The Washington Post Writes a Hit Piece on Its Own Incoming Editor

Washington Post publisher Will Lewis told the "newspaper's" staffers that the operation was losing huge amounts of money, and losing readership as well.

Jeff Bezos has previously claimed he didn't care how much money the Post lost -- he was just all about Quality Journalism. I guess he said that as a virtue signal, but didn't expect to lose $70 million in one year and tens of millions of dollars every year.

I would also imagine that these deep-pocketed Billionaire Hobbyist Media Magnates don't mind losing hundreds of millions of dollars if it buys them prestige and influence.

But the Post is losing prestige and influence. It's losing readers, no one takes it seriously. It's a a woke Joke.

The publisher promised that he would make changes to make the paper profitable. The "journalists" at the Post don't like that. They're like the former employees of the OFC coffee shops (which I'll discuss in the next post) -- they don't care if the owners of the business lose money, they just want their paychecks guaranteed forever, because they're Social Justice Warriors proving a greater service to humanity by simply existing and consuming.

The publisher also talked about quarantining the "service and social" reporters -- the woke activists posing as "reporters" -- into their own little ghetto.

Those activists almost certainly took that as an indication that they would see a lot of pinkslips coming their way, because that's exactly what will happen. You don't quarantine a healthy, productive section of your company. You quarantine the basket-cases.

The Post's staffers shrieked and screamed that Sally Buzbee, the former editor in chief, was to be replaced by -- gasp! -- a white man. And he's bringing in three other white men (spit!) to help him manage the unprofitable joke newspaper.

The activists repeatedly demanded that the publisher seek out "diverse" candidates for these positions.

I mention this background because it's critical to understanding why the Post is running a hit piece on their own editor-in-chief: Because they intended to drive him out, to embarrass Jeff Bezos into firing him.

Welcome to the Washington Post #Resistance -- similar in spirit and politics to the #Resistance in the federal government to Trump.

And similarly determined to drive the man selected to lead them out of his office.

The current E-i-C, Sally Buzbee -- the one fired in favor of Winnett -- approved this hit-piece on the man taking over her job.

You know, if women controlled the world, there would be no more war. They're just so peaceful!

John Sexton:

Robert Winnett, the incoming editor, got a blast of American journalism late Sunday night in the form of a lengthy investigative report critical of his previous work. That story was published by the Washington Post. The Post even tagged itself in the headline.

[From the Post:]
The backyard goodbye party for Sally Buzbee, the recently departed executive editor of The Washington Post, was beginning to break up on Sunday evening when the newspaper published a critical investigation into her permanent successor.
The headline: "Incoming Post editor tied to self-described 'thief' who claimed role in his reporting."
The article focused on Robert Winnett, the British journalist poised to take over The Post's newsroom in November, and revealed his links to a private eye who used unethical media practices to land big exclusives. It noted that Mr. Winnett had declined to comment to The Post's reporters -- the same ones he will be managing in a few months.

I'll sum up the details of the hit piece, because the details aren't important: Winnett, while working in the UK, used stories by a shady reporter who used deceit, and maybe even phone hacking (if you remember that scandal) to get stories. The hit-piece is wondering whether Winnett did enough to instruct his reporters on journalistic ethics -- and you know, Washington Post "journalists" are all about journalistic ethics -- and whether he maybe he encouraged the bad behavior.

Like I said, the details are not important. What is important is that these charges date from 15 years ago and no one has had much interest in "resurfacing" them -- until now.

It's not like Winnett hasn't been working in journalism all this time. He didn't retire from journalism and just jump back into it.

This story was old and dead.

But Washington Post reporters now "resurface" it to try to pressure Bezos into firing him.

To save their own phoney-baloney jobs, and preserve their right to continue treating journalism as just a shabby way to Conduct Politics by Other Means.

What is important is that this is open insubordination by The Washington Post staff, attempting to drive out the incoming editor-in-chief exactly as the DC Permanent Bureaucracy and Deep State attempted to drive Trump out of office.

Washington Post staffers think they own the paper just like Deep State bureaucrats think they own the federal government -- and America itself.

I'm curious to see whether Bezos bends to this mob, and whether Winnett, once installed, takes action against the Insurrectionists.

So far, Bezos says he supports Winnett even in the face of what The Hill calls "backlash" by the staff.

Jeff Bezos is backing the new CEO of The Washington Post and the editor he chose to lead its newsroom amid widespread internal backlash among staff over the two hires.
Bezos, the billionaire tech mogul who has owned the Post since 2013, wrote to top editors on Tuesday expressing support for CEO Will Lewis and his strategy for leading the company into the coming election.
"I know you've already heard this from Will, but I wanted to also weigh in directly: the journalistic standards and ethics at The Post will not change," Bezos wrote in his note, which was obtained by The Hill. "To be sure, it can't be business as usual at The Post. The world is evolving rapidly and we do need to change as a business."
Lewis is facing widespread backlash following reports that he ousted former executive editor Sally Buzbee over a planned reorganization and criticism over scandals involving his actions at previous jobs that have been reported by his own newsroom.

We'll see if this weak, woke-adulation-seeking billionaire stands firm or capitulates to the woke mob. You know which way I'm betting.

The hit piece is being interpreted just how the Washington Post insurrectionists intended: They've got their leftwing allies threatening to cancel subscriptions if he's allowed to serve as EiC.

Wel hell. I gave up NYT years ago over bogus reporting and shady op-eds. If this guy becomes editor of WaPo I don't know where to turn.

Incoming Post editor tied to self-described ‘thief’ who claimed role in his reporting https://t.co/yFofcJ0WN9
— B Beshoar (@gypsykat1952) June 18, 2024

The @washingtonpost staff actively trying to destroy their own management and editors is fascinating to watch. This is how woke politics works, you hire the people who destroy your business. Destruction is almost always internal. https://t.co/2nQmP3jBAF
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 17, 2024

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:43 PM

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1 In early

Posted by: Kratwurst at June 18, 2024 05:43 PM (nIRE6)

2 It's not worth saving...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 18, 2024 05:44 PM (MeG8a)

3 Bronze

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 05:44 PM (8sMut)

4 Why wouldn’t the new guy come in and take a flame thrower to the place?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 18, 2024 05:45 PM (u73oe)

5 The Washington Post is nothing more than Neues Deutschland. When it finally folds it will be of massive benefit to the trees that will no longer be sacrificed to it.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 05:46 PM (8sMut)

6 FREEBIRD!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 05:46 PM (ZdexC)

7 what's the freebird reference?

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 05:47 PM (KRtlO)

8 "rejected for use of subjunctive mode. Correct and resubmit within 20 minutes"

--- Your pissed off editor

Posted by: Kindltot at June 18, 2024 05:48 PM (D7oie)

9 Has anyone done a poll on the most despised careers in the US recently?

I know it used to be dominated by politicians and lawyers but I swear journalists might be the top spot these days.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 18, 2024 05:48 PM (7+K68)

10 Another post!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 18, 2024 05:48 PM (Ka3bZ)

11
Between the Post and Blue Origin... and the skanky whore side piece... and the yacht...

I just wonder what subordinates built Amazon. I'm sure Jeff has a hand in the distribution center work conditions, though.

Posted by: Auspex at June 18, 2024 05:48 PM (j4U/Z)

12 Why wouldn’t the new guy come in and take a flame thrower to the place?
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Seems like a pretty standard play to avoid backstabbers or mutinies, since, like forever.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 18, 2024 05:48 PM (IG4Id)

13 'Play it pretty for the Ewoks'

Posted by: A Van Zandt at June 18, 2024 05:48 PM (8eskY)

14 As I see it, he proves them right be keeping these twits on the payroll, or he proves that he learned his lesson then by firing the whole lot. If the fools who wrote and approve of this article are fired, then there is a chance of ethics returning, maybe. Perhaps. Unless it's a false flag op....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 18, 2024 05:49 PM (VNX3d)

15 Massachusetts 911 system was down for a couple of hours this afternoon.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 18, 2024 05:49 PM (Ka3bZ)

16 Dicking around the editor's reputation is a good way to wind up working for the competition, or writing freelance for a living.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 18, 2024 05:49 PM (D7oie)

17 Wait until the insurrectionist don't get what they want and then run a hit piece on Bezos.

Popcorn.

Posted by: WisRich at June 18, 2024 05:49 PM (G0vdT)

18 If it is a false flag op, he then hires the Biden family as reporters.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 18, 2024 05:50 PM (VNX3d)

19 First of all, who buys newspapers anymore?
I mean print versions.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 18, 2024 05:50 PM (MeG8a)

20 Not losing money fast enough. I want Bezos under a bridge blowing hobo dick for a swig of Thunderchicken.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 05:50 PM (pohLc)

21 Wel hell. I gave up NYT years ago over bogus reporting and shady op-eds. If this guy becomes editor of WaPo I don't know where to turn.

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Maybe you could try getting in touch with reality.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 05:51 PM (L/fGl)

22 20 Not losing money fast enough. I want Bezos under a bridge blowing hobo dick for a swig of Thunderchicken.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 05:50 PM (pohLc)

Best we can hope for is he gets caught with a dead boy in his yacht closet.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 18, 2024 05:51 PM (7+K68)

23 I'm curious to see whether Bezos bends to this mob, and whether Winnett, once installed, takes action against the Insurrectionists.
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I initially read this as "bends to the knob."

Posted by: Maurice Ravel, pondering the score of at June 18, 2024 05:51 PM (3Fz6p)

24 But Bezos got a BIG boat!

Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened at June 18, 2024 05:52 PM (9/4mu)

25 >> First of all, who buys newspapers anymore?

Parrot Owners?

Dog Trainers?

I assume at a discount.

Posted by: garrett at June 18, 2024 05:52 PM (8eskY)

26 I do relish when the left eats their own.

They should use napkins.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 18, 2024 05:52 PM (Q4IgG)

27 What was that old writing prompt? Write your own obituary. Seems that some at the Post just did that.

Posted by: scampydog at June 18, 2024 05:52 PM (2bFN5)

28 Was the NYT too left-wing or too right-wing for B Beshoar?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 18, 2024 05:52 PM (63Dwl)

29 I just wonder what subordinates built Amazon. I'm sure Jeff has a hand in the distribution center work conditions, though.
Posted by: Auspex at June 18, 2024 05:48 PM (j4U/Z)

Lots of Amazon advertisements like "60% of our sellers are small business people!" And "Look at all the skills you can learn as an Amazon associate!"

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 05:52 PM (8sMut)

30
We'll see if this weak, woke-adulation-seeking billionaire stands firm or capitulates to the woke mob. You know which way I'm betting.

The pendulum is never denied. That's how I'm betting.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 18, 2024 05:52 PM (RKVpM)

31
WaPo Newsroom: More cancer please!

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 18, 2024 05:52 PM (+oR7L)

32 Yeah, I hope incoming white male boss decimates them

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 18, 2024 05:52 PM (Ka3bZ)

33 Gosh, a civil war within the Washington Post. I sure hope there aren't a grotesque number of casualties.

Posted by: Reap, Sow, Some Farm Assembly Required at June 18, 2024 05:52 PM (F/oxI)

34 I would think that in an industry undergoing contraction it would be easy to replace reporters

Posted by: Kindltot at June 18, 2024 05:53 PM (D7oie)

35 My favorite part of the Spanish Civil War besides defeat of the commies. The internal Loyalist on Loyalist fighting.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 05:53 PM (SHMXB)

36 President Biden @POTUS Jun 15
The G7 embodies the fact that democracies deliver for everyone.

The Gormogons @Gormogons Jun 17
GP The G7 embodies the fact that democracies of late have delivered for the rich. For the working class and poor, not at all.

Hence, the massive populist uprising both here and in Europe.

https://tinyurl.com/5n8nh9bu
53 seconds; commercial with for some strange reason Biden reading from a document as a voiceover and not speaking live at the G7 meeting.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 05:53 PM (ZdexC)

37 28 Was the NYT too left-wing or too right-wing for B Beshoar?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 18, 2024 05:52 PM (63Dwl)

Much much too right wing and too friendly to Trump.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 05:53 PM (8sMut)

38 Cue Henry Kissinger on the Iran - Iraq War "why can't they both lose?".

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 18, 2024 05:53 PM (KhB32)

39 If he retaliates, the staff may take up X 24/7 and really let him have it.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at June 18, 2024 05:54 PM (hCzfy)

40
The coming office lockouts and Sabotage will be fun to watch.

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 18, 2024 05:54 PM (+oR7L)

41 I hope Winnet kept other job offers on the line. Bezos says there will be no change in editorial policy at the Post. Well you just changed editors i expect that means a change in editorial policies.

Oh.

Posted by: blaster at June 18, 2024 05:54 PM (IFNME)

42
I can't imagine being the management or Bezos and not firing the losers trying to "run" your business.

Even if I for whatever reason agreed with them, you simply can't indulge that kind of nonsense.

These days newspaper writers are a dime a dozen.

If it were me, they'd be out on their asses and headed for Blowinghobosville the next day.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 18, 2024 05:54 PM (eDfFs)

43 The authors of the piece need to get escorted off the property. The ones who shout and scream about the people being escorted off the property get their pink slips at the same time.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 18, 2024 05:55 PM (tT6L1)

44 Wouldn't this be classified as a mutiny? I mean doing preemptive hit pieces on your incoming boss might not be the best career move but for what ever reason these idiots think it is ok.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 18, 2024 05:55 PM (QNSds)

45 The Gormogons @Gormogons Jun 17
GP The G7 embodies the fact that democracies of late have delivered for the rich. For the working class and poor, not at all.

Hence, the massive populist uprising both here and in Europe.

Looky, a hate-filled Marxist using hate-filled Marxist language. The rich need to violently and brutally die as they DO NOT WORK.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 05:55 PM (8sMut)

46 I assumed Bezos being hands off with the Washington Post and giving them a blank check was the extortion money he paid to the deep state in exchange for them leaving him alone (vs what's happening to Musk)

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at June 18, 2024 05:56 PM (L9Ewk)

47 I know it used to be dominated by politicians and lawyers but I swear journalists might be the top spot these days.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 18, 2024 05:48 PM (7+K6

———-

No different between them and a Dem spokesperson

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 18, 2024 05:56 PM (kypKT)

48 A similar situation to CNN; I recall for a couple of years there was big talk about how they were going to revitalize, or refocus, or this and that, but in the end they just closed their main offices, fired some expensive non-talent, and now just limp along with nobody really paying attention to anything they say anymore. Oh they're reliable parrots for Biden, but that appears to be the answer to what happens next; just a long slow slide into irrelevance.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 18, 2024 05:56 PM (wyMQY)

49 They should go on strike. That will teach them. Whodafuk needs readers anyway?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 05:56 PM (pohLc)

50 Sooo what do you boys figure to be your next reporting gig? Palestine Chronicle has an opening.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 18, 2024 05:56 PM (wBaIH)

51 Get rid of all these shitbags. Fuck them.

It becomes a dick measuring contest right from the get-go.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 18, 2024 05:56 PM (qZEuM)

52 44 Wouldn't this be classified as a mutiny? I mean doing preemptive hit pieces on your incoming boss might not be the best career move but for what ever reason these idiots think it is ok.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 18, 2024 05:55 PM (QNSds)

They will fail upwards. They "know people". Yeah, they suck at their jobs, but that doesn't matter. They "know people", which is the ONLY qualification people care about in this country.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 05:56 PM (8sMut)

53 Wouldn't this be classified as a mutiny? I mean doing preemptive hit pieces on your incoming boss might not be the best career move but for what ever reason these idiots think it is ok.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 18, 2024 05:55 PM (QNSds)
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They are betting their paychecks Bezos won't allow them to be fired. Personally, in this day and age, that's not a bet I would make. But, I'm not a stupid leftist.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 18, 2024 05:57 PM (tT6L1)

54 Who runs Post-town?

Posted by: blaster at June 18, 2024 05:58 PM (IFNME)

55 If this occurred at a Right leaning publication I’d have the same opinion about immediate termination.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 05:58 PM (SHMXB)

56 They are betting their paychecks Bezos won't allow them to be fired. Personally, in this day and age, that's not a bet I would make. But, I'm not a stupid leftist.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 18, 2024 05:57 PM (tT6L1)
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Bezos is not an Elon Musk.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 05:58 PM (3Fz6p)

57 >>Wouldn't this be classified as a mutiny? I mean doing preemptive hit pieces on your incoming boss might not be the best career move but for what ever reason these idiots think it is ok.

I added to the post -- Sally Buzbee, the current woke failure who's being let go in favor of this guy, presumably approved this piece. She launched a bitter attack on her incoming replacement.

If only women ruled the world, there would be no war!

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 05:59 PM (KRtlO)

58 They are betting their paychecks Bezos won't allow them to be fired. Personally, in this day and age, that's not a bet I would make. But, I'm not a stupid leftist.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker
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Agree. New management either comes in with a multipoint plan. Or a machete. I'm betting on machete in this instance.

Posted by: scampydog at June 18, 2024 05:59 PM (2bFN5)

59 Ha, ha!

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper Jun 17
NEW: The rise of online video news is making it increasingly hard for traditional news organisations to survive, according to a global survey published Monday.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 05:59 PM (ZdexC)

60 I nominate Ace for the soon-to-be vacant WaPo Editor position.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 18, 2024 05:59 PM (DsA2n)

61 >>>4 Who runs Post-town?
Posted by: blaster

I think you do, no?

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 05:59 PM (KRtlO)

62 That's not Robert Winnettt in the pic, That's Vinnie Jones.
And he's going do some ass kicking around the place.

Posted by: Gunslinger at June 18, 2024 05:59 PM (R2gO3)

63 There are no consequences for lying being lazy and bad at your job. There are consequences for being white and male.

I give Winnet till August.

Posted by: blaster at June 18, 2024 05:59 PM (IFNME)

64 Wouldn't this be the same Washington Post that had the reporter bribing the CIA agent ( or was it the other way?) for stories?

I recall there were concert tickets and other "gifts."

Which,I suspect, they admitted were exchanged to avoid having to admit bodily fluids were also exchanged.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 18, 2024 05:59 PM (YQOnX)

65 Bezos is not an Elon Musk.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 05:58 PM (3Fz6p)
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I realize that. I just think making that bet is foolish, in the extreme.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 18, 2024 06:00 PM (tT6L1)

66 >>>60 I nominate Ace for the soon-to-be vacant WaPo Editor position.

If nominated i will not accept, if hired i will not serve

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:00 PM (KRtlO)

67 WaPo is the sound you get when you have a pile of shit in each hand and then clap your hands together.

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 06:01 PM (JLq/1)

68 @ 60 - seconded!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at June 18, 2024 06:01 PM (tQtDb)

69 If nominated i will not accept, if hired i will not serve
Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:00 PM (KRtlO)
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You get several large well muscled former military to help you "manage" staff....out the door.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 18, 2024 06:01 PM (tT6L1)

70 Bidet also tried his stupid joke again today a minute into his 'speech':

"My name's Joe Biden. I'm Joe Biden's husband."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 18, 2024 06:02 PM (IG4Id)

71 WaPo is the sound you get when you have a pile of shit in each hand and then clap your hands together.
Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 06:01 PM (JLq/1)
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I'm not shaking hands with you.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 06:02 PM (3Fz6p)

72 61 >>>4 Who runs Post-town?
Posted by: blaster

I think you do, no?
Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 05:59 PM (KRtlO)

Technically the pigs producing all the shit do.

Your takeaway may vary.

Posted by: blaster at June 18, 2024 06:02 PM (IFNME)

73 66 >>>60 I nominate Ace for the soon-to-be vacant WaPo Editor position.

If nominated i will not accept, if hired i will not serve
Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:00 PM (KRtlO

Take the job. Fire everyone. Then quit.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 18, 2024 06:02 PM (7+K68)

74 eh, ok ace, unseconded ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at June 18, 2024 06:02 PM (tQtDb)

75 You get several large well muscled former military to help you "manage" staff....out the door.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 18, 2024 06:01 PM (tT6L1)

Out a 10th floor window.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 06:03 PM (pohLc)

76
If only women ruled the world, there would be no war!

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 05:59 PM

Ever read, "The Giver"? Won all kinds of awards. All sorts of middle school children had it on their required reading lists.

Then 2016 happened and the short memory of a dystopian society run by a woman may have put OrangeManBad into the White House by those same youths.

Maybe, maybe not. But worth a read.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 18, 2024 06:04 PM (RKVpM)

77 "My name's Joe Biden. I'm Joe Biden's husband."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 18, 2024 06:02 PM (IG4Id)

He is sharp I tell you !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 18, 2024 06:04 PM (NtVYv)

78 Who wants to buy tje same rubbish Propaganda from a newspaper as a Alphabet news?

Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2024 06:04 PM (fwDg9)

79 Bezos could've bought Newsweek instead. And for a dollar.

Posted by: nckate at June 18, 2024 06:04 PM (4bYb7)

80 I nominate Ace for the soon-to-be vacant WaPo Editor position.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks

Man, you must really hate Ace.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 18, 2024 06:05 PM (IG4Id)

81 70
'"My name's Joe Biden. I'm Joe Biden's husband."'

How the hell is that even theoretically funny?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 18, 2024 06:05 PM (roH4R)

82 How come no one every talks about seeing Jethro Tull live?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 18, 2024 06:05 PM (YQOnX)

83 How come no one every talks about seeing Jethro Tull live?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 18, 2024 06:05 PM (YQOnX)
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I saw Jethro Tull live.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 06:06 PM (3Fz6p)

84 If only women ruled the world, there would be no war!
Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 05:59 PM (KRtlO)

Oh the backstabbing you'll see, though!

The worst thing about being invited to sit at the mean girl's table is you have to sit with the mean girls.

Posted by: Just Lily at June 18, 2024 06:06 PM (RLLZj)

85 Democracy Sighs in Snarkness.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at June 18, 2024 06:06 PM (Qnv0r)

86 Musk should buy the Post, put a woman in charge, and impregnate her.

Posted by: blaster at June 18, 2024 06:06 PM (IFNME)

87 They are betting their paychecks Bezos won't allow them to be fired.

From Ace’s description (I know, content) it sounds like this is more of an Animal House situation. They already know they’re going to be fired. So they’re not really betting their WaPo paychecks. They’re betting future paychecks, i.e., they’re betting that doing this will either save their current job or at least not make them unhirable elsewhere after one last futile and stupid gesture (1).

Or maybe they all figure they can rake in influencer dough on YouTube, who knows.

(1) Yeah, no. Until they’re kicked out the gestures will continue ad infinitum.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 18, 2024 06:07 PM (EXyHK)

88
I could afford a thousand Newsweaks.

:: Buffs nails on collar ::

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 18, 2024 06:07 PM (RKVpM)

89 WaPo is the sound you get when you have a pile of shit in each hand and then clap your hands together.
Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 06:01 PM (JLq/1)
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I think that's "Whap POO" but I see your point...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 18, 2024 06:07 PM (BpYfr)

90 '"My name's Joe Biden. I'm Joe Biden's husband."'

How the hell is that even theoretically funny?
Posted by: Dr. Claw

He started doing this stupid line years ago, "My name's Joe Biden. I'm JillBiden's husband.," but he fucked it up because he was vamping to get to the next point.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 18, 2024 06:08 PM (IG4Id)

91 How the hell is that even theoretically funny?
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The first time he did it, it was a mistake as he saw the J and says Joe instead of Jill.

Now it's his staff trying to be ironical and play the flub as an intentional misspeak.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 18, 2024 06:08 PM (YQOnX)

92 Your Honor may I do sidebar for a moment?

If Galaxy Quest is the second best Star Trek movie, which is the first?

Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 06:08 PM (fV+MH)

93
If nominated i will not accept, if hired i will not serve
Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:00 PM

A shame, Captain. It would have been glorious.

Posted by: Kor at June 18, 2024 06:08 PM (DsA2n)

94 "My name's Joe Biden. I'm Joe Biden's husband."'

How the hell is that even theoretically funny?
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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I'll see your Theoretical Funniness and raise you an Existential Despair.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 06:09 PM (3Fz6p)

95 >>>If Galaxy Quest is the second best Star Trek movie, which is the first?

KHAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:09 PM (KRtlO)

96 I saw Tull live at the Richmond Opera House in '95.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 18, 2024 06:09 PM (qZEuM)

97 If Galaxy Quest is the second best Star Trek movie, which is the first?
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Event Horizon.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 18, 2024 06:10 PM (YQOnX)

98 All we ask is that the new editor publishes Taylor Lorenz's actual age, and it's relevance, when he releases the memo announcing her reassignment to the obituary desk.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 18, 2024 06:10 PM (8AONa)

99 Some morons around here mentioned a news source that tries to be balanced. I have a friend looking for such a thing. Does anyone here know what it could have been?

Posted by: Emmie at June 18, 2024 06:11 PM (Sf2cq)

100 >>>If Galaxy Quest is the second best Star Trek movie, which is the first?

KHAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!
Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:09 PM (KRtlO)
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Begun, the Trek wars have...

Posted by: Wise Jedi Master at June 18, 2024 06:11 PM (BpYfr)

101 I bought the extended version of Wrath of Khan. It's got a couple of extra minutes but I don't recommend it. After seeing the extended version once, I just wished I had bought the original theatrical version.

You do get to meet that engineer who dies in Khan's attack before you see his dead body. I think he was Scottie's nephew or something.

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:11 PM (KRtlO)

102 He started doing this stupid line years ago, "My name's Joe Biden. I'm JillBiden's husband.," but he fucked it up because he ~~was vamping to get to the next point.~~ is stupid and demented and doesn't really care if the jokes land because you don't want to be the one caught not laughing so you? And it doesn't matter anyway because only you snaggletooth MAGA rednecks point it out in your selectively edited videos
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 18, 2024 06:08 PM (IG4Id)

FIFY

Posted by: blaster at June 18, 2024 06:11 PM (IFNME)

103 I saw Jethro Tull live.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 06:06 PM (3Fz6p)

Ditto.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 18, 2024 06:11 PM (XPM1I)

104 Event Horizon.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 18, 2024 06:10 PM (YQOnX)

The only thought I had when I saw that movie was WTF?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 06:11 PM (pohLc)

105 The same young lady introduced me to both Jethro Tull and Spyro Gyra. One took, the other didn't.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 18, 2024 06:11 PM (/y8xj)

106 You know, if women controlled the world, there would be no more war. They're just so peaceful!
____________

How this lie started is beyond me. Women rulers throughout history have been every bit as warlike as men. Hell, the original Russian invasion of Ukraine was launched by Catherine the Great.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 18, 2024 06:12 PM (Dm8we)

107 You know, if women controlled the world, there would be no more war.

And no more bitches. ... Right?

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 06:12 PM (bQ/08)

108 You do get to meet that engineer who dies in Khan's attack before you see his dead body. I think he was Scottie's nephew or something.
Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:11 PM (KRtlO)
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Yep. That's why Scotty is so torn up when the poor engineer dies.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 18, 2024 06:12 PM (BpYfr)

109 I have a theory that, in general, people who like Jethro Tull also like Steeleye Span.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 06:13 PM (3Fz6p)

110 Jeff Bezos has previously claimed he didn't care how much money the Post lost
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Didn't Charles Foster Kaine say much the same thing?

Posted by: Eeyore at June 18, 2024 06:14 PM (1bNHn)

111 The world would be just a mess with women running it. Touchy Feely doesn't work to keep bad people at bay

Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2024 06:14 PM (fwDg9)

112 Yep. That's why Scotty is so torn up when the poor engineer dies.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 18, 2024 06:12 PM (BpYfr)

It's ALWAYS a tragedy when an engineer dies.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 06:14 PM (pohLc)

113 "My name's Joe Biden. I'm Joe Biden's husband."
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Cheep Fake

Posted by: KJP at June 18, 2024 06:14 PM (MvPnp)

114
Jeff is also chomping steroids to get buff looking while posing next to whats-her-whore and trying to ignore the obvious fact that he looks more like Dr. Evil than Mike Myers.

Posted by: Auspex at June 18, 2024 06:15 PM (j4U/Z)

115 Some morons around here mentioned a news source that tries to be balanced. I have a friend looking for such a thing. Does anyone here know what it could have been?

Posted by: Emmie at June 18, 2024 06:11 PM (Sf2cq)

Ground News?

Posted by: WillowViney at June 18, 2024 06:15 PM (d3MA1)

116 I apologize for the ot, but, this post is really nagging me ... 240 on the quickies.

I'm disappointed today.. I thought my dog was coming home this coming weekend and he's not.
Been a long time, would like him back soon.

(He's been off to school for the past 6 months.. was supposed to be home ages ago) Posted by: Inogame

It sounds like the trainer covets your dog and imo, you need to bring him home now, before your pup thinks you gave up on him. Discipline? problems be damned.

Posted by: old chick at June 18, 2024 06:15 PM (F3Dlr)

117 When my husband was a younger teen he saw Jethro Tull live and to this day I have to listen to the story of how the dude with the flute did a backflip while playing the flute, never stopping playing, during the entire rotation of the flip.

Posted by: nckate at June 18, 2024 06:15 PM (4bYb7)

118 "My name's Joe Biden. I'm Joe Biden's husband."
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Cheep Fake
Posted by: KJP at June 18, 2024 06:14 PM (MvPnp)
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My god, those evil cons can even do it on a live feed!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 06:15 PM (3Fz6p)

119 Event Horizon.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 18, 2024 06:10 PM (YQOnX)

The only thought I had when I saw that movie was WTF?
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 06:11 PM (pohLc)

Pandorum >> Event Horizon

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 06:16 PM (SHMXB)

120 When my husband was a younger teen he saw Jethro Tull live and to this day I have to listen to the story of how the dude with the flute did a backflip while playing the flute, never stopping playing, during the entire rotation of the flip.
Posted by: nckate at June 18, 2024 06:15 PM (4bYb7)
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I don't think Ian is doing many backflips these days.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 06:16 PM (3Fz6p)

121 "Take the job. Fire everyone. Then quit. "

Leave the gun, take the cannoli.

Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 06:17 PM (fV+MH)

122 I'm curious to see whether Bezos bends to this mob, and whether Winnett, once installed, takes action against the Insurrectionists.
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Call them into the office and tell them not to feel insecure in their angst. That all was understood and forgiven. Oh, security will give you your bonus envelope as you turn in your keys and pass.
Good day.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 06:17 PM (bQ/08)

123 If I hadn't stopped reading this stupid dreck in 2007 I'd stop reading it now.

And for the long time morons...I'm back!
-Timon

Posted by: Timon at June 18, 2024 06:18 PM (pIyof)

124 Ground News?
Posted by: WillowViney at June 18, 2024 06:15 PM (d3MA1)

Thank you. That's not the one I am trying to recall, but it looks interesting.

Posted by: Emmie at June 18, 2024 06:18 PM (Sf2cq)

125 When my husband was a younger teen he saw Jethro Tull live and to this day I have to listen to the story of how the dude with the flute did a backflip while playing the flute, never stopping playing, during the entire rotation of the flip.

Posted by: nckate

=====

It's where we got our inspiration

Posted by: Milli Vanilli, ELO, and others at June 18, 2024 06:18 PM (8AONa)

126 Captain Obvious not me, I like Jethro Tull and never liked Steely Dan

Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2024 06:18 PM (fwDg9)

127 Wouldn't this be classified as a mutiny? I mean doing preemptive hit pieces on your incoming boss might not be the best career move but for what ever reason these idiots think it is ok.

I added to the post -- Sally Buzbee, the current woke failure who's being let go in favor of this guy, presumably approved this piece. She launched a bitter attack on her incoming replacement.

If only women ruled the world, there would be no war!

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 05:59 PM

While I can understand the sour apples stuff about being fired because you suck at your job and are being replaced by a white male aspect, what I can't wrap my head around is if bezo's is really concerned about losing money why doesn't he just pull a ted turner and tell them what to print. It isn't like they are going to lose anymore readers than they already have.

Pretty sure he has the phone number to the editor of the WP. These idiots have gotten away with this bull$hit for so long they believe they are immune from any consequences for whatever they print.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 18, 2024 06:18 PM (QNSds)

128 I don't think Ian is doing many backflips these days.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 06:16 PM (3Fz6p)

LOL, no, but he still does the standing on one leg bit while he plays. I always loved that for some reason.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 18, 2024 06:18 PM (XPM1I)

129 How come no one every talks about seeing Jethro Tull live?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 18, 2024 06:05 PM (YQOnX)

Dunno.

Anyway, the one concert I saw back in the day that totally blew my mind and left me convinced that I'd seen pure greatness was-

when I saw the Mahavishnu Orchestra right after they released the "Fires of Fire" album.

Incredible. I'd never seen anything like it since. The soloing and improvisation as they traded licks back and forth at impossible speed was pure screaming talent.

They were a fusion (or rock) jazz group if you don't know who they were. Pure greatness and then shortly thereafter they broke up. 😩

Here's the "Birds of Fire" album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=AulNvAR0u5c&list=OLAK5uy_laTbnMSFq5h827gAH

XWEZG-bdqC_5vmV0&index=2

Posted by: naturalfake at June 18, 2024 06:19 PM (eDfFs)

130 Captain Obvious not me, I like Jethro Tull and never liked Steely Dan
Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2024 06:18 PM (fwDg9)
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Um, not Steely Dan (which I don't particularly care for), but Steeleye Span.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 06:19 PM (3Fz6p)

131 6 FREEBIRD!!!
Posted by: andycanuck
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It's 5:30 somewhere, time for a Slurpee.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 06:19 PM (bQ/08)

132 If I hadn't stopped reading this stupid dreck in 2007 I'd stop reading it now.

And for the long time morons...I'm back!
-Timon
Posted by: Timon at June 18, 2024 06:18 PM (pIyof)

Didn’t notice you left.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 06:19 PM (SHMXB)

133
Man, you must really hate Ace.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Actually thinking more along the lines of High Plains Drifter.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 18, 2024 06:19 PM (DsA2n)

134 How to guarantee that Winnett fires a shitload of WaPo comrades.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 18, 2024 06:20 PM (YqDXo)

135 LOL, no, but he still does the standing on one leg bit while he plays. I always loved that for some reason.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 18, 2024 06:18 PM (XPM1I)
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I learned that is the classic flute players stance on the Indian subcontinent.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 06:20 PM (3Fz6p)

136 >>>126 Captain Obvious not me, I like Jethro Tull and never liked Steely Dan

I like both. If only we had a flute song with Michael McDonald on backing vocals.

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:21 PM (KRtlO)

137 It's 5:30 somewhere, time for a Slurpee.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 06:19 PM (bQ/0

_______________

As Hillary says to Huma.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 18, 2024 06:21 PM (YqDXo)

138 Leave the gun, take the cannoli.
Posted by: eleven
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Probably a stupid question - why do they leave the gun at the scene? Why leave any evidence? Michael at the restaurant too.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 18, 2024 06:21 PM (Dm8we)

139 What kind of an idiot reads the Warshington Post?

That "newspaper" isn't fit to clean a hobo's backside after a night of Val-U-Rite vodka and Waffle House chili.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 18, 2024 06:21 PM (R/m4+)

140 And for the long time morons...I'm back!
-Timon
Posted by: Timon at June 18, 2024 06:18 PM (pIyof)

Where have you been? Your father and I have been worried about you!

Posted by: Emmie at June 18, 2024 06:21 PM (Sf2cq)

141 Just don't Stealmy Spam.

Posted by: wth at June 18, 2024 06:21 PM (v0R5T)

142 Dammit! I'm a doctor, Jim! Not a damned movie critic!

Posted by: Zombie Bones McCoy at June 18, 2024 06:21 PM (mH6SG)

143 >>>if bezo's is really concerned about losing money why doesn't he just pull a ted turner and tell them what to print.
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Dude, I've big yacht business to tend.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 06:22 PM (bQ/08)

144 Probably a stupid question - why do they leave the gun at the scene? Why leave any evidence? Michael at the restaurant too.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 18, 2024 06:21 PM (Dm8we)

It is untraceable to them so you don’t want to be caught with it.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 06:22 PM (SHMXB)

145 Jeff is also chomping steroids to get buff looking while posing next to whats-her-whore and trying to ignore the obvious fact that he looks more like Dr. Evil than Mike Myers.
Posted by: Auspex

Have you seen the latest pictures from Greece with Bezos parading his "fiancée and her giant bosoms around while his unhappy looking son trails behind them. He must pay the press to follow him because why else would anyone be interested?

Posted by: Tuna at June 18, 2024 06:22 PM (oaGWv)

146 8 "rejected for use of subjunctive mode. Correct and resubmit within 20 minutes"

--- Your pissed off editor

mood.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis/Lake 2024 at June 18, 2024 06:22 PM (wGerL)

147 How do they intend to save the Post? If you drop a paper because you hate the type of "journalism" they indulge in, it's pretty unlikely you'll pick it back up one day to see if it still sucks.

People move on from sh*t, not back to it to see if it still smells bad.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 18, 2024 06:22 PM (XPM1I)

148 Ian Anderson is a self taught Flutist. So he does things not taught in music school. Things that made him special. I liked Jethro Tull, and Anderson was a big part of that.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 06:22 PM (pohLc)

149 Your Honor may I do sidebar for a moment?

If Galaxy Quest is the second best Star Trek movie, which is the first?
Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 06:08 PM (fV+MH)

Wrath of Khan I imagine.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 06:22 PM (eoQWY)

150 "When my husband was a younger teen he saw Jethro Tull live and to this day I have to listen to the story of how the dude with the flute did a backflip while playing the flute, never stopping playing, during the entire rotation of the flip.

Posted by: nckate "

Scotland's Got Talent.

Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 06:22 PM (fV+MH)

151 There's a band called "Pink Slip Tornado". They should open for Robert Winnett on his first day at WaPo.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 18, 2024 06:23 PM (O7YUW)

152 And for the long time morons...I'm back!
-Timon
Posted by: Timon at June 18, 2024 06:18 PM (pIyof)

Did you bring Pumba?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 18, 2024 06:23 PM (qZEuM)

153 Posted by: Timon at June 18, 2024 06:18 PM (pIyof)

Where have you been? Your father and I have been worried about you!

Posted by: Emmie at June 18, 2024 06:21 PM (Sf2cq)

Athens!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 18, 2024 06:23 PM (d9fT1)

154 Ian Anderson is a self taught Flutist. So he does things not taught in music school. Things that made him special. I liked Jethro Tull, and Anderson was a big part of that.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 06:22 PM (pohLc)
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He's one of those guys who can pick up an instrument and figure out how to play it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 06:24 PM (3Fz6p)

155 You know, if women controlled the world, there would be no more war.
_________________

What do Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, and Indira Gandhi have in common?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 18, 2024 06:24 PM (YqDXo)

156 Whatever happened to young people who got into reporting because they like writing, have an innate sense of curiosity, like to get at the truth and love a good story? And have no particular desire to change the world.

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 06:24 PM (JLq/1)

157 >>>How do they intend to save the Post? If you drop a paper because you hate the type of "journalism" they indulge in, it's pretty unlikely you'll pick it back up one day to see if it still sucks.

This is a good question. Once you've utterly destroyed something like the Post or Disney, how do you come back?

I don't think you do. I think the Post and CNN and Disney are stuck now playing to the 20-25% of the country with a preference for weird woke cult content. That's your new audience, and that's your new size. Adapt your expectations and budgets accordingly.

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:24 PM (KRtlO)

158 It is untraceable to them so you don’t want to be caught with it.
Posted by: polynikes
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Ok, so why not immediately dispose of it somewhere else? In Godfather II, he takes it apart and drops the parts in various places.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 18, 2024 06:25 PM (Dm8we)

159 Probably a stupid question - why do they leave the gun at the scene? Why leave any evidence? Michael at the restaurant too.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 18, 2024 06:21 PM (Dm8we)

It is untraceable to them so you don’t want to be caught with it.

Because it is a semiautomatic ghost gun glock with a chainsaw bayonet and a bumpstock...duh.

Posted by: Timon at June 18, 2024 06:25 PM (pIyof)

160 If I hadn't stopped reading this stupid dreck in 2007 I'd stop reading it now.

And for the long time morons...I'm back!
-Timon
Posted by: Timon at June 18, 2024 06:18 PM (pIyof)

Sorry realize your post could mean the Post. But in my defense it did sound like you left aos in 2007.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 06:26 PM (SHMXB)

161 And for the long time morons...I'm back!

It's like we hardly knew ye.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 18, 2024 06:26 PM (mH6SG)

162 137 It's 5:30 somewhere, time for a Slurpee.
_____________

As Hillary says to Huma.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Huma was an acolyte before Hillary's kitty stank.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWlHt0sEd8Y

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 06:26 PM (bQ/08)

163 Every now and then I watch short YouTube videos for a Star Trek copy called The Orville.
Has anyone watched an entire episode?

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 06:26 PM (JLq/1)

164 "My name's Joe Biden. I'm Joe Biden's husband."'

How the hell is that even theoretically funny?
Posted by: Dr. Claw

He started doing this stupid line years ago, "My name's Joe Biden. I'm JillBiden's husband.," but he fucked it up because he was vamping to get to the next point.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 18, 2024 06:08 PM (IG4Id)
________________

Coulda been worse. He could've said he's Buttigieg's husband.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 18, 2024 06:26 PM (YqDXo)

165 I don't think I've seen the other Star Treks more than twice. They're okay but not good enough to re-watch.

Yes, even VI. I like the basic idea of it but it was overstuffed and I did not dig that whole Klingon prison world part. They were in and out of a prison planet in about five minutes.

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:27 PM (KRtlO)

166 I don't think you do. I think the Post and CNN and Disney are stuck now playing to the 20-25% of the country with a preference for weird woke cult content. That's your new audience, and that's your new size. Adapt your expectations and budgets accordingly.
Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:24 PM (KRtlO)

Five guys in a closet with a mimeograph?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 06:27 PM (pohLc)

167 Whatever happened to young people who got into reporting because they like writing, have an innate sense of curiosity, like to get at the truth and love a good story? And have no particular desire to change the world.

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 06:24 PM (JLq/1)
________________

Woodward and Bernstein happened.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 18, 2024 06:27 PM (YqDXo)

168 You know, if women controlled the world, there would be no more war. They're just so peaceful!
____________

How this lie started is beyond me. Women rulers throughout history have been every bit as warlike as men. Hell, the original Russian invasion of Ukraine was launched by Catherine the Great.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 18, 2024 06:12 PM (Dm8we)

I will say one thing - part of the women ruler's problem is that men in surrounding kingdoms will test them. See Frederick the Great, who after her father went about getting everyone to say that they would accept Maria Theresa as the rightful ruler of Austria's Empire in the mid 1700s instantly attacked and took a rich province away in the War of the Austrian Secession. He tried grabbing more in the 7 Years war and nearly got his country demolished in the process, but he did manage to hang on to Silesia.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 06:27 PM (eoQWY)

169 Posted by: Timon at June 18, 2024 06:18 PM (pIyof)

Where have you been? Your father and I have been worried about you!

Posted by: Emmie at June 18, 2024 06:21 PM (Sf2cq)

Athens!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 18, 2024 06:23 PM (d9fT1)

Been hanging out with that whore twitter too much.

Good to read your stuff again CBD!

Posted by: Timon at June 18, 2024 06:27 PM (pIyof)

170 I think the Post and CNN and Disney are stuck now playing to the 20-25% of the country with a preference for weird woke cult content. That's your new audience, and that's your new size. Adapt your expectations and budgets accordingly.

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:24 PM (KRtlO)

With the infrastructure and network to support a larger company, it is difficult to shrink down quickly enough to make money. It's going to be a slog.

And I love it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 18, 2024 06:28 PM (d9fT1)

171 Like I said, the details are not important. What is important is that these charges date from 15 years ago and no one has had much interest in "resurfacing" them -- until now.

It's not like Winnett hasn't been working in journalism all this time. He didn't retire from journalism and just jump back into it.

_____________________________________

Ace, I wholeheartedly disagree with you here. It's very important. The very fact that this guy could continue working in the industry after this behavior reflects on the industry as a whole. That sort of behavior is blackballing material. He should have had to find another vocation to pursue. I find this guys history a reflection on the lacking morals within media as well as the hypocrisy of recognizing those lacking morals not based on substance, but based on personal benefit (Post Staff)

Posted by: Orson at June 18, 2024 06:28 PM (dIske)

172 This is a good question. Once you've utterly destroyed something like the Post or Disney, how do you come back?

==

with Disney, you just pretend the last 10 years never happened !

Posted by: runner at June 18, 2024 06:28 PM (V13WU)

173 Whatever happened to young people who got into reporting because they like writing, have an innate sense of curiosity, like to get at the truth and love a good story? And have no particular desire to change the world.

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 06:24 PM (JLq/1)

They aren't reporters, they are journalists. Reporters say what happened. Journalists are the sort that lie in their diaries.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 06:28 PM (eoQWY)

174 NO one remembers The Star Wars Holiday Special...

Posted by: runner at June 18, 2024 06:29 PM (V13WU)

175 Sorry realize your post could mean the Post. But in my defense it did sound like you left aos in 2007.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 06:26 PM (SHMXB)

I posted from around 2007 to 2021 ish. Got a job that curtailed my internet "research"

Posted by: Timon at June 18, 2024 06:30 PM (pIyof)

176 NO one remembers The Star Wars Holiday Special...
Posted by: runner at June 18, 2024 06:29 PM (V13WU)
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No one WANTS to remember the Star Wars Holiday Special.

I don't think Carrie Fisher remembered any of it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 06:30 PM (3Fz6p)

177 NO one remembers The Star Wars Holiday Special...
Posted by: runner at June 18, 2024 06:29 PM (V13WU)

True, but I have the Rifftrax version. It's one of the funniest riffs they've ever done.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 18, 2024 06:30 PM (XPM1I)

178 Good to read your stuff again CBD!

Posted by: Timon at June 18, 2024 06:27 PM (pIyof)

Oh...gosh!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 18, 2024 06:30 PM (d9fT1)

179 With the infrastructure and network to support a larger company, it is difficult to shrink down quickly enough to make money. It's going to be a slog.

And I love it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 18, 2024 06:28 PM (d9fT1)
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They basically started varnishing the floor at the door and then worked their way inward.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 18, 2024 06:30 PM (YqDXo)

180 keep the good stuff and memory-hole the rest...

Posted by: runner at June 18, 2024 06:30 PM (V13WU)

181 ... they don't care if the owners of the business lose money, they just want their paychecks guaranteed forever, because they're Social Justice Warriors proving a greater service to humanity by simply existing and consuming.

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Parasites by any other name would smell as foul.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at June 18, 2024 06:31 PM (Ws9oA)

182 I like how in Star Trek the only difference between us and the aliens was they had bumps and shit on their foreheads and wierd skin colors.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 18, 2024 06:31 PM (cS7lA)

183 With the infrastructure and network to support a larger company, it is difficult to shrink down quickly enough to make money. It's going to be a slog.

And I love it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 18, 2024 06:28 PM (d9fT1)
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I imagine Budweiser is wondering that about Bud Light.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 18, 2024 06:32 PM (YqDXo)

184 NO one remembers The Star Wars Holiday Special...
Posted by: runner

Considering we're all 29, of course not.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 18, 2024 06:32 PM (IG4Id)

185 I like how in Star Trek the only difference between us and the aliens was they had bumps and shit on their foreheads and wierd skin colors.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 18, 2024 06:31 PM (cS7lA)
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When you've only got a budget of $190,000/episode and no CGI...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 06:32 PM (3Fz6p)

186 Have you seen the latest pictures from Greece with Bezos parading his "fiancée and her giant bosoms around while his unhappy looking son trails behind them. He must pay the press to follow him because why else would anyone be interested?
Posted by: Tuna at June 18, 2024 06:22 PM (oaGWv)

Dude is a slow learner after Wife 1 took him to the cleaners.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 06:32 PM (eoQWY)

187
Jill Biden IS Joe Biden these days, so, he's correct, h8trs.

Posted by: Auspex at June 18, 2024 06:33 PM (j4U/Z)

188 >>>182 I like how in Star Trek the only difference between us and the aliens was they had bumps and shit on their foreheads and wierd skin colors.

I think they have a backstory for that, that an ancient race called The Forerunners (?) seeded all these worlds with human-like DNA and so all the aliens are now basically humans.

it's an neat idea but did they seed all of the worlds with animals of similar DNA?

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:33 PM (KRtlO)

189 I like how in Star Trek the only difference between us and the aliens was they had bumps and shit on their foreheads and wierd skin colors.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 18, 2024 06:31 PM (cS7lA)

The old series was skin colors. The Next Gen was bumps.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 06:33 PM (eoQWY)

190
Jeff Bezos has previously claimed he didn't care how much money the Post lost
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Didn't Charles Foster Kaine say much the same thing?
Posted by: Eeyore

And he thought it would be fun to run a newspaper.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 18, 2024 06:33 PM (63Dwl)

191 I assume that whoever wrote the hit piece on the incoming editor doesn't plan to be around when the new editor arrives. Either that, or the author is extremely stupid.

Posted by: Ralph at June 18, 2024 06:33 PM (TysyT)

192 137 It's 5:30 somewhere, time for a Slurpee.

Oh, turban, now! Do you see any turban here? Do I talk like a turban guy? Do I say, "Hey, Jay, you want a slurpee? You want a slurpee? I was born in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, okay? My accent is a Brooklyn accent, okay? Okay?

Posted by: Mooj at June 18, 2024 06:33 PM (R/m4+)

193 O one remembers The Star Wars Holiday Special...
Posted by: runner

Considering we're all 29, of course not.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 18, 2024 06:32 PM (IG4Id)

I did not know it existed, until youtube personalities mentioned it. Maybe in light of Boba Fett/Mandalorian popularity.

Posted by: runner at June 18, 2024 06:34 PM (V13WU)

194 Jeebus,
Women ruling the world = no war?

Women are horrid creatures. They lie and cheat and kill and hold grudges and have no honor. They celebrate murdering their children in the womb, for crying out loud.

Women need to knock it off and go back to celebrating being a wife and a mother and supporting men.

I hate women.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 18, 2024 06:34 PM (0c4bd)

195 I look forward to the day when the Washington Post is a place where bottom tier politicians go to get handjobs from trannies.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 18, 2024 06:34 PM (cS7lA)

196 It's a good thing for the Federation that all of the alien races of incredibly-advanced technology -- and there are a bunch of them -- just happen to want nothing to do with the rest of the universe except to be left alone and/or f*** with them in minor one-off experiments.

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:34 PM (KRtlO)

197 Yes, even VI. I like the basic idea of it but it was overstuffed and I did not dig that whole Klingon prison world part. They were in and out of a prison planet in about five minutes.
Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:27 PM (KRtlO)
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I tend to agree. Parts of it were really good. Others didn't make much sense. They just went from scene to scene but didn't give you any idea of the passage of time required to make that happen.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 18, 2024 06:35 PM (BpYfr)

198 I imagine Budweiser is wondering that about Bud Light.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 18, 2024 06:32 PM (YqDXo)

Hah!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 18, 2024 06:35 PM (d9fT1)

199 it's an neat idea but did they seed all of the worlds with animals of similar DNA?

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:33 PM (KRtlO)

It would have to be similar enough to be edible. Would be an interesting time working on the science of biology when only your species has entirely different inner workings than everything around.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 06:35 PM (eoQWY)

200 Lawyers use to fight for equal rights and a fair trial, now it's down to Soviet government going after opponents

Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2024 06:35 PM (fwDg9)

201 NO one remembers The Star Wars Holiday Special...
Posted by: runner at June 18, 2024 06:29 PM (V13WU)
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No one WANTS to remember the Star Wars Holiday Special.

I don't think Carrie Fisher remembered any of it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 06:30 PM (3Fz6p)
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It was to die for!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 18, 2024 06:35 PM (YqDXo)

202 Women need to knock it off and go back to celebrating being a wife and a mother and supporting men.

I hate women.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 18, 2024 06:34 PM (0c4bd)

Some of the worst treatment I've ever received in my life has been at the hands of fellow women. Probably why 90 percent of my dearest friends are men.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 18, 2024 06:35 PM (XPM1I)

203 Or sometimes some of these godlike alien beings do have thoughts of conquest but they've largely died out so there are only like three or four of them.

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:35 PM (KRtlO)

204 There is a rumor that Disney is trying to cancel Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic.

Posted by: runner at June 18, 2024 06:36 PM (V13WU)

205 The old (fired) WaPo Editor in Chief writes a hit piece on the new Editor in Chief? It is almost as if the fired EiC was a bitchy broad auditioning for a community theater part in Mean Girls.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at June 18, 2024 06:36 PM (p2TdG)

206 Women need to knock it off and go back to celebrating being a wife and a mother and supporting men.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 18, 2024 06:34 PM (0c4bd)

Society has degraded the most important job of humanity so that making double shots of espresso is now considered better than bearing and raising children.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 18, 2024 06:36 PM (d9fT1)

207 I assume that whoever wrote the hit piece on the incoming editor doesn't plan to be around when the new editor arrives. Either that, or the author is extremely stupid.
Posted by: Ralph at June 18, 2024 06:33 PM (TysyT)

they went to J school, so its the second.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 06:37 PM (eoQWY)

208 I think it's pretty cool that everyone in the Milky Way galaxy speaks English.

Convenient as hell for me.

Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 06:37 PM (fV+MH)

209 Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:33 PM (KRtlO)

That’s kind of Firefly’s take.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 06:37 PM (SHMXB)

210 There is a rumor that Disney is trying to cancel Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic.
Posted by: runner at June 18, 2024 06:36 PM (V13WU)

That will not end well for Disney.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 18, 2024 06:37 PM (XPM1I)

211 202 Women need to knock it off and go back to celebrating being a wife and a mother and supporting men.

I hate women.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 18, 2024 06:34 PM (0c4bd)

Some of the worst treatment I've ever received in my life has been at the hands of fellow women. Probably why 90 percent of my dearest friends are men.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 18, 2024 06:35 PM (XPM1I)

Generally speaking I hate women too.. I always say that to my Husband and he looks at me like "What" and I explain and he says Yeah...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 18, 2024 06:38 PM (Akjoo)

212 >>>I tend to agree. Parts of it were really good. Others didn't make much sense. They just went from scene to scene but didn't give you any idea of the passage of time required to make that happen.

right, the plot was just jerking you from scene to scene.

I think it's the klingon prison planet that's responsible for that feeling. Most of the rest of it flows well enough.

It's just -- how do you escape from a prison world when you're the absolute top prisoner the Klingons want to keep there? I Know they had this dumb plan of presenting a FAKE escape opportunity to kirk so they would be justified in killing him, but then... the fake escape opportunity was real and he could use it if he just gets past a single alien?

Seems like it should be tougher than that.

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:38 PM (KRtlO)

213 There is a rumor that Disney is trying to cancel Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic.

Posted by: runner at June 18, 2024 06:36 PM (V13WU)
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Yeah, that's the problem. People pointing out that Disney is producing woke dreck. Otherwise, Disney would be packing in viewers.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 18, 2024 06:38 PM (YqDXo)

214 Universal translators !

Posted by: runner at June 18, 2024 06:38 PM (V13WU)

215 think it's pretty cool that everyone in the Milky Way galaxy speaks English.

Convenient as hell for me.
Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 06:37 PM (fV+MH

Maybe they have the translator implant like Farscape.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 06:38 PM (SHMXB)

216 We'll see if this weak, woke-adulation-seeking billionaire stands firm or capitulates to the woke mob. You know which way I'm betting.

The State of Washington recently passed a capital gains tax that only applies to the 7,000 richest people in Washington (for now).

Bezos, personally, was supposed to pay 45% of the total tax.

Bezos responded by immediately moving to Florida.

He didn't "capitulate" on that occasion.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 18, 2024 06:38 PM (uxCna)

217 Also every planet has a monoculture.

Which keeps things simple for me.

Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 06:38 PM (fV+MH)

218 Modern women have tossed their one and only super power. The ability to make another human being.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 06:39 PM (pohLc)

219 >>>4 There is a rumor that Disney is trying to cancel Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic.

I saw some YouTube titles claiming that.

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:39 PM (KRtlO)

220 Some of the worst treatment I've ever received in my life has been at the hands of fellow women. Probably why 90 percent of my dearest friends are men.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 18, 2024 06:35 PM (XPM1I)

Home with the hubby and kids used to be where women could get away from the other women in the tribe/village. Having to fix a sammich was worth it.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 06:39 PM (eoQWY)

221 Disney has ONE hit (for children) and now it thinks it's got the power to ban all of its critics again?

These f***ing people.

I hope Gina Carano wrecks them with deep and cruel discovery.

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:40 PM (KRtlO)

222 The only Star Trek movie I remember anything about was the ear thing and something about whales.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 18, 2024 06:40 PM (cS7lA)

223 Tail wagging the dog.

This is like Euro Teenagers lecturing elected officials... or College kids saying they know better...

When, they have not learned enough about life to have a valid opinion.

They need to be told to sit down, shut up, and learn something from those who actually already know...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 18, 2024 06:40 PM (xaFKb)

224 Modern women have tossed their one and only super power. The ability to make another human being.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 06:39 PM (pohLc

They still own all the P.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 06:40 PM (SHMXB)

225 Trans-Identified Male Who Exposed His Breasts At The White House Now Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Another Transgender Person

She stuck her he dick in his he pussy when she was drunk and could not consent.

R
A
P
E

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 18, 2024 06:40 PM (ENQN6)

226 Ian Anderson is a self taught Flutist. So he does things not taught in music school. Things that made him special. I liked Jethro Tull, and Anderson was a big part of that.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 06:22 PM (pohLc)
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He's one of those guys who can pick up an instrument and figure out how to play it.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 06:24 PM (3Fz6p)

But could he play three saxophones at once!
Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Posted by: Glenn John at June 18, 2024 06:41 PM (nvKZ7)

227 >>>That’s kind of Firefly’s take.

Firefly has aliens? I thought it was human-only. They're all just colonists. Even the Reavers.

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:41 PM (KRtlO)

228 Robert Winnett - Don't worry about figuring out who to fire on the staff - they will tell, you, over and over, in no uncertain terms.

Just...follow your instincts.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at June 18, 2024 06:41 PM (nLFEI)

229 Some of the worst treatment I've ever received in my life has been at the hands of fellow women.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 18, 2024 06:35 PM (XPM1I)
__________________

My wife says that about female bosses. They can be really bitchy, then want to be your friend. Rinse. Lather. Repeat.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 18, 2024 06:41 PM (YqDXo)

230 >>>222 The only Star Trek movie I remember anything about was the ear thing and something about whales.

There be whales here!

Posted by: Scottie at June 18, 2024 06:42 PM (KRtlO)

231 Also every planet has a monoculture.

Which keeps things simple for me.
Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 06:38 PM (fV+MH)

well the race with white on the left side and white on the right side had at least two cultures.

But it has been an SF thing for a long time that to sustain interstellar travel the planet would get homogenized to a merged culture. Those that resented that would emigrate early on and colonize somewhere else.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 06:42 PM (eoQWY)

232 Woodward was Navy Intelligence and there are some who think he never left government service.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 06:43 PM (bQ/08)

233 This is like Euro Teenagers lecturing elected officials... or College kids saying they know better...

When, they have not learned enough about life to have a valid opinion.

They need to be told to sit down, shut up, and learn something from those who actually already know...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 18, 2024 06:40 PM (xaFKb)
_________________

Spare a thought for university faculty. As one of my former colleagues put it, "God, I wish I had a job where I dealt with adults."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 18, 2024 06:43 PM (YqDXo)

234 That’s kind of Firefly’s take.

Firefly has aliens? I thought it was human-only. They're all just colonists. Even the Reavers.
Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:41 PM (KRtlO)

No that they colonized the planets like the Group you said planted DNA on other planets.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 06:43 PM (SHMXB)

235 My wife says that about female bosses. They can be really bitchy, then want to be your friend. Rinse. Lather. Repeat.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 18, 2024 06:41 PM (YqDXo)

Yes.. I've said here before I've had male and female bosses and I'd much rather work for the male...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 18, 2024 06:43 PM (Akjoo)

236 189 I like how in Star Trek the only difference between us and the aliens was they had bumps and shit on their foreheads and wierd skin colors.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 18, 2024 06:31 PM (cS7lA)

The old series was skin colors. The Next Gen was bumps.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 06:33 PM (eoQWY)

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Hortas

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 18, 2024 06:43 PM (2fIO4)

237 >>>Also every planet has a monoculture.

In star wars every planet has one single climate.

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:43 PM (KRtlO)

238 I just can’t believe all these sex perverts and trannies the democrats keep associating with turn out to be criminals. I means what are the odds?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 18, 2024 06:43 PM (cS7lA)

239 Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo 3h
This is Dr. David Paul. According to Sivadge, Paul has managed a large number of pediatric sex-change patients. For example, he prescribed sex-change hormones and discussed breast implants with a male who identified as "female." The patient was enrolled in the state Medicaid program.

This is Dr. Richard Ogden Roberts. According to Sivadge, Roberts has managed a large number of pediatric sex-change patients. For example, he prescribed sex-change hormones to a biological female who identified as "non-binary" and whose records claimed that she was a "male." The patient was enrolled in the state Medicaid program.

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo 4h • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
EXCLUSIVE: A nurse at Texas Children's Hospital claims that doctors in the hospital’s child sex-change program committed Medicaid fraud. "The largest children's hospital in the country is illegally billing Medicaid for transgender procedures."
A massive scandal. 🧵

Whole thread unrolled as an ordinary webpage:
https://tinyurl.com/3mduzcc4

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 06:43 PM (ZdexC)

240 There Is Nothing More Important Than Being Gay.

Posted by: There Is Nothing More Important Than Being Gay at June 18, 2024 06:43 PM (8sMut)

241 what I am about to say (type) will be very unpopular here, but I liked "First Contact".

Posted by: runner at June 18, 2024 06:43 PM (V13WU)

242 Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo 2h
This is a massive scandal. A nurse at Texas Children's Hospital believes that doctors are committing Medicaid fraud in order to pay for child sex-change procedures.
https://tinyurl.com/mr2fwrdv
Investigative article link at City Journal.

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo 2h
This is where we are now: The Biden Administration sent two FBI agents to intimidate a nurse who told the truth about the child sex-change program at Texas Children's Hospital. The regime is mobilizing to threaten and imprison anyone who opposes "transgender medicine."
https://tinyurl.com/ycxnr35k
46 seconds; FIBs at the door.

alexandriabrown @alexthechick 2h
Remember, everyone, the rank and file FBI would never go along with anything like this. At least that is what people who truly need to wipe their chins have typed for decades now vis a vis FBI field agents.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 06:44 PM (ZdexC)

243 You want to go to a city? Well we have a City Planet for that.

An ocean? Here's the Ocean Planet.

A forest? Here's the Forest Moon.

A desert? We've got... well like 18 desert planets, take your pick, they're exactly alike.

Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:44 PM (KRtlO)

244 This is how woke politics works, you hire the people who destroy your business. Destruction is almost always internal.

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Sounds like a Fifth Column (SWIDT)?

* And .... The West in general, and America in particular, have entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at June 18, 2024 06:44 PM (Y/fi/)

245 Interstellar travel is a pipe dream. It is confronted by physics and distance, and only God can confront them.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 06:44 PM (pohLc)

246 Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre 30m
The FBI intimidate political opponents and threaten law abiding citizens who try to protect children
I don't want to hear about reform or cleaning house
The entire organization must be dismantled

Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC 1h
You can have a free country or you can have a FBI. You cannot have both. Free countries don’t survive with secret police agencies. Those two things cannot coexist

The only acceptable position on the FBI is its complete abolishment.

Sean Davis @seanmdav 1h
The FBI is a domestic terrorist organization. It is the American Stasi, and it exists entirely to terrorize the American people on behalf of a corrupt and evil regime.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 06:44 PM (ZdexC)

247 My wife says that about female bosses. They can be really bitchy, then want to be your friend. Rinse. Lather. Repeat.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 18, 2024 06:41 PM (YqDXo)

Precisely. I hate working for a woman.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 18, 2024 06:44 PM (XPM1I)

248 8sMut - congrats on the stupendous hash!

Posted by: runner at June 18, 2024 06:45 PM (V13WU)

249
No different between them and a Dem spokesperson
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
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Look, just because we treat DNC press releases as factual news, that doesn't mean that we are quislings.

Posted by: 'Journalists' at June 18, 2024 06:45 PM (XeU6L)

250 This is like Euro Teenagers lecturing elected officials... or College kids saying they know better...

When, they have not learned enough about life to have a valid opinion.

They need to be told to sit down, shut up, and learn something from those who actually already know...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 18, 2024 06:40 PM (xaFKb)

To be fair, Euro teens are probably smarter than the Eurocrat elite, who are looking more and more like the twits hanging around Versailles did before the French Revolution trimmed many of them.

But compared to a plumber or electrician they are dopes.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 06:45 PM (eoQWY)

251 right, the plot was just jerking you from scene to scene.

I think it's the klingon prison planet that's responsible for that feeling. Most of the rest of it flows well enough.

It's just -- how do you escape from a prison world when you're the absolute top prisoner the Klingons want to keep there? I Know they had this dumb plan of presenting a FAKE escape opportunity to kirk so they would be justified in killing him, but then... the fake escape opportunity was real and he could use it if he just gets past a single alien?

Seems like it should be tougher than that.
Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:38 PM (KRtlO)

Star Trek is BRAINY and features REAL science unlike that stupid space fantasy Star Wars.

Posted by: Star Trek snobbery at June 18, 2024 06:46 PM (8sMut)

252 Ace's Thread on the Intelligence Community is on Doug ross journal

Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2024 06:46 PM (fwDg9)

253 229 Some of the worst treatment I've ever received in my life has been at the hands of fellow women.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 18, 2024 06:35 PM (XPM1I)
__________________

My wife says that about female bosses. They can be really bitchy, then want to be your friend. Rinse. Lather. Repeat.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 18, 2024 06:41 PM (YqDXo)

My wife that was making 30% income investment into company to max profit sharing once had to go meet a girl boss at the pool where her kids were getting swimming lesson to be chastised for firing a low producing therapist that had 3 or 4 chances to make her goals.
PS The boss spent ZERO on profit sharing.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 18, 2024 06:46 PM (ENQN6)

254 Hortas
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 18, 2024 06:43 PM (2fIO4)
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Janos Prohaska had constructed the Horta costume and crawled into Gene Coon's office wearing it. Coon said, "That's great! What is it?" Prohaska said, "Whatever you want it to be." Thus was born one of the better ST:TOS episodes.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 06:46 PM (3Fz6p)

255 57
'Sally Buzbee, the current woke failure who'

looks like a proper fat Karen.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 18, 2024 06:46 PM (roH4R)

256 A desert planet…nothing but pies, cakes, and ice cream.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 18, 2024 06:47 PM (cS7lA)

257 I just can’t believe all these sex perverts and trannies the democrats keep associating with turn out to be criminals. I means what are the odds?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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Who, me?

Posted by: Sammy the Freak at June 18, 2024 06:47 PM (XeU6L)

258 The Texas gubnor needs to throw the FBI outta Texas and ban them from entry into the State.

For The Chirruns...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 18, 2024 06:47 PM (R/m4+)

259 Star Trek is Sci-fi.
Star Wars is Fantasy.

Posted by: runner at June 18, 2024 06:48 PM (V13WU)

260 Star Trek is BRAINY and features REAL science unlike that stupid space fantasy Star Wars.
Posted by: Star Trek snobbery at June 18, 2024 06:46 PM (8sMut)
Yeah. The trouble with Tribbles was so intellectual I nearly had a stroke.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 06:48 PM (pohLc)

261 >>>Also every planet has a monoculture.

In star wars every planet has one single climate.
Posted by: ace at June 18, 2024 06:43 PM (KRtlO)

Star Wars' worldbuilding was really terrible, even in the oldest shows. Obi Wan wore his "jedi robes" because everyone did on the desert planet he lived on. Going forward they made every Jedi and Alien Jedi dress like Obiwan everywhere.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 06:48 PM (eoQWY)

262
Maybe they have the translator implant like Farscape.
Posted by: polynikes

That's what Quark had.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708565

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 18, 2024 06:49 PM (63Dwl)

263 what I am about to say (type) will be very unpopular here, but I liked "First Contact".
Posted by: runner at June 18, 2024 06:43 PM (V13WU)
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It was good. I liked it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 06:49 PM (3Fz6p)

264 241 what I am about to say (type) will be very unpopular here, but I liked "First Contact".
Posted by: runner at June 18, 2024 06:43 PM (V13WU)

I'm no Trekkie - never could get into Star Trek (and I have called Space:MCMXCIX "Star Trek without the homework") - but I loved First Contact, as it features one of the most intriguing antagonists ever thought of in sci-fi - the Borg.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 06:49 PM (8sMut)

265 Yeah. The trouble with Tribbles was so intellectual I nearly had a stroke.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 06:48 PM (pohLc)

Geometric growth is very scientific.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 06:49 PM (eoQWY)

266 I like women. I like men. There are varieties of both that I despise, but it kinda hurts me to hear half the world written off as awful.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 18, 2024 06:49 PM (OX9vb)

267 A desert planet…nothing but pies, cakes, and ice cream.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

My kinda place!

Posted by: The Wide Latina at June 18, 2024 06:49 PM (v0R5T)

268 Some of the worst treatment I've ever received in my life has been at the hands of fellow women.
Posted by: hobbitopoly

"Fellow women"? Isn't that an oxymoron? Still better than trans woman.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 06:50 PM (L/fGl)

269 City Planet is a rat race, man.

And was also entirely unaffected by a huge war.

Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 06:50 PM (fV+MH)

270 Geometric growth is very scientific.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 06:49 PM (eoQWY)
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Your pulse: ninety eight point six. Most scientific.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 06:51 PM (3Fz6p)

271 259 Star Trek is Sci-fi.
Star Wars is Fantasy.
Posted by: runner at June 18, 2024 06:48 PM (V13WU)

See? Star Trek is BRAINY and is REAL sci-fi inspired by REAL scientists. Star Wars is stupid and not worth anyone's time. Only REAL sci-fi fans like Star Trek.

Posted by: Star Trek snobbery at June 18, 2024 06:51 PM (8sMut)

272 Chinese drug cheats and officials willing to turn a blind eye threaten to make the Paris 2024 Olympics a “train wreck,” the top U.S. anti-doping regulator said.

Thats the plan.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 18, 2024 06:51 PM (ENQN6)

273 alexandriabrown @alexthechick 2h
Remember, everyone, the rank and file FBI would never go along with anything like this. At least that is what people who truly need to wipe their chins have typed for decades now vis a vis FBI field agents.
Posted by: andycanuck
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There was a man named Hotez
who said we should all wear Kotez
One on your mouth and one on your hole
Shut up and do as your told

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 06:51 PM (bQ/08)

274
You know, if women controlled the world, there would be no more war. They're just so peaceful!

I remember how the Limey commie cocksuckers screamed bloody murder about war-mongering Margaret Thatcher when she sent the Royal Navy to the Falklands to take them back from the fascists in Argentina.

I'm sure that the hundreds of Nazi war criminals living in exile in Argentina didn't have ANYTHING to do with their support...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 18, 2024 06:52 PM (n+4am)

275 Another sci-fi movie where they seeded planets and had a portable translator that connected to your brain to implant the language was Outlander.

3 out of 5 movie.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 06:52 PM (SHMXB)

276 Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo 2h
This is a massive scandal. A nurse at Texas Children's Hospital believes that doctors are committing Medicaid fraud in order to pay for child sex-change procedures.
https://tinyurl.com/mr2fwrdv
Investigative article link at City Journal.

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo 2h
This is where we are now: The Biden Administration sent two FBI agents to intimidate a nurse who told the truth about the child sex-change program at Texas Children's Hospital. The regime is mobilizing to threaten and imprison anyone who opposes "transgender medicine."
https://tinyurl.com/ycxnr35k
46 seconds; FIBs at the door.

alexandriabrown @alexthechick 2h
Remember, everyone, the rank and file FBI would never go along with anything like this. At least that is what people who truly need to wipe their chins have typed for decades now vis a vis FBI field agents.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC)

This is also the hospital that the doc is from that merrick garland is trying to put in jail for outing that these illegal surgeries were happening there.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 18, 2024 06:52 PM (MGB5H)

277 266 I like women. I like men. There are varieties of both that I despise, but it kinda hurts me to hear half the world written off as awful.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 18, 2024 06:49 PM (OX9vb)

Of course there are good women and bad men.. In general I think I'm most pissed at their stupidity in voting

Posted by: It's me donna at June 18, 2024 06:52 PM (Akjoo)

278 You know, if women controlled the world, there would be no more war.

Maybe not much war, but a hell of a lot of backstabbing, bitching, and making popcorn in the microwave.
I'm saying that as a woman. Hm. Some butte soaked microwave popcorn sounds kind of good right now. Then let me vent about my bitchy sister.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 18, 2024 06:53 PM (0Htd1)

279 I am not a fan of either Trek or Wars. One has a lot of standing around talking importantly about shit, the other has a lot of poorly aimed blasters and dumb decisions.

Posted by: Jack Smith, HVAC guy in Wyoming at June 18, 2024 06:53 PM (hZc6Q)

280 272 Chinese drug cheats and officials willing to turn a blind eye threaten to make the Paris 2024 Olympics a “train wreck,” the top U.S. anti-doping regulator said.

Thats the plan.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 18, 2024 06:51 PM (ENQN6)

Countries of the Socialist brotherhood never cheat in the Olympics. That is pure capitalist propaganda.

Posted by: East German Olympic Committee at June 18, 2024 06:53 PM (8sMut)

281 Men are from MArs, and Women are from Venus.

Posted by: runner at June 18, 2024 06:53 PM (V13WU)

282
alexandriabrown @alexthechick 2h
Remember, everyone, the rank and file FBI would never go along with anything like this. At least that is what people who truly need to wipe their chins have typed for decades now vis a vis FBI field agents.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 06:44 PM (ZdexC)

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i
Yep, pretty much.BTW it applies to all FBI agents across the whole country.

I made the argument here almost 8 years ago if someone is in a corrupt organization that they need to leave otherwise they are just as corrupt unless they are whistleblowing. Mostly what I got in return for that statement was, "they have families, they need income."

Hell I left jobs before because my boss was an asshole.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 18, 2024 06:53 PM (2fIO4)

283 So men work together.
Women work to support their offspring.

It makes for an interesting workforce as women are going to adopt children to support.
Men are going to join a clan to kill and gather food.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 18, 2024 06:54 PM (ENQN6)

284
What do Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, and Indira Gandhi have in common?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 18, 2024 06:24 PM (YqDXo)

All three lead their nations in resisting wars of aggression by rabid Joo-haters.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 18, 2024 06:54 PM (n+4am)

285 266 I like women. I like men. There are varieties of both that I despise, but it kinda hurts me to hear half the world written off as awful.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
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It's just a third but they're so obnoxious they seem like more.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 06:54 PM (bQ/08)

286 Countries of the Socialist brotherhood never cheat in the Olympics. That is pure capitalist propaganda.
Posted by: East German Olympic Committee at June 18, 2024 06:53 PM (8sMut)

Now do the dead gurls from Hormones.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 18, 2024 06:55 PM (ENQN6)

287 Men are from MArs, and Women are from Venus.
Posted by: runner

Troops are from Transylvania.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 06:55 PM (L/fGl)

288 "Star Wars' worldbuilding was really terrible, even in the oldest shows. Obi Wan wore his "jedi robes" because everyone did on the desert planet he lived on. Going forward they made every Jedi and Alien Jedi dress like Obiwan everywhere.

Posted by: Oldcat "

It is stupid isn't it. In fact it gets dumber the longer you think about it.

Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 06:55 PM (fV+MH)

289 I've been harassed and double crossed by more women than men. Women will lie to your face and then ask to be your friend. Men will lie to your face and then leave you alone.

I've made more women friends amongst the horde than any other single group.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 18, 2024 06:56 PM (4cBer)

290 Chinese drug cheats and officials willing to turn a blind eye threaten to make the Paris 2024 Olympics a “train wreck,” the top U.S. anti-doping regulator said.

Thats the plan.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 18, 2024 06:51 PM (ENQN6)

They seem to have blocked the transeys from running with women for now so I will take that.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 06:56 PM (eoQWY)

291 Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo 4h • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
EXCLUSIVE: A nurse at Texas Children's Hospital claims that doctors in the hospital’s child sex-change program committed Medicaid fraud. "The largest children's hospital in the country is illegally billing Medicaid for transgender procedures."
A massive scandal. 🧵

Whole thread unrolled as an ordinary webpage:
https://tinyurl.com/3mduzcc4
Posted by: andycanuck
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This whole issue would pretty much go away if it wasn't covered by government or private insurance. No way many of the attention whore lib parents would pay out of pocket.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 18, 2024 06:56 PM (Dm8we)

292 279 I am not a fan of either Trek or Wars. One has a lot of standing around talking importantly about shit, the other has a lot of poorly aimed blasters and dumb decisions.
Posted by: Jack Smith, HVAC guy in Wyoming at June 18, 2024 06:53 PM (hZc6Q)

No sci-fi for you then.

I'm occasionally (still) watching old Space: MCMXCIX reruns on Shout Factory's YT channel. When I saw them on AFN in Germany when I was nine I did not get it, but I thought the Eagles were cool. The show still seemed utterly bizarre to me. Now I get it, and though some episodes are utterly trippy, I really dig others. What happens when the light switch is thrown on, I guess.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 06:56 PM (8sMut)

293 There were women Bolsheviks

Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2024 06:57 PM (fwDg9)

294
It is stupid isn't it. In fact it gets dumber the longer you think about it.
Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 06:55 PM (fV+MH)

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Frankly its part of the reason the extended universe is stupid.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 18, 2024 06:57 PM (2fIO4)

295 I've been harassed and double crossed by more women than men. Women will lie to your face and then ask to be your friend. Men will lie to your face and then leave you alone.

I've made more women friends amongst the horde than any other single group.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 18, 2024 06:56 PM (4cBer)

More than the otters ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 18, 2024 06:58 PM (NtVYv)

296 293 There were women Bolsheviks
Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2024 06:57 PM (fwDg9

WERE?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 06:58 PM (pohLc)

297 Only REAL sci-fi fans like Star Trek.

Pikers

Posted by: Expanse Fans at June 18, 2024 06:58 PM (wra9p)

298 Never worked in sales, nurse ratched? Men in sales are some of the most despicable and duplicitous backstabbers and gossips I've ever known.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 18, 2024 06:58 PM (OX9vb)

299 I'm after reading about tje 30s Moscow Show Trials getting more appreciation from Marxists attacking their own

Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2024 06:59 PM (fwDg9)

300 Texas Childrens should be bombed into the stone age.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 18, 2024 06:59 PM (ENQN6)

301 More than the otters ?
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 18, 2024 06:58 PM (NtVYv)
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Did you know they hold hands?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 06:59 PM (3Fz6p)

302 Men are yuckie. They're always punching each other in the shoulder and hollering "Flinch!" and having farting contests and such. And those are good ones!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 06:59 PM (L/fGl)

303 Now do the dead gurls from Hormones.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 18, 2024 06:55 PM (ENQN6)

More propaganda from capitalist countries jealous of the success of the superior Socialist world!

Posted by: East German Olympic Committee at June 18, 2024 06:59 PM (8sMut)

304 {174} NO one remembers The Star Wars Holiday Special...

Posted by: runner at June 18, 2024 06:29 PM (V13WU)

The doom you seek:
https://youtu.be/UL-hL6_XR30

Douglas Adams once wrote: "Never drink more than two Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters unless you are a 30 tonne mega-elephant with bronchial pneumonia."

I think trying to watch the Star Wars Christmas Special all the way through would also qualify.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 18, 2024 07:00 PM (O7YUW)

305 It is stupid isn't it. In fact it gets dumber the longer you think about it.
Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 06:55 PM (fV+MH)

I've been thinking about it since the Franchise started. Another example is Luke being about to join the Imperial Academy and living with his aunt and uncle "in secrecy". All three of them using their real names.

The first trilogy were good movies anyway. Follow ups, less so.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 07:00 PM (eoQWY)

306 Sea otters are wonderful creatures. They use tools and have pockets where they keep their favorite rocks.

They hold hands while they sleep!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 18, 2024 07:00 PM (d8mPq)

307 302 Men are yuckie. They're always punching each other in the shoulder and hollering "Flinch!" and having farting contests and such. And those are good ones!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 06:59 PM (L/fGl)

If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.

Posted by: Mao at June 18, 2024 07:00 PM (8sMut)

308 More than the otters ?
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 18, 2024 06:58 PM (NtVYv)
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Did you know they hold hands?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 18, 2024 06:59 PM (3Fz6p)

SEVERED HANDS OF THE CHILDREN THEY DROWN

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 07:01 PM (eoQWY)

309 And those are good ones!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 06:59 PM (L/fGl)

Ha, that!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 18, 2024 07:01 PM (OX9vb)

310 Men in sales are some of the most despicable and duplicitous backstabbers and gossips I've ever known.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

They prefer the term "persuasive".

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 07:01 PM (L/fGl)

311 Well, we certainly have our own women Bolsheviks

Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2024 07:02 PM (fwDg9)

312 "Mistakes were made in the early decades of the 21st century..."

---New Disney Management (20 years from now)

Posted by: runner at June 18, 2024 07:02 PM (V13WU)

313 297 Only REAL sci-fi fans like Star Trek.

Pikers
Posted by: Expanse Fans at June 18, 2024 06:58 PM (wra9p)

Which would exist without brainy, superior, quality sci-fi like Star Trek.

Posted by: Star Trek snobbery at June 18, 2024 07:02 PM (8sMut)

314 @292/Catch Thirty-Thr33: The episode "Dragon's Domain" still makes me twitch.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 18, 2024 07:02 PM (O7YUW)

315 NOOD

Posted by: the horta at June 18, 2024 07:04 PM (ZdexC)

316 "Ian Anderson is a self taught Flutist."

His daughter came home from her first flute lesson and informed him he was holding it wrong.

Another thing Ian Anderson is famous for is beating Metallica for best rock album with Crest of a Knave v And Justice for All.

An award I agree with.

Posted by: Ride on at June 18, 2024 07:04 PM (xcIvR)

317 Not having a birdcage, I have no need for the WaPo, or any other fishwrap.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 18, 2024 07:04 PM (C/CiM)

318 ICE Non-Detained Docket Is Now Over 7 Million.

>10 years

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 18, 2024 07:05 PM (ENQN6)

319 Kahn, Reunification or Best of Both Worlds

Posted by: hurricane567 at June 18, 2024 07:06 PM (HGED7)

320 No sci-fi for you then.

I'm occasionally (still) watching old Space: MCMXCIX reruns on Shout Factory's YT channel. When I saw them on AFN in Germany when I was nine I did not get it, but I thought the Eagles were cool. The show still seemed utterly bizarre to me. Now I get it, and though some episodes are utterly trippy, I really dig others. What happens when the light switch is thrown on, I guess.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 06:56 PM (8sMut)

Space 1999 decided they would work around ship design by blasting the whole moon off. Then they had time as they flew by various planets to visit, do a show then return to the moon.

They weren't bad shows. If you want a better one from a similar era, check out Blake's 7. I think the shows are on Youtube somewhere. Low tech, but decent characters and England has lots of spare actors to fill guest roles. The twist is that only one or two of the gang really wants to over throw the evil empire running things.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2024 07:07 PM (eoQWY)

321 Every now and then I watch short YouTube videos for a Star Trek copy called The Orville.
Has anyone watched an entire episode?
Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 06:26 PM

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I watched a lot of the the first two seasons, that were originally on broadcast TV. It's a fun show that pays affectionate tribute to the Star wars franchise. I enjoyed it and would recommend (haven't seen the later seasons).

Posted by: Bigsmith at June 18, 2024 07:13 PM (BFwpo)

322
I miss having a reasonably good, actual printed daily newspaper. They're all gone. It's all either politicized asswipe like the NYT and WaPo, or like our local city paper that shrank to a pamphlet that publishes wire service stories and marijuana ads.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 18, 2024 07:35 PM (ienUH)

323 321 Every now and then I watch short YouTube videos for a Star Trek copy called The Orville.
Has anyone watched an entire episode?
Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 06:26 PM

Watched all three seasons. It's decent, but a little screwy/funny. Occasionally woke, but mostly tolerable.

The saddest part, it's better than all of the new Trek. They simply followed the format of the Next Generation.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at June 18, 2024 07:48 PM (nLFEI)

324 Lt. G'kkfrl, the multihued octopod, worked the third watch.

Posted by: Weak Geek at June 18, 2024 10:06 PM (p/isN)

325 meet the new boss, hopefully not the same as the old boss. I could care less in the Marxist Bitch fight so I won't get fooled again

Posted by: Gerry at June 18, 2024 10:23 PM (bEAbD)

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