11:43 AM (ogTiX)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at May 22, 2024 11:40 AM (wzAuc)
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Bob also suffered from "Aesop Amnesia" and had to re-learn pretty much everything he learned in the first film. That frosted me.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 22, 2024 11:43 AM (mUnoX)
Why haven't we found the pipe bomb dropper? The same guy littering DC with random coke bags?
Posted by: Sponge
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People in the perimeter know who the pipe bomb guy is as the license plate of the guy's car parked at a Metro station was quickly discovered before the Feebs officially claimed that info was lost. Guy was a former Air Force guy that was security contractor for one of the alphabet agencies.
I'd imagine the name is mentioned in whispers among those in the know but everyone is afraid or complicit with the IC and LEOs promulgating this bullshit.
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2024 11:43 AM (PkS4e)
Day 2 of the Pussy Boycott
Millions of men are in despair because Jane Fonda won't have sex with them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2024 11:43 AM (/NZ2Z)
Posted by: Oglebay at May 22, 2024 11:43 AM (ogTiX)
Oneil Cruz is even worse.
Posted by: Oglebay at May 22, 2024 11:44 AM (ogTiX)
Competitive Eating Legend Takeru Kobayashi Retires, Says He No Longer Feels Hungry
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 22, 2024 11:44 AM (L/fGl)
his ex-GF out of his life.
Prayers for a good outcome would be much appreciated.
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at May 22, 2024 11:41 AM (IZjwR)
I pray for him to rid himself of the negativity.
I worked with a kid who had an abusive girlfriend. She really screwed him up and I doubt he'll recover, really ever.
Life is too short to put up with bad relationships.
Or is that relationshits.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)
But if you do it, it's illegal.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 11:44 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 11:39 AM (d04cU)
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The real estate market is gonna be lit AF (as in nuclear implosion) once "our betters" start taxing unrealized capital gains!
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 22, 2024 11:44 AM (qLMWS)
more diversity.
I just think they need to commit.
Posted by: Inogame
Sunken Cost Fallacy at work.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 22, 2024 11:44 AM (w9Wax)
http://tiny.cc/1q67yz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 11:44 AM (d04cU)
Posted by: Married Men Everywhere at May 22, 2024 11:45 AM (ICJ9S)
Bob also suffered from "Aesop Amnesia" and had to re-learn pretty much everything he learned in the first film. That frosted me.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 22, 2024 11:43 AM (mUnoX)
Never saw the second one just because I knew it would have such an effect on me.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 22, 2024 11:45 AM (T+Iwg)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024
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Oh, I don't use a debit card at gas pumps. This is a Shell credit card. My Exxon gives me .10 back and I thought (after their initial .30/gallon offer) I'd be getting the same with Shell. Instead, .15/gal. this morning.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2024 11:45 AM (J2vNu)
"First" implies more shooting follows. The whole question is retarded at its very core.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 22, 2024 11:46 AM (iRX3h)
Posted by: Doof at May 22, 2024 11:07 AM
Mudd's women >>>>>>>>>>>>> Puddle of Mudd
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2024 11:46 AM (a3Q+t)
http://tiny.cc/1q67yz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 11:44 AM (d04cU)
Face looks like it's trying really hard to contain the crazy.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 22, 2024 11:46 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2024 11:38 AM (cCVOS)
The music is fantastic.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at May 22, 2024 11:46 AM (iSfV4)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 22, 2024 11:44 AM (w9Wax)
Men at Work >
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)
No definition of widespread, though, for some reason.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Aha! So, it was highly concentrated in five or so key districts.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 22, 2024 11:47 AM (CiKCe)
Her left eye appears to be a bit crosseyed.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 11:47 AM (CsUN+)
You'll never guess what we've got planned for the upcoming The Incredibles 3! Ncuti Gatwa and Dylan Mulvaney were turned down in casting for being too "vanilla".
Posted by: Disney/Pixar at May 22, 2024 11:47 AM (yoMt8)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2024 11:45 AM (J2vNu)
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I have an ancient AAA-branded credit card that gives an unlimited 3% cashback on fuel. I only use it for gas. Three cents off per dollar no matter what. Right now, that's about a dime.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 11:47 AM (d04cU)
Posted by: Sponge "
Do a thought experiment. Imagine you (or somebody else) decided to leave a pipe bomb around couple of high profile govt. building in DC. Then imagine the hell and SWAT teams that would storm your house within days, if not hours. Yet, after 4 years not even a suspect. Weird.
Posted by: Ripley at May 22, 2024 11:47 AM (JojsZ)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2024 11:38 AM (cCVOS)
The music is fantastic.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at May 22, 2024 11:46 AM (iSfV4)
My wife got my kids a Tony box. Plays music and tells stories for various characters.
One of the characters we got was Mater. Oh, the many nights I have spent trying to get my son to go to sleep listening to, "Behind the clouds, the sun is shiiiiiining."
Great tune. Even after the 500th listen.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 22, 2024 11:48 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2024 11:38 AM (cCVOS)
The music is fantastic.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at May 22, 2024 11:46 AM (iSfV4)
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The world of "Cars" is terrifying if you think too much about it.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 22, 2024 11:48 AM (mUnoX)
Posted by: Eromero at May 22, 2024 11:48 AM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: No one of any consequenc
What is, "the sound their doors make on takeoff bouncing across the tarmac"?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2024 11:48 AM (ofCHO)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2024 1
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Come to think of it, I have the CD of The Incredibles soundtrack. Time to dig it out and play it in the car.
I should buy the DVD, and that for the 2015 Man From U.N.C.L.E. film.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2024 11:48 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Corporations always hate open competition and try to eliminate it or suborn it. But when the government steps in to mandate that the tide should not be able to roll back in, it doesn't work very long before people find ways around it.
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2024 11:48 AM (PkS4e)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 22, 2024 11:48 AM (mUnoX)
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3,000 years after the rise of the machines and Judgment Day...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 22, 2024 11:48 AM (cD1dp)
Day 2 of the Pussy Boycott
Millions of men are in despair because Jane Fonda won't have sex with them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2024 11:43 AM (/NZ2Z)
Millions of MARRIED men shrug their shoulders because it is just another day that ends in the letter "Y".
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 22, 2024 11:48 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 22, 2024 11:49 AM (c1Scv)
The 'insurrection' didn't start until the Capitol Police started randomly chucking concussion grenades into the crowd.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:49 AM (Zz0t1)
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And after the cops that were 20 yards away were notified of the pipe bomb's presence they did nothing and allowed kids to play on the grass nearby.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 22, 2024 11:49 AM (ICJ9S)
3,000 years after the rise of the machines and Judgment Day...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 22, 2024 11:48 AM (cD1dp)
"F*ck you, asshole."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:49 AM (Zz0t1)
You mean we could've had two of them?!!!
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IIRC, Pramila's sister was carving out a career in state politics. Oh look - she was carpetbagging:
Susheela Jayapal, the sister of Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a Washington state Democrat who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus, announced Wednesday that she is running for a congressional seat from the neighboring state of Oregon.
Susheela Jayapal entered the race to succeed Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), who this week announced his plans to retire after nearly three decades in Congress.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2024 11:49 AM (cCVOS)
Posted by: No one of any consequenc
What is, "the sound their doors make on takeoff bouncing across the tarmac"?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2024 11:48 AM (ofCHO)
Sum Ting Wong
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 22, 2024 11:49 AM (N39Ws)
‘ have the MAGA camp up in arms’
Hardly.I’d never heard of this movie and don’t give a shit now that I do know
This is political porn for leftist faggots, Karens and other assorted shitheads. They can go masturbate themselves to this and leave normal people in peace. No one’s mind is going to be changed by this pile of 💩.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 22, 2024 11:49 AM (jbnUc)
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(Adventure Time has entered the chat)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 22, 2024 11:49 AM (ICJ9S)
This character goes gay or just spin the rainbow and pick a sex thing for whomever.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at May 22, 2024 11:50 AM (J8LnB)
Posted by: Richard Sean McEnroe at May 22, 2024 11:50 AM (VAWTJ)
https://tinyurl.com/4wmyb8hd
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 11:50 AM (CsUN+)
Millions of men are in despair because Jane Fonda won't have sex with them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2024 11:43 AM (/NZ2Z)
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Why isn't there also a back hole boycott -- and why do these women hate gay men?
What's good for the front hole is good for the back hole, h8rs!
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 22, 2024 11:50 AM (qLMWS)
Great tune. Even after the 500th listen.
Indeed
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2024 11:51 AM (cCVOS)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 22, 2024 11:40 AM
Darn straight, Skippy!
I'm tanned, rested, and READY!
Posted by: Jeb! (pronounced "Heb!" at May 22, 2024 11:51 AM (a3Q+t)
http://tiny.cc/1q67yz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 11:44 AM (d04cU)
Resembles Kristi Noem, only more voluptuous. Me like!
Posted by: Doof at May 22, 2024 11:51 AM (h0Z+I)
Posted by: Eromero at May 22, 2024 11:51 AM (o2ZRX)
Resembles Kristi Noem, only more voluptuous. Me like!
Posted by: Doof at May 22, 2024 11:51 AM (h0Z+I)
Imagine Kristi's husband's face when she asks him to do her doggy style.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 22, 2024 11:52 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at May 22, 2024 11:23 AM (wzAuc)
I saw an interview and the writers said they just wanted a way to get all the humans off earth and nuclear war seemed a little too heavy for kids movie.
I can forgive them for the absurdity.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 22, 2024 11:52 AM (JMAcK)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2024 11:49 AM (cCVOS)
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I think Blumenauer was my rep. I'm not sure. I'm right on the district boundary and it keeps shifting back and forth.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 22, 2024 11:52 AM (mUnoX)
Millions of men are in despair because Jane Fonda won't have sex with them.
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Onlyfans ladies wonder. . . If I do a pussy boycott, then I won't earn money from my simps, so how is this saving the climate???
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2024 11:52 AM (cCVOS)
Posted by: Sponge
Sam's doesn't. Put $33.50 in wife's truck yesterday.
Bank has a $33.50 pending.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2024 11:52 AM (ofCHO)
Posted by: Ripley
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The Deep State never goes after its agents provocateurs as it is bad for bizness. In a way, at least the Italian Mafia had no hesitation to whack its own guys if they violated the rules.
Problem though for the Deep State is increasingly no one in the general public really believes them anymore or their toadies in the media. We are in the late Soviet Union era as far as trust in government and its official propaganda media. Easier to just believe in nothing instead.
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2024 11:53 AM (PkS4e)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 22, 2024 11:53 AM (V5eKu)
What is, "the sound their doors make on takeoff bouncing across the tarmac"?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2024 11:48 AM (ofCHO)
Sum Ting Wong
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 22, 2024 11:49 AM (N39Ws)
Bang Ding Ow
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:53 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine
Even without external events, people cannot afford to sell a home with a mortgage at 3% and buy a replacement with a mortgage at 7.5%
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 22, 2024 11:53 AM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 22, 2024 11:55 AM (jbnUc)
I can forgive them for the absurdity.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 22, 2024 11:52 AM (JMAcK)
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I'm guessing SMOD was also on the list of unapproved calamities. Instead, they had to make it "our fault" the earth became uninhabitable instead of a natural disaster.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2024 11:55 AM (si1C0)
Darn straight, Skippy!
I'm tanned, rested, and READY!
Posted by: Jeb! (pronounced "Heb!" at May 22, 2024 11:51 AM (a3Q+t)
Incorrect. He married a Mexican. It's pronounced "Yeb!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 11:55 AM (Zz0t1)
Propaganda in either direction or any direction is not that good and it has a limited market.
Posted by: MarineVet at May 22, 2024 11:56 AM (VcZlJ)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 22, 2024 11:56 AM (V5eKu)
Posted by: Jamaica at May 22, 2024 11:56 AM (tez/p)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 22, 2024 11:53 AM (V5eKu)
It smell of carp and taste like litter box.......
Posted by: North Vietnamese at May 22, 2024 11:58 AM (Zz0t1)
251 I loved WALL-E, but its whole premise rested on the absurd tiny-world notion that humans could generate enough material waste to overwhelm all of civilization.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at May 22, 2024 11:23 AM (wzAuc)
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The visual aesthetic of the early Pixar movies were great and I think peaked with Wall-E.
The Axiom is one of the better looking spaceships in sci-fi IMO.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 22, 2024 11:58 AM (tXFoB)
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Well, Kennedy.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 22, 2024 11:59 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2024 11:59 AM (Akjoo)
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IN "UP," THE OPENING SCENES " WERE HEARTBREAKING, THE FLASH OF VIOLENCE FROM CONFUSED OLD MAN WAS DISCONCERTING, AND THE RAGING STORM SCENE LATER WAS ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at May 22, 2024 11:59 AM (cCVOS)
Posted by: Doof at May 22, 2024 11:07 AM
Mudd's women >>>>>>>>>>>>> Puddle of Mudd
only while they're taking the pills
Posted by: anachronda at May 22, 2024 11:59 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at May 22, 2024 11:59 AM (cCVOS)
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You can scare kids, but trying to imbue existential horror is probably a step too far.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 22, 2024 11:59 AM (cD1dp)
So I see you don't read ace's posts . Tells me you're just trolling.
Posted by: polynikes at May 22, 2024 11:59 AM (0CsDL)
Posted by: You can go see the receipts in person at May 22, 2024 12:00 PM (YXWH7)
Propaganda in either direction or any direction is not that good and it has a limited market.
Posted by: MarineVet at May 22, 2024 11:56 AM (VcZlJ)
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Well, BYE!
Posted by: Frasier Crane at May 22, 2024 12:00 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: bill in arkansas
Had that happen at a Wendy's in Melissa, Tx. Later that evening, a small charge showed up in Durant, Oklahoma about 50 miles north. About an hour and a half after we went to bed. Bank auto notification program alerted me. I was able to turn the card off.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2024 12:00 PM (ofCHO)
Never forget that.
He's saying things he think will get him elected. His history tells you who he is.
Do not be fooled.
Wolf. Sheep. Assembled in China.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)
So I see you don't read ace's posts . Tells me you're just trolling.
Posted by: polynikes at May 22, 2024 11:59 AM (0CsDL)
"I come to this conservative site to hear bad things about conservatives. I also gloss over all the bad things I hear about conservatives."
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 22, 2024 12:01 PM (KbCG3)
Propaganda in either direction or any direction is not that good and it has a limited market.
Tell me you haven't been around for the last two years without telling me you haven't been around for the last two years. Seriously, did you miss the bloodletting?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 12:01 PM (CsUN+)
It is a binary choice you know... Shit for brains, or Orange Man BAD! I take it that you have made a choice.. why are you bitching?
Posted by: catman at May 22, 2024 12:01 PM (4HMlb)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 22, 2024 12:01 PM (cD1dp)
The downfall started with Cars 2. It was such an obvious cash grab. Guys like Brad Bird, John Lassiter, and Tom Doctor left. The list of story author grew longer and had more women. Same with the screenplays.
Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at May 22, 2024 12:01 PM (mvURQ)
I disagree *cough* Taylor Swift *cough*.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 22, 2024 11:02 AM (KbCG3)
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Disagree - her last output while heavily streamed had no siren song to keep people returning. There have been multiple comments from people into music that I occasionally read suggesting that her last attempt appeared hurried, with not alot of heart, in an attempt to capitalize on all the NFL publicity she was generating with the Chiefs.
I don't like much of her music, but there is a huge fangirl of hers in my family. She agreed - it wasn't a very good effort from Ms. Swift. Taylor is on the top of the world - we will see if she thinks she can coast, cause she is just very tired of the work it took to get here; or whether she thinks her marketing prowess is where it really is - and so she continually degrades her product because she has realized - probably correctly - she is the product, not the mediocre music she creates.
Posted by: Black JEM at May 22, 2024 12:02 PM (GZYu7)
Propaganda in either direction or any direction is not that good and it has a limited market.
Posted by: MarineVet at May 22, 2024 11:56 AM (VcZlJ)
Trump is doodyhead. Vote for Biden. He's the man we need.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at May 22, 2024 12:01 PM (mvURQ)
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Pete Docter didn't leave. He was actually put in charge.
His title is Chief creative officer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 22, 2024 12:02 PM (cD1dp)
Posted by: Doof's Dog at May 22, 2024 12:03 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2024 12:04 PM (ibTVg)
YOU MEAN FOR A THIRD TIME?
WHAT WERE THE PIGFORD 1 AND PIGFORD 2 SETTLEMENTS FOR THEN?
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at May 22, 2024 12:04 PM (cCVOS)
Never forget that.
He's saying things he think will get him elected. His history tells you who he is.
Do not be fooled.
Wolf. Sheep. Assembled in China.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)
The guy said a worm ate part of his brain and also had mercury poisoning affecting his cognitive abilities from eating too many tuna fish sandwiches.
I don't care if he pretends to take 95% of my positions, I wouldn't consider voting for him.
Posted by: polynikes at May 22, 2024 12:04 PM (0CsDL)
I can forgive them for the absurdity.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 22, 2024 11:52 AM
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Good point. And at the end there was a nod to the fact that nature is resilient. That actually made a good conversation point with my kids. I said that after several hundred years the humans would have come back to a world teeming with life and only scattered traces of any previous civilization. Certainly not countless skyscrapers of garbage that even billions of people couldn't have generated in the first place.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at May 22, 2024 12:04 PM (wzAuc)
He is out of surgery and now in a regular hospital room. They think they got the entire tumor!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 22, 2024 12:04 PM (d9fT1)
He is out of surgery and now in a regular hospital room. They think they got the entire tumor!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 22, 2024 12:04 PM (d9fT1)
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Huzzah!
Paul hardest hit!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 22, 2024 12:05 PM (cD1dp)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 12:05 PM (CsUN+)
He is out of surgery and now in a regular hospital room. They think they got the entire tumor!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 22, 2024 12:04 PM (d9fT1)
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Awesome
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 12:05 PM (d04cU)
Posted by: MarineVet
Someone is new here.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 22, 2024 12:05 PM (ou9hh)
He is out of surgery and now in a regular hospital room. They think they got the entire tumor!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 22, 2024 12:04 PM (d9fT1)
Amazing news. Thanks CBD.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 22, 2024 12:05 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden
I was kind of stunned by the end of Mona Charon's piece I posted above: The majority of the American people have never liked Trump. Biden has given himself two opportunities to convince them that granting Trump another term, however tepid their feelings about the incumbent, would be a disaster.
The sales pitch is Biden sucks, but Trump sucks more. Vote Biden!
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 22, 2024 12:05 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 12:05 PM (CsUN+)
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He just wants a quality candidate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 22, 2024 12:05 PM (cD1dp)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 22, 2024 12:04 PM (d9fT1)
BOOM!!!!!
Winning.
Praise The Lord.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)
Propaganda in either direction or any direction is not that good and it has a limited market.
Posted by: MarineVet at May 22, 2024 11:56 AM (VcZlJ)
Trump is doodyhead. Vote for Biden. He's the man we need.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)
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The eponymous Ace doesn’t even like Trump
Posted by: Oglebay at May 22, 2024 12:06 PM (7fVdQ)
He is out of surgery and now in a regular hospital room. They think they got the entire tumor!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 22, 2024 12:04 PM (d9fT1)
Excellent news! Been praying for Sefton.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 22, 2024 12:06 PM (pohLc)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 12:06 PM (CsUN+)
Amen, amen, amen. The Lord is so very good.
Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2024 12:06 PM (p4NUW)
Tell me you've never read an ace post on Trump without saying you've never read an ace post on Trump, lol!
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2024 12:07 PM (cCVOS)
Posted by: Emmie at May 22, 2024 12:07 PM (Sf2cq)
He is out of surgery and now in a regular hospital room. They think they got the entire tumor!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 22
I'll punch the first person who calls him "Dugout".
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 22, 2024 12:07 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 22, 2024 12:04 PM (d9fT1)
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This is magnificent news! Thanks for passing it on, CBD.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 22, 2024 12:07 PM (mupln)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)
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Think something perfect something something enemy something something the good.
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 22, 2024 12:07 PM (DZmmX)
Posted by: MarineVet
Someone is new here.
Posted by: FeatherBlade
Stick around for some guy names ACE who might start posting in 20 minutes or so. He has a bit of clout around here, and isn't a big Trumper.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 22, 2024 12:08 PM (JCZqz)
Truly excellent news.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2024 12:08 PM (cCVOS)
BIG NEWS BIG NEWS BIG NEWS
Pixar is going to lay off a total of 175 workers.
When Joe Manic doesn't cite actual numbers you know he is hiding something, well Joe it might work sometimes but not this time
Posted by: Paul banned at May 22, 2024 12:08 PM (AdUth)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 22, 2024 12:08 PM (V5eKu)
So I guess we are going to have to let Joe and Ashley keep taking showers together in the white house...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2024 12:08 PM (ibTVg)
She's just the latest iteration. Before her it was Lady Gaga and before that was Madonna. There was also the bench of Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Pink, Mariah Carey, etc.
Posted by: polynikes at May 22, 2024 12:08 PM (0CsDL)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 22, 2024 12:08 PM (HC6ok)
Someone is new here.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May
and potentially lost. It’s left at Albuquerque. Left.
Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2024 12:09 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 22, 2024 12:09 PM (T+Iwg)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2024 12:09 PM (XkYcA)
He is out of surgery and now in a regular hospital room. They think they got the entire tumor!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 22, 2024 12:04 PM (d9fT1)
Great news
Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2024 12:09 PM (Akjoo)
Posted by: Doof at May 22, 2024 12:09 PM (h0Z+I)
Pixar is going to lay off a total of 175 workers.
When Joe Manic doesn't cite actual numbers you know he is hiding something, well Joe it might work sometimes but not this time
Posted by: Cocksucker at May 22, 2024 12:08 PM (C0ck$)
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14% is a big chunk, especially because it is only going to be the first wave.
And that figure - 14% - is in the column. It's in the last paragraph.
Be better. For a professional (or semi-professional) troll, you're not very good.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 12:09 PM (d04cU)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 22, 2024 12:09 PM (HC6ok)
The sales pitch is Biden sucks, but Trump sucks more. Vote Biden!
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 22, 2024 12:05 PM (JCZqz)
Literally (DOOF!!!!!) nothing Biden has done since the 2020 erection has made living in America better, unless you're an illegal alien. Prices for everything are higher. Home ownership has become impossible. Employment is near impossible to obtain. We're closer to world war than any time since WWII.
I can't wrap my brain around anyone supporting a 2nd term for the demented old fool......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 12:10 PM (CsUN+)
Posted by: Ordinary American
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All that does is accelerate the breakup. Shocks to the system won't consolidate the system anymore but are likely to shatter it.
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2024 12:10 PM (PkS4e)
And that figure - 14% - is in the column. It's in the last paragraph.
Be better. For a professional (or semi-professional) troll, you're not very good.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 12:09 PM (d04cU)
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14% isn't an actual number. It's ephemera. It's an invention. It's not really, truly real.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 22, 2024 12:10 PM (cD1dp)
When you employ 500 people, that's a significant number.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 12:11 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at May 22, 2024 11:23 AM (wzAuc)
I saw an interview and the writers said they just wanted a way to get all the humans off earth and nuclear war seemed a little too heavy for kids movie.
I can forgive them for the absurdity.
-
It didn't hurt that it helped push and condition towards the all items recycling / Global Warming absurdity.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 22, 2024 12:11 PM (ICJ9S)
Be better. For a professional (or semi-professional) troll, you're not very good.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May
Well we aren’t all detectives, Joe. Just you. ☺️
Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2024 12:11 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2024 12:11 PM (p4NUW)
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Heh. Damn straight!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 12:11 PM (d04cU)
Posted by: screaming in digital at May 22, 2024 12:11 PM (xQ/4D)
Posted by: Ordinary American
The Parallax View.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 22, 2024 12:12 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 22, 2024 12:12 PM (mupln)
Pixar is going to lay off a total of 175 workers.
When Joe Manic doesn't cite actual numbers you know he is hiding something, well Joe it might work sometimes but not this time
Posted by: Cocksucker
While sad, I'm happy to know they'll have no trouble finding meaningful employment elsewhere in my booming economy. That's Bidenomics!
Posted by: Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 12:13 PM (JCZqz)
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But I heard conservatives reflexively defer to service members!
McCAIN / TULSI 2024
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 22, 2024 12:13 PM (ICJ9S)
Be better. For a professional (or semi-professional) troll, you're not very good.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May
How DARE you expect Paul to do actual RESEARCH.
YOU BASTARD!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 12:13 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge
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Government cheese for some; and for others class hatred for their fellow citizens explain it.
Essentially, the idiot ruling class in the West have dissolved the ties between themselves and their nations world wide. Then they are astounded that people don't want to live poor, cold or hot, eat the bugz, nor happily die in useless wars when ordered to by the elites.
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2024 12:14 PM (PkS4e)
Ballduster McSoulpatch, maybe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 12:14 PM (Zz0t1)
-Bob Iger
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2024 12:14 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 22, 2024 12:14 PM (ICJ9S)
Posted by: polynikes at May 22, 2024 12:15 PM (0CsDL)
YOU BASTARD!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 12:13 PM (Zz0t1)
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What's funny is that he *did.* He clearly read the intro, clicked through to the linked source, found the number, and then dropped a turd about it. But it's equally clear that he didn't read the entire post because it is literally in there - albeit as a relative figure rather than an absolute.
He knew the conclusion and approach before starting and was willing to put in the work to make his pre-determined shit post, but not to read enough of the original post to determine if it was applicable.
It's hilarious.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 12:15 PM (d04cU)
Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2024 12:09 PM
Then straight ahead until Winslow, AZ.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2024 12:15 PM (a3Q+t)
He is out of surgery and now in a regular hospital room. They think they got the entire tumor!
Excellent news! Thank you, CBD.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 22, 2024 12:15 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Ordinary American
Then you arrest Trump and his cronies to maintain power, right? A solid plan!
Posted by: President Erdogan, dusting off his 2016 fake coup playbook at May 22, 2024 12:15 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 22, 2024 12:16 PM (V5eKu)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 22, 2024 12:16 PM (ICJ9S)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 22, 2024 12:16 PM (jbnUc)
I've heard post-op brain surgery patients may experience some changes in the cognitive functions. Weird stuff, like suddenly becoming proficient in skills they've never practiced before, or speaking a language fluently they've never spoken before.
I'm waiting to see if his next Morning Report will be in Esperanto.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2024 12:16 PM (si1C0)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 22, 2024 12:08 PM (V5eKu) pm
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Wait, JJ Sefton is NOT his real name?
/Prayers continue nonetheless ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 22, 2024 12:16 PM (DZmmX)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 22, 2024 12:16 PM (tXFoB)
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2024 12:16 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Archimedes
We are in the era of make believe for the left so if a man can identify as a woman while keeping its tackle then certainly a basement dwelling bugger picking pasty faced jackoff that played Call of Duty once can identify as a Marine and a vet.
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2024 12:17 PM (PkS4e)
I'm waiting to see if his next Morning Report will be in Esperanto.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2024 12:16 PM (si1C0)
So, you're saying the Morning Report might now have dialogue AND links??!?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2024 12:16 PM (si1C0)
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Man, it would suck to get spontaneous language powers but have them be for a language as useless as Esperanto.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 12:17 PM (d04cU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2024 12:17 PM (1/IsW)
Posted by: Montec at May 22, 2024 12:17 PM (Y6Wgg)
Ballduster McSoulpatch, maybe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 12:14 PM (Zz0t1)
He served in the Arctic on a base where he was able to interact with the penguins.
Posted by: polynikes at May 22, 2024 12:18 PM (0CsDL)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2024 12:16 PM (si1C0)
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If it's in Austrian, I'm outta here ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 22, 2024 12:18 PM (DZmmX)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2024 12:16 PM
Welsh or Klingon would be awesome!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2024 12:18 PM (a3Q+t)
He is out of surgery and now in a regular hospital room. They think they got the entire tumor!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 22, 2024 12:04 PM (d9fT1)
Thanks for the update CBD!!
This is great news. Thanks be to God!!!
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 22, 2024 12:18 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: polynikes at May 22, 2024 12:18 PM (0CsDL)
So, he's gas station pump guy?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 22, 2024 12:19 PM (V5eKu)
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2024 12:19 PM (CIS44)
This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Senator Fetterman at May 22, 2024 12:19 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 22, 2024 12:19 PM (pohLc)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2024 12:19 PM (1/IsW)
If it's in Austrian, I'm outta here ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 22, 2024 12:18 PM (DZmmX)
Goo'day Mate!!!!
Throw another shrimp on tha barbie!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 12:19 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: polynikes at May 22, 2024 12:18 PM (0CsDL)
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MarineVet sounds exactly like you'd expect from Big Penguin.
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 22, 2024 12:19 PM (DZmmX)
Posted by: Sponge
If your entire world exists in MSNBC and NYT and TikTok, the economy has never been better and Trump will end democracy.
Posted by: Montec at May 22, 2024 12:19 PM (Y6Wgg)
Throw another shrimp on tha barbie!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at
Ah I seen you've played knifey spoony before
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2024 12:20 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Montec at May 22, 2024 12:17 PM
As I stated many times, President Biden and Vice-President Harris' Bidenomics IS lowering prices.
Posted by: Karine Jean-Pierre, Interlocutius for The Regime at May 22, 2024 12:20 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Sponge
GO TEAM BLUE!
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2024 12:20 PM (CIS44)
He knew the conclusion and approach before starting and was willing to put in the work to make his pre-determined shit post, but not to read enough of the original post to determine if it was applicable.
It's hilarious.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Yutes reading comprehension is in the toilet. Why Johnny Can't Read is a damning indictment by a former professor and that is several years old by now. You can find it on the Pope Center in North Carolina website. Pope is an interesting organization trying to reform higher education in NC and the US in general.
Essentially, the internet and endless trolling on cell phones etc have destroyed kid's ability to even absorb written text. Instead, it becomes all jumbled and random picking out facts that are important to the reader, not to the story.
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2024 12:21 PM (PkS4e)
Posted by: ShainS
Beautiful. G'day mate. Throw another shrimp on the barby!
Posted by: Lloyd Christmas at May 22, 2024 12:21 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 22, 2024 12:21 PM (d04cU)
Hey, troll, contact me for better instruction re passing as a human being.
But first, …
Naw, send your mom.
Posted by: RI Red at May 22, 2024 12:21 PM (T9WMp)
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2024 12:20 PM (CIS44)
Seems you spelled blew wrong.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 22, 2024 12:19 PM (V5eKu)
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"Is that your minkey?"
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 22, 2024 12:21 PM (DZmmX)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 22, 2024 12:16 PM (jbnUc)
I hold the opposite opinion. aos has a low troll count for a reason.
Posted by: polynikes at May 22, 2024 12:21 PM (0CsDL)
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2024 11:53 AM (PkS4e)
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I think what is more likely is we will just want to ignore them - and tell our state and local pols to ignore them, or you can back to your day job. There is not enough economic growth going on in blue states to fund what DC does. Going to be an interesting break up I think.Or perhaps more accurately, a very interesting come to Jesus moment for the global left progressive types.
Posted by: Black JEM at May 22, 2024 12:22 PM (GZYu7)
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Even Don Henley wrote a song with that title on his first solo album back in '82.
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 22, 2024 12:24 PM (DZmmX)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
It's a penguin Lord
In a flat bed Ford
Slowing down to look at me
Posted by: Misheard Song Lyrics
Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2024 12:25 PM (ofCHO)
Posted by: bill in arkansas
Get the Schmenge Brothers back together again.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 22, 2024 12:26 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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The paid trolls do it for the money and don't give a crap about the response. Other unpaid trolls can be similar to stalker types due to some perceived grievance, some are simply pests that cannot absorb the fact they are unwanted assholes, and others are the sad layabouts that think trolling is 'changing the world' while munching on cheetoes in their parent's basement.
The stalker types cannot handle being abused by the folks here and eventually find another fixation. The pests are with us always and the change the world types by trolling end up dying from malnutrition from eating modern junk food by the cold light of their computer monitor.
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2024 12:26 PM (PkS4e)
He is out of surgery and now in a regular hospital room. They think they got the entire tumor!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 22, 2024 12:04 PM (d9fT1)
Excellent news! Been praying for Sefton.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 22, 2024 12:06 PM (poh
Wonderful news!
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at May 22, 2024 12:27 PM (iODuv)
Posted by: ShainS
Heh. Forgot that one. The whole premise of the multipart report was that we are moving backwards to a more primitive society based on visual media and emotions and away from reading and logic.
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2024 12:29 PM (PkS4e)
I guess a marine vet could be the handle of the guy who cleans the fish tanks at Petsmart, too.
Posted by: Moron Robbie
I put a band-aid on Flipper.
Posted by: Aquamarine at May 22, 2024 12:29 PM (63Dwl)
It would be better off spinning off ESPN, ABC, other channels, and other businesses. To my absolute horror apparently National Geographic falls under them now.
But no, it would most rather focus intensely on propagandizing THE MESSAGE and on buying up IPs it has either no intention of doing anything with or simply destroying them as it has, say, LucasFilm. Never mind.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 22, 2024 12:31 PM (xgbJW)
Posted by: Black JEM
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If we are lucky, we get something like the collapse of the Soviet Union--if unlucky--Yugoslavia or Spanish Civil Wars come to mind.
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2024 12:31 PM (PkS4e)
Second, ExxonMobile says Biden is going to force fuel prices to be 2020 levels by this summer in an effort to bribe his re-election.
How? It can’t be by doing things like liberalizing the oil production in this country. He can’t drain the SPR indefinitely. That leaves begging countries ruled by gangsters like Russia or by out and out evil like Venezuela and Iran.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 22, 2024 12:33 PM (xgbJW)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 22, 2024 12:34 PM (xgbJW)
40 Thing is, I don't really see other companies doing much different than Disney (except maybe being less vocal about what they are doing). But movies,
TV, books, video games, table top rpgs, comics: they're all on the LGBT+ propaganda train. Conservatives are always saying "get woke, go broke," but few seem to actually go broke, and the culture is so saturated with this propaganda that short of just abandoning all contemporary pursuits, it's more or less unavoidable. Regardless of what happens to Disney, my sense is that this battle is lost. The propagandists won.
Posted by: DOOM! at May 22, 2024 11:11 AM (TtsS5)
Victories will be had, just pyrrhic ones.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 22, 2024 12:37 PM (xgbJW)
Bear in mind that I've been watching BBC stuff on PBS for decades.
Just saw Episode 1 of the latest iteration of "Great Expectations". In which:
Pip is a tweener, not a child
His sister is a dominatrix. Her client is the lawyer, who is Asian.
Estella is- you might want to sit down for this- black.
Miss Haversham is (I read some reviews later) an opium addict.
Self-absorbed youngsters ruining everything.
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at May 22, 2024 11:17 AM (IZjwR)
If it’s any consolation, Great Expectations sucks regardless, and there is no putting lipstick on that pig.
I had great expectations alright…of reading a novel with a plot and likeable characters.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 22, 2024 12:40 PM (xgbJW)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 22, 2024 11:23 AM (JMAcK)
In fact, you are supposed to do exactly that: buy American cars no matter how poorly made. Why? Because patriotism.
(Never mind the BMWs you see here were probably most likely built in SC. That cannot be talked about.)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 22, 2024 12:45 PM (xgbJW)
No need to write anything elaborate. The Headline alone shall suffice, I'd imagine.
But, it DOES need to occupy a Headline Space there for a bit.
Maybe a Flaming, Bandaged Skull?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at May 22, 2024 12:58 PM (e6UQI)
Propaganda in either direction or any direction is not that good and it has a limited market.
Posted by: MarineVet at May 22, 2024 11:56 AM (VcZlJ)
Tell me you don’t read this site without saying you don’t read this site.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 22, 2024 12:58 PM (xgbJW)
276 RFK Jr. is a communist.
Never forget that.
He's saying things he think will get him elected. His history tells you who he is.
Do not be fooled.
Wolf. Sheep. Assembled in China.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 22, 2024 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)
OH NO! In our next segment, how RFKJr WILL TAKE VOTES FROM TRUMP and ensure a Biden second term!!!
Posted by: Clay Travis and Buck Sexton at May 22, 2024 01:00 PM (xgbJW)
Posted by: creeper at May 22, 2024 01:09 PM (M6moH)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2024 11:34 AM
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That was long sgo. She was an early Never Trumper, basically the female Bill Kristol..
Posted by: Bigsmith at May 22, 2024 01:30 PM (bbTu8)
Posted by: Michael Howard at May 22, 2024 02:26 PM (9JPwv)
Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at May 22, 2024 03:21 PM (JuaQi)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 22, 2024 04:50 PM (wGqjj)
So sad.
Posted by: Will at May 22, 2024 05:56 PM (p4IBm)
So sad.
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