Happy Birthday, @VP! pic.twitter.com/rcgHiwSjpb
— President Biden (@POTUS) October 21, 2021
‘Last couple of days, we’ve come to narrowing to what the possibilities are,’ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, as Democratic lawmakers worked toward a compromise on a massive spending plan to fulfill U.S. President Joe Biden's Build Back Better agenda https://t.co/h9z0anjeY0 pic.twitter.com/nljMPqaeNP
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 22, 2021
The fierce and fabulous ladies of the Biden press team proudly wearing our purple to raise awareness for domestic violence and to stand up for LGBTQI youth on #SpiritDay pic.twitter.com/Uvp1SjIYGS
— Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki) October 21, 2021
Let’s do facts instead. Under @POTUS, job growth is up 10x over the end of the Trump-McCarthy economy, UI claims are down 60%+, and 5m more people are back to work.
If @GOPLeader wanted to help our economy, he would support our bill to invest in ports, roads, bridges, and jobs. https://t.co/bXcRHkGzQS— Jen Psaki (@PressSec) October 21, 2021
Condolezza Rice, still (mis)fighting the last war, in defense of ‘her’ GOP:
If it had been met with universal revulsion and were thus truly in the past, I would agree. But the man who inspired it remains flagrantly unapologetic and commands the allegiance of one of our major parties. https://t.co/jFGfwnYWi3
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) October 21, 2021
debbie
Fuck Condi Rice, but at least she’s wearing purple.
NotMax
That was then, in color.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone???
RandomMonster
Condi was always a lightweight.
rikyrah
Who the Phuck booked Condi Rice??
Brantl
Condo-Sleeza Rice, excuser of needless war, mouthpiece of misinformation, and generally not smarter than a fifth grader. Your 15 minutes of fame shouldn’t have been 1.
Spanky
@debbie: I’ll assume the purple was purely coincidental until proven otherwise.
Patricia Kayden
debbie
@Patricia Kayden:
It’s long past time for an investigation of the FOP. I think they have a lot to answer for otherwise, but also for this vaccine resistance.
Patricia Kayden
Condoleeza Rice was shopping for shoes while desperate people were dying after Hurricane Katrina. Good to see she’s still useless. Consistency
Frankensteinbeck
I finished writing another book! Behold as I peek out and discover that a world exists beyond my world processor. The title is A Spaceship Repair Girl Supposedly Named Rachel, and it’s about how space is totally unlike what we think because Earth is infected with Math. We look out at the universe and see cold death and barren rocks, and are blind to the air pirates of Saturn, the lighthouse on Ceres that guides travelers through the churning asteroid belt, and even the Venusian Space Bunnies practically next door.
And Please Don’t Tell My Parents I’m Queen Of The Dead is in pre-order! My mood is steadily improving.
NotMax
Blech².
rikyrah
@Frankensteinbeck:
Congratulations on the book????
Frankensteinbeck
@NotMax:
Ah, yes. His new social media service that was a Mastodon server and hilariously had to shut down within hours because every name of an important conservative figure, including every imaginable variation of Trump’s name, was taken by trolls who were mocking each other and the person whose name they were using.
Yeah, don’t worry too much about this company succeeding. That’s not a stock price I think will do well tomorrow.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@NotMax:
Wringing money out of the mooks, same as it always was.
debbie
I hate this “move on” line, and I believe people who say that are trying to hide something. Has anyone looked into her whereabouts that day or into her communications record in the days leading up to the insurrection?
rikyrah
@debbie:
I, too, don’t trust anyone spouting that bullshyt?
oatler
Fond memories of the last episode of “I’m Alan Partridge”.
Elizabelle
@Frankensteinbeck:
I love this. May not even be a typo. Apropos given your subject. Your new book sounds really good — congrats on finishing it. You … haven’t missed much.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
So I wonder what the actual fuck happened with Baldwin last night. Accident while clowning, a recklessly positioned scene?
Betty Cracker
A media outfit published the investor presentation deck for the Trump media group grift-a-rama yesterday, and it was pretty hilarious. The Twitter clone is called “Truth,” and tweets are called “truths,” and retweets are called “retruths.” Positively Orwellian coming from possibly the most prolific liar who ever drew breath.
Also, Twitter’s IP lawyers must be drawing up infringement suits right now because the app design is such a blatant rip-off. They changed the colors of the buttons, etc., but other than that, it’s identical. The flacks framed uptake potential in terms of Trump’s follower count on the social media platforms that punted him when he was POTUS, as if that’s even remotely predictive of the Trump-affiliated clone platforms’ potential upside.
Just terrible and amateurish all the way around. I’ve seen decks from mom and pop pool supply companies that were far more impressive. I look forward to the inevitable face-plant.
Geminid
@RandomMonster: I think Rice was made National Security Advisor because she was a lightweight, and wouldn’t stand up to warmongers Cheney and Rumsfeld..
Frankensteinbeck
@rikyrah:
First, I love seeing a clap emoji that has dark skin.
Second, thank you! It feels so good. August was one of the worst months of my life that we will not go into, and this is bringing me back.
Third, I love these books and have high hopes. People go nuts for the Space idea. The necromancer book is charming. I was briefly worried about the major romantic arc’s reception. Then remembered that bisexuality is favored in teen lit these days, there is no trope more standard in girls’ fiction than two people in love with the heroine, and ‘Tragic choice? No, you get it all!’ is the fun message I think a lot of my readers come for. And my next book… well, I’m pretty sure a million teen girls will go “Oh my god, yes, I wish I could let it all out and turn into a giant monster and break shit.”
Betty Cracker
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I am wondering why on earth a set still uses real guns. It’s not like there haven’t been deadly accidents before, and with modern editing capabilities, there’s no reason to put people in danger.
Geminid
@Betty Cracker: “NitWitter”
Frankensteinbeck
@Betty Cracker:
Like I said before, the face plant already happened. It only took hours. It was funny as Hell. One of the very first posts was @DonaldJTrump posting a meme about balls of pig shit and it went downhill from there.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Frankensteinbeck: Whoa. That sounds wonderfully wild. Congratulations on finishing.
Another Scott
Thread:
That actually might be readable!!
(via darth)
Cheers,
Scott.
trnc
@debbie: I’m not a bit surprised at Rice’s attempts to deflect attention from her party’s culpability, but I would be pretty surprised if she had an active role. She thinks moving on is the only way to get the old “lie about everything but really politely” party back, plus I think that no one in DT’s camp would trust her enough to include her.
Soprano2
@NotMax: Wow, those pictures are amazing! Thanks for posting that. I felt like I was looking at stills from movies; hard to believe such clear color pics from that era are real.
Kalakal
Person who gave bad advice wants to “move on” so they can continue being paid to give bad advice.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Betty Cracker: Also, Pravda is Russian for truth. So TFG is once again imitating the Man He Admires
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Kay
This was after 4 congressional investigations:
She’s a hack and she’s always been a hack.
Woodrow/asim
@Frankensteinbeck: Yeah, that stock situation reminds me of how Conservatives buy up books en masse to game the NYTimes Bestsellers lists.
These alt-right sites just don’t seem willing to pay the money to hire quality developers, and it’s not just Trump’s inability to pay anyone at play, here. But tech development is a tough and fast-moving space. Not having solid cybersecurity on sites like this will cause you (and your investors!) tons of pain, down the road.
VOR
@Betty Cracker: They are apparently using an open source package called Mastodon. It uses the AGPLv3 license, which means there are two primary requirements:
Trump Media is claiming the code is proprietary. Very on brand for Trump.
The Gab social media platform is also based on Mastodon.
Baud
@Frankensteinbeck:
I’m starting to wonder whether the parents aren’t the real problem here.
Congrats!
Kay
There were more investigations into Benghazi then into it how it was the entire country was lied to and misled into a war with Iraq.
Rice was never in any way held accountable for anything she did or didn’t do. She just waltzed away and has been profiting off her “government service” ever since.
I bet she wants this one buried, too. Of course she does. That approach has worked out very, very well for her.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Betty Cracker:
The only reason I can think of is the physical reaction of the person pulling the trigger. There’s a bunch of micromovements that would be virtually impossible to act out without seeming ridiculous.
Soprano2
@NotMax: Oh, it’s absolutely a grift! Nothing associated with TFG is on the level.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: So something that happened nine years ago and has been the subject of multiple Congressional hearings needs to be reexamined. But we’re supposed to “move on” from an attack this year on the seat of the U.S. government which was led by the then-sitting POTUS and current leader of the GOP? Yep, Rice is a worthless hack.
p.a.
On ‘moving on, look forward not back’:
‘We will have peace,’ said Théoden at last thickly and with an effort. Several of the Riders cried out gladly…. ‘Yes…’ he said, now in a clear voice, ‘we will have peace, when you and all your works have perished — and the works of your dark master to whom you would deliver us. You are a liar, Saruman, and a corrupter of men’s hearts. You hold out your hand to me, and I perceive only a finger of the claw of Mordor…. Even if your war on me was just as it was not… even so, what will you say of your torches in Westfold and the children that lie dead there? And they hewed Háma’s body before the gates of the Hornburg, after he was dead. When you hang from a gibbet at your window for the sport of your own crows, I will have peace with you and Orthanc….
Elizabelle
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I was rather upset about TFFG’s media venture being called “Truth Source.” Orwellian does not begin to cover that one.
Until a jackal yesterday reminded us of Pravda.
TFFG and his grifters are con artists and copy cats, on so many levels.
Soprano2
@debbie: I hate it too, especially from people who thought it was reasonable to have 8 different investigations of the 4 people who died at our consulate in Libya. Move on my ass, they’re trying to hide something, or else they’re embarrassed they’re associated with a party that would do such a thing.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
Not 9 years ago. Rice was pushing another Benghazi investigation in 2014. There had been 4. This was # 5.
No one in the GOP or media who participated in the Benghazi obsession should be permitted to object to investigating 1/6. The fact is they pumped up Benghazi for years. Years. Investigation after investigation.
dr. bloor
No one is able to put sociopathic, democracy-threatening shit behind her like Condi Rice.
Bnut
Does anyone have up to date predictions about what kind of casualty numbers could be expected from a CCP invasion of Taiwan? I’m trying to wrap my brain about what level of 1st world violence (a term I’ve just made up to describe 2 modern militaries going at it) everyone is willing to accept without some type of reaction. I’m sure it’s pretty damn high.
Soprano2
@Kay: It’s a ridiculous standard; 8 investigations of the deaths of 4 people in Libya (one of whom knew he shouldn’t be there and was there anyway!) 0 investigations of an attack on our Capitol building whose express purpose was to stop the certification of the result of a free and fair election so they could try to install the guy who lost! It’s unreasonable, as you like to say.
Baud
@Kay:
If Republicans weren’t allow to be hypocrites, the media could never have them on.
Dorothy A. Winsor
OT but tomorrow I’ll be at the Schaumburg Library Author Fair from 11-3. If you’re in the area, stop by and say hello.
It’s the first in-person event I’ve done out side my building in two years. We have to wear masks, but I’m so excited about doing something relatively normal. Also, I’ll have my new book trailers running in a loop on my laptop. I’m hoping they encourage people to stop and chat.
Soprano2
@Kay: And, they actually admitted that the reason for all those investigations was to “dirty up” Hillary Clinton!
zhena gogolia
@NotMax: Wow.
Kay
@Soprano2:
I think Cheney knows there’s something there. She didn’t torch her own career in GOP politics because there’s nothing there. She was in GOP leadership at the time. One of them.
mrmoshpotato
Is dunking on Kevin McCarthy a regular Thursday-morning activity for Jen Psaki?
Danielx
@NotMax:
If there is one thing at which TFG excels*, it’s the art of separating marks from their money.
*hey, everybody has to be good at something.
Frankensteinbeck
@Woodrow/asim:
Trump is the biggest mark of all. The only things he’s ever been willing to spend money on are racism and publicity that strokes his ego. Twenty thousand dollars for a bad portrait of himself, for example. The money he steals is and has been flowing into the hands of grifters who promise him the nation worshipping him and deliver… well, this. But hey, he’s gotten a few rallies in the boondocks attended by the idiots who traveled around attending his old rallies!
VOR
@Baud: Their superpower is the inability to feel shame or acknowledge hypocrisy.
RandomMonster
@Geminid: Never thought about it that way. Sounds right.
Ken
@mrmoshpotato: Dunking on McCarthy could be a “day ending in Y” activity, but she may follow a rota to make sure she covers the ample supply of idiots.
Geminid
@mrmoshpotato: Dunking on McCarthy may become more and more common as we approach the midterms. Republicans have run against Nancy Pelosi for years. Democrats may do well to run against Kevin McCarthy, a hollow man.
mrmoshpotato
Would be more appropriate if her clothes were dripping with Iraqi childrens’ blood.
Fuck. Her.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Soprano2:
Dirtying up good things is their specialty. If they realized the utility of thinking something up to trash Habitat for Humanity when Carter started working it, they wouldn’t have batted an eye about doing it.
mrmoshpotato
@Frankensteinbeck: Congrats!
sdhays
@Kay: That’s a really good point. I took no notice of her at the time, thinking she was just another hack like McCarthy, but there was that letter signed by Dick Cheney and other former Secretaries of Defense reminding the military brass not to follow illegal orders.
I now wonder if she was a reason for that letter, having fed some of the terrifying stuff she was hearing back to her father.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Geminid: “Hollow man” is a good way to describe McCarthy. But Paul Ryan and John Boehner didn’t seem much stronger, even when they were in the majority. Maybe no one looks good with those members? Maybe that’s just Rs? Maybe it’s the contrast with Pelosi who is exceptionally competent?
mrmoshpotato
@debbie: Re: Condi Rice
Steeplejack (phone)
@Spanky:
Probably coincidence. #SpiritDay was yesterday. Rice was on The View on Wednesday.
Kay
@sdhays:
I think the question of whether Cheney is trying to position herself as the new leader of a Party that rejects Trump (she is) is a different question than whether she believes they’ll find connections to GOP House members or members of the Trump Administration or inner circle. Both things can be true.
germy
I don’t know if she sees it as torching her own GOP career.
I think her intention is to torch the careers of the trumpists, and then take what she sees as “rightful” control of the party.
Kalakal
@Frankensteinbeck: That’s a really good point. Trumps so convinced that he’ got great judgement and that “all the best people” recognize his superior qualities ( anyone who doesn’t is a knave and a fool) that he’s an open goal for any grifter who lays on flattery with a trowel ( preferably with “tears in their eyes”).
He’s basically a tube moving money from the MAGA marks to the grifters around him.
mrmoshpotato
@Betty Cracker:
Hot. Damn. They aren’t even trying to hide that it would be a network of bullshit. Well, I guess tweets could be called Bullshit and retweets could be More Bullshit, but I digress.
Kay
@sdhays:
Cheney’s motive doesn’t matter. It can be noble, it can be personal, it can be career. She chose to join this effort and it wasn’t to exonerate Trump. She thinks there’s something there and she would be one of the people who would know.
Frankensteinbeck
@sdhays:
We already found out there was. It was no big surprise that Trump floated the idea of getting the military to shoot protestors and interfere with the election. Remember when he ordered the border guards to shoot anyone trying to cross? And as soon as he left the officers told the guards fuck no, do not do that? It was no surprise Trump asked, and no surprise the military said ‘no’, and only a mild surprise the military said ‘no’ so hard that public statements, which is never done, were made. It was a giant ‘We refuse, and do not worry public, it will not happen.’
Starfish
@Woodrow/asim: Also, some tech security people actively hate these folks and will be crawling their sites the minute they are put up searching for exploits and vulnerabilities.
Kay
@germy:
Right, but she wants to win.
burnspbesq
@NotMax:
Mencken is once again proven to be a wise man.
Ken
From that point of view, the sudden increase in the SPAC shares doesn’t represent any confidence in the venture; it’s a recognition that the company is attached to the “tube” of grift money, for now.
sdhays
@Frankensteinbeck: Right, I just mean I wonder if Liz Cheney was hearing more specific things in her position and she called up dear old Dad and asked him to do something. Just linking another possible signal that she knows there are some fairly specific bodies buried in shallow graves.
Frankensteinbeck
@Kalakal:
Remember when he was being advised by Powell and the other conspiracy kooks who thought they could overturn the election in court? He always listened to whoever told him what he wanted to hear, and that only got stronger as he lost the constant ego stroking of being president. Remember how his campaign money got filtered to mysterious sources until he had to fire his campaign manager? Whoever is running his SPAC has assured him that the money they’re harvesting from his marks will turn into a media empire where he will bask in glorious praise and displace the tech giants he spitefully hates, reaping their incredible profits so he can be as rich as he tells the public. What actually has happens is they pay themselves and their relatives all that cash, do two hours of work copying and pasting some existing system, then go home and roll around in their money.
Geminid
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I guess the difference between Ryan, Boehner and McCarthy is that Boehner and Ryan were unwilling to kowtow to the radicals, and McCarthy is. I am reminded of Virginia Republican Congressmen Scott Rigel (VA-2) and Robert Hurt (VA-5). They both retired rather than run for safe seats in 2016. They had seen Eric Cantor lose the 7th District primary to a tea party challenger, and decided to go back to there prosperous businesses rather than kiss tea party ass. Rigel was in his fifties, Hurt in his forties.
Paul Ryan is an ambitious man, and may have astutely calculated in 2018 that for the next few years Congress was going to be a bad place for ambitious Republicans. He’ll be back, maybe in 2028.
mrmoshpotato
@Frankensteinbeck:
Assuming the conman would pay the bill.
jonas
When a lot of stuff has gone down during an administration that the subsequent administration needs to “move on” from, that’s usually not a good thing.
I’m looking at YOU, Condoleeza Rice.
Dan B
@mrmoshpotato: Ur-Bullshit. Errr-Bullshit? Shit-Bullshit. Oh shit-Bullshit!
So much Pravda, comrade.
jonas
@Frankensteinbeck: A lot of actual NYC real estate tycoons made a lot of money over the years either buying undervalued property from or selling overvalued property to Trump. He was a great guy to do business with because as long as you stroked his ego and called him a yoooge genius while clapping him on the back, you could fleece him blind and he wouldn’t care.
Frankensteinbeck
@mrmoshpotato:
Again, he always has been. Oh, the low level vendor types get shafted, but the guys selling the ideas and organizing it for him have a clear record of fleecing the dumb-ass for hundreds of millions. No doubt by arranging they are also collecting the money so it doesn’t get into his hands personally where he can refuse to give it up again.
SiubhanDuinne
Shifting topics: This book, on deciphering the Rosetta Stone, sounds utterly yummy! It seems like the kind of thing our own Tom Levenson would have written about, if he hadn’t been occupied writing about other things. Anyhow, I can’t wait to read this!
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/books/review/the-writing-of-the-gods-rosetta-stone-edward-dolnick.html
burnspbesq
I have no idea who Alex Kirshner is, but he owns Twitter today.
https://twitter.com/alex_kirshner/status/1451181615560941568?s=21
WereBear
@Frankensteinbeck: I see you have good view of the tastes of your public :)
mrmoshpotato
@Frankensteinbeck: Ah. Gotcha.
Betty Cracker
They struck her down, but now she has become more powerful than they can possibly imagine! [NYT]
LOL! The dummies who tanked Tanden’s nomination should have confirmed her for OMB, where she would have had less influence.
Dan B
@Betty Cracker: A key investor who had 10% stake in Trump Pravda (Truth) pulled out as soon as he found out his money had gone into the venture. His remarks were not kind. You could say he was pissed.
Or you could say he wanted to do a golden shower on Trump’s social media venture.
SiubhanDuinne
Is it just me, or does anyone else think Steve Kornacki needs to cut back on the caffeine?
Spanky
@SiubhanDuinne: Paywalled, and it’s the ftfnyt.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne:
You misspelled cocaine.
Baud
@Betty Cracker: Happy for her.
Spanky
@Baud: I was going to say “amphetamines”, but I can’t spell it.
Ken
@Betty Cracker: As long as she doesn’t start her next presentation with “All shall love me, and despair!”
Dan B
@Betty Cracker: Have you seen Gubernator Dumb Sentences new Flahriduh flag? It’s a gator with the Gadsden “Don’t Tread on Florida” motto. Choice!
SiubhanDuinne
@Spanky: I don’t much like to do this, but I’m sending the book review in two tranches. Part I of II:
mrmoshpotato
@SiubhanDuinne: It’s Friday morning. What could Kornacki possibly be going crazy about this morning?
Dan B
@Spanky: If you have the right dose you will be certain you can spell it.
Yelling for a friend. !!
SiubhanDuinne
@Spanky:
Part II of II:
It just sounds so interesting, and — based solely on the review — I think this book might make a compelling movie (like The Madman and the Professor, about the compilation of the OED).
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@mrmoshpotato: not watching, but I’ll take a guess: VA polling?
SiubhanDuinne
@mrmoshpotato:
He needs no excuses, including calendrical.
Kristine
@Frankensteinbeck: I absolutely love ? your titles.
ian
@Kay:
We will have to disagree there. If she ends up getting a one up on the Don in 2024, or if she out wrangles whoever takes his place if he croaks, she will absolutely use the new Republican rules being put in place in state legs to win herself the presidency. She is more dangerous than the others, not less. 90% of her actions right now are about distancing herself from her competition and making herself more palatable to moderate and dem leaning voters. When the knives are out and the infighting is over, if she is on top of the republican nomination, we will bitterly regret giving her the cover she desires.
Wapiti
@Frankensteinbeck: Fantastic! I look forward to reading about this girl supposedly named Rachel.
Peale
@Kay: O.K. come on. Benghazi was about events related to a revolution and subsequent breakdown in another country. Its obviously more important than an attempted coup in our own country. This is why you will never be a member of the foreign policy blob.
Ella in New Mexico
The sad thing about Condoleeza is that for whatever reason, her experiences as a well educated, intelligent, classy female of color growing up in an era of misogyny and racism made her decide deference to white men in power was the fastest way to achieve her goals.
And it worked for them, too–they could have someone in their circle who didn’t make them feel uncomfortable so they could pretend to they were not misogynist and racist
I so wanted to respect her, even if she was a Republican, but she was just so very disappointingly weak. Hasn’t changed I guess.
The Moar You Know
@Patricia Kayden: Hilariously, anyone who’s not a boot-licking cop fetishist understands this, as if by instinct, and agrees with it.
Kristine
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Have fun at the book fair!
Any plans to attend local conventions? I received an email from Capricon–it’s early February, and they’ve moved from the ‘burbs to downtown Chicago. Debating, but I wouldn’t mind getting out.
WaterGirl
@Frankensteinbeck: Shall I remind you of our Authors in Our Midst series, where we are featuring Authors?
We also have Artists in Our Midst, where we are featuring… wait for it, Artists.
Everyone: send me an email if you would like to be featured.
Spanky
@SiubhanDuinne: Hey, thanks for this! Does sound like a fun read.
The Moar You Know
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Keeps happening every few years. Even prop guns loaded with blanks are still lethal out to about 10 feet or so. Think that’s how Brandon Lee, Bruce’s kid, got killed. Movie industry REALLY needs to up their game WRT to firearm safety on set, and giving actors some basic firearms safety lessons wouldn’t hurt.
I had some idiot in an intro to acting class point a gun at me, almost forty years ago now. I disarmed him and gave the class a brief shouty lesson in firearms safety I don’t think any of them will forget to this day, and left and never came back.
Elizabelle
@ian: Well, let’s bitterly regret that after we’ve saved democracy, shall we?
No event whatsoever without the darkest cloud for Democrats, eh?
A lot of “ifs” in your doompost there.
Kalakal
@SiubhanDuinne: Thanks, that’s just my sort of thing
delk
One unnamed investor who held 10% of the company told the Financial Times he sold everything as soon as he could. “The idea that I would help [Trump] build out a fake news business called Truth makes me want to throw up,”
Betty Cracker
@The Moar You Know: Fuck firearm safety training — they should just get the damned guns off the damned sets! Any miniscule gain in artistic integrity in a shooting scene is more than outweighed by the risk, FFS.
Baud
@The Moar You Know:
Happened to this guy too.
Jon-Erik Hexum – Wikipedia
Kay
There is no one who is as full of shit as the anti cancel culture people are full of shit.
Raise your hand if you knew this would end with only liberals being banned. Aren’t they embarrased? They signed that big dramatic public letter about how they were being cancelled and the only people who are actually being cancelled are AA intellectuals and AA grade school teachers and principals. Was this not predictable to them? How did they think this would end up? Do they not live in this country?
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Kristine: I got that email too. I’m planning to go if I can be brave enough to take the Metra.
Mike in NC
Broke down and downloaded Bob Woodward’s “Rage” yesterday. 600 pages long and damn near every one captures the daily stupidity and mendacity of the Fat Orange Clown.
Baud
@Kay:
✋
Frankensteinbeck
@Kay:
Isn’t AA academic staff being targeted for firing by bigots as old as the hills? For that matter, liberals and conservatives both trying to get teachers they disapprove of (fairness of those cases is a separate topic) is far from new. And is it only liberals being ousted, or does it continue to go both ways and we’re only noticing the liberals? Campaigns of death threats and harassment from conservatives against whoever catches their eye are sure as Hell not new. They’ve been prominent at least as long as the beginning of Obama’s tenure. As near as I can tell, the only thing that’s really new in ‘cancel culture’ is widespread grassroots campaigns to identify, shame and bring consequences to bigots. It and CRT are the current conservative screaming topics because they’re being poked hard in their bigotry, but the increasing lunatic bile isn’t new or the result of ‘cancel culture’ becoming a thing.
Soprano2
@Kay: Oh, they knew exactly how their “woke” and “cancel culture” bullshit would end up. That’s the whole point, isn’t it? I’ll be waiting (not) for Bill Maher, free speech absolutist, to denounce this on his show. I suspect I’ll be waiting for a long time. He’s always whining about how “woke” college students don’t have a sense of humor anymore. I suspect it’s actually that he doesn’t want to give up on his 30 year old jokes and write new ones.
Kristine
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Yeah Metra’s the question. Depending on the weather, I would brave driving downtown. As long as it’s not rush hour, it’s not too bad.
Elizabelle
@Betty Cracker:
Halyna Hutchins, the Director of Photography who was killed sounds like she was incredible. Ukraine born, an investigative journalist who had worked on British documentaries, several movie credits. Just 42.
Los Angeles Times: Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins killed by a prop gun just as her career was taking off. [I’ve rearranged the sequence of article excerpts a bit.]
schrodingers_cat
Did you guys see the math teacher teaching trig ratios with absurd and offensive cosplay? WTF is wrong with people
ETA: I managed to learn and teach trig ratios without the absurd cosplay.
matt
Professional liar Rice says some useless shit. That’s a real revelation.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
This is what happens when you cancel blackface.
Ken
Why would you need cosplay when there’s that great obscene mnemonic for SOH CAH TOA?
Another Scott
Jack’s minions seem to have backed down. https://twitter.com/DPRK_News has fresh stuff and no (obvious to me) indication that they caved to put “parody” on their feed.
Yay!
(The site’s been active for 12+ years, it’s ridiculous to bring a hammer down on them at this late date…)
Cheers,
Scott.
zhena gogolia
@schrodingers_cat: Wow. That is embarrassing on so many levels.
She isn’t even conveying anything intelligible other than that she’s a jackass.
schrodingers_cat
@Ken: I have heard it from my students and never connected it to Native Americans/indigenous people. I didn’t go to high school in the US so I never learned those ratios with that mnemonic. And she is enacting that mnemonic with construction paper feathers and all.
Kay
@Soprano2:
A lot of it to me sounds like The Owners of Liberalism asserting their claim. There can be two approaches to racism! They can both be liberal! They don’t own the whole spectrum. They don’t get to freeze it in the year 2000 and never re-open it. Jones opened it back up- she said “yeah, that’s what we were all taught and thought we knew but I’ve reconsidered”. They went fucking insane. It’s not a “free speech” movement if the practical effect of it is they shut down all but the most conventional analysis.
I’m reading CRT. It’s pretty interesting. Even if it’s “Marxism” (and I’m just reading one author, and it’s not so far) we’re banning discussion of Marxism under the “free speech” banner? WTF?
They’re supposed to be public intellectuals. How did they get wrapped around the axle like this so quickly? That seems to go to the validity of their complaint- it doesn’t make any fucking sense. It isn’t holding up real well.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Kristine: It’s weird. When I lived in Detroit, I didn’t hesitate to drive downtown. And I drove to downtown Chicago a few years back for an academic conference. But the pandemic left me feeling that because I hadn’t done things in a while, I couldn’t do them, especially new things.
Professor Bigfoot
@Betty Cracker:
Seriously.
It’s way too easy and way too cheap to do Airsoft guns that look and operate like the real deal but only spit out a little piece of plastic.
And let us not forget Brandon Lee’s unfortunate fate.
(but then, consider the absolutely meticulous way Keanu Reeves approached gunplay for the John Wick movies— training with a serious competition shooter, actually becoming a serious competition shooter, I doubt he would make this kind of mistake under the rules of firearms safety…)
schrodingers_cat
@zhena gogolia: A jackass who gets her pants from the clown supply store’s clearance rack.
Ken
@Another Scott: That must be what the “UNITED STATES COMPUTER COMPANY BOWS BEFORE UNITED KOREAN PEOPLE AND 300,000 STRONG WORLD JUCHE MOVEMENT!” tweet is about.
Kay
Sometimes you do feel old, so I get the complaints of the middle aged anti cancel culture warriors who may not have a monopoly on all liberal thought, forever.
My middle son is wiring a pot “grow” operation. It’s huge. It’s a manufacturing plant. They’re producing it, right out in the open! They have a plant manager! He doesn’t get at all why this is funny to me. I made him send me pix- boring as hell. Miles of shelves and lights.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@schrodingers_cat: I can’t even figure out where to begin with that video. It’s the old “eating an elephant with a knife and fork” problem brought to a clownish, racist skit performed by Michael Scott’s long-lost sister.
debbie
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
I really hope I’m wrong, but my cynical self is thinking whoever prepared that weapon did it for TFG to revenge Baldwin’s performances on SNL.
Kay
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Why can’t people just be more dignified? Does she have no boundaries at all? She can do this among her friends.
JAFD
@Spanky:
Well, I left-clicked on the link, right-clicked on ‘Save link as’, and read story in my ‘Downloads’ folder. (I’m using Waterfox G3.2.6)
Mayhaps that, or some similar sequence, will work in your browser.
PS – ‘Text’ tab of comment editor works fine, but nothing happens in ‘Visual’ tab
Soprano2
@schrodingers_cat: Yes, that was totally insane! Evidently she’s been doing that for several years. I have no idea what people are thinking when they do things like that.
Baud
@debbie:
If so, I hope he cops to it, as many of the Jan 6 insurrectionists did.
Soprano2
Evidently none of them see the irony of trying to ban the teaching of CRT and the 1619 Project out of one side of their mouths, and screaming about conservatives being suppressed out of the other. It’s enough to cause permanent cognitive dissonance in someone who thinks about it for even a minute.
I think this is all a reaction to the social justice protests last year. They saw how many white people supported those protests and said “Oh, no, we can’t have that” so they ginned up this fake panic over something that isn’t actually happening in order to win those people back. It could work, too.
scav
@Kay: Possibly because she knows her friends wouldn’t be amused by such asinine behavior. Does she really have such disdain and disrespect for her students assuming they need to be amused like toddlers?
debbie
@sdhays:
Misguided though they are, they still cherish this country and its institutions. I give them credit without grudge. Will never like them, but they’re not among the assholes willing to sacrifice anything — even the Founders — to get their power back.
Omnes Omnibus
@Spanky: s-p-e-e-d
The Moar You Know
@schrodingers_cat: Saw that. The woman is in the throes of a full on manic episode, bipolar and off her meds. I’ve seen it before. It’s not funny and up front in person it’s pretty scary.
She made Newsweek and is on leave from her teaching job. She has both mental health issues and at a minimum needs some counseling on racial “sensitivity”. Like I said, at a minimum.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Kay: I could admire a teacher who said, “Let the little fuckers make fun of me! They’ll learn this in spite of themselves while they’re imitating me in the cafeteria”, but Native people have been telling white people for my whole conscious life, which I’m pretty sure covers hers, that this minstrel shit is not okay.
If she wants to be the obligatory invited guest who brings her own karaoke machine to dinner parties, she can do it on her own time.
Ken
Synchronicity: Cracked today looks at Marijuana: Then Vs Now.
Kay
@scav:
I think underestimating kids is a really common error among adults. They’re smaller. They’re not morons. They’re really attuned to us- good at deciphering us- because they’re a little afraid of us. It’s defensive and completey rational- they are, in fact, vulnerable. She doesn’t have to hit them over the head. They’ll get it.
delk
@Dorothy A. Winsor: The loop is a ghost town. Really minimal car traffic. There were four people on my L car (Brown Line) into the city and two on my way home.
debbie
@delk:
WTF did he think he was investing in?
Kay
I don’t trust Lefties trying to kill Biden’s child care plan. There are problems with it, but I won’t accept it from people who have acted in such bad faith in the past. They need a different messenger for me. There’s just too much history of them working to split Democrats to accept their analysis as offered in good faith. They’re too invested in the failure of Democrats. It’s like a conflict of interest.
Baud
@Kay:
At least she wasn’t teaching kids that slavery is bad. She could have gotten into real trouble.
Barbara
@matt:
Why does anybody feel constrained to listen to anything Rice says about anything, much less something that has nothing to do with her supposed expertise in foreign affairs? Has she ever actually been right in anything that she had responsibility for or influence over?
The joke is that Rice could never get elected as a Republican and yet she is consulted as if she has the full support of some universe of unidentified constituents.
debbie
@schrodingers_cat:
How stupid does a person have to be to think they’re immune to blowback or there would be no video leaks?
Baud
@Kay:
Yep. It’s like taking national security advice from Dick Cheney.
Amir Khalid
@debbie:
Given that there’s been a death and a serious injury, that whoever — in actuality the on-set weapons safety person, who is a specific person –would be looking at a second-degree murder charge, or whatever the New Mexico penal code calls it, and a criminal negligence charge. So it doesn’t seem that likely.
debbie
@Baud:
With many videos and step-by-step instructions!
Kay
@Baud:
The premise of the threat isn’t true. The threat is that if child care isn’t perfect people will turn against child care like they turned against Obamacare. But they didn’t turn against Obamacare forever. The minute the coordinated national anti Obamacare campaign ended it rose in the polls. Obamacare got us closer to universal coverage. It didn’t, in fact, end up discrediting universal coverage. People really like Medicaid. It isn’t perfect, but try taking it away. Good luck with that.
debbie
@Amir Khalid:
I don’t know. As Baud said, many insurrectionists copped to what they did, even bragged about the injuries inflicted on police officers. This person will do the same. He/She will want to brag and garner all the respect and admiration that he/she is certain is deserved.
Baud
@Kay:
I don’t think people will give it up because it’s not perfect. I’m less certain that people won’t blame Dems because it’s not perfect. But we’re obviously not going to wait for perfect to get things done.
Ken
A SPAC is a company that doesn’t do anything. It exists solely to acquire some other company. It doesn’t have to name its target, and may not even have one. Many SPACs are just vehicles that have jumped through the hoops of an IPO, with the goal of being approached by some other company that wants to be publicly-traded but doesn’t want to bother with the IPO, or perhaps couldn’t get through the process (say, because it’s proposed CEO is a notorious con man with a history of bankruptcy).
The investors normally don’t care about this. Someone jumping ship is a pretty solid sign that they don’t think they’ll profit from the merger.
Elizabelle
@Amir Khalid: LA Times: ‘Live single round’ killed cinematographer, union says
schrodingers_cat
OT in non insane news. My new watercolor tubes are here. Still waiting for Water Color pencils and brushes, they will come by Monday!
Kayla Rudbek
@Frankensteinbeck: then I need to pick up your next book, because the prospect of being really angry and breaking stuff also appeals to this GenXer. I used to have a sign hanging in my high school locker which would probably have gotten me expelled today (Patience hell, I’m going out and kill somebody – from one of my military dad’s catalogs).
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
I’m excited for you.
Nutmeg again
Anybody else go immediately to Gogol Bordello’s early hit, Start Wearing Purple? Ah, Gypsy shit! song here
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: The Bruenigs are awful people and racist to boot. The twee wife may be even worse than the husband
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Thanks!
debbie
@schrodingers_cat:
Don’t skimp on paper. It will make a difference in how the watercolors obey you.
schrodingers_cat
@debbie: I have some old watercolor paper, going to use that first before getting new paper.
debbie
@schrodingers_cat:
Yes, good for testing and practicing. Strathmore’s pretty decent and you can get it at Michaels and other craft stores.
schrodingers_cat
@debbie: Thanks I will do that. Do you also paint?
debbie
@schrodingers_cat:
On and off. Off at the moment. Watercolors are tough for me because I am a control freak, but they’re so, so beautiful!
StringOnAStick
I buy big sheets of paper then tear them to size, it’s a lot cheaper especially if you look for sales and it makes the heavier grades affordable. I like not having to fuss with mounting lighter grades.
schrodingers_cat
@StringOnAStick: Thanks for the suggestion I will look into it. Right now I think I have enough to start with after a long hiatus.
Soprano2
That’s why Republicans in MO fought the expansion the people voted for so hard. They know they’ll never be able to get rid of it.
eclare
@Professor Bigfoot: Bill Hader has also talked about his firearm training for his series Barry.
cain
@VOR: As someone from the open source community – it is completely on brand for these assholes to steal our work and then publish it as proprietary. Just another reason why they need to go fuck themselves.
Pissing the lot of us off is not a good idea.
cain
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
The attack would have been that Carter was building housing for illegals.
dopey-o
i think china will attack taiwan in the following manner:
months of maneuvers to dispirit the residents with fear and uncertainty. then one slow day, an anonymous analyst in the red army’s IT unit will flip the “kill” switch. taiwan’s power, water, communications, banking and transportation will stop.
after a few days of chaos, the chinese will be invited ashore to restore order. not a single shot will be fired. The Americans will have to choose invading and fighting street by street, or accepting the loss of a small, faraway ally.
Adam may have a better perspective.
Miss Bianca
@Frankensteinbeck: I am just about to meet my great-niece for the first time – a precocious eight year old. With your books, is it best to start with a certain one, or can one start the series anywhere?
debbie
@StringOnAStick:
I used Dr. Martins back in art school and still use them now! The colors are dazzling!
Mo MacArbie
Man, this Trump media story is going to be hell on my formative experiences at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.
J R in WV
@Betty Cracker:
I learned to NEVER point a gun at anyone or anything I didn’t intend to shoot at, kill. My grandma taught me that in her farm backyard, along with my cousins. It’s pretty easy — just don’t point that sucker at anyone you don’t intend to shoot.
On the other hand, grandma called 911 and held would be burglers at gun point waiting for a deputy to come to her farm house. She would have shot those MFers in a short heartbeat, though. She grew up on the Big Sandy river, served by river boats back in the last 1890s and early 1900s, and her daddy taught all the kids (all 9 of them!) to protect the family with a gun if needed.
I’ve been a good shot since I was around 12. I surprised myself sitting out back of the neighbor’s house many years ago. Woody brought out a big revolver he had traded for, and I shot the bloom off a flower across the creek from the porch we were sitting on. The elderly brothers both looked at me after that, and I declined to shoot again, having blown up my shooting reputation already. I suspect the whole neighborhood knew about that within a few days. Hippies weren’t expected to shoot well . . .
Yutsano
@Bnut: Ye gods. I would rather not think about it, especially since all it would take is one nuke and Taiwan would be rendered mostly inhabitable. It would be devastating to be sure, but I don’t know if the DoD has released any current figures about what could happen there.
How ya been Teufelhund?
Uncle Cosmo
@Geminid: Condoloozer’s entire area of expertise (sic) was the USSR, which renditioned ;^D her hideously wrong-qualified for National Security Advising in a world where the Eeebil Empire had come apart at the seams 10 years before her nomination. She probably couldn’t find a Mideast threat assessment with both hands.