Mid-Morning Art Thread

The self must create its own reason for being
Felipe Baeza

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 st!

Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at July 09, 2024 09:30 AM (Wnv9h)

2 Off, ghey and lame sock!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2024 09:30 AM (Wnv9h)

3 And CBD....you're just screwing with us now, aren't you?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2024 09:31 AM (Wnv9h)

4 I think I spotted the theme.

Posted by: blaster at July 09, 2024 09:31 AM (xhfG9)

5 WTH ?CBD... What did we do to piss you off ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 09, 2024 09:31 AM (IyPmt)

6 Looks like he might have an attitude.

Posted by: BignJames at July 09, 2024 09:31 AM (AwYPR)

7 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2024 09:32 AM (Wnv9h)

8 He identifies as a tree.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 09, 2024 09:32 AM (4iNbz)

9 He identifies as a tree.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 09, 2024 09:32 AM

Definitely not a happy little tree.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2024 09:32 AM (Wnv9h)

10 I see, it's going to be one of those kind of weeks.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 09, 2024 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

11 A Non-Performing Fern Man?

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 09, 2024 09:33 AM (n17eQ)

12 Hey, he's not so tough. He still has to put his thorny pants one leg at a time.

That must be exhausting.

Posted by: Meatwood Flack at July 09, 2024 09:33 AM (+0goo)

13 11 A Non-Performing Fern Man?
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 09, 2024 09:33 AM (n17eQ)

Looks like "he" needs water

Posted by: It's me donna at July 09, 2024 09:33 AM (IyPmt)

14 Oh, lord.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 09, 2024 09:33 AM (Q0kLU)

15 Five main legs, plus ten more tentacles

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2024 09:33 AM (J2vNu)

16 The artist has an MFA from Yale.

Posted by: blaster at July 09, 2024 09:33 AM (xhfG9)

17 Err.... no thanks.

Posted by: dantesed at July 09, 2024 09:34 AM (Oy/m2)

18 Oh, for cryin' out loud, CBD.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 09, 2024 09:34 AM (v6JzV)

19 My butt must understand it's own reason for pooping

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 09, 2024 09:34 AM (sJHOI)

20 Well that's a lot of crap

Posted by: Skip at July 09, 2024 09:34 AM (G5gto)

21 Sorry. This is crap.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 09, 2024 09:34 AM (pohLc)

22 He hasn't any balls.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 09, 2024 09:34 AM (n17eQ)

23
Resembles Biden.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 09, 2024 09:34 AM (x0n13)

24 Nice pecs.

Posted by: Tuna at July 09, 2024 09:35 AM (oaGWv)

25 Is this Surrealism Week? Fantasy Horror Week? With this picture and yesterday's picture of a male creature with a female marble statue with pubic hair, I think I see a trend, and I don't like it at all!

Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 09, 2024 09:35 AM (BHrzb)

26 Yesterday's "art" left me traumatized. After today I never want to look at "art" again.

Posted by: Milesdei at July 09, 2024 09:35 AM (NtjJ0)

27 It's pretzel logic.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2024 09:35 AM (Q4IgG)

28 Has that "I won't back down" look.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 09, 2024 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

29 its

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 09, 2024 09:35 AM (sJHOI)

30 Homoeroctic.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 09, 2024 09:35 AM (rJ48h)

31 Baeza aims not only to reclaim his personal narrative but to creatively reconstruct history.

So, yeah.

Posted by: blaster at July 09, 2024 09:36 AM (xhfG9)

32 "The self must create its own reason for being"

Um, no. Ignoring God's plan and elevating oneself to His level is not the way to true happiness.

Good morning everyone.

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the Divine Power of God, cast into hell, satan and all the evil spirits who roam throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 09, 2024 09:36 AM (WXNFJ)

33 Cactus legs, and an extra, free-roaming hand: My reason for being.

Don't get it.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at July 09, 2024 09:36 AM (JCLJi)

34 Yesterday's "art" left me traumatized. After today I never want to look at "art" again.
Posted by: Milesdei at July 09, 2024 09:35 AM (NtjJ0)

all we need is a shot of Shishkin and a chaser of Bierstadt and we'll be right as rain

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 09, 2024 09:36 AM (sJHOI)

35 "Paintings by artists who probably committed sudoku shortly thereafter."

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 09, 2024 09:36 AM (cf/0E)

36 How long before CBD starts scolding us for bitching about his poor art choices?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 09, 2024 09:37 AM (v6JzV)

37 These art threads need to be Bud-Lited.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2024 09:37 AM (E3oJ+)

38 The theme of the Art Thread now for two weeks in a row is-Sucky Art. CBD really does hate us, it seems. Or is Biden not the only one with declining mental faculties? I'm doubting my own sanity!

Posted by: Civilizational Decline at July 09, 2024 09:37 AM (V5BDR)

39 Which tentacle is the penis?

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 09, 2024 09:37 AM (HXGNm)

40 So this week is: Painters that can't do legs and feet.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, una pittura orribile at July 09, 2024 09:38 AM (qfLjt)

41 This artist didn't get his ass beat enough as a young man

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 09, 2024 09:38 AM (sJHOI)

42 Which tentacle is the penis?
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 09, 2024 09:37 AM (HXGNm)
-

Morons in unison:

"ALL OF THEM!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 09, 2024 09:38 AM (E3oJ+)

43 I dunno, I kinda like it. Looks like R.O. Blechman had a nightmare.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 09, 2024 09:38 AM (Gmlyt)

44 I see, it's going to be one of those kind of weeks.
Posted by: redridinghood

Yep. I think the more we complain the worse it will get so let me go on record and state that this is the finest piece of art I've seen this week.

Posted by: Tuna at July 09, 2024 09:39 AM (oaGWv)

45 Oh boy. Gonna be one of those weeks, I guess.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2024 09:39 AM (0FoWg)

46 I think I get it now. CBD is preparing all of us for the Lovecraftian horrors of the next few months.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 09, 2024 09:39 AM (BHrzb)

47 Cactus legs, and an extra, free-roaming hand: My reason for being.

Don't get it.
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at July 09, 2024

***
Right, there is a hand down below. Maybe that's the remains of the last guy who told Mr. Fifteen Tentacles, "Bald ain't a good look on you, buddy."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2024 09:39 AM (J2vNu)

48
Experts agree that excessive bbq creates poor choices in art.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 09, 2024 09:39 AM (RKVpM)

49 art by serial killers week

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 09, 2024 09:40 AM (sJHOI)

50 39 Which tentacle is the penis?

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 09, 2024 09:37 AM (HXGNm)
----
And they say men are one-track!
You should ask The Paolo.

/lol

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, una pittura orribilissima at July 09, 2024 09:40 AM (qfLjt)

51 I am (half) GROOT.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at July 09, 2024 09:40 AM (JCLJi)

52 Has that "I won't back down" look.

I can't stand Tom Petty.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 09, 2024 09:41 AM (Q0kLU)

53 The hand down below has a little French tickler.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 09, 2024 09:41 AM (LScCZ)

54 to put a positive spin on it, he looks like he HAS been working out.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 09, 2024 09:41 AM (sJHOI)

55 Anyone remember how The Paolo came into being?

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, Paolo e simpatico alle donne at July 09, 2024 09:41 AM (qfLjt)

56 you're just screwing with us now, aren't you?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2024 09:31 AM (Wnv9h)

I have no idea what you mean.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 09, 2024 09:42 AM (d9fT1)

57 Why

Posted by: Don Black at July 09, 2024 09:42 AM (/7KEl)

58 Gaynzzz

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2024 09:42 AM (0FoWg)

59 He has the head of an NPC meme.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 09, 2024 09:42 AM (NpAcC)

60 10 legged Arachnid?

*Camel spiders are classified as being a particular type of arachnid known as Solifugae. Their jaws contain several rows of sharp teeth that take up an entire third of their body size. These jaws contain teeth that can saw through hair and even bones, which is why they are a danger to even mammalian species. The extra set of legs that these spiders possess are also known as pedilaps. The tips of these pedilaps are sticky in order to allow them to climb vertical surfaces as well as to snatch mobile prey. Unlike most other Solifugae species, these spiders do not wait to ambush unsuspecting prey; instead, they skitter across the desert floor in search of live meals.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 09, 2024 09:42 AM (w9Wax)

61 Posted by: nurse ratched at July 09, 2024 09:37 AM (HXGNm)

Sent you an e-mail, nurse.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 09, 2024 09:42 AM (Q0kLU)

62 Our only hope is that Kris will step in to save us one of these days.

Posted by: Holding On at July 09, 2024 09:42 AM (V5BDR)

63 Gimme the biggest guy in the world, you smash his knee and he'll drop like a stone.

Posted by: DALTON at July 09, 2024 09:42 AM (rn2/h)

64 I can't stand Tom Petty.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 09, 2024 09:41 AM (Q0kLU)

Don't have a breakdown, ok?

Posted by: dantesed at July 09, 2024 09:42 AM (Oy/m2)

65 to put a positive spin on it, he looks like he HAS been working out.
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 09, 2024

***
Leg Day must be a real challenge

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2024 09:43 AM (J2vNu)

66 art by serial killers week

I'll take a dozen Gacy "Pogo the Clown"s over this thing.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 09, 2024 09:44 AM (Q0kLU)

67 46 I think I get it now. CBD is preparing all of us for the Lovecraftian horrors of the next few months.
Posted by: Pete in Texas

I think you've nailed it.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 09, 2024 09:44 AM (iRX3h)

68 I love it!

[air clarinet solo]

Posted by: Squidward at July 09, 2024 09:44 AM (U6h1j)

69 Anybody got RoundUp for this painting??

Posted by: dantesed at July 09, 2024 09:45 AM (Oy/m2)

70 The head looks like Biden's luggage thief. It's just missing the red lipstick and a woman's suitcase.
The bottom half is a poor reproduction of a baobab or a mangrove.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i froci sono nel Governo at July 09, 2024 09:45 AM (qfLjt)

71 Alternative title: Joe Biden's Hallucination

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2024 09:46 AM (oSruC)

72 Date-2022

Medium-
Ink, acrylic, varnish, glitter, graphite, and cut paper on panel
Dimensions-
Overall: 24 1/16 × 18in. (61.1 × 45.7 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Noel E.D. Kirnon

Posted by: redridinghood at July 09, 2024 09:47 AM (NpAcC)

73 you're just screwing with us now, aren't you?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2024 09:31 AM (Wnv9h)

I have no idea what you mean.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Admit it, CBD. Our pain makes you stronger.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 09, 2024 09:48 AM (v6JzV)

74
Experts agree that the internal dynamics of a Roomba create the perfect environment for mutant spiders.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 09, 2024 09:48 AM (RKVpM)

75 Day 2.
The weirdness continues.

Posted by: Make it stop! at July 09, 2024 09:48 AM (ivUux)

76 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Noel E.D. Kirnon

Posted by: redridinghood at July 09, 2024 09:47 AM (NpAcC)

How much of a write off did he get?

Posted by: BignJames at July 09, 2024 09:48 AM (AwYPR)

77 I would put this on the refrigerator for a day or two.
Then it would get filed with the boxes and assorted junk mail.
Also, I would start keeping a closer eye on my kid for other signs of psychopathy.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 09, 2024 09:48 AM (FCbAQ)

78 This is a no. Reminds me of the infamous roomba spider of this weekend.

Posted by: Piper at July 09, 2024 09:48 AM (p4NUW)

79 This thread ground to a halt, lol.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2024 09:49 AM (0FoWg)

80 As the Aussies say, "Get rooted!"

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 09, 2024 09:50 AM (Jh5b+)

81 74
Experts agree that the internal dynamics of a Roomba create the perfect environment for mutant spiders.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 09

Ha! I didn’t see your post.

Posted by: Piper at July 09, 2024 09:50 AM (p4NUW)

82 Experts agree that the internal dynamics of a Roomba create the perfect environment for mutant spiders.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 09, 2024 09:48 AM (RKVpM)

...also under the water heater.

Posted by: BignJames at July 09, 2024 09:50 AM (AwYPR)

83 Leg Day must be a real challenge
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

"Hey! That guy is hogging all the stair masters.."

Posted by: Tuna at July 09, 2024 09:50 AM (oaGWv)

84 Does not do what it says on the tin.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 09, 2024 09:51 AM (HnUIn)

85 That looks like about what the Self would create.

Posted by: Beverly at July 09, 2024 09:51 AM (Epeb0)

86 Tomorrow's Art: sous vide and rejected French Impressionists.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i Francesi sono tutti matti at July 09, 2024 09:52 AM (qfLjt)

87 Innocuous. And boring.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 09, 2024 09:52 AM (4780s)

88 you're just screwing with us now, aren't you?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2024 09:31 AM (Wnv9h)

I have no idea what you mean.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 09, 2024 09:42 AM

A Manhattan is getting shaken tonight for this.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 09, 2024 09:52 AM (Wnv9h)

89 How much of a write off did he get?
Posted by: BignJames at July 09, 2024 09:48 AM (AwYPR)
******
I bet he couldn't wait to get rid of it.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 09, 2024 09:52 AM (NpAcC)

90 Not nearly as good as yesterday's. Would not hang.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at July 09, 2024 09:52 AM (PWI4f)

91 To quote Zoidberg on Futurama, "One art, please."

Deliver me...

Posted by: tankascribe at July 09, 2024 09:53 AM (HWxAD)

92 That is so wrong.

Posted by: mpfs, Jooish Spy Dolphin reporting for duty at July 09, 2024 09:53 AM (c4NPH)

93 Just be glad CBD isn't posting Zdzislaw Beksinski paintings.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 09, 2024 09:53 AM (Gmlyt)

94 He's the kind of dude who'd walk, walk, walk, walk, walk all over you.

One step at a time.

It'd take hours.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2024 09:53 AM (Q4IgG)

95 The self must create its own reason for being
Felipe Baeza

Um, ok. Any progress?

Posted by: t-bird at July 09, 2024 09:53 AM (gf6mn)

96 I like this one and yesterday's choice a lot more than all the boring portraits and landscapes. They are intriguing. Horrifying. Odd. Provocative. Very sexual.

I'd rather be interested than bored.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 09, 2024 09:53 AM (o6bhz)

97 Apparently, those are mangrove roots. And about a different but similar work the New York Review gushes...

||The faceless figure is beautiful, if sinister—ideally proportioned, like Da Vinci’s Vitruvian man. His skin is a mosaic of marbled scrap paper, stained in a spectrum of pinks and grays. Five dark tendrils sprout from his head and branch across the canvas, forming a tangle of thick, tubular foliage over an underlying grid of purple rectangles. He holds one vine like a scepter; at his feet, two half-submerged figures take shoots into their mouths. Are they receiving sustenance? Or, in some peculiar way, sustaining the central figure’s power? Despite its tantalizing pictographic clarity, the image defies explanation.

Prominently featured in this year’s Venice Biennale, Felipe Baeza’s monumental work Por caminos ignorados, por hendiduras secretas, por las misteriosas vetas de troncos recién cortados (2020) exemplifies the uncanny yet alluring forms that have established the thirty-five-year-old artist as one of his generation’s most inventive mythmakers. Its title, borrowed from a poem by the gay Mexican modernist Xavier Villaurrutia, suggests obscure migrations: “By unknown||

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 09, 2024 09:54 AM (Jh5b+)

98 The least it could do is shave its legs.

Posted by: mpfs, Jooish Spy Dolphin reporting for duty at July 09, 2024 09:54 AM (c4NPH)

99 It sparkles with glitter.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 09, 2024 09:54 AM (NpAcC)

100 Critic's Spotlight...

Baeza’s crepuscular landscapes of blue and purple allude to the colors of the skies as migrants cross the U.S.-Mexico border at dawn. The deconstructed body parts in Baeza’s works writhe amid foliage, at times transforming into flora itself. In Emerging in Difference (2022), a male figure gazes intently at the viewer while thorny vines, forming the bottom half of a body, root in the land. Beneath the figure’s torso, amid the tangle of plant arms, is a single red hibiscus flower sprouting from a jaw bone. The image poses a solution to dire and fraught circumstances surrounding the queer brown migrant body, faced with the struggle to survive, exist, and be visible: Baeza’s scene of regeneration suggests a survival mechanism, where bodies camouflage into the land.

Like Ayón, the 34-year-old Baeza also uses the process of collagraphy—a collage-like process of adhering diverse materials onto a single substrate, creating an embossed, textural surface. The limbs of Baeza’s figures are dissected, scrutinized, while the faces are rapt with expressions of longing. The variously muted colored pieces of the bodies, such as those of the central nude figure in Por camino

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 09, 2024 09:56 AM (Jh5b+)

101 Is the hand at the bottom center trying to set the things butt on fire?
I am so confused.

Posted by: mpfs, Jooish Spy Dolphin reporting for duty at July 09, 2024 09:56 AM (c4NPH)

102 He has the head of an NPC meme.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 09, 2024 09:42 AM (NpAcC)

That's exactly what I noticed first

Posted by: Doof at July 09, 2024 09:56 AM (RhGG0)

103 "The crucial question is: What $1tn problem will AI solve?"
Posted by: SMOD at July 09, 2024 09:32 AM (RHGPo)

The world is filled with gullible people and they have money. I want it. -- AI CEO

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2024 09:56 AM (U7wke)

104 Just be glad CBD isn't posting Zdzislaw Beksinski paintings.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 09, 2024 09:53 AM (Gmlyt)

I actually like his use of color, but the subjects are sort of tedious.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 09, 2024 09:56 AM (d9fT1)

105 Its title, borrowed from a poem by the gay

-------

Ah. That explains the title. Makes sense that a biological dead end would come up with that title.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2024 09:56 AM (0FoWg)

106 It's kinda fascinating in a weird sort of way. The strange combination of images and styles is interesting enough for me to keep looking at it. But it's not that I like it. I don't think I do. It's eye-catching tho. In that way then, it's sorta successful.

Posted by: Kris at July 09, 2024 09:56 AM (EwaUh)

107 I bet it started off with just one taproot but it fell in a vat of Indole-3-acetic acid** and the roots proliferated.

(plant hormone useful for rooting cuttings)

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i Francesi sono tutti matti da legare at July 09, 2024 09:57 AM (qfLjt)

108 Baeza is fucked in the cabeza.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2024 09:57 AM (qZEuM)

109 such as those of the central nude figure in Por caminos ignorados, por hendiduras secretos, por las misteriosas vetas de troncos recien cortados (2020), are sanded and scratched, revealing layers of process. Black vines grow from the figure’s head, making it appear like a human heart. These symbolic veins feed the mouths of two men below, their bright red torsos stuck in a black rock underworld.

Sure, there’s a yearning for place in Baeza’s work. But there is also a yearning for transcendence, for a belonging beyond place. There’s the suggestion that these evanescent bodies are already of the Earth, the land, the natural world, and will forever be in flux. These “fugitive bodies,” as the artist calls them, refer to the constant metamorphic state that a queer brown migrant embodies as they traverse socially constructed borders, whether those imposed by the government or by hegemonic values.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 09, 2024 09:57 AM (Jh5b+)

110 Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 09, 2024 09:56 AM (Jh5b+)

Guy shoulda' been an art critic....oh, wait.

Posted by: BignJames at July 09, 2024 09:58 AM (AwYPR)

111 Jose was deeply disappointed. 11 legs, and still, no genitals.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2024 09:58 AM (xCA6C)

112 He's the kind of dude who'd walk, walk, walk, walk, walk all over you.

One step at a time.

It'd take hours.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

"These roots are made for walkin'
And that's just what they'll do
One of these days, these roots are gonna walk all over you"

Posted by: Tuna at July 09, 2024 09:59 AM (oaGWv)

113 104 Just be glad CBD isn't posting Zdzislaw Beksinski paintings.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 09, 2024 09:53 AM (Gmlyt)

I actually like his use of color, but the subjects are sort of tedious.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 09, 2024

Wow! That stuff is pretty horrifying. I like it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 09, 2024 10:00 AM (QZBde)

114 I am disappointed in myself. I just made a juvenile comment without looking at the other comments, and I am, of course, way late.

Never assume the Horde hasn't already covered all of the juvenile humor angles.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2024 10:00 AM (xCA6C)

115 These “fugitive bodies,” as the artist calls them, refer to the constant metamorphic state that a queer brown migrant embodies as they traverse socially constructed borders, whether those imposed by the government or by hegemonic values.

Now, that's some authentic frontier gibberish, right there.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 09, 2024 10:00 AM (Q0kLU)

116 Baeza’s crepuscular landscapes of blue and purple...
------
I think the writer meant "crapuscular" or "craptastical".

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 09, 2024 10:00 AM (Jh5b+)

117 Please stop these awful pictures. Respectfully.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 09, 2024 10:01 AM (OiAR7)

118 What the hell did you people do to CBD?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 09, 2024 10:02 AM (4XwPj)

119 This kinda looks like "Sexy Squidward"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2024 10:02 AM (oZhjI)

120 101 Is the hand at the bottom center trying to set the things butt on fire?

In the olden days of D&D, this monster would be classified as an abomination, and the players would kill it with a fireball. Today, though, we respect his culture and identity. I'm casting a little fire "down below" to see if he's interested in a little puppy play with me...

Posted by: Sam Brinton, playing a modern gender fluid otherkin D&D sorcerer at July 09, 2024 10:02 AM (ycI94)

121 Well apparently I got the mangrove right.

(Hmm can we still say MANgrove?)

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, chiamo aiuto at July 09, 2024 10:02 AM (qfLjt)

122 I like the title if not the art

Posted by: iandeal at July 09, 2024 10:03 AM (WLJIy)

123 So I'm on the eighth tee. Waiting for the two foursomes of older (than me) guys to clear. My hat is sweating. The breeze is dying and it's already 87. Not playing badly though

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 09, 2024 10:03 AM (oSruC)

124 Well this art is nice and completely normal.

Posted by: Weasel at July 09, 2024 10:03 AM (RG6z4)

125 BIRUPMENTULLY! That's what I told uh, no kidding, I said to uh, said....

Posted by: I'm joe biden and I approve this message! at July 09, 2024 10:04 AM (5hfjS)

126 Jose was deeply disappointed. 11 legs, and still, no genitals.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2024 09:58 AM

I know, right?

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at July 09, 2024 10:04 AM (Wnv9h)

127 A palate cleanser to take away the horror of the picture:

RNC’s embrace of Trump platform signals shift in GOP as old guard fades in influence

https://tinyurl.com/ye29xw3v

Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2024 10:05 AM (xCA6C)

128 So I'm on the eighth tee. Waiting for the two foursomes of older (than me) guys to clear. My hat is sweating. The breeze is dying and it's already 87. Not playing badly though
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Just don't get fleeced by that Diogenes guy.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 09, 2024 10:05 AM (v6JzV)

129 So I'm on the eighth tee. Waiting for the two foursomes of older (than me) guys to clear. My hat is sweating. The breeze is dying and it's already 87. Not playing badly though
Posted by: Smell the Glove

May you play well and take all their money.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2024 10:06 AM (qZEuM)

130 Lots of ugly and depressing art lately. Not a fun way to start the day!

Posted by: IrishEi at July 09, 2024 10:06 AM (3ImbR)

131 And work is coming in.

See you all later.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 09, 2024 10:06 AM (Q0kLU)

132 To quote Zoidberg on Futurama, "One art, please."

Deliver me...
Posted by: tankascribe at July 09, 2024 09:53 AM (HWxAD)
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Well he does have a Ph.D. in Art History or something...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2024 10:07 AM (7fElN)

133 Correction: s/b ugly and depressing "art"

Posted by: IrishEi at July 09, 2024 10:07 AM (3ImbR)

134 fag stuff, that explains everything

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 09, 2024 10:07 AM (sJHOI)

135 Cheato had ZERO appearances in the last 10 days. Biden had 18. And Biden is the one wrapped in bubble wrap?

all we've seen of him was his little golf cart spew-fest. He sounded breathless and weak. His huffing and puffing has gotten worse. He's not mentally OR physically well.

A closed mouth gathers no feet. Apparently his handlers have managed to manage him for the present. Won't last long.

I'm betting he had some work done on his face or chin. Very vain person.

i think you're right! He disappeared for a while in 2016 and lost that massive bullfrog pouch under his chin at the same time. Any work done at his age is going to show. My guess says he'll want that neck tightened up and the eyes widened.

he's hiding from the epstein transcripts. the transcripts of epstein’s shady plea deal were released this week. tsf got immunity to testify against him. he confesses to his own sick acts. under oath.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 09, 2024 10:08 AM (ycI94)

136 #135 They really are nutz like a Mexican-illegal painter fag.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 09, 2024 10:09 AM (Jh5b+)

137 Man As Raspberry Bush or I Could Have Been A Centaur!

Posted by: mrp at July 09, 2024 10:10 AM (rj6Yv)

138 *How much of a write off did he get?*

It's a write off, Jerry. They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at July 09, 2024 10:10 AM (ivUux)

139 Oops!

@LauraLoomer
3m
Democrats leaving the meeting at the DNC say they have NOT reached a consensus about whether or not
@JoeBiden should be their nominee. The Democrat Party is imploding. Some members walked out of the meeting.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 09, 2024 10:10 AM (3ImbR)

140 again, the DU intercepts amaze

Posted by: Don Black at July 09, 2024 10:10 AM (/7KEl)

141 Latest Betting Odds:

OrangeManBad 61%
Senile Joe 20%
Kumala 10%
Mooch 4%
Newsom 3%

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 09, 2024 10:10 AM (wCYy7)

142 I went to an art museum recently at a tony university.

And they had plenty of old art. And for the Eurasian art you can see people getting better and better at painting/sculpting/etc until around the Renaissance or a little later.

They also had old aboriginal art from Africa and the New World, which was about the same as the pre-bronze age art of Eurasia which makes sense as those people were living in pre-bronze age civilizations.

But then they added "modern art" from "indigenous artists" and it was obviously copying that low skill pre-bronze age art from the New World/Africa.

And...it was embarrassing. If I felt I was somehow representing "indigenous people" I would want to show I was just as good as those evil white Europeans were not that I couldn't learn anything from thousands of years of learning in the arts...

Though the one caveat here is the other modern art was mostly primitive in its talent as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2024 10:10 AM (oZhjI)

143 again, the DU intercepts amaze
Posted by: Don Black

Mental illness is a horrible thing.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 09, 2024 10:11 AM (WXNFJ)

144 I need Spock after this one.

*spreads fingers, places over temples
Forget....
Forget....

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 09, 2024 10:11 AM (w9Wax)

145 Artist was born in Mexico in 1987. Now lives in Brooklyn. Maybe someone could provide a beautiful Mexican landscape an an alternative. I would, but am having technology issues.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2024 10:11 AM (QhfK2)

146 This reminds me of something they had us do back in kindergarten where we cut out pictures in a magazine and paste them together. As I recall, my design (from a 70's People mag) was Barbara Streisand's head on Mork's torso with John Travolta's legs.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 09, 2024 10:11 AM (CwhoI)

147 Democrats leaving the meeting at the DNC say they have NOT reached a consensus about whether or not
@JoeBiden should be their nominee. The Democrat Party is imploding. Some members walked out of the meeting.
Posted by: IrishEi

Sets up nicely for the convention.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2024 10:11 AM (qZEuM)

148
No dog would want to be part of this. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2024 10:11 AM (e+lF5)

149 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. That is some ugly art today.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 09, 2024 10:11 AM (W/lyH)

150 Remember to save our sacred democracy we must stop both candidates selected by the major parties in their national primaries from running for president!

Posted by: The left at July 09, 2024 10:12 AM (oZhjI)

151 Remember to save our sacred democracy we must stop both candidates selected by the major parties in their national primaries from running for president!
Posted by: The left

But even more important to saving democracy is imprisoning our opponents,

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 09, 2024 10:12 AM (wCYy7)

152 " everybody crazy 'bout a 10 leg man"

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2024 10:12 AM (5MvGY)

153 Artist was born in Mexico in 1987. Now lives in Brooklyn. Maybe someone could provide a beautiful Mexican landscape an an alternative. I would, but am having technology issues.

A quick review of the artist's work and life is that he's found New York penis to be much more to his taste then Mexican...

Posted by: Obligatory at July 09, 2024 10:12 AM (oZhjI)

154 Trying to imagine what terms our host put in the image search to find this abomination.

Posted by: Concerned Viewer at July 09, 2024 10:13 AM (V5BDR)

155 Resident Biden schedule today:
10 AM breakfast briefing at WH
4:25 PM Biden departs WH for Mellon Auditorium for NATO Summit kick-off

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 09, 2024 10:13 AM (ZePNB)

156 27 It's pretzel logic.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2024 09:35 AM (Q4IgG)

; )

Posted by: m at July 09, 2024 10:13 AM (64Zez)

157 "Dems exiting their meeting on Biden saying not only are they not on the same page, ‘we are not even in the same book’"

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 09, 2024 10:13 AM (DeWZa)

158 " everybody crazy 'bout a 10 leg man"
Posted by: Ben Had

+1

Posted by: Billy Gibbons at July 09, 2024 10:13 AM (qZEuM)

159 This artist probably digs Frieda Kahlo

Posted by: Don Black at July 09, 2024 10:13 AM (/7KEl)

160 Resident Biden schedule today:
10 AM breakfast briefing at WH
4:25 PM Biden departs WH for Mellon Auditorium for NATO Summit kick-off
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Careful there Chief, pace yourself!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 09, 2024 10:13 AM (WXNFJ)

161 135
I'm betting he had some work done on his face or chin. Very vain person.

They have seen Biden, right?

Posted by: Piper at July 09, 2024 10:14 AM (pZEOD)

162 Well this art is nice and completely normal.
Posted by: Weasel

I think some of the recent art choices are perfect for this blog because over the 20 years of visiting I've never considered AOSHQ or a majority of the comments normal!

Isn't that why the "horde" is here, rather than hanging at some bland, no drama blog?

Posted by: old chick at July 09, 2024 10:14 AM (F3Dlr)

163 Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna Jul 7
.@RamsteinAirBase, care to comment? You may think you have outsmarted Congress, but lucky for you & the rest of the DOD, service members are tired of this garbage. I look forward to calling your commanding officer to DC, where they can explain to Congress and myself why they think they are above the law. You’re all on notice.

https://tinyurl.com/mrytj6f4
screencap

DC_Draino @DC_Draino Jul 7
Biden’s hijacked military is now rebranding their DEI programs as “Organizational Culture Program” to avoid political backlash

Make no mistake, this is racial wokeness in our military and it must be stopped

Make sure everybody knows what DEI has mutated into: OCP

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 09, 2024 10:14 AM (Jh5b+)

164 Thank you, CBD! May we have ... another?

Posted by: m at July 09, 2024 10:14 AM (64Zez)

165 Looks like F. Joe's last surviving intelligent hair plug.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at July 09, 2024 10:14 AM (rlIUT)

166 Sets up nicely for the convention.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2024 10:11 AM (qZEuM)
~~~~~

I can't wait!

Posted by: IrishEi at July 09, 2024 10:14 AM (3ImbR)

167 Remember to save our sacred democracy we must stop both candidates selected by the major parties in their national primaries from running for president!
Posted by: The left at July 09, 2024 10:12 AM (oZhjI)

And, prior to that, we must prevent ONE of those candidates from having any opponents in their primary.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2024 10:15 AM (U7wke)

168 Does Joe have to address Jill as DOCTOR Jill at home?

Posted by: BignJames at July 09, 2024 10:15 AM (AwYPR)

169 Maybe someone could provide a beautiful Mexican landscape an an alternative. I would, but am having technology issues.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

https://tinyurl.com/mu4tyckn

This one is from Southern California, but it's always been a favorite of mine. Despite what people expect, there's a remarkable range of colors, and it really captures the feeling of the region.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 09, 2024 10:15 AM (ycI94)

170 DC_Draino @DC_Draino Jul 5
New York is about enact a law that forces Visa & Mastercard to report gun and ammo sales to the state government

This is obviously a precursor for gun confiscation

And you know what can stop this invasion of privacy and 2A infringement?

The Credit Card Competition Act, which would break up the Visa/MC duopoly, allow for more competition, and then those CC companies could actually push back against tracking 2A purchases

Right now Visa & MC just march in line with anti-gun laws

I hope Congress passes this law to not only help protect our 2A rights, but also save us money on lower transaction fees

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 09, 2024 10:15 AM (Jh5b+)

171 So this is what Tree Roots Resting Face looks like...

Posted by: Please make a note of it at July 09, 2024 10:15 AM (ivUux)

172
168 Does Joe have to address Jill as DOCTOR Jill at home?
Posted by: BignJames at July 09, 2024 10:15 AM (AwYPR)

Trick question. Joe has no idea who Jill is anymore.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 09, 2024 10:16 AM (wCYy7)

173 Chicago - A pro-Palestine protester attempted to raise a flag at one of the most American events in our country - NASCAR.
Wrong crowd, son.

https://tinyurl.com/y4y6ce34

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono sporchi arabi at July 09, 2024 10:17 AM (qfLjt)

174 4:25 PM Biden departs WH for Mellon Auditorium for NATO Summit kick-off
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Careful there Chief, pace yourself!
Posted by: Tonypete

Obviously, due to his heavy travel schedule, he may have difficulty with interviews and speeches over the next 15 days.

Posted by: KJP at July 09, 2024 10:17 AM (ycI94)

175 I have remained in the Biden will not leave on his own position.

After reading the 25th Amendment, I have ruled that out. Clock is ticking for the Dems.

All this talk about doctors and medical people meeting at the WH - I think Pulmonary-Embolism 2024 is pulling up on the pack.

Posted by: blaster at July 09, 2024 10:17 AM (xhfG9)

176 Thank you, CBD! May we have ... another?

Huh? What? Hey! Safe word! What is that?! That's not a word, it's a... "Fluggen-kliggin-kien?" Fluggen!

Posted by: Cooper from Eurotrip at July 09, 2024 10:17 AM (oZhjI)

177 >Resident Biden schedule today:
10 AM breakfast briefing at WH
4:25 PM Biden departs WH for Mellon Auditorium for NATO Summit kick-off

4:45 PM Biden arrives in unmarked ambulance as his IV drip finishes up
4:55 PM President is administered two minor electric shocks to his temporal lobes

5 PM President is carefully guided inside the venue

Posted by: Don Black at July 09, 2024 10:17 AM (/7KEl)

178 Make sure everybody knows what DEI has mutated into: OCP

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 09, 2024 10:14 AM (Jh5b+)

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Obsessive-Compulsive Pedophilia.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at July 09, 2024 10:17 AM (rlIUT)

179 I'm betting he had some work done on his face or chin. Very vain person.

They have seen Biden, right?
Posted by: Piper at July 09, 2024 10:14 AM (pZEOD)

Biden got hairplugs because he cares so much about our precious democracy and working hard for the folks.

Posted by: spindrift at July 09, 2024 10:17 AM (OguvZ)

180 Another beaut from Ackbar.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2024 10:17 AM (qZEuM)

181 Sadz.
No geezer golf today.
Sigh.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 09, 2024 10:18 AM (W/lyH)

182 148
No dog would want to be part of this. Not art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Let's not be too hasty. That's a lot of tree-like objects to pee on...

Posted by: Urban Feral Dog Pack at July 09, 2024 10:18 AM (ycI94)

183 Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2024 10:17 AM (qZEuM)

Glad I didn't click on the link.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2024 10:18 AM (QhfK2)

184 The Credit Card Competition Act, which would break up the Visa/MC duopoly, allow for more competition...
I hope Congress passes this law to not only help protect our 2A rights, but also save us money on lower transaction fees
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 09, 2024 10:15 AM (Jh5b+)
~~~~~

Thanks for that info, ac. Did not know anything about this, and I follow DC Draino.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 09, 2024 10:19 AM (3ImbR)

185 >Resident Biden schedule today:
10 AM breakfast briefing at WH
4:25 PM Biden departs WH for Mellon Auditorium for NATO Summit kick-off

4:45 PM Biden arrives in unmarked ambulance as his IV drip finishes up
4:55 PM President is administered two minor electric shocks to his temporal lobes

5 PM President is carefully guided inside the venue
Posted by: Don Black at July 09, 2024 10:17 AM (/7KEl)

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7 PM President is cryogenically frozen until next public appearance in two weeks.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at July 09, 2024 10:19 AM (rlIUT)

186 171 So this is what Tree Roots Resting Face looks like...
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Resting Birch Face

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 09, 2024 10:19 AM (Jh5b+)

187 "The self must create its own reason for being"

Its almost like say...removing Christianity from Western Culture had some bad effects or something.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2024 10:20 AM (oZhjI)

188 135 he's hiding from the epstein transcripts. the transcripts of epstein’s shady plea deal were released this week. tsf got immunity to testify against him. he confesses to his own sick acts. under oath.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 09, 2024 10:08 AM (ycI94)

========

I've seen this alluded to, but never actually linked.

What I've seen is accusations from 2016 that were later retracted because the woman made it up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 09, 2024 10:20 AM (GBKbO)

189 Sadz.
No geezer golf today.
Sigh.
Posted by: Diogenes

They're finally on to you?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 09, 2024 10:20 AM (v6JzV)

190 180 Another beaut from Ackbar.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2024 10:17 AM (qZEuM)

He's a treasure.

Posted by: m at July 09, 2024 10:20 AM (64Zez)

191 "Latest Betting Odds:

OrangeManBad 61%
Senile Joe 20%
Kumala 10%
Mooch 4%
Newsom 3%

Posted by: Biden"

Some Reuters poll the other day show Mooch beating Trump 50% -39%. I don't trust polls but that there is disturbing on multiple levels.

Posted by: Ripley at July 09, 2024 10:20 AM (GUOwU)

192 "Biden has been making a host of appearances! He's so strong!"

Narrator: Every single appearance has been some form of a disaster. It's only a question of whether you've been exposed to it or not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 09, 2024 10:20 AM (GBKbO)

193 Obsessive-Compulsive Pedophilia.
----
Officer Corps Penetration

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 09, 2024 10:20 AM (Jh5b+)

194 7:02 pm - Plugs craps his drawers in cryo chamber.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2024 10:21 AM (qZEuM)

195 186 171 So this is what Tree Roots Resting Face looks like...
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Resting Birch Face
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 09, 2024 10:19 AM (Jh5b+)

; )

Posted by: m at July 09, 2024 10:21 AM (64Zez)

196 Sadz.
No geezer golf today.
Sigh.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 09, 2024 10:18 AM (W/lyH)

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

It's still tummy-rub Tuesday!

[h/t Nurse]

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at July 09, 2024 10:21 AM (rlIUT)

197 Is Visa/MC a duopoly though? There Amex and Discover. Not defending the gun thing but not sure it’s fair to call it a duopoly either.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 09, 2024 10:21 AM (wCYy7)

198 I don't think the left even much believes the "Trump was an Epstein client" crap because when you point out Bill Clinton and a bunch of the celebrities they worship were you get something like "well the Epstein stuff was mostly an overblown hoax anyway like Pizzagate"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2024 10:21 AM (oZhjI)

199 191 Some Reuters poll the other day show Mooch beating Trump 50% -39%. I don't trust polls but that there is disturbing on multiple levels.
Posted by: Ripley at July 09, 2024 10:20 AM (GUOwU)

=======

The polls said that Trump would lose support with a conviction. He gained support.

Polls (spit) are bullshit, but when they come to hypotheticals removed from something more certain like the two presumptive nominees being actual nominees, polls seem especially nonsensical.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 09, 2024 10:22 AM (GBKbO)

200 I think it is interesting that everyone is saying "Trump is in hiding/not saying anything" when he has been saying a lot on Truth Social. I suspect not many people are really on there, but he's been saying a lot of Trumpy things there.

Posted by: blaster at July 09, 2024 10:22 AM (xhfG9)

201 200

Posted by: m at July 09, 2024 10:22 AM (64Zez)

202 Willowed -
***
Then I'll try this berberine stuff, and try to cut down on a few bad habits.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2024 09:32 AM (J2vNu)

I did berberine with some decent results... my wife also has us taking a little walk after meals, it helps regulate sugar. 10-15 min helps more than you'd think.

Posted by: Inogame at July 09, 2024 10:23 AM (53oGX)

203 Thanks for that info, ac. Did not know anything about this, and I follow DC Draino.
-------
Maybe the pre-Musk holdouts are limiting or blocking DC's tweets then?

I don't have an X account but I watch several accounts using the Nitter mirror-site [or whatever it is] and it's there as a regular tweet.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 09, 2024 10:23 AM (Jh5b+)

204 Latest Betting Odds:

OrangeManBad 61%
Senile Joe 20%
Kumala 10%
Mooch 4%
Newsom 3%

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

Hillary & Nate Silver hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at July 09, 2024 10:23 AM (rlIUT)

205 Some Reuters poll the other day show Mooch beating Trump 50% -39%. I don't trust polls but that there is disturbing on multiple levels.
Posted by: Ripley at July 09, 2024 10:20 AM (GUOwU)

There will always be some random outlier poll. Rasmussen had Trump beating Biden by 10 recently. That’s why aggregators of polls like RCp and 538 average is what matters.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 09, 2024 10:23 AM (wCYy7)

206 You go, girl!

Jake Eaton
@MTJakeEaton
This is fantastic. The Teacher's Union staff has its own union. That union is striking against the Teacher's union and picketing the NEA convention to raise their avg salary from $124K to $133K. I'm sure the NEA members would love those salaries.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 09, 2024 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

207 200 I think it is interesting that everyone is saying "Trump is in hiding/not saying anything" when he has been saying a lot on Truth Social. I suspect not many people are really on there, but he's been saying a lot of Trumpy things there.
Posted by: blaster at July 09, 2024 10:22 AM (xhfG9)

=======

Yeah, he has. There's even an account that just automatically reposts everything he says on Truth onto X.

The press is choosing to ignore him.

I think it's a conscious choice not because they want to focus on Joe but because it's an editorial decision to ignore Trump on social media, especially in relation to Truth Social.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 09, 2024 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

208 Seeing that the dems can't agree on what to do with Biden, I'm terrified they will coalesce around, "What should we do about Trump?"

Absolutely nothing is out of the question for these fiends.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 09, 2024 10:23 AM (3ImbR)

209 Some Reuters poll the other day show Mooch beating Trump 50% -39%. I don't trust polls but that there is disturbing on multiple levels.
Posted by: Ripley at July 09, 2024 10:20 AM (GUOwU)

It's free to say you support someone who isn't running.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2024 10:24 AM (U7wke)

210 Wut?
Creepy pic.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galf at July 09, 2024 10:24 AM (ufFY8)

211 201 200

Posted by: m at July 09, 2024 10:22 AM (64Zez)

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"201, 200 ... whatever it takes."

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at July 09, 2024 10:24 AM (rlIUT)

212 205 There will always be some random outlier poll. Rasmussen had Trump beating Biden by 10 recently. That’s why aggregators of polls like RCp and 538 average is what matters.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 09, 2024 10:23 AM (wCYy7)

========

When you average different polls together, what does that do to the margin for error?

Statistically, it blows it up.

Polling aggregators are a joke.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 09, 2024 10:24 AM (GBKbO)

213 Seeing that the dems can't agree on what to do with Biden, I'm terrified they will coalesce around, "What should we do about Trump?"

They've been claiming he's literally Hitler for some time. And what does one do with a literal Hitler? Remember...they want to punch all the NAZIs so what do they want to do to their leader?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2024 10:25 AM (oZhjI)

214 Behold my leg hairs and weep!

Posted by: Joseph Biden at July 09, 2024 10:25 AM (R+4G8)

215 In her house at Chapp'aqua, dead Hillary waits dreaming.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 09, 2024 10:25 AM (aD39U)

216 A bit of task talk about the illegals that are registered to vote.

Yes, this is a real problem. The danger isn't they will vote, many won't because they don't want to jeapordize their citizenship chances. The danger is those are now real ballots that the Dems will harvest and fill in for them.

As always it comes down to numbers. The Dems likely have a number of these ballots they are counting on for fraud. Of course this is added into all the rest of their fraud tricks.

But ballots in California and Texas don't help them much. They need these ballots in MI and PA. While they may have 10 million illegals to pull from the real question is do they have enough in the states where they need them.

My opinion is this is a lot of the panic we are seeing. Trump's poll numbers are making the math hard, if Trump really is ahead by 5 in PA, the Dems could be short on the available fraudulent ballots the need to fortify.

This becomes a lot harder for them if Trump turns out low propensity voters like he has in the last 2 elections.

As always, YMMV

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 09, 2024 10:25 AM (JZJ3O)

217 197 Is Visa/MC a duopoly though? There Amex and Discover. Not defending the gun thing but not sure it’s fair to call it a duopoly either.
Posted by: Biden is Finished
========
Data is here https://tinyurl.com/zsf2a6a8

Short summary, about 85-90 percent of all credit card transactions are Visa or Master Card. Discover is a rounding error and Amex has about ten percent of the market.

Posted by: whig at July 09, 2024 10:25 AM (+hgea)

218 Coign is touted as a conservative credit card company that specifically will not track gun and ammo purchases

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2024 10:25 AM (5MvGY)

219 none of my friends in Houston are communicating...guessing no power
I'm in an electric co-op in Wharton County, Tx and got our power back in 8.5 hours, folks across the road without and the sun is out

Posted by: DanMan at July 09, 2024 10:25 AM (8uzBS)

220 >>>Maybe the pre-Musk holdouts are limiting or blocking DC's tweets then?
~~~~~

Likely. A lot of influential people on the right have been complaining about that. I sometimes have to go directly to someone's timeline to read their Xs and am surprised at how much I missed.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 09, 2024 10:26 AM (3ImbR)

221 In her house at Chapp'aqua, dead Hillary waits dreaming.

Hic

Drinking

Hic

And I ain't dead yet

Hic

[Yells into the other room] Huma its Tuesday. And you know what Tuesdays are for...

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 09, 2024 10:26 AM (oZhjI)

222 I wonder if we'll see much of *biden interacting with NATO peoples... now that the propaganda press has (to some degree) acknowledged he's a walking husk with a shriveled up brain.

* Compared to *biden, Mad Maxine Waters is a fucking genius. And her brain's pretty shriveled.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2024 10:27 AM (Q4IgG)

223 Narrator: Every single appearance has been some form of a disaster. It's only a question of whether you've been exposed to it or not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

My favorite is the black radio host that just got fired after her interview with Biden. She was interviewed by another black show about how the process of getting to speak with the president happened, and specifically, how the questions were chosen, and she told the truth (big no-no) and said the questions were all provided by Biden's people.

Boom. She gone! Wonder why the media hid his dementia signs for the last few years....

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 09, 2024 10:27 AM (ycI94)

224 That’s why aggregators of polls like RCp and 538 average is what matters.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 09, 2024 10:23 AM (wCYy7)

Matters?....for what?

Posted by: BignJames at July 09, 2024 10:27 AM (AwYPR)

225 Resting Birch Face
----------------
Snort. Sounds like John Kerry.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 09, 2024 10:27 AM (n17eQ)

226 https://tinyurl.com/mu4tyckn
This one is from Southern California, but it's always been a favorite of mine. Despite what people expect, there's a remarkable range of colors, and it really captures the feeling of the region.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 09, 2024 10:15 AM (ycI94)

I really WANT to look, but... is it safe?

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at July 09, 2024 10:28 AM (JCLJi)

227 Short summary, about 85-90 percent of all credit card transactions are Visa or Master Card. Discover is a rounding error and Amex has about ten percent of the market.
Posted by: whig at July 09, 2024 10:25 AM (+hgea)

Wow. I thought it was spread out a bit more. The yes blow them up!!

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 09, 2024 10:28 AM (wCYy7)

228 ***
Then I'll try this berberine stuff, and try to cut down on a few bad habits.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2024
*
I did berberine with some decent results... my wife also has us taking a little walk after meals, it helps regulate sugar. 10-15 min helps more than you'd think.
Posted by: Inogame at July 09, 2024

***
I walk and run (well, trot very quickly), about 65/35%, three mornings a week. Might be a good idea if I made it four. The nearest 24-hour gym is about ten minutes' drive away; I could do that.

Some berberine from Walmart should be at my door by Thursday . . . if the driver doesn't screw up like last time with the steam mop. I put more careful directions on the website when I ordered this time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2024 10:28 AM (J2vNu)

229 @LauraLoomer
3m
Democrats leaving the meeting at the DNC say they have NOT reached a consensus about whether or not
@JoeBiden should be their nominee. The Democrat Party is imploding. Some members walked out of the meeting.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 09, 2024 10:10 AM (3ImbR)

These spineless losers need to buck up and get some motivation from the stalwarts at DU. Dark Brandon's back, baby! He slurred so himself!

Posted by: spindrift at July 09, 2024 10:28 AM (OguvZ)

230 I suspect one other concern the left has is that Trump seems to be activating a lot of people that don't normally vote.

In 2020 there were thousands of people told "you already voted by mail" when they showed up to vote in person.

If Trump gets a lot of these people to finally go vote we might see millions of voters told that they already voted by mail and that exposes how the Dems get all those urban ballots...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2024 10:29 AM (oZhjI)

231 Huma its Tuesday. And you know what Tuesdays are for...
Posted by: Hillary Clinton

So does Huma rub Hillary's tummy, or the other way round?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 09, 2024 10:29 AM (v6JzV)

232 Two men are playing golf. One of the guys is about to chip onto the green when he sees a long funeral procession on the road next to the course. He stops in mid-swing, takes off his golf cap, closes his eyes, and bows down in prayer. His friend says: "Wow! That is the most thoughtful and touching thing I have ever seen. You are truly a kind man." The other man replies, "Yeah, well, we were married 35 years."

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, e divertente at July 09, 2024 10:29 AM (qfLjt)

233 Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 7h
Are the non-citizens who register to vote automatically at the top of Trump’s future deportation list?

Deportations need to be prioritized somehow. Dangerous criminals go first, of course.

Then who?

If I were a non-citizen, I wouldn’t put my name on a potential “deport me first” list.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 09, 2024 10:30 AM (Jh5b+)

234 Hilariously smug KJP claims to have been fully transparent about Biden's health to a WH press corps that has been exposed as either lazily accepting her spoon-fed BS or as complicit in the cover-up.

https://shorturl.at/nJQoI

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 09, 2024 10:30 AM (mTaTp)

235 Per the painting today, "Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn."

Posted by: troyriser at July 09, 2024 10:30 AM (Vvljl)

236 Some Reuters poll the other day show Mooch beating Trump 50% -39%. I don't trust polls but that there is disturbing on multiple levels.
Posted by: Ripley

There are a lot of people that don't like Trump, and would like an alternative. Michelle is basically an unknown, policy-wise, that the public generally likes. It's no surprise a blank slate/generic Dem candidate stand in polls well. If she actually ran, though, and she started taking some hits/making some policy decisions, you'd see thar rating drop rapidly.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 09, 2024 10:30 AM (ycI94)

237 1 Huma its Tuesday. And you know what Tuesdays are for...
Posted by: Hillary Clinton

So does Huma rub Hillary's tummy, or the other way round?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Taco Tuesday.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2024 10:30 AM (qZEuM)

238 I really WANT to look, but... is it safe?
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at July 09, 2024 10:28 AM (JCLJi)

Absolutely. Wonderful use of colors.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 09, 2024 10:31 AM (iODuv)

239 Reddit Lies @reddit_lies 15h
"I'm a non citizen and the DMV automatically registered me to vote"
"The DMV told me green card holders could vote"

WTF is going on at the DMV?

Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber 14h
The DMV is run by the Department of Transportation. That means the DMV’s registering of illegals to vote is being run by Pete Buttigieg, the former military intelligence officer beloved by our CIA Blob class.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 09, 2024 10:31 AM (Jh5b+)

240 Biden told the House Dems he isn't leaving and they need to support him or else.

The Senate has already had its little insurrection crushed.

Posted by: blaster at July 09, 2024 10:31 AM (xhfG9)

241 Coign is touted as a conservative credit card company that specifically will not track gun and ammo purchases
Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2024

***
Will online retailers accept it as they do Visa and Mastercard? Will real-life retailers?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2024 10:31 AM (J2vNu)

242 229 @LauraLoomer
3m
Democrats leaving the meeting at the DNC say they have NOT reached a consensus about whether or not
@JoeBiden should be their nominee. The Democrat Party is imploding. Some members walked out of the meeting.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 09, 2024 10:10 AM (3ImbR)

These spineless losers need to buck up and get some motivation from the stalwarts at DU. Dark Brandon's back, baby! He slurred so himself!
Posted by: spindrift at July 09, 2024 10:28 AM (OguvZ)

It's cute how the rank and file dems think they have a choice who "their" nominee is. Remember the dnc forced Biden on them like a magician forcing the king of hearts on the stooge.

Now they are gonna take him away and stick in whoever. Don't dem voters get tired of being treated like useless idiots?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 09, 2024 10:32 AM (OiAR7)

243 Traditionally the Democrats do best when they run an unknown who can pretend to be moderate/conservative.

Look at Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. They both ran centrist campaigns for their initial election, and hell Clinton arguably ran to the right of Bush 41.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2024 10:32 AM (oZhjI)

244 The DMV is run by the Department of Transportation. That means the DMV’s registering of illegals to vote is being run by Pete Buttigieg, the former military intelligence officer beloved by our CIA Blob class.

I like Mike Benz but the DMV is NOT run by the DOT. They are very much state agencies.

Posted by: blaster at July 09, 2024 10:32 AM (xhfG9)

245 240 Biden told the House Dems he isn't leaving and they need to support him or else.

The Senate has already had its little insurrection crushed.

Posted by: blaster at July 09, 2024 10:31 AM (xhfG9)

=======

2 weeks of wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Consolidation upcoming.

The funniest thing is going to be prominent Democrats saying that electing a dotard doesn't matter because his won't actually rule, but we can't elect Trump because he's a dotard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 09, 2024 10:32 AM (GBKbO)

246 When you average different polls together, what does that do to the margin for error?

Statistically, it blows it up.

Polling aggregators are a joke.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
========
You can do such things as indexing but it often obscures more than reveals. About all you can say is that it can be useful for trend analysis but not the actual numbers. Aka ordinal level of variables. Trump is most likely leading but how much nationally cannot be figured out with the data presented because a) each poll is only one variable, and b) they do not share the same underlying error distributions due to differences in sampling frames, questions, etc.

Meta analysis is a thing but works best when you have studies that a) use similar if not the same variables and b) you have known error distributions. One cannot get more precision by aggregating various studies--you are limited by your least accurate measurements.

Posted by: whig at July 09, 2024 10:32 AM (+hgea)

247 223
Boom. She gone! Wonder why the media hid his dementia signs for the last few years....
Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 09

Not exactly. She set up the interview herself and did not follow protocol. She then violated policy by accepting the questions. She mutually agreed to leave (instead of being fired for violating policy).

Posted by: Piper at July 09, 2024 10:33 AM (p4NUW)

248 A Hawaiian judge will stop any deportations. It’ll take a coupe of years for it to get to scotus. And then who knows what happens. Roberts and ACB are wild cards.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 09, 2024 10:33 AM (wCYy7)

249 Immigrants living in the country illegally are not eligible for Social Security retirement benefits, but those who entered the U.S. illegally before receiving temporary permission to stay may be eligible for Supplemental Security Income benefits if they meet certain criteria. SSI benefits are distributed to people who have little or no income or resources, a disability, blindness, or attained the age of 65 or older.

Immigrants may be eligible for SSI if they meet the following criteria:

Lawfully admitted for permanent residence.
Granted conditional entry.
>> Paroled into the United States.
>> Admitted as a refugee.
Granted asylum.
An alien whose removal is being withheld.
A Cuban or Haitian entrant.
Admitted as an Amerasian immigrant.
Admitted as an Afghan or Iraqi special immigrant.
Admitted as an Afghan humanitarian parolee.
Admitted as an Afghan non-special immigrant parolee.
Admitted as a Ukrainian humanitarian parolee.

Posted by: SMOD at July 09, 2024 10:33 AM (RHGPo)

250 Hilariously smug KJP claims to have been fully transparent about Biden's health to a WH press corps that has been exposed as either lazily accepting her spoon-fed BS or as complicit in the cover-up.

https://shorturl.at/nJQoI
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 09, 2024 10:30 AM (mTaTp)

I'm going complicit.

Posted by: BignJames at July 09, 2024 10:33 AM (AwYPR)

251 [Yells into the other room] Huma its Tuesday. And you know what Tuesdays are for...
Posted by: Hillary Clinton

TUESDAY'S ARE TRADITIONALLY KNOWN FOR EATING TACOS, AND THE VAGINA IS CALLED A TACO IN AMERICAN SLANG.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at July 09, 2024 10:33 AM (ycI94)

252 Biden told the House Dems he isn't leaving and they need to support him or else.

Yes, and serious donors have already stopped giving, and won't resume until Biden's gone. Who wants to burn a pile of money?

How do you run a presidential campaign without $?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2024 10:33 AM (xCA6C)

253 Absolutely. Wonderful use of colors.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 09, 2024

***
Thou art evil

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2024 10:33 AM (J2vNu)

254 I really WANT to look, but... is it safe?
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at July 09, 2024 10:28 AM (JCLJi)

O, my guess is from what someone else said that it’s his humorous routine of a fat woman with tats and piercings.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2024 10:34 AM (p1Kk/)

255 Late to the Art. I see CBD is still mad at us.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 09, 2024 10:34 AM (T+Iwg)

256 When seconds count, the police are just ~~minutes~~ hours away.

100 looters hit this gas station and it apparently took nine hours for police to respond. Guess the city.

(In Kooky Kalifornia, of course, specifically Oakland.

https://is.gd/zz23Kq

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 09, 2024 10:34 AM (L/fGl)

257 246 Meta analysis is a thing but works best when you have studies that a) use similar if not the same variables and b) you have known error distributions. One cannot get more precision by aggregating various studies--you are limited by your least accurate measurements.
Posted by: whig at July 09, 2024 10:32 AM (+hgea)

======

Statistics is precise and prone to problems if not done carefully.

I really wish more people understood this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 09, 2024 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

258 A Hawaiian judge will stop any deportations. It’ll take a coupe of years for it to get to scotus. And then who knows what happens. Roberts and ACB are wild cards.

If Trump has learned anything it should be that you ignore the judge. And publicly let the SC know you'll ignore their decision as well forcing Roberts/ACB to decide if they want to come back with a "political decision" or let Trump do what he was elected to do.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2024 10:34 AM (oZhjI)

259 Wolfus, site says it is accepted anywhere Visa is

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2024 10:35 AM (5MvGY)

260 242,
Don't dem voters get tired of being treated like useless idiots?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 09

We should all pray for them because this is exactly what they are: useless idiots.

Posted by: Piper at July 09, 2024 10:35 AM (p4NUW)

261 Now they are gonna take him away and stick in whoever. Don't dem voters get tired of being treated like useless idiots?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

They're mental defectives. They're also uncurious , stupid, and enjoy being spoon fed bullshit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2024 10:35 AM (qZEuM)

262 Looks like it's brown acid week on the art thread...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez fuck cancer at July 09, 2024 10:35 AM (OUMaO)

263 Don't dem voters get tired of being treated like useless idiots?

I've noticed one core difference between conservative and leftists is the former get mad when they are lied to. The latter seem to enjoy it.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2024 10:36 AM (oZhjI)

264 Statistics is precise and prone to problems if not done carefully.

I really wish more people understood this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

85.6% of all statistics are fake.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 09, 2024 10:36 AM (v6JzV)

265 Where is that DMV? Some places allow non citizens to vote for local elections.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 09, 2024 10:36 AM (wCYy7)

266 248 A Hawaiian judge will stop any deportations. It’ll take a coupe of years for it to get to scotus. And then who knows what happens. Roberts and ACB are wild cards.

With any luck, Sotomayor will resign for health reasons.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2024 10:36 AM (xCA6C)

267 O, my guess is from what someone else said that it’s his humorous routine of a fat woman with tats and piercings.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I'm more than a one dimensional, one trick pony!!! I also shows gender-confused trannies and other degenerates...so I'm a two trick pony!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 09, 2024 10:37 AM (ycI94)

268
I've noticed one core difference between conservative and leftists is the former get mad when they are lied to. The latter seem to enjoy it.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2024 10:36 AM (oZhjI)

True. But both sides still dutifully line up to vote R or D no matter what. It’s why both parties lie with impunity.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 09, 2024 10:37 AM (wCYy7)

269 Treeman was one of the best Doctor Who villains.
Right up there with the Weeping Angels.
But no one expects the Dalek Inquisition...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 09, 2024 10:37 AM (TGPs7)

270 247 223 Boom. She gone! Wonder why the media hid his dementia signs for the last few years....
Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 09

Not exactly. She set up the interview herself and did not follow protocol. She then violated policy by accepting the questions. She mutually agreed to leave (instead of being fired for violating policy).
Posted by: Piper at July 09, 2024 10:33 AM (p4NUW)

I had wondered if she had taken the matter of the questions up the ranks to someone above her in management. Sounds like not, from what you say.

Posted by: m at July 09, 2024 10:38 AM (64Zez)

271 266 248 A Hawaiian judge will stop any deportations. It’ll take a coupe of years for it to get to scotus. And then who knows what happens. Roberts and ACB are wild cards.

With any luck, Sotomayor will resign for health reasons.
Posted by: Archimedes at July

They can all live on the beach in Hawaii then.

Posted by: Piper at July 09, 2024 10:38 AM (p4NUW)

272 Yes, and serious donors have already stopped giving, and won't resume until Biden's gone. Who wants to burn a pile of money?

How do you run a presidential campaign without $?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2024 10:33 AM (xCA6C)

1. Biden gets the nomination.
2. Donors are pulled aside and "how elections work" is explained to them along with "how unfortunate it would be to be on the wrong side of the President".
3. Money rolls in.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 09, 2024 10:38 AM (U7wke)

273 I had wondered if she had taken the matter of the questions up the ranks to someone above her in management. Sounds like not, from what you say.
Posted by: m at July 09, 2024

There usually is a rest of the story.

Posted by: Piper at July 09, 2024 10:39 AM (p4NUW)

274 Hilariously smug KJP claims to have been fully transparent about Biden's health to a WH press corps that has been exposed as either lazily accepting her spoon-fed BS or as complicit in the cover-up.

-
LanaQuest aka RosaSparks
@LqLana
The press has lost their fucking minds.
This WH briefing is disgusting.
They are attacking and disrespecting @PressSec like her words don't matter.
They never attacked
Sean Spicer
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Stephanie Grisham
Kayleigh McEnany
While they lied day in and day out.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 09, 2024 10:40 AM (L/fGl)

275 Late to the party but what’s up with the guy underneath him that’s eating a pineapple?

Posted by: javems at July 09, 2024 10:40 AM (dOWMF)

276 That dude is ripped.

Posted by: DOT Pete at July 09, 2024 10:40 AM (/U5Yz)

277 Absolutely. Wonderful use of colors.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 09, 2024 10:31 AM (iODuv)

Was safe for work I guess, but not for my psyche.

Note to self: thatcrazyjerseyguy - Do not trust.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at July 09, 2024 10:41 AM (JCLJi)

278 True. But both sides still dutifully line up to vote R or D no matter what. It’s why both parties lie with impunity.

One of the more fascinating things about our modern political moment is that historically politicians lied so they could get their pay outs BUT they tried to make sure to not screw things up too badly because they were afraid of losing office.

Since 2012 and especially 2020 though the politicians have no problem intentionally and clearly making life worse for most of the populace...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2024 10:41 AM (oZhjI)

279 This beast is bereft of genetalia. Would not bang

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 09, 2024 10:42 AM (1FWWQ)

280 Inspired by Meshuggah?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 09, 2024 10:42 AM (Nt9p1)

281
All this talk about doctors and medical people meeting at the WH - I think Pulmonary-Embolism 2024 is pulling up on the pack.

Posted by: blaster at July 09, 2024 10:17 AM

My Dad had Lewy dementia at the end. Got up one morning, hit the bathroom, left the bathroom and dropped over dead.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 09, 2024 10:42 AM (RKVpM)

282 Colleges aim to increase enrollment by admitting students who didn’t apply

https://tinyurl.com/2s498pym

Tracey Sheetz, vice president of enrollment, told the newspaper the college adopted the new method to “meet students where they are today.”

“They’re no longer the students who are going to sit and fill out a five-page paper application with pencil. We’ve got to make it a smoother process and more accessible,” Sheetz said.

Yes, one certainly wants to attract top-flight students who are deterred by a 5-page application. They should have no trouble with college level work.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Taylor Odle told the newspaper that the practice boosts enrollment and saves money both for the student and the school.

“When we think about the application as a structural barrier, it reduces that barrier for students who are most likely to fall prey to that barrier…” the education policy professor said. “

Gee, I wonder who they mean? It's just DEI by another name.

In short, "we like our easy jobs and don't want to lose them".

Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2024 10:42 AM (xCA6C)

283 Not exactly. She set up the interview herself and did not follow protocol. She then violated policy by accepting the questions. She mutually agreed to leave (instead of being fired for violating policy).
Posted by: Piper

I prefer to propagate the story as originally reported, to help reinforce the wedge between Biden and the black community lol. I reject your reality, and replace it with my own!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 09, 2024 10:42 AM (ycI94)

284 233 Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 7h
Are the non-citizens who register to vote automatically at the top of Trump’s future deportation list?

Honestly, if the Trump campaign came out and said this out loud it might dissuade some illegals from registering and voting.

Posted by: spypeach at July 09, 2024 10:43 AM (UuB/1)

285 The press is just pissed off that their partners (the Democrats) went off script and admitted *biden is brain dead. This, after years of pretending otherwise and being in lock-step with the propaganda arm of the party.

The mock outrage is amusing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 09, 2024 10:43 AM (Q4IgG)

286 Scientists say the spin of Earth's core has slowed dramatically and might be moving ... backwards?

-
So that's why civilization is collapsing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 09, 2024 10:44 AM (L/fGl)

287 233 Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 7h
Are the non-citizens who register to vote automatically at the top of Trump’s future deportation list?

Honestly, if the Trump campaign came out and said this out loud it might dissuade some illegals from registering and voting.
Posted by: spypeach

The most idiotic thing I've ever heard.

Posted by: Karl Rove at July 09, 2024 10:44 AM (/U5Yz)

288 I did berberine with some decent results... my wife also has us taking a little walk after meals, it helps regulate sugar. 10-15 min helps more than you'd think.
Posted by: Inogame at July 09, 2024 10:23 AM (53oGX)

Ditto on the post-prandial strolls. I hear that since the lower leg muscles act as a "second heart" and assist with blood return, they use a lot of sugar fuel and thus your body doesn't need to produce as much insulin. Even diabetics who use insulin need less if they walk after meals.

Posted by: Emmie at July 09, 2024 10:44 AM (Sf2cq)

289
The Democrats are claiming a non-citizen who votes is already to be deported. No need for more laws. Right.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 09, 2024 10:45 AM (RKVpM)

290
Statistics is precise and prone to problems if not done carefully.

I really wish more people understood this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

85.6% of all statistics are fake.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 09, 2024 10:36 AM

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

-M.Twain

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 09, 2024 10:45 AM (bEb2S)

291 279 This beast is bereft of genetalia. Would not bang
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 09

What are those feathers tickling at the bottom then?

Posted by: Piper at July 09, 2024 10:45 AM (p4NUW)

292 They never attacked
Sean Spicer
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Stephanie Grisham
Kayleigh McEnany

—-

lol wut?

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 09, 2024 10:45 AM (wCYy7)

293 More from Kooky Kalifornia . . .

Activists oppose California bill that makes child prostitution a felony. Their reason? "LGBTQ people ... are more likely to be charged with sex offenses"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 09, 2024 10:46 AM (L/fGl)

294 84% of people think statistics are made up.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 09, 2024 10:46 AM (wCYy7)

295 284 233 Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 7h
Are the non-citizens who register to vote automatically at the top of Trump’s future deportation list?

Honestly, if the Trump campaign came out and said this out loud it might dissuade some illegals from registering and voting.
Posted by: spypeach at July 09, 2024 10:43 AM (UuB/1)

Ditto x1000. Permanent ban--including all immediate family from EVER being allowed in the USA legally,

Posted by: Voter theater. at July 09, 2024 10:46 AM (FCPbW)

296 I did berberine with some decent results... my wife also has us taking a little walk after meals, it helps regulate sugar. 10-15 min helps more than you'd think.

I saw some weird Cronenberg movie where people were having trouble digesting food.

And he had them sitting in chairs that shake them around while eating and it seemed dumb.

But then later while going for a post dinner walk it occurred to me that I was essentially shaking my body around to make the food go down the digestive system...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2024 10:46 AM (oZhjI)

297 Per Western Journal: Lady thinks she is a witch and goes to her nephew's home to sacrifice his child. Gets beat to death with beisbol bat.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2024 10:46 AM (qZEuM)

298 Lol... a declining Biden becomes even demented by November 5th and there are easily 65 million people that will internalize their shame and disgust at voting for a nursing home patient and trust the faceless hoard of the deepe state to run the country... as long as it's not Trump or the republicans.

The dems just shitting on their voters. Lol. Everyone knows it. You just aren't supposed to notice or talk about it.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 09, 2024 10:47 AM (OiAR7)

299 286 Scientists say

This phrase has joined politicians say for me.
Science today is garbage. I give them zero respect.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2024 10:47 AM (/U5Yz)

300 Child prostitution isn’t already a felony? Just when you think the state couldn’t be more perverted, they surprise you.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 09, 2024 10:47 AM (wCYy7)

301 This phrase has joined politicians say for me.
Science today is garbage. I give them zero respect.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2024 10:47 AM (/U5Yz)

Experts say.

A study has confirmed.

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2024 10:48 AM (fBIbM)

302 Fabrizio/Impact WI poll

(this is one Dems like)

Head to head - Trump +5
5 way - Trump +6

Trump at 50% in head to head, which is a "BFD"

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 09, 2024 10:48 AM (JZJ3O)

303 Activists oppose California bill that makes child prostitution a felony. Their reason? "LGBTQ people ... are more likely to be charged with sex offenses"

When FL/TX or some similar state was debating the death penalty for child rapists the counter argument was this would lead to LGBTQ people being executed.

The alphabet folks are looking to add "P" to their list of letters or maybe M for MAP...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2024 10:48 AM (oZhjI)

304 286 Scientists say the spin of Earth's core has slowed dramatically and might be moving ... backwards?

-
So that's why civilization is collapsing.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 09, 2024 10:44 AM (L/fGl)

Oh shit.

Posted by: Guam at July 09, 2024 10:48 AM (OiAR7)

305 The dems just shitting on their voters.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 09, 2024 10:47 AM (OiAR7)

This guy gets it!!

Posted by: ... at July 09, 2024 10:48 AM (fBIbM)

306 This phrase has joined politicians say for me.
Science today is garbage. I give them zero respect.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2024 10:47 AM (/U5Yz)

Experts say.

A study has confirmed.
Posted by: ...

9 out of 10 dentists surveyed...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 09, 2024 10:48 AM (v6JzV)

307 302 Fabrizio/Impact WI poll

(this is one Dems like)

Head to head - Trump +5
5 way - Trump +6

Trump at 50% in head to head, which is a "BFD"
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 09, 2024 10:48 AM (JZJ3O)

========

Come on, Republicans in WI.

Record one person putting a hundred ballots in a drop box. Just do it once.

Blow this whole thing wide open.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 09, 2024 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

308 This phrase has joined politicians say for me.
Science today is garbage. I give them zero respect.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2024 10:47 AM (/U5Yz)

Experts say.

A study has confirmed.
Posted by: ... at July 09, 2024 10:48 AM (fBIbM)

***

"Nobel Winning"

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 09, 2024 10:49 AM (1FWWQ)

309 He don't have a weenie ...

Posted by: Dr_No at July 09, 2024 10:49 AM (ayRl+)

310 Oh and one of the complaints that the left has with The Sound of Freedom is that when the protagonist busted the child sex ring he didn't distinguish between the children forced into sex work and those that "choose" it.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2024 10:49 AM (oZhjI)

311 303 Activists oppose California bill that makes child prostitution a felony. Their reason? "LGBTQ people ... are more likely to be charged with sex offenses"

When FL/TX or some similar state was debating the death penalty for child rapists the counter argument was this would lead to LGBTQ people being executed.

The alphabet folks are looking to add "P" to their list of letters or maybe M for MAP...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2024 10:48 AM (oZhjI)

Let's keep it down.

Posted by: Saying the quiet part out loud at July 09, 2024 10:49 AM (OiAR7)

312 Amaranth toast and whole grain toast, almond butter, hemp granola and figs. Highly recommend.

Posted by: Piper at July 09, 2024 10:50 AM (p4NUW)

313 Photo ID prevented hundreds of thousands from voting in general election, poll suggests

https://tinyurl.com/3wdju359

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, e solo una suggestione at July 09, 2024 10:50 AM (qfLjt)

314 This really is a Mexican landscape with vibrant colors:

https://tinyurl.com/k5u25efs

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2024 10:50 AM (ordhK)

315 That guy in the painting is a prick.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 09, 2024 10:50 AM (ewjUl)

316 Since 2012 and especially 2020 though the politicians have no problem intentionally and clearly making life worse for most of the populace...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2024 10

Because they decided to be the same party. You can't vote someone out and change anything, and the Party's private sector friends will take care of anyone who is voted out.

You can't achieve anything by voting, and there are no consequences to the ruling class for bad governance.

People just vote so they can feel like "their" "side" "won" something, and so they can pretend this is still the functioning system that created our prosperity and safety and not the abomination it clearly is.

It's purely performative, cargo cult democracy. This holds across the Western world.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2024 10:50 AM (0FoWg)

317 What are those feathers tickling at the bottom then?

I figured it was a religious symbol indicating rebirth.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2024 10:51 AM (xCA6C)

318 Record one person putting a hundred ballots in a drop box. Just do it once.

Blow this whole thing wide open.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Lol...no standing, it's legal, we won't investigate/prosecute, we'll raid your home and call YOU the criminal, etc.

Posted by: WI Dem Machine at July 09, 2024 10:51 AM (ycI94)

319 Lemme guess Disney is lobbying hard against the California law.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 09, 2024 10:51 AM (wCYy7)

320 Beisbol bat been berry, berry good to Chico.

Posted by: SNL of yore at July 09, 2024 10:51 AM (ivUux)

321 As for the picture, would not hang.
Would burn.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 09, 2024 10:51 AM (icmmM)

322 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 09, 2024 10:40 AM (L/fGl)

Looking at her feed, it is no surprise that she would assert something so false. Absolutely nuts.

Posted by: Ann at July 09, 2024 10:52 AM (4neFu)

323 313 Photo ID prevented hundreds of thousands from voting in general election, poll suggests

https://tinyurl.com/3wdju359
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, e solo una suggestione at July 09, 2024 10:50 AM (qfLjt)

=======

Extrapolating like that from statistical noise is nonsense.

And yet it's going to become an accepted truth on the left from now on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 09, 2024 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

324 Statistics is precise and prone to problems if not done carefully.

I really wish more people understood this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I think of statistics as an artificial world--ideally it explains most of what you observe in the real world but there is always some simplifications of the statistical model that makes its relationship to accurately measuring and predicting real world events imperfect. Sometimes the imperfections of the components you choose outweigh whatever results that you obtain from such a model and it produces either no statistically valid results or worse--gibberish.

Posted by: whig at July 09, 2024 10:52 AM (+hgea)

325 He don't have a weenie ...
Posted by: Dr_No at July 09, 2024 10:49 AM (ayRl+)

***

Are you assuming its gender? Maybe... just maybe, it has a front hole?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 09, 2024 10:52 AM (1FWWQ)

326 Bring suit before the election: sorry no standing because nothing has happened yet

Bring suit after election: sorry too late to do anything now that the election is over

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 09, 2024 10:53 AM (wCYy7)

327 TJM, isn't your father a statistician?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 09, 2024 10:53 AM (v6JzV)

328 324 I think of statistics as an artificial world--ideally it explains most of what you observe in the real world but there is always some simplifications of the statistical model that makes its relationship to accurately measuring and predicting real world events imperfect. Sometimes the imperfections of the components you choose outweigh whatever results that you obtain from such a model and it produces either no statistically valid results or worse--gibberish.
Posted by: whig at July 09, 2024 10:52 AM (+hgea)

=====

George Box said it shorter:

All models are wrong. Some models are useful.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 09, 2024 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

329 It has me stumped.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2024 10:53 AM (Bijxa)

330
“When we think about the application as a structural barrier, it reduces that barrier for students who are most likely to fall prey to that barrier…” the education policy professor said. “

Gee, I wonder who they mean? It's just DEI by another name.

In short, "we like our easy jobs and don't want to lose them".

Posted by: Archimedes at July 09, 2024 10:42 AM (xCA6C)

And all these students will pay for kollidge with government Pell grants for degrees that get them no actual skillz.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 09, 2024 10:53 AM (OiAR7)

331
Lies
Damn Lies
Statistics

Posted by: File folder labels at July 09, 2024 10:53 AM (ivUux)

332 This really is a Mexican landscape with vibrant colors:
https://tinyurl.com/k5u25efs
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2024 10:50 AM (ordhK)

Thank you. Beautiful. Would hang. It would get me through my Michiana winters.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at July 09, 2024 10:53 AM (JCLJi)

333 303 Activists oppose California bill that makes child prostitution a felony. Their reason? "LGBTQ people ... are more likely to be charged with sex offenses"

When FL/TX or some similar state was debating the death penalty for child rapists the counter argument was this would lead to LGBTQ people being executed

Accidental selling point.

Posted by: Piper at July 09, 2024 10:54 AM (p4NUW)

334 327 TJM, isn't your father a statistician?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 09, 2024 10:53 AM (v6JzV)

=======

Yeah. Won the Shewhart Medal twice.

He shits on polling in general.

He actually thinks of himself more as an industrial engineer than a statistician, though. His expertise is experimental design.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 09, 2024 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

335 314 This really is a Mexican landscape with vibrant colors:

https://tinyurl.com/k5u25efs
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 09, 2024 10:50 AM (ordhK)

Very cheerful. Would hang.

Posted by: Emmie at July 09, 2024 10:54 AM (Sf2cq)

336 It would get me through my Michiana winters.
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question

Where in Michiana are you?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 09, 2024 10:54 AM (v6JzV)

337 Photo ID prevented hundreds of thousands from voting in general election, poll suggests

Since 2000 this has been a common complaint by the left in US.

But they have found 0 people who were unable to vote because of the lack of ID...ZERO. They have a couple of cases of people that had to go get their ID and/or cast provisional ballots but none where the person couldn't actually vote.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 09, 2024 10:55 AM (oZhjI)

338 George Box said it shorter:

All models are wrong. Some models are useful.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 09, 2024 10:53 AM (GBKbO)
---
Is there a corollary for Admiral Ackbar's models?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2024 10:55 AM (7fElN)

339 You can't achieve anything by voting, and there are no consequences to the ruling class for bad governance.

People just vote so they can feel like "their" "side" "won" something, and so they can pretend this is still the functioning system that created our prosperity and safety and not the abomination it clearly is.

It's purely performative, cargo cult democracy. This holds across the Western world.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
==========
None of the alternatives are particularly appetizing either. Monarchy, aristocracy, dictatorships, etc. all have their downsides. But, it is not the system so much as the people themselves in society. Politics is always downstream from human society.

Have a short term focused, immoral, and greedy people, they end up getting the form of government they deserve.

Posted by: whig at July 09, 2024 10:55 AM (+hgea)

340 "Paintings by artists who probably committed sudoku shortly thereafter."
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 09, 2024 09:36 AM (cf/0E)

That sounds suspiciously like math.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2024 10:55 AM (Bijxa)

341 338 Is there a corollary for Admiral Ackbar's models?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 09, 2024 10:55 AM (7fElN)

=======

"All models are the devil."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 09, 2024 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

342 329 It has me stumped.

It can be a real grind.

Posted by: Oh. No. at July 09, 2024 10:56 AM (ivUux)

343 He actually thinks of himself more as an industrial engineer than a statistician, though. His expertise is experimental design.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 09, 2024 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

I think our dads are very, very similar people, with similar careers.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2024 10:56 AM (0FoWg)

344 334 327 TJM, isn't your father a statistician?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 09, 2024 10:53 AM (v6JzV)

=======

Yeah. Won the Shewhart Medal twice.

He shits on polling in general.

He actually thinks of himself more as an industrial engineer than a statistician, though. His expertise is experimental design.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 09, 2024 10:54 AM (GBKbO

What is your view on the purpose of polls??? We are on about them, constantly, here at the HQ….

Posted by: tubal at July 09, 2024 10:56 AM (pEVER)

345 I want to find an adult American citizen who goes through life without some form of government ID. This person sits at home staring at the walls.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 09, 2024 10:56 AM (wCYy7)

346 I'm watching this travel channel and I'm captivated by the scenery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EK4xuobnoU

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2024 10:56 AM (/U5Yz)

347 George Box said it shorter:

All models are wrong. Some models are useful.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=========
I am long winded. Usually need multiple rewrites to shorten and clarify.

Posted by: whig at July 09, 2024 10:57 AM (+hgea)

348 The city with the "hart".

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at July 09, 2024 10:57 AM (JCLJi)

349 265 Where is that DMV? Some places allow non citizens to vote for local elections.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 09, 2024 10:36 AM (wCYy7)

Arizona requires proof of citizenship to vote in state elections but not Federal ones.

Posted by: blaster at July 09, 2024 10:57 AM (xhfG9)

350 I want to find an adult American citizen who goes through life without some form of government ID. This person sits at home staring at the walls.
Posted by: Biden is Finished

It's all bullshit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 09, 2024 10:57 AM (qZEuM)

351 343 He actually thinks of himself more as an industrial engineer than a statistician, though. His expertise is experimental design.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 09, 2024 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

I think our dads are very, very similar people, with similar careers.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 09, 2024 10:56 AM (0FoWg)

======

My dad went academic, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 09, 2024 10:57 AM (GBKbO)

352 The city with the "hart".
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question

Cool. I grew up in Cassopolis.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 09, 2024 10:57 AM (v6JzV)

353 All models are beautiful. Some models beautifuller.

Posted by: Have to field test it... at July 09, 2024 10:58 AM (ivUux)

354 Just where can I read what "scientists say.." before what they are saying is spread by the MSM? Am I to believe the dolt MSM journalist are out reviewing scientific journals to keep on what the scientist are saying?

I think what they mean is some environmental science grad students they know say...

Posted by: Ripley at July 09, 2024 10:58 AM (GUOwU)

355 What is your view on the purpose of polls??? We are on about them, constantly, here at the HQ….
Posted by: tubal at July 09, 2024 10:56 AM (pEVER)

Style guide says poles are for strippers.

Posted by: blaster at July 09, 2024 10:58 AM (xhfG9)

356 All models are beautiful. Some models are beautifuller.

Posted by: Have to field test it... at July 09, 2024 10:58 AM (ivUux)

357 Is FJB now an albatross around the Democraps neck?
--
An albatross is a large, magnificent seabird capable of soaring incredible distances without rest. When young albatrosses are old enough to leave the nest (at about 5 1/2 months), they spend the next three years at sea. They will sleep and eat at sea, not touching land for years!
--
Imagine the bird and Coleridge both immortalized in the English language by a poem.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, e una poesia at July 09, 2024 10:58 AM (qfLjt)

358 344 What is your view on the purpose of polls??? We are on about them, constantly, here at the HQ….
Posted by: tubal at July 09, 2024 10:56 AM (pEVER)

==

At best, they are imperfect ways to gauge popular opinion about a topic.

Most of the time, they're badly done narrative forming.

Especially these days. We live in an Empire of Lies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 09, 2024 10:58 AM (GBKbO)

359 I have to go through the thread and see if the Horde agreed on how many penes this guy has....

Posted by: Stateless at July 09, 2024 10:59 AM (jvJvP)

360 357 Is FJB now an albatross around the Democraps neck?
--
An albatross is a large, magnificent seabird capable of soaring incredible distances without rest. When young albatrosses are old enough to leave the nest (at about 5 1/2 months), they spend the next three years at sea. They will sleep and eat at sea, not touching land for years!
--
Imagine the bird and Coleridge both immortalized in the English language by a poem.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, e una poesia at July 09, 2024 10:58 AM (qfLjt)

=======

The albatross was always good luck until someone tried to kill it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 09, 2024 10:59 AM (GBKbO)

361 You're just up the road then.

My BIL trains horses up there.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at July 09, 2024 11:00 AM (JCLJi)

362 >>357 Is FJB now an ~~albatross~~ millstone or cinder block around the Democraps neck?

They're going to get rid of him.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 09, 2024 11:00 AM (/U5Yz)

363 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 09, 2024 11:00 AM (v6JzV)

364 356 All models are beautiful. Some models are beautifuller.

Posted by: Have to field test it... at July 09, 2024 10:58 AM (ivUux)
----
So who is the mostest beautifullest?

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, e un massimo at July 09, 2024 11:00 AM (qfLjt)

365 I don’t think I anyone will claim pols are perfect predictors. To me their value is in showing trends. Is Tru p up 6? Maybe. Or maybe it’s 8 or 4. But I think when every poll out there says Trunp ahead, it’s fairly certain he is.

The counter to that of course will be 2016. And the counter to that counter is at the very end of the race, polls tightened in key states. Which goes back to my point of showing trends. Trump had the momentum at the right time and ended up winning.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 09, 2024 11:01 AM (wCYy7)

366 You're just up the road then.

My BIL trains horses up there.
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question

Well, not anymore. Now I live in NoVa.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 09, 2024 11:01 AM (v6JzV)

367 365 The counter to that of course will be 2016. And the counter to that counter is at the very end of the race, polls tightened in key states. Which goes back to my point of showing trends. Trump had the momentum at the right time and ended up winning.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 09, 2024 11:01 AM (wCYy7)

========

The tightening happening every single election season doesn't tell me that the electorate suddenly starts changing their minds but that polling goes from narrative building to trying to get it right in the final stretch.

But even that is falling apart.

2020 was off by 7.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 09, 2024 11:03 AM (GBKbO)

368 Lady Who, you have my attention. What type of training does he do?...Disclaimer, I train reiners and working cow horses

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2024 11:04 AM (5MvGY)

369 Noodus simianus

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 09, 2024 11:04 AM (J2vNu)

370 He actually thinks of himself more as an industrial engineer than a statistician, though. His expertise is experimental design.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I am sure you know that there is a distinct difference between trying to analyze human affairs and those of uncaring physical variables. An H2O molecule that cycles through ionization and rebounding does not care that I analyze its patterns. Interviewing people changes their output often in unknown ways.

Social sciences are as a result in far poorer circumstances in applying statistical models than physical and material sciences.

Posted by: whig at July 09, 2024 11:05 AM (+hgea)

371 No dog would want to be part of this. Not art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 09, 2024 10:11 AM (e+lF5)

It'd be confusing for a dog. Which leg do I pee on?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2024 11:05 AM (Bijxa)

372 AOP, dog would try to pee on them all

Posted by: Ben Had at July 09, 2024 11:06 AM (5MvGY)

373 Jake Eaton
@MTJakeEaton
This is fantastic. The Teacher's Union staff has its own union. That union is striking against the Teacher's union and picketing the NEA convention to raise their avg salary from $124K to $133K. I'm sure the NEA members would love those salaries.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at July 09, 2024 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

Damn! This tail is yummy! Gonna nom all I can...

Posted by: Ouroboros at July 09, 2024 11:13 AM (Bijxa)

374 Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber 14h
The DMV is run by the Department of Transportation. That means the DMV’s registering of illegals to vote is being run by Pete Buttigieg, the former military intelligence officer beloved by our CIA Blob class.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 09, 2024 10:31 AM (Jh5b+)

DMV is Federal? Maybe in DC.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 09, 2024 11:19 AM (Bijxa)

375 Ottoman - "...miss me yet?"

Posted by: look whats not at July 09, 2024 11:27 AM (nakGR)

376 Study his Roots I guess or Al Gore is turning into a Tree

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 09, 2024 04:29 PM (wGqjj)

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