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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Open Thread: Lady Gaga at Half-Time

Open Thread: Lady Gaga at Half-Time

by Anne Laurie|  February 5, 20178:40 pm| 193 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Popular Culture, Your Place Is In The Resistance

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WOW. Amazing.@ladygaga's #PepsiHalftime Show! ?#SB51 https://t.co/z9vCKRBKkC

— NFL (@NFL) February 6, 2017


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Let’s see if this works… (okay, it comes up in a new tab on my machine, but you can watch the whole show there)…

Don’t know whether Alex Jones will be disappointed or not:

UPDATE: It still says 'bowel.' pic.twitter.com/16yNdL0Nr4

— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 5, 2017

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  1. 1.

    ? Martin

    February 5, 2017 at 8:43 pm

    I’m disappointed. Haven’t been to a good satanic ritual in a while. She could have really brought it. Oh well, the singing and dancing was really good regardless.

  2. 2.

    Yarrow

    February 5, 2017 at 8:44 pm

    She did a good job. It wasn’t my favorite halftime show, which will probably always be Prince, but I enjoyed it. I like Gaga a lot.

  3. 3.

    Roger Moore

    February 5, 2017 at 8:46 pm

    Don’t know whether Alex Jones will be disappointed or not:

    He will claim either:

    A) that was a Sataic ritual

    B) she had to give up her ritual because he revealed her plan.

  4. 4.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 8:47 pm

    @? Martin:

    If she’d sacrificed Alex Jones to Trump, I’d have been satisfied with that.

  5. 5.

    Yarrow

    February 5, 2017 at 8:48 pm

    Bill Nye! Stupid commercial but fun to see him.

  6. 6.

    Suzanne

    February 5, 2017 at 8:48 pm

    Okay, the Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg/Lion commercial for T-Mobile was the best one.

  7. 7.

    Askew

    February 5, 2017 at 8:49 pm

    It was a fine Super Bowl performance, but she really suffers from not having enough iconic songs to make an interesting half-time show. But anything was going to be a step down after Beyonce’s performance.

  8. 8.

    Shana

    February 5, 2017 at 8:51 pm

    @Suzanne: “Can of bisque?”

  9. 9.

    Yarrow

    February 5, 2017 at 8:51 pm

    @Suzanne: That made me laugh. “Pot? Can of bisque?”

  10. 10.

    Jeffro

    February 5, 2017 at 8:54 pm

    Who cares?
    COSMIC JUSTICE IS BEING ADMINISTERED IN HOUSTON!!!

  11. 11.

    Suzanne

    February 5, 2017 at 8:55 pm

    @Yarrow: @Shana: I love Martha. She doesn’t take herself too seriously.

  12. 12.

    Yarrow

    February 5, 2017 at 8:55 pm

    So much winning the Patriots are tired of winning!

  13. 13.

    gwangung

    February 5, 2017 at 8:55 pm

    @efgoldman:
    No. Not ENOUGH.

  14. 14.

    japa21

    February 5, 2017 at 8:56 pm

    Make sure you see the rest of the 84 commercial. Very powerful and a slap in the face of the Trumpsters.

  15. 15.

    Suzanne

    February 5, 2017 at 8:57 pm

    @efgoldman: SAD!

  16. 16.

    Yarrow

    February 5, 2017 at 8:57 pm

    Ha ha! “Robert Kraft has never experienced anything like this in the Super Bowl.”

  17. 17.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    February 5, 2017 at 8:58 pm

    Hair! Four years of bad hair!

    ROFLASTC

  18. 18.

    max

    February 5, 2017 at 8:58 pm

    UPDATE: It still says ‘bowel.’

    Well, of course it does – not only do they hate Lady Gaga because she didn’t accept their recent invitation to their basement to watch crap anti-Hillary videos and play ‘Cards against Humanity’ but also football is a communist plot instituted by the libtards and only liked by girls.

    Football hasn’t been good since the days of that vibrating steel whatchamacallit and the plastic players.

    max
    [‘I bet they couldn’t score a date with a juggalo.’]

  19. 19.

    tofubo

    February 5, 2017 at 8:58 pm

    Amazing up until the point she did not call President Bannon’s play toy a fucking racist imbecile on live tv, place in time lost.

  20. 20.

    Yarrow

    February 5, 2017 at 8:59 pm

    @Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: I loved that commercial. And some of that hair was…wow!

  21. 21.

    japa21

    February 5, 2017 at 8:59 pm

    This game is making me feel better about the Packer loss

  22. 22.

    Another Scott

    February 5, 2017 at 8:59 pm

    @japa21: The full 84 ad journey on YouTube (5:44)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  23. 23.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 8:59 pm

    @Yarrow:

    It’s a massive negative victory! Trumpslide!

  24. 24.

    Suzanne

    February 5, 2017 at 9:00 pm

    @Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: That was really funny. Especially because I just saw the video of the baby with the hairdryer about half an hour ago.

  25. 25.

    JPL

    February 5, 2017 at 9:00 pm

    @japa21: It was the packers game that convinced me that this team could win.

  26. 26.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    February 5, 2017 at 9:02 pm

    The look of abject defeat on Bob Kraft’s face is juicy delicious.

    yum!

  27. 27.

    japa21

    February 5, 2017 at 9:03 pm

    Brady is shook. Not playing all that well.

  28. 28.

    tofubo

    February 5, 2017 at 9:03 pm

    @Morzer:

    Need more ties !!!

  29. 29.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    February 5, 2017 at 9:03 pm

    @Askew:

    I’m not a big modern music fan. I knew all five of the songs she sang. I thought she was excellent. Also, Bruno Mars and Coldplay make for pretty good backup singers.

  30. 30.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    February 5, 2017 at 9:03 pm

    there’s 3 to 5 million illegal aliens playing for the Falcons!

  31. 31.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 9:03 pm

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:

    We want more!!!

  32. 32.

    Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA

    February 5, 2017 at 9:05 pm

    It was the Giants beating the undefeated Pats in… 2007? 2008? that made me like football. I do enjoy seeing the Patriots lose.

  33. 33.

    Shana

    February 5, 2017 at 9:05 pm

    @Suzanne: The show she does with Snoop is pretty funny.

  34. 34.

    Baud

    February 5, 2017 at 9:06 pm

    Haha. Missed extra point.

  35. 35.

    scav

    February 5, 2017 at 9:06 pm

    Only thing larger than the Patriot’s lead is Trump’s inaugural (alternative) audience.

  36. 36.

    Suzanne

    February 5, 2017 at 9:06 pm

    HAHAHAHA they missed the extra point.

  37. 37.

    Baud

    February 5, 2017 at 9:06 pm

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: Win.

  38. 38.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 9:07 pm

    And the Trumpriots miss an extra point! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Yuuuge yuuumiliation!

  39. 39.

    trnc

    February 5, 2017 at 9:07 pm

    @Morzer: So if NE loses, which ref will be tweetshamed for throwing the game to the hellscape represented by John Lewis?

  40. 40.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 9:08 pm

    @trnc:

    All of them, Katie!

    So corrupt! Sad! We don’t win any more with this terrible president!

    #TrumpCurse

  41. 41.

    lollipopguild

    February 5, 2017 at 9:08 pm

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: That’s why they are winning!

  42. 42.

    Yarrow

    February 5, 2017 at 9:09 pm

    What in the world is going on?

  43. 43.

    Baud

    February 5, 2017 at 9:09 pm

    Trump’s such an ass, I bet he invites the Patriots to the White House anyway. Will claim they won.

  44. 44.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 9:10 pm

    The Trumpriots are melting down in the heat of a real game.

    I LOVE THIS SUPERB OWL AND I ALWAYS WILL!!!!

    Another Gostkowski bumble!

  45. 45.

    Politically Lost

    February 5, 2017 at 9:11 pm

    Walking Dead!

  46. 46.

    Yarrow

    February 5, 2017 at 9:11 pm

    @Politically Lost: I loved that commercial!

  47. 47.

    Suzanne

    February 5, 2017 at 9:13 pm

    I am trying to figure out how to copy/paste Richard Spencer’s tweet about how he is rooting for the Patriots because they are America’s whitest team.

    SAD!

  48. 48.

    tofubo

    February 5, 2017 at 9:13 pm

    Why isn’t a penalty applied against the repubs when they touch the kickoff w/in 10 yards? They’ve been doing so since at least 1981…

  49. 49.

    Baud

    February 5, 2017 at 9:13 pm

    @Suzanne: Haha. I hadn’t heard that. How Jesse Owens.

  50. 50.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 5, 2017 at 9:13 pm

    per pool reports, Trump has left his own Super Bowl party

    (A Baywatch movie? somewhere on a laptop in a coffee shop in LA or Brooklyn or Austin or Omaha is a brilliant original screenplay that will never be read other than by the writer’s mom and roommate)

  51. 51.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 5, 2017 at 9:15 pm

    @Suzanne: I just go to a regular Safari page and copy and paste
    Richard ? SpencerVerified account
    ‏@ RichardBSpencer
    Rooting for the Pats!

    1/ Belichick & Brady support Trump
    2/ Three White widereceivers
    3/ Consistently NFL’s whitest team
    4/ ATL is dreadful

  52. 52.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 9:15 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Trump has left his own Super Bowl party

    Loser! Sad! Bigly!

  53. 53.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 9:16 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I guess we can leave it to the Falcons to punch the Nazi in the mouth this time.

  54. 54.

    Roger Moore

    February 5, 2017 at 9:17 pm

    @Yarrow:

    Robert Kraft has never experienced anything like this in the Super Bowl.

    They’ve never been involved in a blowout in the Kraft/Belichick/Brady Super Bowls. They’ve all been within a touchdown, both wins and losses.

  55. 55.

    Chris T.

    February 5, 2017 at 9:18 pm

    This might be a smidge too early to call, but:

    The Patriots win due to the Electoral College. Spicer insists that the popular win for the Falcons was the result of touchdown fraud.

  56. 56.

    Suzanne

    February 5, 2017 at 9:18 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: on my iPad, I use the Twitter app. Copy/paste is not so seamless.

    Fuck Spencer and his little frog.

    I bet that’s what he calls his penis.

  57. 57.

    Another Scott

    February 5, 2017 at 9:18 pm

    This is a real Superb Owl!

    (via ScienceMarchDC)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  58. 58.

    Suzanne

    February 5, 2017 at 9:19 pm

    Oh, shit, I got stuck in moderation for referring to male anatomy.

  59. 59.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 5, 2017 at 9:20 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    per pool reports, Trump has left his own Super Bowl party

    Hahahaha, is that for real?

  60. 60.

    Paul

    February 5, 2017 at 9:20 pm

    Why do they hate America?

  61. 61.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    February 5, 2017 at 9:22 pm

    Wow. Definite trend in commercial themes tonight.

  62. 62.

    Ronnie Pudding

    February 5, 2017 at 9:22 pm

    Anyone want to wager on whether Trump throws the Pats under the bus? “They were the worst.”

    He’s not exactly loyal to his supporters.

  63. 63.

    Tokyokie

    February 5, 2017 at 9:22 pm

    Instead of “BOWEL LI,” I think Jones meant to write, “Bao Li,” who’s a prominent Chinese gastroenterologist. Darn that spell-check!

  64. 64.

    gene108

    February 5, 2017 at 9:22 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    Largest Pats win was against the Seahawks by four. All three other wins were by three. Two losses to Giants were by three (I think).

    They did come back from 10 down in the 4th quarter against the Seahawks.

  65. 65.

    PaulW

    February 5, 2017 at 9:23 pm

    Patriots miss the extra point doinking it off the goalpost.

    BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAHAHAHAHAAHEHAHAHAHA

    I’m not a Falcons fan, but to hell with the Patriots.

  66. 66.

    PaulW

    February 5, 2017 at 9:23 pm

    MVP voting is open now. go with Alford.

  67. 67.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 5, 2017 at 9:23 pm

    Isaac ‏@ isaacccccccccc 2h2 hours ago
    More
    Hillary Clinton should have used some of her leftover campaign cash to buy 30 seconds where she just says “Still worried about my emails?”

    @SiubhanDuinne: would I lie to you?

    Chris JansingVerified account
    ‏@ ChrisJansing
    Report from Trump Int’l Golf Course that President Trump is leaving the Super Bowl party with his team trailing.Reince Priebus is w/ him.

    Reince PRiebus trailing behind…. Renfield. Wormtongue. Reince.

  68. 68.

    hilts

    February 5, 2017 at 9:25 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Trump has left his own Super Bowl party

    He had to get his diaper changed.

  69. 69.

    rikyrah

    February 5, 2017 at 9:26 pm

    @Another Scott:
    That was a powerful ad.

  70. 70.

    waysel

    February 5, 2017 at 9:26 pm

    Funny anti Trump chant in Brighton : . Hey Donald Trump, I wanna know-ho-ho, why you’re such a cunt.

  71. 71.

    Suzanne

    February 5, 2017 at 9:27 pm

    It’s hard not to see this as a proxy for Trump v. John Lewis, and Sane America v. sTrumpets.

  72. 72.

    waysel

    February 5, 2017 at 9:27 pm

    No reply.

  73. 73.

    donnah

    February 5, 2017 at 9:28 pm

    The announcers sure do like the Patriots. You’d never know the Falcons were playing, much less leading.

  74. 74.

    Suzanne

    February 5, 2017 at 9:28 pm

    Trump leaving his Super Bowl party? Does the snowflake need a safe space?

  75. 75.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 5, 2017 at 9:28 pm

    and for anyone not on twitter, you’re missing shots of the saddest Super Bowl party outside of New England.

    I wonder if Melania and Tiffany have bonded, and are plotting to bring this whole thing down just to spite Ivanka.

  76. 76.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 9:28 pm

    I am sure it’s just a wicked rumor that Trump bet Putin Alaska that the Trumpriots would win.

  77. 77.

    Emma

    February 5, 2017 at 9:28 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Renfield. Definitely Renfield. Flies and all.

  78. 78.

    Iowa Old Lady

    February 5, 2017 at 9:29 pm

    In honor of the Super Bowl, I rewatched Bruce Springsteen’s half time show on You Tube.

  79. 79.

    Mary G

    February 5, 2017 at 9:29 pm

    Most of my twitter feeds have stopped talking about the SB and are on to today’s NYT article “Trump and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles”

    Gobsmacking to the max:

    Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room. Visitors conclude their meetings and then wander around, testing doorknobs until finding one that leads to an exit.

    and

    Mr. Priebus bristles at the perception that he occupies a diminished perch in the West Wing pecking order compared with previous chiefs. But for the moment, Mr. Bannon remains the president’s dominant adviser, despite Mr. Trump’s anger that he was not fully briefed on details of the executive order he signed giving his chief strategist a seat on the National Security Council, a greater source of frustration to the president than the fallout from the travel ban.

    The rats are coming off the sinking ship in droves!

  80. 80.

    debbie

    February 5, 2017 at 9:29 pm

    .

  81. 81.

    Another Scott

    February 5, 2017 at 9:30 pm

    @rikyrah: Indeed. It was very well done.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  82. 82.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 9:30 pm

    @PaulW:

    This I strongly agree with. Alford’s played a great game.

  83. 83.

    Timurid

    February 5, 2017 at 9:30 pm

    @Suzanne:

    Important Twitter business. He has a bet with Bannon that he can start an India-Pakistan war in 15 tweets or less.

  84. 84.

    Karen

    February 5, 2017 at 9:31 pm

    @tofubo:

    What would be the point of that? People would tune her out. She made a subtle point when she did “Born this Way.”

  85. 85.

    hovercraft

    February 5, 2017 at 9:37 pm

    @debbie:
    ;- )

  86. 86.

    Another Scott

    February 5, 2017 at 9:38 pm

    @efgoldman: I did too! Worst Christmas present Ever!!!111

    There should have been a class-action lawsuit against whoever came up with that stupid thing!11

    :-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  87. 87.

    tofubo

    February 5, 2017 at 9:38 pm

    I left [email protected] and qent to Cingular and got absorbed by the borg yet again, did a NOT RECOMMENDED SWAP TO SPRINT, then be on T-goingMobile ever since, that was a good commerc

  88. 88.

    Betty

    February 5, 2017 at 9:38 pm

    @Another Scott: Love the ad. Just pleasantly surprised that 84 Lumber is that enlightened

  89. 89.

    amk

    February 5, 2017 at 9:40 pm

    know jacksquat about murkan ‘football’, but rooting for the team the trumpanzees are rooting against.

  90. 90.

    schrodingers_cat

    February 5, 2017 at 9:41 pm

    @Timurid: As awful as Nawaz Shareef and Modi may be, they have better sense and more political savvy than the current head of this country.

    ETA: That statement probably applies almost any country in the world.

  91. 91.

    Roger Moore

    February 5, 2017 at 9:42 pm

    @efgoldman:
    At least Dogfish Head came up with a good use for them; they were used as part of the continuous hops addition in their 60, 90, and 120 minute IPSs.

  92. 92.

    Beth in VA

    February 5, 2017 at 9:42 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: spell it out for me. That’s not his real tweet. Please tell me it’s satire.

  93. 93.

    Gin & Tonic

    February 5, 2017 at 9:43 pm

    Was that Dennis Hopper?

  94. 94.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 9:43 pm

    @Beth in VA:

    It’s authentic. Authentically stupid and dreadful.

  95. 95.

    efgoldman

    February 5, 2017 at 9:44 pm

    @Mary G:

    Mr. Trump’s anger that he was not fully briefed on details of the executive order he signed

    What.
    The.
    Ever.
    Loving.
    Fuck!

    How the fuck did the asshole run his businesses?

    [Yeah, I know: Really badly.]

  96. 96.

    Mike in NC

    February 5, 2017 at 9:44 pm

    @Mary G: Simply unreal.

  97. 97.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 9:45 pm

    @Beth in VA:

    Richard ? SpencerVerified account
    ‏@RichardBSpencer

    I literally think I could choreograph a dance number better than Lady Gaga’s tasteless, trashy clusterfuck.

    In case you hoped his musical criticism was any better.

  98. 98.

    japa21

    February 5, 2017 at 9:46 pm

    That was a great play

  99. 99.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 9:47 pm

    @efgoldman:

    *cough* Went bankrupt running a casino *cough*

  100. 100.

    debbie

    February 5, 2017 at 9:47 pm

    @hovercraft:

    Always the bridesmaid…

  101. 101.

    Chet Murthy

    February 5, 2017 at 9:47 pm

    @tofubo: Google Fi, mang. Google Fi. I was on Tmo for >10yr, switched a few months ago. Love it. Cheaper (half the price), and better cell signal. B/c …. they buy from Sprint -and- Tmo, so you get the UNION of the two networks! And wifi calling works flawlessly.

  102. 102.

    MomSense

    February 5, 2017 at 9:47 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Whenever you hear people say run government like a business, be afraid. be very afraid. W was famously the first “CEO President”. That worked out grrreat.

    Lifelong Pats fan rooting for the Falcons.

  103. 103.

    danielx

    February 5, 2017 at 9:48 pm

    If Pats win, there are four possible explanations:

    a) vaporous hominid in the sky is on their side
    b) the devil is on their side
    c) both a and b
    d) they deserve it
    e) both c and d

    Naaaaahhh…..overthinking this. B.

  104. 104.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 9:48 pm

    @efgoldman:

    *cough* Went bankrupt running a cas.ino *cough*

    I guess his business degree from Trump University didn’t include that “Read the documents before you sign them” thing.

  105. 105.

    Baud

    February 5, 2017 at 9:48 pm

    What a catch.

  106. 106.

    Iowa Old Lady

    February 5, 2017 at 9:49 pm

    @efgoldman: Maybe Sam B is right and he can’t read. Thus he relies on the briefing.

  107. 107.

    Gindy51

    February 5, 2017 at 9:49 pm

    I warned my husband not to count the Patriots out, I learned my lesson back in November….

  108. 108.

    tofubo

    February 5, 2017 at 9:49 pm

    @Karen:

    Don’t want or need subtle, in your (his actually) fucking face.

    Think Colbert. The ONLY person, to HIS FACE, called out the shrub. #washingtonpresscirclejerk

  109. 109.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 9:50 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    Maybe he can’t write either and that’s why his signature always comes out as “V.Putin”.

  110. 110.

    Mike in NC

    February 5, 2017 at 9:50 pm

    @MomSense: First MBA President, but just as useless.

  111. 111.

    Gindy51

    February 5, 2017 at 9:51 pm

    @Morzer: Laundering money…

  112. 112.

    tobie

    February 5, 2017 at 9:52 pm

    @efgoldman: Some of the little touches in the article, like the fact that he was more concerned about the drapes in the Oval Office than the orders he was signing, were particularly telling. The man is an idiot. He doesn’t read, study issues. He’s a “dress-up” President, with either Bannon, Reince-and-Repeat, or Paul Ryan pulling the strings.

  113. 113.

    Suzanne

    February 5, 2017 at 9:53 pm

    @Morzer: He is welcome to try. He could have a whole chorus line of Nazis.

    I have noticed that it always seems to be women that provoke the “that sucks and I could do SO MUCH BETTER reaction” from dudes. Take from that what you will.

  114. 114.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 9:53 pm

    @tobie:

    But, but.. Steve Bannon is a superb genius Machiavellian. It’s all a cunning plan!

  115. 115.

    Baud

    February 5, 2017 at 9:53 pm

    Damn, Atlanta.

  116. 116.

    japa21

    February 5, 2017 at 9:54 pm

    Here we go.

  117. 117.

    Another Scott

    February 5, 2017 at 9:54 pm

    @Betty: They know who their customers are.

    You’ve seen the guys with their beat-up pickup trucks who are at the home improvement warehouses like 84 at all hours of the day and night, right? ;-)

    Plus, it’s the right thing, too.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  118. 118.

    hilts

    February 5, 2017 at 9:54 pm

    @Mary G:

    At this rate, they’ll be several kiss and tell books from WH staffers hitting bookstores before the midterm elections.

  119. 119.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 9:55 pm

    @Suzanne:

    Why is it that the representatives of the master race always seem to be pudgy, pig-faced morons? Sometimes I really do suspect that they might not be superior at all!

  120. 120.

    tofubo

    February 5, 2017 at 9:56 pm

    @Karen:

    Don’t want or need subtle, in your (his actually) fucking face.

    Think Colbert. The ONLY person, to HIS FACE, called out the shrub. #[email protected]Chet Murthy:

    Sprint cauffed up a $1800 bill on me AFTER I paid in full to close the account. Fuck them with a Trump Tie wrapped brass brick.

  121. 121.

    SRW1

    February 5, 2017 at 9:56 pm

    @Morzer:

    Does it involve goose stepping?

  122. 122.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    February 5, 2017 at 9:57 pm

    That InfoWars stuff at the top is straight out of Approved News 6.

  123. 123.

    PaulW

    February 5, 2017 at 9:57 pm

    cmon Falcons D step up here

  124. 124.

    Suzanne

    February 5, 2017 at 9:57 pm

    @Morzer: You too have noticed that the Nazis among us are unattractive? (Often also no great shakes in the intellect department.)

    We had a cadre of white supremacists at my high school. Every one of them was some combination of overweight, zitty, smelly, poorly dressed, and stupid.

  125. 125.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 9:58 pm

    @SRW1:

    I would guess that pig-fucking was more Dick Spencer’s style.

  126. 126.

    japa21

    February 5, 2017 at 9:59 pm

    Unreal

  127. 127.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 9:59 pm

    @Suzanne:

    I mean, they keep insisting that they are tall, blonde, muscular Aryan warriors, but somehow those particular specimens never seem to be around.

  128. 128.

    PaulW

    February 5, 2017 at 10:01 pm

    fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fcuk

  129. 129.

    Another Scott

    February 5, 2017 at 10:03 pm

    @efgoldman: But Donnie made everyone sign NDAs that they would never say anything bad about him or his businesses or his children or any of his heirs or his successors and heirs until the end of time, amen.

    Or at least that’s what we’ve been told.

    Presumably they could just do a reverse Clifford Irving to get around that, but Donnie’s “best people” don’t seem to be very clever.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  130. 130.

    Suzanne

    February 5, 2017 at 10:03 pm

    @efgoldman: One dude literally wore the same Nine Inch Nails shirt Every. Single. Day. I don’t know if/when it ever got washed. I hope he changed his underwear more frequently.

  131. 131.

    MomSense

    February 5, 2017 at 10:03 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    I know all about his HBS days. Anyway he also said he was going to be a CEO President. Problem is all his previous businesses were failures.

  132. 132.

    NoraLenderbee

    February 5, 2017 at 10:04 pm

    Pretty good game once New England decided to show up.

  133. 133.

    Baud

    February 5, 2017 at 10:05 pm

    Wow. Comes down to the 2 pt conversation.

  134. 134.

    scav

    February 5, 2017 at 10:06 pm

    But note also that they of NE seemingly couldn’t get their act together until the Orange Twit stomped out of his superbowl party in the offical Huffmobile. I mean, that could very well be all we need to get the national back in the game, him leaving . . .

  135. 135.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 5, 2017 at 10:06 pm

    oh my god

  136. 136.

    japa21

    February 5, 2017 at 10:07 pm

    Reminding me of the Packer Seahawks game of a couple years ago.

  137. 137.

    Yarrow

    February 5, 2017 at 10:07 pm

    I cannot believe this.

  138. 138.

    J R in WV

    February 5, 2017 at 10:07 pm

    well, that was a good drive… GDamit.

  139. 139.

    Suzanne

    February 5, 2017 at 10:07 pm

    That didn’t look like the ball crossed the line. I am skeptical. It looked like the ball never crossed the line to me.

  140. 140.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 10:07 pm

    @scav:

    #TrumpCurse

  141. 141.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    February 5, 2017 at 10:07 pm

    @Baud: Dude in Vegas still lost his 1 million bet. Probably was Steep.

  142. 142.

    ? Martin

    February 5, 2017 at 10:07 pm

    Say what you will, Brady and Belichick are really fucking good at this football thing.

  143. 143.

    Onkel Fritze

    February 5, 2017 at 10:07 pm

    Who doesn’t like a good comeback story.

  144. 144.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 10:08 pm

    @Suzanne:

    It broke the plane. It doesn’t have to completely cross the line.

  145. 145.

    2liberal

    February 5, 2017 at 10:08 pm

    LOL how do you like that , patriots haters!

    it aint over yet

  146. 146.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 10:09 pm

    Well, peeps, ain’t this an interesting time?

  147. 147.

    gene108

    February 5, 2017 at 10:10 pm

    Why do you not take a knee in the end zone? Get it on the 25.

  148. 148.

    Baud

    February 5, 2017 at 10:10 pm

    I don’t care for either team, but I was hoping to make the haters sad.

    I’ll be happy for Goldman.

  149. 149.

    hilts

    February 5, 2017 at 10:11 pm

    @efgoldman:

    i hear that Trump is getting his PDBs on construction paper written in crayon.

  150. 150.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 10:12 pm

    @Suzanne:

    Something involving skulls and blood, at a guess.

  151. 151.

    Victor Matheson

    February 5, 2017 at 10:12 pm

    @? Martin: absolutely right. Ridiculously good. Heads and shoulders above what anyone else has ever done in this sport.

  152. 152.

    Suzanne

    February 5, 2017 at 10:12 pm

    @efgoldman: Oh, lord no. I let him know how repugnant I found him and his friends. If I remembered his last name, I would look him up and see how many teeth he has left. I’m sure he’s gotten his fair share of Nazi punches.

  153. 153.

    Chet Murthy

    February 5, 2017 at 10:13 pm

    OT Question: uh …. maybe it’s been discussed to death already, but could somebody point me to something to help me understand why Wilmer is held in such low regard around here? I mean, I understand that (uh) diehard Wilmer-bros/bots have a lot to answer for (hooboy do they) but my understanding was that he’d done a creditable job of supporting Hillary from the convention on, and hasn’t displayed any more signs of blacksliding than yer average long-time Dem pol? I mean, he’s not as bad as Feinstein, I thought?

    Am I missing something? Asking seriously.

  154. 154.

    Yarrow

    February 5, 2017 at 10:14 pm

    Did they just say this is the first overtime game in Super Bowl history?

  155. 155.

    tofubo

    February 5, 2017 at 10:14 pm

    Whut whut whut, there was NO FBI intervention, whut the fuck up ??

  156. 156.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 10:14 pm

    If Atlanta does end up losing this thing, someone needs to ask Matt Ryan what part of throw the football away he needs to review. He’s taken several sacks that were absolutely idiotic.

  157. 157.

    japa21

    February 5, 2017 at 10:15 pm

    This game can be decided by a coin toss.

  158. 158.

    Baud

    February 5, 2017 at 10:15 pm

    @Yarrow: Yep.

    @Morzer: Yep.

  159. 159.

    Mike J

    February 5, 2017 at 10:16 pm

    @Morzer: Three holding calls on one Pats drive is what killed them.

  160. 160.

    EBT

    February 5, 2017 at 10:17 pm

    Dear open thread: I have conquered the mighty CSS beast.

  161. 161.

    khead

    February 5, 2017 at 10:18 pm

    If (when?) the Falcons go on to lose, Julio Jones should sue his coaches for negligence.

  162. 162.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 10:19 pm

    @Mike J:

    Eh, that’s sorta true, but Ryan has lost them field position by taking unnecessary sacks at the worst possible time on several drives. You expect to have one bad drive defensively against any good team, but Ryan has screwed up pretty egregiously multiple times, which isn’t what you expect from a quality QB.

  163. 163.

    efgoldman

    February 5, 2017 at 10:19 pm

    @Chet Murthy:

    I mean, he’s not as bad as Feinstein

    DiFi never ran for president, and didn’t slag HRC.

  164. 164.

    J R in WV

    February 5, 2017 at 10:19 pm

    @Suzanne:

    Any part of the ball across the front of the line, and that’s about all he got. That is all it took, tho,

  165. 165.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 10:20 pm

    It’s starting to look as if Atlanta has just run out of energy at the worst possible time.

  166. 166.

    Onkel Fritze

    February 5, 2017 at 10:21 pm

    @Mike J: Wasn’t that the same drive they eventually intercepted the ball and returned for a TD?

  167. 167.

    The Thin Black Duke

    February 5, 2017 at 10:22 pm

    If the Pats win this game, it’s gonna seriously bum me out, man. Fuck.

  168. 168.

    opiejeanne

    February 5, 2017 at 10:22 pm

    @efgoldman: She also didn’t slag Obama, saying he should be primaried.

  169. 169.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 10:22 pm

    @Onkel Fritze:

    Indeed it was. Which does dent the theory of the three holding calls wrecked the Falcons just a touch.

  170. 170.

    Smiling Mortician

    February 5, 2017 at 10:23 pm

    @Mary G: Holy hell. The last sentence is quite a punchline: Trump’s father’s middle name was “Christ”? Are you fucking kidding me?

  171. 171.

    Chet Murthy

    February 5, 2017 at 10:23 pm

    @efgoldman: Is this -pre-convention-, -pre-election-, or post-election? Just wanna be sure of what’s goin’ on.

    Full disclosure: I made $100 betting a guy that he’d endorse her before the convention.

  172. 172.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    February 5, 2017 at 10:23 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    Fact-based (and horrifying) piece on the question of whether SCROTUS* can read.

    * “So-called ruler of the United States.” Want to help make this a thing.

  173. 173.

    japa21

    February 5, 2017 at 10:24 pm

    True. I may hate the Pats, but have to admire their skills

  174. 174.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    February 5, 2017 at 10:24 pm

    @Chet Murthy: He stayed in the primary long after it was unrealistic to do so, which weakened potential support for HRC. His requests that Bbros support HRC was unenthusiastic. And he’s a bombastic, condescending fool who was never a Dem but joined just to run for in 2016. Plus his campaign had ties to Russia too. But that’s just my take.

  175. 175.

    amk

    February 5, 2017 at 10:24 pm

    @Chet Murthy: wilmer = not a dem.

  176. 176.

    Yarrow

    February 5, 2017 at 10:25 pm

    FUCK!!!!!

  177. 177.

    Chet Murthy

    February 5, 2017 at 10:26 pm

    @Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: Oh, interesting. “ties to Russia”? I hadn’t read about that. A pointer? Again, asking seriously.

    re: “never a Dem”, I take your point on that. I was …. off-put by the way he left the Dem party at the earliest possible oppty.

  178. 178.

    NoraLenderbee

    February 5, 2017 at 10:26 pm

    Aw, crap. I hate these sudden death wins.

  179. 179.

    Suzanne

    February 5, 2017 at 10:26 pm

    Ugh. Once again, it feels like the Nazis won.

  180. 180.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2017 at 10:26 pm

    And the Falcons collapse and throw it all away. Oh well.

    Also, why are we playing another round of Democratic civil war? What can anyone gain from this singularly stupid round of conspiracy theories and allegations based on nothing? Except Trump, of course.

    Just remember: Democrats need Clinton voters and Bernie voters to have a hope of winning. So use your brains for a change and stop fighting each other. 2016 is done, finished, fucked. Don’t make it so that 2018 and 2020 turn out the same way by stupidly fighting each other rather than the real enemy.

  181. 181.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    February 5, 2017 at 10:27 pm

    I am disappoint.

  182. 182.

    Zinsky

    February 5, 2017 at 10:28 pm

    Lady Gaga killed it and made it patriotic at the same time! I loved how she snuck in a few measures of “This Land Is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie — the man who wrote “this machine kills fascists” on his guitar. It’s too bad he isn’t alive today.

    Oh yeah, Lady Gaga SHOULD have committed a satanic ritual by deboweling Alex Jones on the 50 yard line with an ice auger…

  183. 183.

    2liberal

    February 5, 2017 at 10:30 pm

    whoooo !!! a great win for the patriots

  184. 184.

    schrodingers_cat

    February 5, 2017 at 10:31 pm

    @Morzer: Your idol wrote an op-ed in Wash Post few days ago, about how he can work with the real enemy. Why don’t you scold him instead of lecturing us.

  185. 185.

    Aleta

    February 5, 2017 at 10:31 pm

    Just read that Trump didn’t know he was putting Bannon on the NSF when he signed the order that authorized it. (in the NYT, in the same article that says they can’t figure out how to turn on the lights in the cabinet room.)

  186. 186.

    Onkel Fritze

    February 5, 2017 at 10:31 pm

    To be fair, Atlanta had about 3 million illegal players on the pitch in the first half.

  187. 187.

    Gin & Tonic

    February 5, 2017 at 10:34 pm

    @Chet Murthy: Tad Devine worked for Putin in the Ukrainian election just as Manafort did.

  188. 188.

    The Thin Black Duke

    February 5, 2017 at 10:38 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: Of course he can work with Trump. He won’t release his tax returns either.

  189. 189.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    February 5, 2017 at 10:44 pm

    @The Thin Black Duke: True – for opposite reasons. We all know the Toddler in Chief didn’t want people to know how much money he doesn’t have (not to mention how much he owes to shady Russians) and Wilmer “man of the people” (with 3 houses, including 1 on Lake Champlain) doesn’t want people to know how much money he does have.

  190. 190.

    Mart

    February 5, 2017 at 10:48 pm

    @Yarrow: Prince by a mile. Gaga and Bruno both did great. Nobody has come close to Prince.

  191. 191.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 5, 2017 at 11:11 pm

    @Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho:

    It is kind of funny to think that Wilmer is, in all likelihood, much richer than the SCROTUS. .

  192. 192.

    PIGL

    February 5, 2017 at 11:57 pm

    @efgoldman: now, now. I’m sure she turned him down gracefully. No need to be cruel about these things even 20 years later . Or 40 .

  193. 193.

    momus

    February 6, 2017 at 11:13 pm

    Having heard too many conservative friends remark this morning on how surprisingly apolitical Lady Gaga’s show was, I didn’t have the heart to mention that Woody Guthrie wrote “This Land is Your Land” in response to “God Bless America” and that “I was Born this Way” has certain political connotations. Maybe Wednesday.

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