LOL: Fake Jake Tapper's Ratings Plunge to Their Lowest Levels in 10 Years

I actually know Jake Tapper's real defense for covering up Biden's dementia.

If he were being honest -- which he never is -- he'd say, "Look, my audience consists entirely of Trump-deranged liberals. I cannot report the truth without losing my entire career. CNN wouldn't even allow it. If I reported any of this before 2024 CNN would have had a 'talk' with me with the threat of suspension made clear. I'm showing 'bravery' [by Jake Tapper standards, at least] by just reporting a slim slice of the truth five years after it was obvious to all non-Trump-deranged liberals."

So Jake Tapper's Trump-deranged audience -- the only audience remaining after ten years of groteqesque leftwing propaganda from Jake Tapper and his fellow communists at CNN -- is abandoning him, and I am, as forty-two-year=old Millennials on Twitter say, here for it.

CNN host Jake Tapper had his lowest-rated month in nearly a decade in May despite a whirlwind publicity tour giving him an onslaught of attention.
Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson's new book, "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," was released in May to much fanfare. The book helped set the recent news cycle with new accusations of the Biden White House hiding the truth about the former president's fitness for office.
To promote the project, Tapper has embarked on a wide-ranging book tour that landed him on a variety of podcasts, talk shows and cable news. The book has also been promoted relentlessly across CNN, but the spotlight on Tapper has seemingly failed to give him a boost in viewership.
"The Lead with Jake Tapper" averaged 525,000 total viewers from April 28 through May 25, shedding 25% of CNN's audience in its timeslot from the same period last year in the process.
By comparison, Fox News offerings "The Five" and "Special Report with Bret Baier" averaged 3.3 million viewers from April 28 through May 25, trouncing Tapper.
MSNBC also beat Tapper among total viewers, as programming on the progressive network averaged a little over one million viewers in the timeslot. As a result, Tapper settled for only 11% of the cable news audience share, while MSNBC managed 21% and Fox News commanded 68% during the timeframe.
It was Tapper's lowest-rated month since August 2015.

It also thrills me to say that MSNBC's ratings are also collapsing. And bear in mind, Comcast is trying to sell MSNBC to some chump. This is the worst time for MSNBC to see its ratings collapse.

MSNBC hit record lows, dropping 41% among primetime viewers, according to Mediaite.
The network's ratings dropped a total of 34% compared to May 2024.
MSNBC averaged 49,000 viewers during the day and 78,000 primetime viewers, marking its second-worst month in history, AdWeek reported.

It is partly due to Jake Tapper's loss of his already-small leftwing audience -- and partly just for Tapper's extreme Democrat/leftwing activism -- that Tapper and his co-author Thompson have very subtly shifted the main argument of their book from "Biden was demented and the cover-up is a national scandal" to "Biden wasn't transparent about his health and neither is Trump so we in the media have to double-down on suggesting Trump is incompetent to be president."

Alex Thompson wants you to know that after five years of covering for Biden, the media is finally ready to Speak Truth to Power by demanding Trump be "transparent" about his hypothetical, WITHOUT EVIDENCE health issues.

"Original Sin" co-author and Axios reporter Alex Thompson told MSNBC on Sunday that there needs to be "investigative reporting" on President Donald Trump's health after being "untransparent" about his records.
In light of several revelations about an alleged cover-up of former President Joe Biden's health in Thompson's book, "The Weekend: Primetime" co-host Ayman Mohyeldin asked him whether there is now a "double standard" in coverage for Biden's health compared to Trump's.
"And, certainly now, is there a double standard with the way we are covering it? I mean, are you out there also investigating and reporting about Trump's health in the same rigor that you did this book?" Mohyeldin asked.
Thompson said that while they knew little about Biden's health at the time, they knew "even less" about Trump's.
"He was completely untransparent during the 2023-2024 campaign," Thompson said. "He has not been transparent since, and there is no mechanism forcing him or any future president to be transparent about their health. He could be on anything. We really have no idea. So I think it's a really vital question."
He added that he has covered the lack of transparency from Trump in the past and considered the subject "completely fair."
"Donald Trump was older on his inauguration day than Joe Biden was on his. Donald Trump's health is completely fair game, and there should be incredibly investigative reporting on how it's affecting his job as president," Thompson said.

Jake Tapper blew similar smoke earlier, asserting that now that Biden's dementia has been exposed, it's time to hold Trump to ~~the same~~ a different standard.

If Trump were held to the same standard, Tapper would be doing a deep-dive into Trump's health five months after he leaves the presidency in 2029. Same as he did with Biden.

Tapper wants to make up for five years of cover-up for Biden by digging deep on Trump. He just interviewed Speaker Mike Johnson. After covering up the Biden, Inc. crime family for years -- actually, the cover-up continues, as Tapper still won't report on it -- he's now decided that he'll make up for past sins by investigating Trump for corruption.

Tapper attempted some whataboutism judo by demanding that Johnson investigate Trump's corrupt practices, asserted by Tapper WITHOUT EVIDENCE, because Johnson investigated Biden's foreign influence peddling.

TAPPER: You oversaw, as speaker, a congressional investigation into President Biden's ties to his son Hunter's questionable business dealings to enrich him. You seemed to think it was your responsibility to look into this sort of thing then.
M. JOHNSON: Yes, Jake, the big, important distinction, the Biden crime family, as they were named, earned that title. Why? Because they use shell companies, fake LLCs, series of what appeared to be money laundering operations. And Hunter Biden, of course, with his difficult past and his -- the corruption in his past, the family on the public dole -- or on the president's dole.
The president lied about his involvement in the business dealings, all of that. The evidence just piled up. And, by the way, at the same time, the evidence of his diminished mental capacity, subject of your book, of course. I wish had been published a year earlier, because everybody saw it. Everybody saw what was happening.

Drew Holden has a great thread destroying Tapper's foundational lie that the press "missed" the Biden dementia story. No, they didn't "miss" the story-- they eagerly engaged in the propaganda, claiming at each and every turn that what the public saw and heard with its own eyes was RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION AI CHEAPFAKES.

The thread has screenshots of all the headlines. See the thread for that. Here are some of the takeaways:

Drew Holden
@DrewHolden360
But this deceptive coverage was everywhere.
Tapper's own outlet, @CNN, blamed the characterization of Biden in part on "ageism" in an evasive piece of whataboutism when it comes to memory.
The rest of the press did likewise.
Over at @nytimes, the story was that "memory loss requires careful diagnosis" -- there was no way Hur could draw this conclusions!
Where was the "close medical assessment," huh?
Everyone in the media was coming out to defend Biden from Hur's mean characterization.
@AP said it was no different from mixing up the names of your kids.
We saw the same from @washingtonpost. @NBCNews added that even memory problems didn't "affect decision making or judgement." It was part of "significant misperceptions" about how our brains work.
A month later, the Biden team orchestrated the release of redacted comments meant to deceive the public into thinking Hur's characterization was unfair.
The authors lament that this clever move caused the press to miss the parts about Biden's decline.
This isn't true...

The media did anything but "miss" them. They trumpeted the news as *vindicating* Biden's cognitive capabilities.
Tapper's @CNN--courtesy of @oliverdarcy-- spiked the football. The new transcript "poured water on Hur's over-the-top characterization of Biden's mental fitness."

Read the whole thing. It's a double-stuffed Oreo of truth.

Jake Tapper covers his lies with fresh lies -- you see, he couldn't report on what was obvious to everyone based just on what can be seen and heard on videos, because none of Biden's inner circle would confirm/admit that the videos showed what they showed.

And of course you can't report a story without insider sources telling you that what you saw is what you saw.

Glenn Greenwald was on Megyn Kelly and noted that CNN itself disproves that. CNN and all the leftwing media outlets ran "hours" of speculation about Trump needing to be removed from office under the 25th amendment, and spent "hours" of coverage showing Trump walking gingerly down an ice-slicked ramp (he was wearing slippery dress shoes) and -- this one I completely forget -- holding a cup of coffee in some way that the leftwing media claimed showed some kind of physical degeneration.

There were no "insider sources" confirming these absurd stories. But CNN and MSNBC -- and Jake Tapper -- filled their airwaves with them for weeks.

Incidentally-- Jake Tapper says he "apologized" to Lara Trump.

In fact, he did nothing of the kind.

When [Laura] Ingraham pressed as to whether an apology actually happened over the phone, [Lara] Trump said "he called me and said he was going to do this and here we are." That prompted Ingraham to declare the situation "convoluted."
Megyn was inclined to agreed. "Did he actually say, 'I'm sorry,' or did he just say, 'When my book hits, I'm going to say that the right was correct,'" she asked. "I am now less sure than I was before that an actual apology was issued."
Whether those words were uttered or not, Greenwald said a phone call is not sufficient in this situation. "If you go on the air or in a column or whatever and you accuse somebody of something truly terrible like bullying kids with disabilities -- which is what he accused her of -- you don't call her privately and sort of say, 'Hey, you were right,'" he explained. "You go on the air and you say, 'I said something terrible. It was completely baseless. I apologize to Lara Trump.'"
While Tapper claimed Trump "saw something that I did not see at the time," he has subsequently suggested that he was duped because the Biden White House wasn't being honest.
"And I think that we need to be skeptical of everything that we are told by people in power. And I mean that obviously should be the mantra of being a journalist to begin with. If your mother tells you she loves you, get a second source," Tapper said on PBS last week. "But we just need to remember that. Like, politicians lie. White Houses lie. Power is an aphrodisiac, and we just need to all remember that and not take at face value anything that we're told."
Greenwald said the exchange, which also involved The Atlantic's Jeffery Goldberg, was embarrassing. "Watching a person who is 56 years old, who has been in... journalism for 30 years, be asked by Jeffrey Goldberg, 'What is the lesson that we are all supposed to take from this?' And then he says -- as though it was the most profound insight -- 'We really have to remember that people in power lie... and, therefore, we can't take what they say at face value.' If I were to teach a journalism course to eighth graders, that would be the very first thing I would emphasize on the very first day," he noted.
As he explained, it is hard to believe "Jake Tapper just woke up," but he thinks the framing is part of a larger strategy. Tapper and Thompson reportedly hired a crisis PR firm to help them navigate the book launch, and Greenwald said he sees those fingerprints are all over the authors' media tour -- beginning with their appearance on The Megyn Kelly Show.
"[Tapper] kept using this phrase with you... 'I look back on my coverage with some humility.' This is the kind of thing that they tell you to say so that you seem like you're taking accountability even though you are absolutely not," Greenwald noted. "Like, what does that mean? You were the one who helped to lead the cover up that you are now... making millions of dollars off of exposing. It is a huge scandal."

Matt Taibbi is unimpressed by Jake Tapper's Brave Shoeleather Reporting five years too late:

Jake Tapper's Biden Book is Hilarious and Insane

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's mass media apologia is leaps and bounds more demented than the book's subject, Joe Biden
It was this guy's fault!
I wasn't going to do it, really. After stepping to the edge of nervous collapse of late, I promised, no more Conventional Wisdom Bestsellers. I saw Abundance in an airport and turned away before registering cover art. I had the same plan for Original Sin, the "controversial" book in which CNN's Jake Tapper teams with Alex Thompson of Axios to get real about the media and Joe Biden's health. One moment of late-night weakness later, I was reading from Chapter One, "He Totally Fucked Us":

No one thought that the Harris campaign had been without error. But for the most knowledgeable Democratic officials and donors, and for top members of the Harris campaign, there was no question about the father of this election calamity: It was Joe Biden. Harris, loyal to Biden to a fault, might never say such a thing. But plenty of people around her would... "We got so screwed by Biden as a party," David Plouffe, who helped run the Harris campaign, told us.. Harris, he said, was a "great soldier," but the compressed 107-day race was "a fucking nightmare."
"And it's all Biden," Plouffe said. Referring to Biden's decision to run for reelection, then wait more than three weeks to bow out, Plouffe added: "He totally fucked us."
Holy catfish! I thought from online buzz that Original Sin was a mea culpa. It would own press failures to cover Joe Biden's infirmity in a super-belated version of Canadian comic Bruce McCullough's "I'm sorry I caused all that cancer" routine. But Original Sin isn't that. It's much crazier! Instead of a dreary and predictable book-length excuse for thousands of media professionals simultaneously whiffing on the most obvious story in history, it's an ambitious book-length effort to absolve all concerned, pin an industry's coverage mistake on its President Droolcup subject (a gambit many times ballsier than blaming one reporter, a la Judith Miller), all while additionally swirling a new storm system of bullshit storylines to delay more serious questions about things like who was just president for four years.
It's the opposite of a mea culpa and the literary degree of difficulty is awesome, equivalent to a blind unicyclist trying to juggle six chainsaws. Do Jake and Alex pull it off? They don't! But they sure leave a hell of a lot of blood on stage....
The book's opening lines tell us we're supposed to be shocked by Joe Biden's delusional state...

In the introduction, Tapper and Thompson explain theirs is a literary porridge not too hot, not too cold, but just right. Those who are "convinced that Joe Biden was little more than a husk from the very beginning of his presidency, barely capable of stringing two sentences together, will not find support for that view here," they write, while those who insist he was "unaddled" to the end and "his rumored deterioration was all right-wing propaganda" are just as wrong.
I belong in the first camp, writing in Rolling Stone before his election that Biden "on multiple occasions looked close to grabbing prospective voters by the ears and speed-eating their faces off" and "often he looks around like he expects a thumbs-up for giving in to his rage-response."
...

Anyone who recalls this will find it very hard to take the Tapper/Thompson line that Biden was fine at the start but not at the end, and at some point in between his incapacity became obvious enough to be "melting before our eyes," only not so obvious that anyone but Biden could be blamed for lying about it. It hurts my brain to think about the math of that one. The book is also filled with passages like:

Millions were shocked by Biden's unintelligible, slack-jawed performance at the debate, but some Democrats weren't surprised at all. Though they had seen him like this behind closed doors, they didn't say anything. For a variety of reasons, they rationalized their silence.
...

Meanwhile the authors never address the monstrous ethical/legal issues that should be at issue in a book whose apparent revelations are about Biden's incapacity being more extensive than known. Who was making decisions in that case, not just about who should be Run Against Trump (all these people seem to care about), but everything?
...
Tapper right now is getting toasted by everyone from Jon Stewart to Hunter Biden for saying things like, "I do not accept that I was part of a cover-up," but I almost feel like that's too serious a criticism for a book like this. People should more find it funny, for its sheer irrelevance and circle-jerkness. Is it wrong to be entertained, or is that the least this kind of media can do for us?

It's fascinating that they are hyping their investigative journalism chops here for the book while claiming they were told obvious fabrications at the time and golly what else could they do. https://t.co/o9vAkupDFS
— Boo (@IzaBooboo) May 29, 2025

Jake Tapper - "it was a stutter."

Us: (this picture)

Jake Tapoer: "it was a cover up no one saw" pic.twitter.com/FDaZ62J8l8
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 29, 2025

By the way, in case there was ever any doubt:

Jake Tapper claimed in his Megyn Kelly interview that he had called to "apologize" to Lara Trump for claiming she was a liar who hated children with stutters.

It was obvious to me then he only called her after he announced he was writing this cover-up book -- and when his "interview" of Lara Trump went viral.

It's now confirmed: Yes, that's exactly when Jake Tapper suddenly decided to apologize.

Only he didn't apologize. He just told her that when he was out promoting his book, he would acknowledge that she had been "right."

He doesn't acknowledge his his filthily-biased attack on her and his demeaning suggestions that she just Hates Stuttering Children. He doesn't apologize for his behavior or his grossly partisan behavior.

He just said "she was right."

Yes, Fake Jake, we all know that. You're merely, once again, acknowledging that which everyone knew as a fact years ago, years too late.

🚨Lara Trump: Jake Tapper called me and told me that everyone thinks he should apologize to me�but the damage is already done. pic.twitter.com/X7f3xu0dvq
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 28, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 03:25 PM

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1 hey

Posted by: Don Black at May 30, 2025 03:26 PM (AOsQT)

2 Tap-Out.

Posted by: zombie at May 30, 2025 03:27 PM (pMi6S)

3 I'm boldly seeing red.

Roll Out the Barrel
Roll Out the Barrel of Fun

Posted by: zombie at May 30, 2025 03:28 PM (pMi6S)

4 cool, everything is bolded

Look- Trapper or whatever he calls himself, he's just trying to keep his leftwing TV bonafides

his con is on fire and he's got to act fast

Posted by: Don Black at May 30, 2025 03:28 PM (AOsQT)

5 Lotsa posts about cratering today. Are we gonna get a Mickey Louse and/or Marvel is dead post today? I hear F4 is on its way to oblivion.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 30, 2025 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

6 "I am really stupid."

It's not a great way to get people to watch your current events show.

Maybe a Jackass-type show, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 03:29 PM (GBKbO)

7 Donkey-Chompers on the hot-seat:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez member of group that endorses petition to "Free Elias Gonzalez", DC anti-Semitic murderer who killed two young Jews, calls for copycat attacks:

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/ meet-the-left-wing-groups-and-operatives-rallying -behind-jewish-museum-shooter-elias-rodriguez/

The Brooklyn and Queens Jews who voted for her must be feeling real proud of themselves right about now.

Posted by: zombie at May 30, 2025 03:29 PM (pMi6S)

8 Make me.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 30, 2025 03:29 PM (dSBTP)

9 Asked in the previous thread:

232 Anyone seen the whigster around
Posted by: ... at May 30, 2025 03:15 PM (Dz1R2)

I hope he is fine and just on vacation.

Can someone reach out to him?

Posted by: Ann at May 30, 2025 03:30 PM (4neFu)

10 "No, I'm not really stupid. I just believe anything anyone says to me."
-Jake Tapper

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

11 Saw a poll saying that 63% of voters view that the shill media is *just as much* to blame for the Biden health coverup as the White House.

They're fooling fewer people these days.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 03:32 PM (HcfrK)

12 If he were being honest -- which he never is -- he'd say, "Look, my audience consists entirely of Trump-deranged liberals. I cannot report the truth without losing my entire career.
_____________________________

I think it's ridiculous to assume that Tapper had any control what-so-ever on his content. He happened to agree with it, but all you need do is look at those montages floating around that show different main stream media outlets, not only, reporting the story in the same bias fashion, but actually using the same exact language. That suggests coordination from the top. In CNN's (and Tapper's case) what he says on his show comes from the producers, who are beholden to the Executive management, who answer to Mark Thompson...who likely has the DNC on speed dial telling him how to approach a story/topic.

Tapper just plays the role of mouthpiece, and is happy to do so as it provides good money. He's no great thinker as has been displayed time and time again.

Posted by: Orson at May 30, 2025 03:32 PM (dIske)

13 >>>5 Lotsa posts about cratering today. Are we gonna get a Mickey Louse and/or Marvel is dead post today? I hear F4 is on its way to oblivion.

no, maybe monday. I've already covered that this week.

Posted by: ace at May 30, 2025 03:32 PM (KRtlO)

14 13 >>>5 Lotsa posts about cratering today. Are we gonna get a Mickey Louse and/or Marvel is dead post today? I hear F4 is on its way to oblivion.

no, maybe monday. I've already covered that this week.
Posted by: ace at May 30, 2025 03:32 PM (KRtlO)

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The new news on F4 is that it test screened.

And the reaction was...muted.

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/5/30/f4

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 03:33 PM (GBKbO)

15 F you if you can't take the truth! -- One member of the media

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 03:33 PM (HcfrK)

16 The real danger is anti news media backlash.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at May 30, 2025 03:33 PM (L/fGl)

17 apparently Doctor What?! was cancelled too.

Posted by: ace at May 30, 2025 03:34 PM (KRtlO)

18 The everday 11:00 AM lids were not enough of a clue.

Posted by: jsg at May 30, 2025 03:34 PM (4V/uj)

19 Also, to make up for the complete lack of interest in the walking scandal known as Hunter Biden, Tapper(and others) will be going hard after anybody remotely related to Trump to see if they have anything worse than a speeding ticket. They will get to the bottom of those rumors of somebody being drunk in public 20 years ago.

Posted by: Ripley at May 30, 2025 03:35 PM (GUOwU)

20 So who edited the videos of Biden which conveniently left out all the worst angles and flubs and evidence of his condition....?

I didn't realize the Biden Cincinnati team was so talented. They might have stole the embarrassing tapes from every newsroom in America in the middle of the night.

Oh no wait there weren't any tapes because this isn't 2006.

Posted by: ... at May 30, 2025 03:35 PM (Dz1R2)

21 there are claims that the Russo Brothers are trying to limit Pedro Pascal's involvement in their Avengers movies, elevating Chris Pratt to the lead.

It's too late, it's done.

Posted by: ace at May 30, 2025 03:35 PM (KRtlO)

22 I always say "Plouffe" in a falsetto voice. It just seems ... appropriate.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 30, 2025 03:35 PM (YqDXo)

23 Plante says Tapper didn't write the book. Thompson couldn't get a publisher, and asked Tapper to slap his name on it as a three-party deal to get published.

This is faker than just fake and gay.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 03:35 PM (HcfrK)

24 Yeah Tapper, he's starting to claim videos blatantly showing him lying and attacking people as "fakes" and "deceptively edited." That's the last, desperate defense of someone cornered by facts.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 03:35 PM (2VST1)

25 >>>18 The everday 11:00 AM lids were not enough of a clue.

they had no sources, man!

Posted by: ace at May 30, 2025 03:35 PM (KRtlO)

26 >>>23 Plante says Tapper didn't write the book. Thompson couldn't get a publisher, and asked Tapper to slap his name on it as a three-party deal to get published.

Imagine thinking that Jake Tapper is some kind of major draw in publishing.

All of his "novels" stiff.

Posted by: ace at May 30, 2025 03:36 PM (KRtlO)

27 And after the Beau Biden speech, Biden threatened to beat people up again. Totally normal.

Posted by: Piper at May 30, 2025 03:36 PM (p4NUW)

28 17 apparently Doctor What?! was cancelled too.
Posted by: ace at May 30, 2025 03:34 PM (KRtlO)

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All I'm seeing is that Amy and Rory are returning for a special, or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO)

29 The everday 11:00 AM lids were not enough of a clue.
Posted by: jsg at May 30, 2025 03:34 PM (4V/uj)
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Well the White House staff told them it was perfectly normal, so what else could they do?!

Check with their own memory?!

Don't be such a weirdo.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 03:37 PM (HcfrK)

30 21 there are claims that the Russo Brothers are trying to limit Pedro Pascal's involvement in their Avengers movies, elevating Chris Pratt to the lead.

It's too late, it's done.
Posted by: ace at May 30, 2025 03:35 PM (KRtlO)

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The script is apparently not even close to done. So...plausible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO)

31 What is the story about why amidst this amazing incredible coverup, they sent Biden into the lion's den of live TV for hours against Trump late into a long summer night.

If you think it's because they thought he was gonna do great I have a bridge to sell you. But I'm not interested in what you think. I'm interested in what Tapper's story for this is. I mean I'm not. I don't care if grumble grumble off a grumble grumble and into a big fucking explosive fiery grumble grumble.

Posted by: ... at May 30, 2025 03:37 PM (Dz1R2)

32 Untransparent aka opaque.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 30, 2025 03:37 PM (63Dwl)

33 there are claims that the Russo Brothers are trying to limit Pedro Pascal's involvement in their Avengers movies, elevating Chris Pratt to the lead.

Its smart if they do that, because Pedro is pretty well tepid at best, but Chris Pratt is liked and charismatic. Lending some credibility to this theory is the fact that they are working on a 4th Guardians of the Galaxy movie.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 03:37 PM (2VST1)

34
he didn't apologize. He just told her that when he was out promoting his book, he would acknowledge that she had been "right."

He doesn't acknowledge his his filthily-biased attack on her and his demeaning suggestions that she just Hates Stuttering Children. He doesn't apologize for his behavior or his grossly partisan behavior.

He just said "she was right."

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And the way he explained his mistake: "My statement didn't age well, but hers did."

As if it was because of climate and soil conditions, not his bias and dishonesty.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 30, 2025 03:38 PM (n7rxJ)

35 Ace's Schadenboner GAINZZZZ are gonna be Lit AF this week!

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028 -- Keep America Hot! at May 30, 2025 03:38 PM (moxlo)

36 >>27 And after the Beau Biden speech, Biden threatened to beat people up again. Totally normal.

Yup!

Posted by: ace at May 30, 2025 03:38 PM (KRtlO)

37 Alsao, it should be abundantly clear now that Tapper is an amoral huckster

he will say whatever pays the best

whether that's metaphorically fellating the Left, or pretending he's as surprised as anyone that he ever did, his 'ethics' are completely situational

Posted by: Don Black at May 30, 2025 03:38 PM (AOsQT)

38 "The everday 11:00 AM lids were not enough of a clue.
Posted by: jsg"

Biden took daily siestas form 12 to 4 to honor the Hispanic community, hater.

Posted by: Ripley at May 30, 2025 03:39 PM (GUOwU)

39 37 Alsao, it should be abundantly clear now that Tapper is an amoral huckster

he will say whatever pays the best

whether that's metaphorically fellating the Left, or pretending he's as surprised as anyone that he ever did, his 'ethics' are completely situational
Posted by: Don Black at May 30, 2025 03:38 PM (AOsQT)

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He is a partisan, and no more.

He says what helps his preferred political party. He is a mouthpiece for the Democrat Party. Just like...99% of the media.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 03:39 PM (GBKbO)

40 > 22 I always say "Plouffe" in a falsetto voice. It just seems ... appropriate.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 30, 2025 03:35 PM (YqDXo)

Don't bring me down... Plouffe
Don't bring me down... Plouffe

Posted by: The Electric Gay Orchestra at May 30, 2025 03:39 PM (qpyNK)

41 Untransparent aka opaque.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 30, 2025 03:37 PM (63Dwl)
_____________

Look who's got a thesaurus! /kidding

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 30, 2025 03:39 PM (YqDXo)

42 The script is apparently not even close to done. So...plausible.

They appear to be doing rewrites and delays in response to Thunderbirds losing money and declining expectations for FF. Probably had big plans for the "New Avengers" and Fantastic Four (I even heard rumors that they were going to show up and fight the X-Men).

Probably a good idea to delay a year or more before putting more out. After all his repeated year after year admission that MCU was putting out too much every year, they put out 3 freaking movies and I think 4 TV shows this year. Flooding the zone is clearly not working.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 03:40 PM (2VST1)

43 Fake Yapper is still mourning the fact that he came so close to tasting second-hand Clenis (he dated Monica Lewinsky before she hooked up with Billy Jeff).

Posted by: The Electric Gay Orchestra at May 30, 2025 03:40 PM (qpyNK)

44 Obviously, what we need is: MOAR Tapper! That'll surely help the ratings slide....completely into oblviion.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 30, 2025 03:41 PM (tT6L1)

45 Say, you know what? This Hitler fellow probably maybe should not have been Time's Man of the Year.

He put on a showcase Olympics in Berlin, though.

Posted by: Jake Tapper, 1945 at May 30, 2025 03:41 PM (Aqu9a)

46 It is with great humility that I report that I have no humility. And with a heavy heart I say that I would laugh at a video of burning kittens.

You fucked up! You trusted me!

Posted by: Take Japper at May 30, 2025 03:41 PM (Dz1R2)

47 42 They appear to be doing rewrites and delays in response to Thunderbirds losing money and declining expectations for FF. Probably had big plans for the "New Avengers" and Fantastic Four (I even heard rumors that they were going to show up and fight the X-Men).

Probably a good idea to delay a year or more before putting more out. After all his repeated year after year admission that MCU was putting out too much every year, they put out 3 freaking movies and I think 4 TV shows this year. Flooding the zone is clearly not working.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 03:40 PM (2VST1)

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Was Kevin Feige mawled by a tiger around the time Infinity War came out? Because the first decade of the MCU, while it had its ups and downs, was the product of a decent producer. Ever since Endgame, though...it's been the product of a complete whackjob.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 03:41 PM (GBKbO)

48 Plante says Tapper didn't write the book. Thompson couldn't get a publisher, and asked Tapper to slap his name on it as a three-party deal to get published.

Imagine thinking that Jake Tapper is some kind of major draw in publishing.

All of his "novels" stiff.
Posted by: ace at May 30, 2025 03:36 PM (KRtlO)
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I think he just has to be a bigger name than Thompson.

A relative unknown opening a can of worms about a Rushmore-ic Presidency?!

Tapper is going to be sorry he ever signed on to this deal.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 03:41 PM (HcfrK)

49 The whole "we couldn't report on Biden's decline, we were being assured by those close to him that he was doing great!" thing falls apart when you realize that they weren't just restraining themselves from reporting, they were actively and viciously attacking anyone who did so.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 03:41 PM (2VST1)

50
Also, to make up for the complete lack of interest in the walking scandal known as Hunter Biden, Tapper(and others) will be going hard after anybody remotely related to Trump to see if they have anything worse than a speeding ticket. They will get to the bottom of those rumors of somebody being drunk in public 20 years ago.
Posted by: Ripley

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And let's subpoena Melania once a week to make sure she's not secretly setting policy. We've learned our lesson!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 30, 2025 03:41 PM (n7rxJ)

51 48 I think he just has to be a bigger name than Thompson.

A relative unknown opening a can of worms about a Rushmore-ic Presidency?!

Tapper is going to be sorry he ever signed on to this deal.
Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 03:41 PM (HcfrK)

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The stupid fucking star-fucking ethos.

"Jake Tapper is a name I know! He'll sell books!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 03:42 PM (GBKbO)

52 Lotsa posts about cratering today. Are we gonna get a Mickey Louse and/or Marvel is dead post today? I hear F4 is on its way to oblivion.

no, maybe monday. I've already covered that this week.
Posted by: ace at May 30, 2025 03:32 PM (KRtlO)

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The new news on F4 is that it test screened.

And the reaction was...muted.

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/5/30/f4
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 03:33 PM (GBKbO)
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I'm shocked. Nobody liked the first three F4 movies. Not even a young Jessica Alba in her underwear could get fans to the theaters. The third reboot (or whatever it was) was ... shit. But the fourth movie will be the charm!

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 30, 2025 03:42 PM (iFTx/)

53 Tapper is like one of those Vichy who popped out of a hole after Germany surrendered, claiming to have been with the Resistance the whole time

Posted by: Don Black at May 30, 2025 03:42 PM (AOsQT)

54 I always say "Plouffe" in a falsetto voice. It just seems ... appropriate.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 30, 2025 03:35 PM (YqDXo)

Kinda like how Rush used to say it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 30, 2025 03:42 PM (0aYVJ)

55 Old and busted: Allahpundit
The new hotness: Jake Tapper

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 03:42 PM (6ydKt)

56 52 I'm shocked. Nobody liked the first three F4 movies. Not even a young Jessica Alba in her underwear could get fans to the theaters. The third reboot (or whatever it was) was ... shit. But the fourth movie will be the charm!
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 30, 2025 03:42 PM (iFTx/)

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Eh, other people getting a property wrong doesn't mean it'll go wrong again.

However, Marvel having lost its ability to tell stories is probably the bigger issue than the previous version of F4 being...less than ideal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

57 They used CNN to try and sell the books, to make it a "viral" story.

Posted by: ... at May 30, 2025 03:43 PM (Dz1R2)

58 Alsao, it should be abundantly clear now that Tapper is an amoral huckster

he will say whatever pays the best

Posted by: Don Black at May 30, 2025 03:38 PM (AOsQT)
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He's yet another former Dem politician staffer.

He worked on some Democrat's staff.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 03:43 PM (HcfrK)

59 Probably a good idea to delay a year or more before putting more out.
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Good advice for Hollywood generally. The pipeline probably takes at least a year, probably longer, for a movie to come out.

American mores are changing pretty rapidly (thanks to Trump), so Hollywood risks dropping a giant cinematic turd (first time for everything, huh?) that is totally out of step with public sentiment. (E.g., a sympathetic portrayal of illegal aliens, or "transgenders," or some such.)

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 30, 2025 03:43 PM (YqDXo)

60 57 They used CNN to try and sell the books, to make it a "viral" story.
Posted by: ... at May 30, 2025 03:43 PM (Dz1R2)

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They sold 3 dozen more than they otherwise would have to based guys on X who scanned through it to make fun of it.

Win!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

61 "[Tapper] kept using this phrase with you... 'I look back on my coverage with some humility.' This is the kind of thing that they tell you to say so that you seem like you're taking accountability even though you are absolutely not," Greenwald noted. "Like, what does that mean? "

It is with some humility that I look back on the invasion of Russia, whomever was responsible for that.

Posted by: Adolf H. at May 30, 2025 03:43 PM (s8j++)

62 They used CNN to try and sell the books, to make it a "viral" story.

Posted by: ... at May 30, 2025 03:43 PM (Dz1R2)
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Which shows you how out of touch they are.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 03:44 PM (HcfrK)

63
Biden thinks he's being funny while talking to a reporter in Delaware:
https://tinyurl.com/4e733sdx

“You can see that I’m mentally incompetent and I can’t walk and I can beat the hell out of both of them,” Biden, 82, blustered during a Q&A with reporters."

I think he was referring to Tapper and Thompson.

Posted by: beckster at May 30, 2025 03:44 PM (NLtte)

64 Kinda like how Rush used to say it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 30, 2025 03:42 PM (0aYVJ)
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Is that right? I'd never listened to Rush.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 30, 2025 03:44 PM (YqDXo)

65 64 Is that right? I'd never listened to Rush.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 30, 2025 03:44 PM (YqDXo)

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Doof likes 'em.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 03:45 PM (GBKbO)

66 Ohyeahhowaboutthisism

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 30, 2025 03:45 PM (63Dwl)

67 “You can see that I’m mentally incompetent and I can’t walk and I can beat the hell out of both of them,” Biden, 82, blustered during a Q&A with reporters."

I think he was referring to Tapper and Thompson.

Posted by: beckster at May 30, 2025 03:44 PM (NLtte)
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Time for a cage match. No matter who loses, we all win.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 30, 2025 03:45 PM (YqDXo)

68 I'm shocked. Nobody liked the first three F4 movies. Not even a young Jessica Alba in her underwear could get fans to the theaters. The third reboot (or whatever it was) was ... shit. But the fourth movie will be the charm!
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 30, 2025 03:42 PM (iFTx/)

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Eh, other people getting a property wrong doesn't mean it'll go wrong again.

However, Marvel having lost its ability to tell stories is probably the bigger issue than the previous version of F4 being...less than ideal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 03:43 PM (GBKbO)
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It's one thing to get a solid IP wrong. It's another if the IP itself is wrong. F4 is pigshit IP. No amount of lipstick and Lume and Sydney's Sweeney's bathwater can make anyone wanna fuck that pig.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 30, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

69 "It is with some humility that I look back on the invasion of Russia, whomever was responsible for that.

Posted by: Adolf H"

The invasion and slaughtering of Jews did not age well.

Posted by: Ripley at May 30, 2025 03:45 PM (GUOwU)

70 And bear in mind, Comcast is trying to sell MSNBC to some chump. This is the worst time for MSNBC to see its ratings collapse.

I don’t think. Comcast even thought about selling it, Ace.

Instead, the plan is to spin off MSNBC, CNBC, and a few other low-rated channels into a new company, appropriately named “Spin”.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 03:46 PM (6ydKt)

71 Was Kevin Feige mawled by a tiger around the time Infinity War came out? Because the first decade of the MCU, while it had its ups and downs, was the product of a decent producer.

Well he was a money guy but had limited input on the films until he managed to get Perlmutter and a couple other guys who helped keep costs down and limit his worse influences.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 03:46 PM (2VST1)

72 And let's subpoena Melania once a week to make sure she's not secretly setting policy. We've learned our lesson!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 30, 2025 03:41 PM (n7rxJ)
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We'll have to search her UNDERWEAR DRAWER!!

Posted by: The FIB at May 30, 2025 03:46 PM (HcfrK)

73 "[Tapper] kept using this phrase with you... 'I look back on my coverage with some humility.'
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"Embarrassment" would be more appropriate.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 30, 2025 03:46 PM (YqDXo)

74 68 It's one thing to get a solid IP wrong. It's another if the IP itself is wrong. F4 is pigshit IP. No amount of lipstick and Lume and Sydney's Sweeney's bathwater can make anyone wanna fuck that pig.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 30, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

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I was only ever a Batman comics guy, and only right around the Knightfall era, so I can't discuss the merits of the underlying F4 comics with anything like authority. I can, however, argue ad populum and say that people seem to think that the 80s F4 stories were really good.

Plus, The Incredibles is essentially F4, and it's pretty good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO)

75 71 Was Kevin Feige mawled by a tiger around the time Infinity War came out? Because the first decade of the MCU, while it had its ups and downs, was the product of a decent producer.

Well he was a money guy but had limited input on the films until he managed to get Perlmutter and a couple other guys who helped keep costs down and limit his worse influences.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 03:46 PM (2VST1)

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Well, that would do it.

Tiger it was.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

76 And bear in mind, Comcast is trying to sell MSNBC to some chump. This is the worst time for MSNBC to see its ratings collapse.
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I think I saw them on Pawn Stars.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 03:47 PM (HcfrK)

77 The Dems and everyone associated with them are losing and it's because they have decided to become the champions of trannies and illegal alien criminals.

They could have tempered their support to just men who wanted to live as a woman and just be left alone and illegal immigrants just looking for a better life and who work hard at jobs that most Americans won't do .

But no they went full retard lucky for us . Now the LIV are paying attention.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 03:47 PM (VofaG)

78 I did not have sexual relations with that story, Biden's Dementia.

Posted by: Take Japper at May 30, 2025 03:48 PM (Dz1R2)

79 Grace Slick, of Jefferson Airplane and the 'summer of love', admitted decades later that the free-for-all drug use of the 60s might not have been the best idea.

wisdom comes to us all, sometimes too late

Posted by: Don Black at May 30, 2025 03:48 PM (AOsQT)

80 Jake Tapper blew similar smoke earlier

Intriguing ... black smoke for no poop and white smoke for a poop?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA & Cuck-CCP) at May 30, 2025 03:49 PM (0sNs1)

81 I think I saw them on Pawn Stars.

"Best I can give you for MSNBC is a hundred bucks, cash. I gotta pay overhead and this stuff sits on the shelf could be years."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 03:49 PM (2VST1)

82 And bear in mind, Comcast is trying to sell MSNBC to some chump. This is the worst time for MSNBC to see its ratings collapse.
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I think I saw them on Pawn Stars.
Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 03:47 PM (HcfrK)

I think I can go as high as 50 cents for MSNBC.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 30, 2025 03:49 PM (VNX3d)

83
MSNBC hit record lows, dropping 41% among primetime viewers, according to Mediaite.
The network's ratings dropped a total of 34% compared to May 2024.

MSNBC averaged 49,000 viewers during the day and 78,000 primetime viewers, marking its second-worst month in history, AdWeek reported.

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We've been reading stats like this for YEARS. How is MSNBC news still on the air? Jen Psaki tanking now? Who's writing this off, Jerry?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 30, 2025 03:49 PM (n7rxJ)

84 Of course people know the media covered for Biden. The majority of people are not stupid,they saw it with their own eyes. Just like now people can see Washington using our courts to stop Trump from doing what he campaigned on. He won on his issues. He got the mandate of the people who cast their vote for him. You know, the American way. He won! But Washington's swamp has said No! We are being put in our place by the swamp and our good ol' media. It makes me sick.

Posted by: Case at May 30, 2025 03:49 PM (a1g6Z)

85 "[Tapper] kept using this phrase with you... 'I look back on my coverage with some humility.'
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"Embarrassment" would be more appropriate.

He's using the wrong word. "Humiliation" is more appropriate to the circumstances, or possibly "mortification". The fact that uses "humility" tells you everything you need to know about the guy.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 30, 2025 03:50 PM (s8j++)

86 MSNBC hit record lows, dropping 41% among primetime viewers, according to Mediaite.
The network's ratings dropped a total of 34% compared to May 2024.

MSNBC averaged 49,000 viewers during the day and 78,000 primetime viewers, marking its second-worst month in history, AdWeek reported.

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Again...opposition media tends to thrive. "Everything sucks, and it's all the other guy's fault," is an easy to digest message, especially when the guy in question is in power.

That opposition media right now is cratering feels...odd to me. Like...they've burned their bridges with their own audience who refuse to listen to them anymore.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 03:50 PM (GBKbO)

87 >>>Who's writing this off, Jerry?

It's a write-off, Jerry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEL65gywwHQ

Posted by: ace at May 30, 2025 03:51 PM (KRtlO)

88 It's one thing to get a solid IP wrong. It's another if the IP itself is wrong. F4 is pigshit IP. No amount of lipstick and Lume and Sydney's Sweeney's bathwater can make anyone wanna fuck that pig.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 30, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

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I was only ever a Batman comics guy, and only right around the Knightfall era, so I can't discuss the merits of the underlying F4 comics with anything like authority. I can, however, argue ad populum and say that people seem to think that the 80s F4 stories were really good.

Plus, The Incredibles is essentially F4, and it's pretty good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO)
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Meh. The leader is made of fucking stretchable plastic. His superpower is that he can stretch. Weird and creepy -- even more so in live-action than in animations like Incredibles. Hard pass from me no matter what story you put him in. The only F4 anyone cares at all about is Grimm, and he's just a poor man's Hulk.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 30, 2025 03:51 PM (iFTx/)

89 Like any action movie sequel series, they get more stupid as they go.

Every producer thinks there has to be twice as many explosions and car chases as the previous one.

I think the same happens with superhero movies. They think they have to have twice the action of the previous one and forget the story.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 03:51 PM (VofaG)

90 until he managed to get Perlmutter and a couple other guys

I should say "get RID of". Now he's putting his name on movies. Feige was never a comic book guy. He was an assistant to directors and failed four times to get into the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 03:51 PM (2VST1)

91 R. I. P. Hot Lips Houlihan.

Loretta Swit, the actress best known for her role as Major Margaret Houlihan on the acclaimed television series "M*A*S*H," died Friday at her home in New York City, her publicist said. She was 87.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2025 03:52 PM (ipqug)

92 I hope to live long enough to see the superhero genre die.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 30, 2025 03:52 PM (YqDXo)

93 At least the even-numbered ST:TOS movies were good.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 30, 2025 03:52 PM (0sNs1)

94 "Embarrassment" would be more appropriate.

He's using the wrong word. "Humiliation" is more appropriate to the circumstances, or possibly "mortification". The fact that uses "humility" tells you everything you need to know about the guy.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 30, 2025 03:50 PM (s8j++)
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Those are better fits, but "humility" doesn't sound as bad.

"Chagrin" is probably a better fit. "Mortification", too.

"Feeling like somebody should have beaten me" is probably the best fit.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 03:53 PM (HcfrK)

95 I forgot the Dems also went full retard on the Jews and Israel.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 03:53 PM (VofaG)

96 Feige was never a comic book guy. He was an assistant to directors and failed four times to get into the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 03:51 PM (2VST1)
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"Feige" means "cowardly" auf Deutsch.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 30, 2025 03:53 PM (YqDXo)

97 Shameless liars -

Jake Tapper >> Joe Isuzu >> Tommy Flanagan

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 30, 2025 03:53 PM (Aqu9a)

98 That opposition media right now is cratering feels...odd to me. Like...they've burned their bridges with their own audience who refuse to listen to them anymore.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 03:50 PM (GBKbO)

No. The Left now finds the news "triggering". That's most of it.

Posted by: Take Japper at May 30, 2025 03:53 PM (Dz1R2)

99 I think Glenn Greenwald has bigger things to worry about right now, and I sincerely hope Megyn Kelly lysoled her entire studio.

Posted by: Piper at May 30, 2025 03:53 PM (p4NUW)

100 Loretta Swit ... died Friday at her home in New York City, her publicist said. She was 87.

I never got her appeal. She seemed meh looking and kind of creepy to me, like that slag last off the barstool at the truckstop.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 03:54 PM (2VST1)

101 During Trump I, leftards had Mueller and all kind of other assorted nonsense to keep them tuned in. They do not want to hear about what is going on right now. There is no hook this time. Not yet. Maybe not ever.

Posted by: ... at May 30, 2025 03:54 PM (Dz1R2)

102 Again...opposition media tends to thrive. "Everything sucks, and it's all the other guy's fault," is an easy to digest message, especially when the guy in question is in power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 03:50 PM (GBKbO)
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It's probably a good illustration of how screwed that pooch is.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 03:54 PM (HcfrK)

103 Tapper made the hilarious mistake of making the right hate him, then realizing what he had done and deciding out was smart to make the left hate him, too.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 30, 2025 03:54 PM (i5oKA)

104 >R. I. P. Hot Lips Houlihan.

Loretta Swit
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aw man
she was hot stuff back in the day
she is missed

Posted by: Don Black at May 30, 2025 03:55 PM (AOsQT)

105 there are claims that the Russo Brothers are trying to limit Pedro Pascal's involvement in their Avengers movies, elevating Chris Pratt to the lead.

It's too late, it's done.
Posted by: ace at May 30, 2025 03:35 PM (KRtlO)

You can't sideline Reed in an F4 story, he's the core of the team. Resident Genius to make a dohickey for the story to work with

Posted by: Oldcat at May 30, 2025 03:55 PM (8avO+)

106 So... in Washington state, a semi carrying bee hives crashed, causing an estimated 250 million bees to be set into the environment. A lot will probably stay near the hives, given that they need a home, but. Free Bees.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 03:56 PM (2VST1)

107 Sally Kellerman > Loretta Swit

At least Sally Kellerman made Back to School.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 03:56 PM (VofaG)

108 >'I look back on my coverage ~~with some humility.'~~ and I admit, I was lying the entire time '

Posted by: Don Black at May 30, 2025 03:57 PM (AOsQT)

109 The popular vote was the killer. The Left just doesn't want to hear it.

Posted by: ... at May 30, 2025 03:57 PM (Dz1R2)

110 I got this! It's not too late to replace Pascal's Din Djarin with with Chris Pratt!!!

Posted by: runner at May 30, 2025 03:57 PM (g47mK)

111 Those are better fits, but "humility" doesn't sound as bad.

"Chagrin" is probably a better fit. "Mortification", too.

"Feeling like somebody should have beaten me" is probably the best fit.

I wouldn't use "chagrin" here, because to me that implies embarrassment at having made a mistake, but it wasn't not a deliberate one. This was deliberate. I'm sure there's an appropriate word for getting caught deliberately doing something bad, but I can't think of it at the moment.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 30, 2025 03:57 PM (s8j++)

112 Who?

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at May 30, 2025 03:57 PM (04lxq)

113 I will enjoy an old-fashioned, hold the fruit salad tonight, in her honor.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 30, 2025 03:57 PM (2ap+5)

114 Thank God for the media, they actually got Joe thinking that not only could he win but that he was already winning.

Posted by: Dr Spank at May 30, 2025 03:58 PM (zgLAj)

115 Again...opposition media tends to thrive. "Everything sucks, and it's all the other guy's fault," is an easy to digest message, especially when the guy in question is in power.

It usually does and I really did expect MSNBC and CNN to do well now. But instead, they are doing worse and worse.

Its like even the hard left core audience is sick of their crap.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 03:58 PM (2VST1)

116 Oh, I did finish The Long Goodbye last night.

I was confused, though.

There was an admission to killing Sylvia Lennox from a character, but Marlowe dismisses the admission as impossible. But there's no other potential result offered, and everything online says that the confession was the real result.

Is this one where Chandler was just too drunk to know what he had written?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

117 >A lot will probably stay near the hives, given that they need a home, but. Free Bees.
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Born bee
as bee as the wind blows
as bee as the grass grows
Born bee, to follow your star

Posted by: Don Black at May 30, 2025 03:58 PM (AOsQT)

118
'I look back on my coverage with some humility.'

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Remind me again what it is you do for a living?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 30, 2025 03:58 PM (n7rxJ)

119 Why is everyone from Jon Steward to Hunter Biden toasting Jake Tapper?

Posted by: Oglebay at May 30, 2025 03:59 PM (2ap+5)

120 there are claims that the Russo Brothers are trying to limit Pedro Pascal's involvement in their Avengers movies, elevating Chris Pratt to the lead.

It's too late, it's done.
Posted by: ace at May 30, 2025 03:35 PM (KRtlO)

You can't sideline Reed in an F4 story, he's the core of the team. Resident Genius to make a dohickey for the story to work with

That would be as stupid as sidelining the Witcher in the eponymous series in favor of gurlbosses.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 30, 2025 03:59 PM (s8j++)

121 So... in Washington state, a semi carrying bee hives crashed, causing an estimated 250 million bees to be set into the environment. A lot will probably stay near the hives, given that they need a home, but. Free Bees.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 03:56 PM (2VST1)

NOT THE BEES!

Posted by: Nic Cage at May 30, 2025 03:59 PM (Aqu9a)

122 Remind me again what it is you do for a living?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 30, 2025 03:58 PM (n7rxJ)

Lying and sucking dick, but mostly.......

Posted by: ... at May 30, 2025 03:59 PM (Dz1R2)

123 It does occur to me that maybe Jen Psaki was telling the truth, that Biden was still too sharp for her to keep up with.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 30, 2025 03:59 PM (od0dV)

124 Tapper should invite Biden on to his show. Biden said he could kick both his and Thompson's ass. Would improve the ratings

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 30, 2025 03:59 PM (O8bOp)

125 FNC reported Loretta "Swift" died.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 30, 2025 03:59 PM (63Dwl)

126 >
I never got her appeal. She seemed meh looking and kind of creepy to me, like that slag last off the barstool at the truckstop.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 03:54 PM (2VST1)

I thought she was pretty hot.

Not as hot as Sally Kellerman in the movie, but hot.

Posted by: The Electric Gay Orchestra at May 30, 2025 04:00 PM (qpyNK)

127
Those are better fits, but "humility" doesn't sound as bad.

"Chagrin" is probably a better fit. "Mortification", too.

"Feeling like somebody should have beaten me" is probably the best fit.

I wouldn't use "chagrin" here, because to me that implies embarrassment at having made a mistake, but it wasn't not a deliberate one. This was deliberate. I'm sure there's an appropriate word for getting caught deliberately doing something bad, but I can't think of it at the moment.
Posted by: Archimedes

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Shame

I think that's what a truthful and decent person would feel.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 30, 2025 04:00 PM (n7rxJ)

128 You can't sideline Reed in an F4 story, he's the core of the team.

According to rumors, Sue Storm is the leader, she ends up the movie battling the Silver Surfer girl and convinces her to attack Galactus. Its hard to know because lots of rumors are swirling around so take that with a grain of salt.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:00 PM (2VST1)

129 there are claims that the Russo Brothers are trying to limit Pedro Pascal's involvement in their Avengers movies, elevating Chris Pratt to the lead.

It's too late, it's done.
Posted by: ace at May 30, 2025 03:35 PM (KRtlO)

You can't sideline Reed in an F4 story, he's the core of the team. Resident Genius to make a dohickey for the story to work with

That would be as stupid as sidelining the Witcher in the eponymous series in favor of gurlbosses.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 30, 2025 03:59 PM (s8j++)

Or sidelining Max in a Mad Max movie . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 30, 2025 04:00 PM (Aqu9a)

130 Meh. The leader is made of fucking stretchable plastic. His superpower is that he can stretch. Weird and creepy -- even more so in live-action than in animations like Incredibles. Hard pass from me no matter what story you put him in. The only F4 anyone cares at all about is Grimm, and he's just a poor man's Hulk.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 30, 2025 03:51 PM (iFTx/)

The F4 are like Marvel's Snow White - their first big hitter anchor for their comics like in the 60s. Later Spiderman and X men carried on from their and F4 was about, but not hugely popular.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 30, 2025 04:00 PM (8avO+)

131 Two things I remember from thd MASH tv show

Ahhh Bach

And

Hawkeye saying he likes his Martinis very dry. Just pass the glass of gin in front of the painting of the guy who invented Vermouth.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:00 PM (VofaG)

132 Shame

I think that's what a truthful and decent person would feel.

Well, duh. Thanks.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 30, 2025 04:01 PM (s8j++)

133 > 119 Why is everyone from Jon Steward to Hunter Biden toasting Jake Tapper?
Posted by: Oglebay at May 30, 2025 03:59 PM (2ap+5)

If a chicken gets injured, the rest of the flock will often peck it to death.

Same thing.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 30, 2025 04:01 PM (qpyNK)

134 Or sidelining Max in a Mad Max movie

Yeah, about that...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:01 PM (2VST1)

135 Or sidelining Max in a Mad Max movie . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 30, 2025 04:00 PM (Aqu9a)

Didn't they do that in Fury Road?

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:02 PM (VofaG)

136 So... in Washington state, a semi carrying bee hives crashed, causing an estimated 250 million bees to be set into the environment. A lot will probably stay near the hives, given that they need a home, but. Free Bees.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 03:56 PM (2VST1)

NOT THE BEES!
Posted by: Nic Cage at May 30, 2025 03:59 PM (Aqu9a)

Send the Texas Bee Lady up there to Save the Beeeeez

Posted by: Oldcat at May 30, 2025 04:02 PM (8avO+)

137 ou can't sideline Reed in an F4 story, he's the core of the team.

According to rumors, Sue Storm is the leader, she ends up the movie battling the Silver Surfer girl and convinces her to attack Galactus. Its hard to know because lots of rumors are swirling around so take that with a grain of salt.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:00 PM (2VST1)
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More stronk empowered girlboss pootie tang. Sounds awesome! Where do I get tixs?

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 30, 2025 04:02 PM (iFTx/)

138 135 Or sidelining Max in a Mad Max movie . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 30, 2025 04:00 PM (Aqu9a)

Didn't they do that in Fury Road?
Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:02 PM (VofaG)

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They've done it in every Mad Max movie since the second one.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

139 Hot Lips is dead

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 30, 2025 04:03 PM (IMBHk)

140
Why is everyone from Jon Steward to Hunter Biden toasting Jake Tapper?
Posted by: Oglebay

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Hunter is?

btw, do we have any reaction to Tapper's book from Jill, Hunter, Joe, Kamala? I know Buttigieg the Principled is saying "We should move forward," but are any of the legitimate suspects saying anything? I might have missed that news if it's happened.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 30, 2025 04:03 PM (n7rxJ)

141 Tapper has basically admitted now that the entire pretext for this book is to provide a back story for the media's incoming 24/7 breathless coverage about Trump having dementia, because nobody with a working brain would say things that make Klaus Schwab's Speedo shrink.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 30, 2025 04:04 PM (2ocoG)

142 "I never got her appeal. She seemed meh looking and kind of creepy to me, like that slag last off the barstool at the truckstop.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor"

She could fill out a green t-shirt.

Posted by: fd at May 30, 2025 04:04 PM (vFG9F)

143 141 Tapper has basically admitted now that the entire pretext for this book is to provide a back story for the media's incoming 24/7 breathless coverage about Trump having dementia, because nobody with a working brain would say things that make Klaus Schwab's Speedo shrink.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 30, 2025 04:04 PM (2ocoG)

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Tapper has admitted that they will continue to attack Trump in the same way the media has attacked Trump since 2015.

So dastardly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)

144 They've done it in every Mad Max movie since the second one.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

He’s in almost every scene in Thunderdome. Just watched it again, still love it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 30, 2025 04:04 PM (i5oKA)

145 144 They've done it in every Mad Max movie since the second one.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

He’s in almost every scene in Thunderdome. Just watched it again, still love it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 30, 2025 04:04 PM (i5oKA)

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He doesn't even drive the action in that one. He's a pawn in the first half and reacting to the girl in the second half.

I also greatly enjoy it, but people have this weird vision of the Mad Max movies that don't actually align with them as they actually are.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

146 He’s in almost every scene in Thunderdome. Just watched it again, still love it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 30, 2025 04:04 PM (i5oKA)

Reminded me I loved the Rick and Morty Thunder Dome episode.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:06 PM (VofaG)

147 CNN host Jake Tapper had his lowest-rated month in nearly a decade in May despite a whirlwind publicity tour
.....

The more he talks the more people hate him.

Posted by: wth at May 30, 2025 04:06 PM (v0R5T)

148 146 Reminded me I loved the Rick and Morty Thunder Dome episode.
Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:06 PM (VofaG)

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First episode of the eighth season was really funny.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:06 PM (GBKbO)

149 That would be as stupid as sidelining the Witcher in the eponymous series in favor of gurlbosses.

Or sidelining Buzz Lightyear in favor of lesbians.

Or sidelining both He-Man and Skeletor in favor of lesbians.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 30, 2025 04:06 PM (2ocoG)

150 ou can't sideline Reed in an F4 story, he's the core of the team.

According to rumors, Sue Storm is the leader, she ends up the movie battling the Silver Surfer girl and convinces her to attack Galactus. Its hard to know because lots of rumors are swirling around so take that with a grain of salt.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:00 PM (2VST1)
_______

More stronk empowered girlboss pootie tang. Sounds awesome! Where do I get tixs?
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 30, 2025 04:02 PM (iFTx/)

She also looks about 50.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 30, 2025 04:07 PM (8avO+)

151 I really liked Thunderdome, but yeah it wasn't as much a Mad Max movie as a film about the setting Mad Max is in. Each movie is really different, but the Fury Road really pissed me off. They took an hour and a half to end up right where they started doing what they should have from the start.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:07 PM (2VST1)

152 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:05 PM (GBK

He doesn't drive the action in Thunder Dome?

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:07 PM (VofaG)

153 So... in Washington state, a semi carrying bee hives crashed, causing an estimated 250 million bees to be set into the environment. A lot will probably stay near the hives, given that they need a home, but. Free Bees.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 03:56 PM (2VST1)
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Aww-aww-aww! My BEES!

Posted by: Gir at May 30, 2025 04:08 PM (HcfrK)

154 152 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:05 PM (GBK

He doesn't drive the action in Thunder Dome?
Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:07 PM (VofaG)

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Nope. He reacts to people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:08 PM (GBKbO)

155 Dear Mr. President (PDJT #'s 45 & 47), Pleasekeep up the heat on the cabal that produced "Trump always chickens out.". I heard that smear first yesterday on Sirius XM. Thanks for steppingdown on TACO in public, transparently, live, on camera. We have endured this Walter Duranty foolishness too long. The "reactions" are symptoms, not spin. I'm cleaning up my own act. Anyone reading should do the same then be thankful for the result.
God bless you.

Posted by: 80's music fan at May 30, 2025 04:08 PM (QSrLX)

156 Jake Tapper blew similar smoke
......

and penises, but mostly penises.

Posted by: wth at May 30, 2025 04:08 PM (v0R5T)

157 All we want is life beyond the Thunderdome.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:08 PM (HcfrK)

158 She also looks about 50

Yeah its not great casting. Pedro is too old too. It wouldn't matter so much in a single movie, but they sign 7 movie deals over a decade or so. She's already pushing against the wall pretty hard and is supposed to be 20-something. Mr Fantastic's graying temples were to represent smarts and experience, not age. He should be in his 30s or 40s at most.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:09 PM (2VST1)

159 Hot Lips is dead
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 30, 2025 04:03 PM (IMBHk)

Cold Lips it is then.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 04:09 PM (6ydKt)

160 Full transparency: I have MOVID-25, also known as "Galloping Monkeypox." You'll need to triple mask around me, because it's gotten into my throat and lungs.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at May 30, 2025 04:10 PM (BI5O2)

161 I love Chic-fil-A, put a hateshake in a cup for me.

Posted by: Eromero at May 30, 2025 04:10 PM (jgmnb)

162 Jake Tapper's woes are funny to watch because he's been such a smug, condescending jackass posing as a centrist "just the facts" news guy for decades now. He's even in hot water for attacking a multiple-decorated combat vet who got his legs blown off, so he cannot retreat to hugging a vet like he usually does.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:10 PM (2VST1)

163 Nope. He reacts to people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:08 PM (GBKb

He's always been a loner who involuntarily gets caught up in wasteland shenanigans.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:10 PM (VofaG)

164 WE ARE THE KILLER BEES

Posted by: Miklos, with Belushian Mexican accent at May 30, 2025 04:11 PM (K6h4I)

165 ou can't sideline Reed in an F4 story, he's the core of the team.

According to rumors, Sue Storm is the leader, she ends up the movie battling the Silver Surfer girl and convinces her to attack Galactus. Its hard to know because lots of rumors are swirling around so take that with a grain of salt.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:00 PM (2VST1)
_______

More stronk empowered girlboss pootie tang. Sounds awesome! Where do I get tixs?
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 30, 2025 04:02 PM (iFTx/)

She also looks about 50.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 30, 2025 04:07 PM (8avO+)
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It's Vanessa Kirby, isn't it? I woulda given her some hot storm based on what she looked like in MI.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 30, 2025 04:11 PM (iFTx/)

166 163 Nope. He reacts to people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:08 PM (GBKb

He's always been a loner who involuntarily gets caught up in wasteland shenanigans.
Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:10 PM (VofaG)

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Yup.

He just shows up, wants some gusoline, and eventually helps other people with their own problems.

He's mostly a cipher for the audience in the world that George Miller creates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:11 PM (GBKbO)

167
This Biden, the one nakedly displaying his narcissism in a Memorial Day speech telling us all again about Hunter and Beau while ignoring people who gave their lives... is the best Biden.

The cowards surrounding this angry old creep and not pushing back his self-pitying narrative hate him far more than the rest of us.

Posted by: Auspex at May 30, 2025 04:12 PM (j4U/Z)

168 There was also a concerted astroturf campaign on twitter with a script (close to) "I dont care about the former President's mental decline, I want to talk the current President's mental state"

Posted by: Fen at May 30, 2025 04:12 PM (ciYHQ)

169 168 There was also a concerted astroturf campaign on twitter with a script (close to) "I dont care about the former President's mental decline, I want to talk the current President's mental state"

Posted by: Fen at May 30, 2025 04:12 PM (ciYHQ)

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"I care about the people who lied about the former president's mental decline. Why should I trust them about the current president's mental state?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:13 PM (GBKbO)

170 This Biden, the one nakedly displaying his narcissism in a Memorial Day speech telling us all again about Hunter and Beau while ignoring people who gave their lives... is the best Biden.

Obama used to do that all the time too, remember? Every time an event happened, he'd get a picture taken of himself in front of it, and make the event about himself

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:13 PM (2VST1)

171 I have to admit I liked Furiosa more than Fury Road.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:14 PM (VofaG)

172 171 I have to admit I liked Furiosa more than Fury Road.
Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:14 PM (VofaG)

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Furiosa's intensity is quieter than Fury Road's.

I prefer Fury Road because that propulsive journey is awesome, but Furiosa has a lot to recommend it as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:14 PM (GBKbO)

173 There was also a concerted astroturf campaign on twitter with a script (close to) "I dont care about the former President's mental decline, I want to talk the current President's mental state"

Posted by: Fen at May 30, 2025 04:12 PM (ciYHQ)
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... and then NOT LISTEN TO HIS DOCTOR!!
--or ANY answer that is NOT what I WANT!!

That's what I care about. What they are NOT telling me about Trump's health!

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:15 PM (HcfrK)

174 Thunderdome made me wish Tina Turner had done more movies; her character and performance were wonderful.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 30, 2025 04:15 PM (i5oKA)

175 That’s why I’m one of those strange people who liked Waterworld.

I just watch it like it’s Mad Max on the ocean with a happy ending.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 04:15 PM (6ydKt)

176 Thunderdome made me wish Tina Turner had done more movies; her character and performance were wonderful.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 30, 2025 04:15 PM (i5oKA)
_________

"Fuck you!"

-- Master

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 30, 2025 04:15 PM (iFTx/)

177 175 That’s why I’m one of those strange people who liked Waterworld.

I just watch it like it’s Mad Max on the ocean with a happy ending.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 04:15 PM (6ydKt)

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I saw it once.

I didn't hate it. It's not like it's The Postman, or anything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:16 PM (GBKbO)

178 Is Jake Tapper liberal or conservative? And does he have a record for deception?

I will tell you what he is not... a journalist. Seems like he's more of an opportunist than a political partisan.

He has VERY LITTLE credibility with me, since he chooses to focus on possible faults of FORMER President Biden, who is water under the bridge, while we have a REAL CRIMINAL
and admirer of Adolph Hitler in office RIGHT NOW...

He's an opportunist and a huckster. I guess all of the centrist, NYT-reading intelligentsia can cluck their tongues and say "I told you so" to each other. They still need to find a way to justify their decision to abandon Biden over his exit from Afghanistan.

He'll be on Maher in a couple days. You can bet it will be a full hour of anti-Biden bashing. I am so glad I haven’t watched that crap for over a year. A complete waste of time.

His character in "The Sound of Music" would be Max Detweiler. Would sell out any Austrian if it made him a buck.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 30, 2025 04:16 PM (ycI94)

179 There was also a concerted astroturf campaign on twitter with a script (close to) "I dont care about the former President's mental decline, I want to talk the current President's mental state"

Yeah they really tried that for a while, I don't think it was working because there's nobody alive who sees mental problems or advanced age in Trump (yet at least).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:16 PM (2VST1)

180 Can only hope Jake crashes and burns into obscurity

Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2025 04:17 PM (ypFCm)

181 "Jake Tapper called me and told me that everyone thinks he should apologize to me"

What a chickensht way to operate.

Posted by: Fen at May 30, 2025 04:17 PM (ciYHQ)

182 178 He has VERY LITTLE credibility with me, since he chooses to focus on possible faults of FORMER President Biden, who is water under the bridge, while we have a REAL CRIMINAL
and admirer of Adolph Hitler in office RIGHT NOW...

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 30, 2025 04:16 PM (ycI94)

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Oooo...admitting that these issues with Biden are possible, eh?

Maybe ask why you thought they were impossible at the time, eh?

Maybe ask who told you they were impossible, eh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:17 PM (GBKbO)

183 I sometimes foolishly wonder how Tapper and people in the legacy media live with themselves given their willingness to lie to others. But then I remind myself that I am assessing one moral universe against another that is completely other. While it is wrong to lie to others, it is even more dangerous to lie to yourself. In the latter you close the door on outside help in exercising the courage to face the chains of self deception.

Posted by: -DC at May 30, 2025 04:17 PM (i3jTa)

184 This Biden, the one nakedly displaying his narcissism in a Memorial Day speech telling us all again about Hunter and Beau while ignoring people who gave their lives... is the best Biden.

The cowards surrounding this angry old creep and not pushing back his self-pitying narrative hate him far more than the rest of us.
Posted by: Auspex at May 30, 2025 04:12 PM

And on brand for Sleepy Joe, he was seven days late for Memorial Day.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 04:18 PM (6ydKt)

185 Thunderdome made me wish Tina Turner had done more movies; her character and performance were wonderful.

Yeah she was great on camera, lot of charisma and she could act.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:18 PM (2VST1)

186 Fury Road was awesome. One of the best movies in the last 15 years. Furiosa less so.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 30, 2025 04:18 PM (yd2/I)

187 Nobody's telling me that Trump has an entirely alien physiology.

So THAT'S what I want to KNOW!

Is he an ALIEN?!

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:19 PM (HcfrK)

188 This article is clearly Ace's desperate attempt to get Jake Tapper to slide back into his DMs.

Posted by: can of spam at May 30, 2025 04:19 PM (7oNMO)

189 That’s why I’m one of those strange people who liked Waterworld.

I just watch it like it’s Mad Max on the ocean with a happy ending.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 04:15 PM (6ydKt)

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I liked Water World but don't take my opinion serious because I didn't hate The postman.

I'm a sucker for post apocalyptic movies. Even the stupid ones.

A recent one that took a different approach and enjoyable to watch is Love and Monsters.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:19 PM (VofaG)

190 The Biden came out of his basement and tried to claim there would be six more weeks of winter, confusing all his fans.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 30, 2025 04:19 PM (/u0kJ)

191 I didn't hate it. It's not like it's The Postman, or anything.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:16 PM (GBKbO

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The Postman is worth it just for Tom Petty as the mayor of the dam

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 04:19 PM (6ydKt)

192 I liked the filthy chick with the fish eyes.

Posted by: wth at May 30, 2025 04:20 PM (v0R5T)

193 I'm a sucker for post apocalyptic movies. Even the stupid ones.

That's fair, I tend to like fantasy movies no matter how terrible they are. especially those 80s ones like Beastmaster and Hawk the Slayer. I know the suck but I like em!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:20 PM (2VST1)

194 I sometimes foolishly wonder how Tapper and people in the legacy media live with themselves given their willingness to lie to others.

Posted by: -DC at May 30, 2025 04:17 PM (i3jTa)
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QED: Narcissism.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:20 PM (HcfrK)

195
Da Tap Man don' 'pologize!

Dat's just how Da Tap Man rolls!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 30, 2025 04:21 PM (Tv15w)

196 The Biden came out of his basement and tried to claim there would be six more weeks of winter, confusing all his fans.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 30, 2025 04:19 PM (/u0kJ)
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And confusing everyone else, who's going, "Biden has fans?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 30, 2025 04:21 PM (7fElN)

197 I'm a sucker for post apocalyptic movies. Even the stupid ones.
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Sooo ... Solar Babies?

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:21 PM (HcfrK)

198 Sooo ... Solar Babies?
Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:21 PM (HcfrK)

There is a limit though it may be high.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:22 PM (VofaG)

199 I have never read it but the Postman book is supposed to be pretty good. Waterworld is basically a rip off of several other previous post apocalyptic stories (but one that makes a hell of a lot less sense than those).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:22 PM (2VST1)

200 Jake Tapper should apologize to me for the fact that I have learned who he is.

Posted by: wth at May 30, 2025 04:23 PM (v0R5T)

201 @183-post by -DC

Exactly. Good post.

Posted by: Case at May 30, 2025 04:23 PM (a1g6Z)

202 while we have a REAL CRIMINAL
and admirer of Adolph Hitler in office RIGHT NOW...

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 30, 2025 04:16 PM (ycI94).

These wacko lefties. "I can imagine Trump admiring Hitler, therefore Trump actually admires Hitler! REEEEEEE!"

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 30, 2025 04:23 PM (rF2iL)

203 can someone please send me their shit in the mail?
i'm starving

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at May 30, 2025 04:23 PM (eyVUP)

204 I'm a sucker for post apocalyptic movies. Even the stupid ones.

A recent one that took a different approach and enjoyable to watch is Love and Monsters.
Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:19 PM (VofaG)
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Although I love science fiction, post-apocalyptic stories tend to be among my least favorite among the genre. They're so depressing. The world sucks and survival sucks even more.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 30, 2025 04:24 PM (7fElN)

205 Sooo ... Solar Babies?
Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:21 PM (HcfrK)

There is a limit though it may be high.
Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:22 PM (VofaG)
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"Hurry, we got to rollerblade to another part of the soundstage!"

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:24 PM (HcfrK)

206 I liked Water World but don't take my opinion serious because I didn't hate The postman.

I'm a sucker for post apocalyptic movies. Even the stupid ones.

A recent one that took a different approach and enjoyable to watch is Love and Monsters.
Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:19 PM (VofaG)

The best parts of Waterworld are the Dennis Hopper scenes.

I still laugh at the poor guy in the bottom of the oil tanker who said “Thank God!” when Costner dropped the lit match down.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 04:25 PM (6ydKt)

207 Posted by: -DC at May 30, 2025 04:17 PM (i3jTa)

The Left live by The Ends Justify the Means. It allows them to lie without shame or guilt. They have no problem living with themselves.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:25 PM (VofaG)

208 A recent one that took a different approach and enjoyable to watch is Love and Monsters.
Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:19 PM (VofaG)
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Although I love science fiction, post-apocalyptic stories tend to be among my least favorite among the genre. They're so depressing. The world sucks and survival sucks even more.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 30, 2025 04:24 PM (7fElN)
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I liked Chaos Walking.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:25 PM (HcfrK)

209
The Biden came out of his basement and tried to claim there would be six more weeks of winter, confusing all his fans.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Even now, DocJill and his sycophants are engaged in talks with the town elders Punxatawny to "put that fat rodent out to pasture" in favor of having J'Blowme take the job.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 30, 2025 04:25 PM (Tv15w)

210 DNC, Inc. wants everyone to focus on Jake Tapper, because no one at DNC, Inc. wants people to notice that the MSM daily talking points came from a single source. A very powerful source. A source that wields the carrot and the stick with - rigor. So, everyone to the left of Steve Doocy shuts up about sources and authority and distribution, and gives Tapper the stink eye, if they know what's good for them.

Posted by: mrp at May 30, 2025 04:25 PM (rj6Yv)

211 The Left live by The Ends Justify the Means. It allows them to lie without shame or guilt. They have no problem living with themselves.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:25 PM (VofaG)
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Because no matter what they do, they are better people than you or I.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:25 PM (HcfrK)

212 I eagerly await Jake's sequel "There's No Fucking Way Joe Biden Got 81 Million Legal Votes In 2020 And I Knew It All Along".

Posted by: JackStraw at May 30, 2025 04:26 PM (viF8m)

213 I liked Water World but don't take my opinion serious because I didn't hate The postman.

I'm a sucker for post apocalyptic movies. Even the stupid ones.

A recent one that took a different approach and enjoyable to watch is Love and Monsters.
Posted by: polynikes

Have you seen Homestead with Neal McDonough?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2025 04:26 PM (ipqug)

214 Although I love science fiction, post-apocalyptic stories tend to be among my least favorite among the genre. They're so depressing. The world sucks and survival sucks even more.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 30, 2025 04:24 PM (7fElN)

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Some can be fun, though.

The Road, in contrast, was totally depressing from start to finish.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 04:26 PM (6ydKt)

215 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at May 30, 2025 04:23 PM (eyVUP)

Yes; Trump is TACO-Totally Authentic Courageous Outsider.
Maybe that's the reason people voted for him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 30, 2025 04:26 PM (EJtBU)

216 I liked Waterworld and The Postman. But I’m kinda goofy.

Posted by: Eromero at May 30, 2025 04:27 PM (jgmnb)

217 RIP Hot Lips Houlihan.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 30, 2025 04:27 PM (W2Pud)

218 Where did all of the water in Waterworld come from?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 30, 2025 04:27 PM (yd2/I)

219
Is Jake Tapper liberal or conservative? And does he have a record for deception?

I guess any genes related to inquisitiveness and curiousity have been bred out of DU types.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 30, 2025 04:27 PM (Tv15w)

220 We're giving Tapper way more coverage than he deserves...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 30, 2025 04:28 PM (VE6XX)

221 I generally like post apocalypse movies, at lest like to see them once for their version

Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2025 04:28 PM (ypFCm)

222 Although I love science fiction, post-apocalyptic stories tend to be among my least favorite among the genre. They're so depressing. The world sucks and survival sucks even more.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 30, 2025 04:24 PM (7fElN)

That's the different take of Love and Monsters.

I like the genre because I've been a prepper since I was a kid and loved all the survivor type books. I actually read Robinson Crusoe when I was very young and cruised through it whereas I couldn't do the same with similar prose books written in that time period.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:28 PM (VofaG)

223 Where did all of the water in Waterworld come from?

Globallal warmening!!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:29 PM (2VST1)

224 Oh. I see I’m behind.

Again.

Oh well.

*pouts in corner*

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 30, 2025 04:29 PM (W2Pud)

225 Storms supposed to roll through se Pa at some point today

Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2025 04:29 PM (ypFCm)

226 I liked Waterworld and The Postman. But I’m kinda goofy.
Posted by: Eromero at May 30, 2025 04:27 PM (jgmnb

Fist bump

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:29 PM (VofaG)

227 Where did all of the water in Waterworld come from?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 30, 2025 04:27 PM (yd2/I)

I always surmised they had figured out some kind of desalination process.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 04:29 PM (6ydKt)

228 Jake Tapper. Is he that squirrely pasty faced homosexual on CNN or is he that other one that looks like the Mickey D's Moon Guy Mac Tonight on MSNBC?

Posted by: Who? at May 30, 2025 04:29 PM (R/m4+)

229 Has Dying Joe managed to beat the crap out of Tapper yet?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 30, 2025 04:29 PM (kTd/k)

230 Where did all of the water in Waterworld come from?

Globallal warmening!!!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
......

If only they had finished that High Speed Rail.

Posted by: wth at May 30, 2025 04:30 PM (v0R5T)

231 New post up

Posted by: Ann at May 30, 2025 04:30 PM (4neFu)

232 Has Dying Joe managed to beat the crap out of Tapper yet?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 30, 2025 04:29 PM (kTd/k)
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I'd pay to watch that.

It's a no lose situation.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:31 PM (HcfrK)

233 I always surmised they had figured out some kind of desalination process.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 04:29 PM (6ydKt)

Not their drinking water. Nearly the whole world was covered with water, though. Even if you melted every piece of ice on Earth sea levels would never come close to rising thousands of feet.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 30, 2025 04:31 PM (yd2/I)

234 "However, Marvel having lost its ability to tell stories is probably the bigger issue"

They remind me of That Guy who's up $50k at the blackjack table and is selling his watch an hour later. Know when to take the win.

Infinity was great, but a little exhausting. But then came all the woke hijackings so no one trusts them anymore. Maybe they have children who can place them in a retirement villa for their own safety?

They could run Days Of Future Past and stick the landing and it wouldn't make a difference.

Posted by: Fen at May 30, 2025 04:31 PM (ciYHQ)

235 Agree if Leftists are bailing ot on Tapper we shouldn't pay him any publicly.

Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2025 04:32 PM (ypFCm)

236 Just finished listening to the audio version of Tapper's so-called "expose." It is nothing of the sort. It is nothing more than a partisan apologia for Democrats all in an effort to tee up the new mission: investigate Trump and his health and his corrupt family's activities. That's it. They beatify Joe, they beatify the inner circle - the "politburo" who was acting with nothing but devotion and fidelity for a man they've known for decades, doncha' know - they even beatify Kamala and try to convince the reader that Joe and she were actually quite fond of each other and she was oh, so protective and respectful of him.

Not one Democrat is painted in a jaundiced light. Not one. But Tapper and Thompson are sure to get their licks in about Trump and Republicans. The difference in treatment is in sharp relief when they go through the reactions to the disastrous debate. Tapper is a joke.

Posted by: NAB at May 30, 2025 04:33 PM (3sHsl)

237 218 Where did all of the water in Waterworld come from?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 30, 2025 04:27 PM (yd2/I
Read the story in Genesis.

Posted by: Eromero at May 30, 2025 04:38 PM (jgmnb)

238 Sally Kellerman and Loretta Swit are gone. No more HotLips. Hollywood says "remake"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 30, 2025 04:38 PM (O8bOp)

239 224 Oh. I see I’m behind.

Again.

Oh well.

*pouts in corner*
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 30, 2025 04:29 PM (W2Pud
Certainly not ALL behind?

Posted by: Eromero at May 30, 2025 04:45 PM (jgmnb)

240
Current pre-DEI on-air legacy media personalities are constituted as following:

50% LBGBTQ

50% Black

50% White kill whitey lefties.

Hey, it's their math.

Posted by: Auspex at May 30, 2025 04:59 PM (j4U/Z)

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