it's not complicated, Mark Kelly was running against Nixon minus the charisma https://t.co/OABh3iF07Y
— chatham harrison is tending his garden (@chathamharrison) November 21, 2022
Did someone say… postmortem?
lmfao the week before the midterm, Blake Masters used his Fox Business interview spot to promote a video game "where Mark Kelly destroys everything that you love" pic.twitter.com/QVlgi2xIKN
— ?? ?? primary everyone always (@AntiNateSilver) November 21, 2022
via @ronaldjhansen:
"One person familiar with the information shared with McConnell, said Masters’ favorability was lower than former Alabama US Senate candidate Roy Moore’s was after reports that he pursued romantic relations with teen girls when he was in his 30s." https://t.co/VUo0JPrym6
— Azi™? (@Azi) November 21, 2022
Nothing new in the story; from a scrum of (five) eager Repub primary candidates, venture capitalist Peter Thiel’s loyal Renfield attracted the favorable attention of a certain former WH occupant. Their imprimatur was a boon when it came to the GOP’s crazier voters, and a bane when he was faced with appealing to the normies. Thiel, like any other venture capitalist, refused to throw good money after bad when advertising dollars might have made a difference; Mitch McConnell, who does not love the new Masters of the Universe interfering in his fiefdom, had better places to spend the party’s money.
“Blake Masters” is merely the best attempt of a transcription of his true name in the guttural screaming tongues of time immemorial, It Which Feeds In Darkness And Stalks In Dreams is the generally agreed-upon translation
— knife-wielding hemophiliac (@NickTagliaferro) November 22, 2022
now, i am no expert, but my armchair guess is that people didn’t really take to the memes celebrating a hedge fund guy by making fun of an actual goddamned astronaut who has been to space https://t.co/SrFSjtDlyn
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) November 21, 2022
It's Virginia circa 2005 IMO. Trending sharply left with a state Republican party that's gone completely feral, but still pretty evenly split. It'll be close to safe blue within 2-3 cycles though.
— Leonid Baezhnev ?? (@rev_avocado) November 21, 2022
here's the link lmao https://t.co/GyKjdnrNGb
— ?? ?? primary everyone always (@AntiNateSilver) November 21, 2022
two more things
1) you need to hear the music/sound effects
2) imagine ostensibly being a GOP staffer and getting paid to make a video game where you blow up cop cars lmao pic.twitter.com/sNRmkmfKlv— ?? ?? primary everyone always (@AntiNateSilver) November 21, 2022
Can't believe "astronauts aren't cool" wasn't a winning message!!!
— tom r ?? friend to cows of all size (@StoryTom) November 21, 2022
Can’t find the tweet about Thiel breaking down Masters for bio-parts, but…
peter thiel revealing his latest 6'8 80lbs anglo minion, like skynet unveiling a new model of terminator
— Brendan Karet (@bad_takes) November 22, 2022
Jerzy Russian
I can’t tell what is real and what is fake anymore. I guess I will just go to bed, assuming the bed is still real.
Alison Rose
I love how this is worded as though people have been screaming for just such a game for forever and had to make do with all these boring ass space shooter games that don’t even mention Mark Kelly and now, huzzah, finally the people’s call has been answered.
eclare
I love the clip from the Mark Kelly/ Blake Masters debate where Mark’s attitude was “this guy is a fucking freak.”
Of course he did not put it so succinctly.
El Muneco
“former Alabama US Senate candidate Roy Moore’s was after reports that he pursued romantic relations with teen girls when he was in his 30s.”
Never forget that Moore’s favorables went _up_ three points the week those reports came in…
Alison Rose
@eclare: If he had, I might’ve temporarily moved to Arizona just to vote for him.
HumboldtBlue
I made refried beans tonight for the first time.
It’s the best bean dish I’ve ever made, and my hocks and greens are even wowed, ’cause I make them good too.
mrmoshpotato
@Jerzy Russian: Is sleep even real?
Mai Naem mobile
Blake Masters was a truly awful candidate but let’s give some credit to Mark Kelly who is a pretty good candidate. If Biden doesn’t run in ’24, the Dems could do a whole lot worse than nominating purple state rocket man Mark Kelly as Veep. I don’t know why anybody thought weasel man Blake Masters would win. He literally looks like a weasel.
eclare
@Mai Naem mobile: Rabid weasel.
Chetan Murthy
Anybody here a Dexter fan? B/c that Blake Masters Walther PPK advert, reminded me a shit-ton of the “serial killer older brother Brian (Biney)” from the first season. Same vibe, same hand-gestures when caressing tools.
Fucker’s crawlspace needs to be searched.
eclare
@Chetan Murthy: I can see the resemblance….
Martin
Twitter trending in the US:
[Cue Lee Greenwood music]
JoyceH
@Chetan Murthy: The Ice Truck Killer! BRRRRR!
NotMax
@Martin
Family Feud — on brown acid?
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JWR
~sigh~ Here we go again:
Np word yet on how many were wounded or killed.
Redshift
@Alison Rose:
Until I clicked through to the game, I didn’t get that this was an actual quote from the opening screen. Because apparently they thought (probably correctly) that their intended audience wouldn’t understand that was the point without it being explained to them in small words.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Martin: BINGO!
Redshift
@JWR: Yeah, never good when you open a news app and the top story has a placeholder graphic of your home state.
Martin
So, I went into a Walmart for the first time a few months ago. Had just busted my dad out of the ICU after his heart attack and he wanted some AirPods to help him start walking.
It was kind of wild. We find the guy in electronics and he gets the AirPods. Ask if they take ApplePay and his response (verbatim): “Naw, this is fucking Walmart, they ain’t paying for new registers”.
That experience told me everything I needed to know about whether I would ever return.
JWR
The second Top Story over at AP US News states that the CO shooter is non-binary.
prostratedragon
@JWR: My feelings toward that person and that person’s motivation right now are too dark for me to take that at face value.
Regarding Virginia, seems there could be as many as ten.
sab
@JWR: A bunch of people killed at a big box store by a supposed lone gunman.
This is America. Why is this even news?
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Martin
@prostratedragon: Yeah, local station reporting 5 dead 5 injured. Lack of confirmation of that suggests to me that’s unlikely to be the number.
sab
My comnents are posted or not pretty much at random. Why is that? B J being BJ I don’t think it’s intentional. But I want to know why.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@Martin: The Home of the Orange Apron doesn’t take Apple Pay or Samsung Pay, but it is not due to not paying for new registers, they have an exclusive pay agreement with PayPal for electronic payments.
In other news, I should have a new Sony A7iv camera later today.
Martin
@🐾BillinGlendaleCA: Yeah, they used to take ApplePay, but then did the PayPal agreement. I think that’s weird, since ApplePay didn’t cost them anything. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Glad to hear you tracked your camera down. Astrophotography would be fun, but maybe a hobby for later. Such good opportunities to do it here in SoCal. I love camping out in the high desert.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@Martin: We get a number of complaints about not taking Apple or Samsung Pay, maybe when the agreement with PayPal ends(not sure when that may be, way above my pay grade).
One of my favorite places to shoot is the Owens Valley, lots of good subjects and very dark. If I can find some days with clear skies, I’ll have to get a fast prime to get some Orion shots. Another nice thing about the Owens Valley is the Sierra is right there.
Amir Khalid
@🐾BillinGlendaleCA:
Do they take credit/debit cards? ( he asked, as if he were planning to shop there.)
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: They do take credit/debit cards, the PayPal thing is just electronic payments
I recently bought a kitchen faucet with my debit card.
Baud
I still haven’t found any great reason to use electronic payments now that I have one of those new chip cards with tap and pay.
eclare
@Baud: I use a chip card too, but I don’t use tap and pay. Is there a security reason to use that rather than inserting the card in the reader?
Baud
@eclare:
The old magnetic strip had security concerns. I don’t know if there’s a difference between tap and pay and the new optical card readers.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: If I’m not driving, I don’t carry my wallet, all I need is my cellphone. At Costco, I’ve got my membership on my phone and my payment, I never have to get my wallet out.
eclare
@Baud: Thanks!
Baud
@🐾BillinGlendaleCA:
That makes sense. I almost always have my wallet with me when I’m out. I have used the phone when I’ve forgotten my wallet though. That’s a nice backup to have.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I’ve even added my market loyalty cards to my phone, no need to have those either.
Patricia Kayden
@Mai Naem mobile: Weasel libel. Weasels are cute!! Blake looks like an unrepentant stalker. And his ads were weird. There’s one where he’s talking about a gun like it’s a woman.
Baud
@🐾BillinGlendaleCA:
Yes! I’ve done that too. That’s convenient.
prostratedragon
Marcy Wheeler summarizes yesterdays happenings in the 11th Circuit, with unbelievably appropriate song linkage:
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: A couple of weeks ago, I went shopping with Madame and she saw me use the loyalty card from my phone, and told me to set them up on her phone.
eclare
@prostratedragon: Along with the narcissism, the cruelty, the corruption, he is just *so* weird!
Cameron
@Martin: The new Trump Cognitive Assessment?
Cameron
@JWR: Who gives a shit? Is gender ID supposed to be a mitigating factor in a murder case? WTF kind of argument is that?
Baud
@Cameron:
Possible defense to hate crime charge if they claim he had another motive.
Anne Laurie
“He wasn’t one of ours, he was one of yours!“
Odds are that this ‘gender ID’ accusation is trolling, on the part of the shooter (the Christchurch killer notoriously did the same thing), or of the right-wing fanatics who assume we’ll immediately swing to defending the shooter… because that’s what they’d do, under the same circumstances.
Chris Johnson
@Martin: I just ended up using an extension called ‘Tweak New Twitter’. There is no reason I should even see what Twitter wants me to be thinking about (that being what makes it worth billions to a plucky young billionaire trying to serve his sith master Putin).
I’m not sure there’s a way to do ‘this is what your peers are thinking about!’ that isn’t subject to the intense pressures of ‘this is how much it’s worth to plausibly GET people thinking their peers are thinking about a thing’. It’s like it’s a cheat code: it can’t even exist as a concept without changing everything, breaking everything.
WaterGirl
@sab: Did you see my long reply to you in last night’s thread?
I will be happy to look into this for you. Please send me an email message.
Mo MacArbie
I’m leery of paying for things with my phone; I just don’t want to construct so powerful a talisman of my life essence only to stupidly leave it somewhere. Hell, I resent needing a smart phone at all. I only have the thing to ignore my calls and messages.
J R in WV
@🐾BillinGlendaleCA:
Wow, top o the line body… what lens(es) did you get?
Congrats on the new tool !!! now I’m jealous.
The Lodger
@prostratedragon: Back in my reporting days. I learned that it was fairer to quote gibberish at length than to attempt to summarize it. Fairer to the subject, if not the audience. I have no idea what point any of the judges in that courtroom was trying to make.
Paul in KY
@JWR: They can execute him/her in 2 different ways.
Gary K
LOL