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Open Thread: It’s Friday, What Did I Miss?

by WaterGirl|  December 16, 20228:02 pm| 66 Comments

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So I spent half the day without my computer (in the shop) and the other half working.

What did I miss?

Open thread.

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  1. 1.

    bbleh

    December 16, 2022 at 8:09 pm

    Anything important you missed you will find out about later.

    Celebrate occasional disconnection!

  2. 2.

    Splitting Image

    December 16, 2022 at 8:14 pm

    Elon Musk did something insanely stupid and damaging to Twitter, plus lowering Tesla’s share price.

    Honestly, I don’t know, but it seemed like a good guess.

  3. 3.

    Roger Moore

    December 16, 2022 at 8:14 pm

    You didn’t miss anything important. We like to pretend the stuff that happens every day is of momentous importance, but this is a lie told us by the 24 hour news cycle.
    It’s the reason the media loves Trump so much. He provides endless content that makes us want to stay glued to the news cycle, but the vast majority of it is bullshit we could safely ignore. Of course Trump takes full advantage of this, using the endless churn of the news cycle to hide the much more significant and sinister stuff he’s doing in the background.

  4. 4.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 16, 2022 at 8:15 pm

    You could have been wealthy beyond your wildest imaginings if only you had been around to invest in SuperTFG NFTs. Or SuperNFT TFGs. Something unique and valuable, anyhow. Shame you missed the window of opportunity.

  5. 5.

    Sure Lurkalot

    December 16, 2022 at 8:19 pm

    You missed that there’s even more justification for taxing wealth than yesterday but probably not as tomorrow.

  6. 6.

    Sister Golden Bear

    December 16, 2022 at 8:20 pm

    @Splitting Image:

    Elon Musk did something insanely stupid and damaging to Twitter, plus lowering Tesla’s share price.

    In other words, just another day ending in “y.”

  7. 7.

    Alison Rose

    December 16, 2022 at 8:28 pm

    You missed this funny video of a guy who taught his malamute to tackle him and now the dog tackles him anytime he sees him. (Hopefully you can see it without being logged in to FB, it’s a public page.)

  8. 8.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    December 16, 2022 at 8:29 pm

    Elongated Muskrat set up one of his stupid Twitter polls when Twitter should unsuspend the accounts reporting the locations of private/corporate jets and other air traffic and he lost both times to “now” lol

  9. 9.

    zhena gogolia

    December 16, 2022 at 8:32 pm

    @Alison Rose: I still didn’t find VZ Time issue in the store but I bought it on eBay. I’ll let water girl know when I’ve mailed it to you.

  10. 10.

    Scout211

    December 16, 2022 at 8:35 pm

    @Alison Rose: No, FB changed that a few years ago. Even public pages can’t be accessed unless you are logged into FB. It’s been really frustrating for those of us who don’t have a FB account.

    Note: If anyone has a trick to view public FB pages without logging into FB, I would really appreciate it. 

  11. 11.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    December 16, 2022 at 8:36 pm

    The J6 committee evidently plans to refer Trump for criminal charges. They’re still debating whether insurrection should be included

  12. 12.

    Delk

    December 16, 2022 at 8:36 pm

    TFG is backing McCarthy for speaker. Stay clear of exploding heads.

  13. 13.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2022 at 8:36 pm

    @Alison Rose: That is funny!

  14. 14.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2022 at 8:37 pm

    @Scout211: I was able to see that video, and I don’t have a facebook account.

  15. 15.

    Scout211

    December 16, 2022 at 8:38 pm

    @WaterGirl: What is your trick? Incognito mode? I was blocked.

  16. 16.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2022 at 8:39 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Is anyone really stupid enough to buy those?

    @Sure Lurkalot:  That’s a safe bet these days.

  17. 17.

    Alison Rose

    December 16, 2022 at 8:39 pm

    @zhena gogolia: OMG you are the absolute sweetest person ever! I’m a little verklempt over that, thank you so much!! I’m giving you a big hug from California to……..wherever you live :P

  18. 18.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2022 at 8:40 pm

    @Delk:

    TFG is backing McCarthy for speaker. Stay clear of exploding heads.

    Wow, will that help his chances or hurt his chances?  It seems to be to guarantee that no matter who is speaker, people will be pissed.

  19. 19.

    Alison Rose

    December 16, 2022 at 8:40 pm

    @Scout211: That’s so dumb, ugh. Is there a single social media site/app that isn’t run by absolute assholes?

  20. 20.

    Alison Rose

    December 16, 2022 at 8:41 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Is anyone really stupid enough to buy those?

    You know the answer.

  21. 21.

    zhena gogolia

    December 16, 2022 at 8:41 pm

    @Alison Rose: fingers crossed that eBay comes through!

  22. 22.

    Dangerman

    December 16, 2022 at 8:44 pm

    It’s almost the Anniversary of the day I gave my heart away, only to have it regifted the very next day. Can you believe that shit? I should write a song.

  23. 23.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2022 at 8:45 pm

    @Scout211: No trick, I just clicked on it.

  24. 24.

    JanieM

    December 16, 2022 at 8:46 pm

    @Scout211: I can see it without a facebook account as well, and without going into incognito mode. I don’t know what the “trick” is but I’m using Chrome on a PC with ABP (ad blocker plus). That’s about it, except for most of my security settings being as tight as I can make them and still use sites I need/want.

  25. 25.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2022 at 8:47 pm

    @Dangerman:

    only to have it regifted the very next day

    I’m not sure what that means.  It could be a romantic way of saying the person you gave your heart to gave theirs to you.  Or it could mean that you gave your heart to someone and they gave theirs to someone else.  Hopefully it’s the first?

  26. 26.

    HumboldtBlue

    December 16, 2022 at 8:51 pm

    @Scout211: ​ 

    I just watched it and I haven’t logged in to Facebook since 2015.

  27. 27.

    Mike in NC

    December 16, 2022 at 8:51 pm

    It was amusing to read where somebody noted that “Trump spent more time in Stormy Daniels than he did in church”.

  28. 28.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2022 at 8:53 pm

    @Mike in NC: hahaha

  29. 29.

    Mike in NC

    December 16, 2022 at 8:54 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Three options upon being found guilty: firing squad, gallows, or electric chair. I prefer the latter.

  30. 30.

    Dangerman

    December 16, 2022 at 8:57 pm

    @WaterGirl: You haven’t heard the George Michael song? If I hear it one more time, it’s definitely wham time.

    ETA: Same applies to Frosty.

  31. 31.

    Starfish

    December 16, 2022 at 8:59 pm

    @Splitting Image: Failing to understand “you break it, you buy it,” Elon is now looking for investors to invest in Twitter.

  32. 32.

    Starfish

    December 16, 2022 at 9:01 pm

    @Dangerman: Thanks. We needed earworms to ruin Christmas.

  33. 33.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2022 at 9:05 pm

    @Dangerman: The google tells me that is Lionel Ritchie, not George Michael.  I am 2/3 of the way through the song and I still haven’t heard those words.  Maybe it’s a different song?

    edit:  Google fail.  I added “George Michael” to the search phrase and it came up with the song you mentioned.  Listening now.

  34. 34.

    Scout211

    December 16, 2022 at 9:05 pm

    I get a “you must be logged into Facebook” message every time I try to view a Facebook public page. On my phone, iPad and Mac with both Safari and Chrome.

    I just did a google search and it happens to other people, too. I am not a techie so I don’t know what the problem is. No one else seemed to know either on those sites. Very strange. I guess I am just (un)special. ☹️

  35. 35.

    Alison Rose

    December 16, 2022 at 9:09 pm

    @WaterGirl: Last Christmas by Wham! :)

  36. 36.

    Jeffro

    December 16, 2022 at 9:09 pm

    Dana Milbank’s piece in the WaPo today, “Is Kevin McCarthy ok?” is pretty nifty, mostly just by quoting McCarthy verbatim

    In 2014, I wrote that “his words come out as if they have been translated by Google from a foreign language.” Revisiting his “valiant but often unsuccessful struggles with the English language” a year later, I concluded: “The speaker-apparent apparently still can’t speak.”

    Now he’s making another lunge for the top job, and words continue to bedevil him. “We’re Christmas season,” he announced this week. We are? He continued: “A talk of the majority right now who wants to put a small continuing resolution to bump all the members up two days before Christmas, to try to vote on a package they cannot read, written by two individuals who will not be here, on spending for the entire government.”

    Do not even attempt to diagram that sentence. Nor these:

    “Did they learn nothing in the last month election? Did they learn nothing with the American public being harmed? And to walk through to pass the largest bill that we passed throughout the year in the last days before Christmas, where they won’t even tell you what the baseline is now, the two people who will not be here are held accountable to their constituents, that they’re going to determine this?”

  37. 37.

    Jeffro

    December 16, 2022 at 9:10 pm

    @Jeffro: with a nice wrap-up!

    We also learned this week that, 11 days after the insurrection, and three days before Biden’s inauguration, Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) was still trying to get President Donald Trump to declare martial law. His only problem was he didn’t know how to spell it. In a text to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows just published by Talking Points Memo, Norman wrote: “Our LAST HOPE is invoking Marshall Law!!”

    If this weren’t evidence enough that McCarthy’s incoming majority has gone to the dogs, Politico’s Daniel Lippman reports that incoming Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) hired as his chief of staff one Brandon Phillips, who was arrested last month on a charge of animal cruelty for allegedly kicking a dog and cutting its belly. The would-be staffer had resigned as Trump’s Georgia director in 2016 after his prior criminal history came out.

    Congressman, please: Let go Brandon.

  38. 38.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2022 at 9:11 pm

    @Scout211: I’m on my MacBook with Safari and it played for me.

  39. 39.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2022 at 9:12 pm

    @Jeffro:

    Do not even attempt to diagram that sentence.

    That made me laugh out loud.

  40. 40.

    Jeffro

    December 16, 2022 at 9:18 pm

    @WaterGirl: I appreciated the warning but it was too late, I already sprained something, mentally.

    AND YET

    I’m still sharper than Kevin McQ!

  41. 41.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 16, 2022 at 9:22 pm

    @Jeffro: I somehow missed this episode

    The “O.K.” buttons may have been the biggest messaging misfire since McCarthy, called a “moron” by Speaker Nancy Pelosi over his resistance to pandemic safety measures, removed all doubt about the charge by selling T-shirts with large letters proudly announcing: “Moron.”

    gotta say, Milbank has come a long way since Bitch Beer with Chris Cillizza

  42. 42.

    rikyrah

    December 16, 2022 at 9:24 pm

    Why Republicans hate TikTok

     

    https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTRVtj61L/

  43. 43.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2022 at 9:24 pm

    @Jeffro: The nuns who taught me how to diagram a sentence are probably rolling over in their collective graves.

  44. 44.

    Geminid

    December 16, 2022 at 9:24 pm

    @WaterGirl: I think that Trump has been letting people know he supports McCarthy’s Speaker bid for a while now.

  45. 45.

    Qrop Non Sequitur

    December 16, 2022 at 9:24 pm

    @Jeffro: I’m still sharper than Kevin McQ!

    Naw, you just gotta get on his level, bruh. That isn’t nonsense, that’s genius beyond the ken of mere mortals.

  46. 46.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2022 at 9:26 pm

    @Jeffro:

    I’m still sharper than Kevin McQ!

    We need to work on your self esteem. That’s a very low bar!  :-)

  47. 47.

    Mike in NC

    December 16, 2022 at 9:31 pm

    Empty Greene needs to be GQP speaker for two years of nothing being done. Then bury them in 2024.

  48. 48.

    BlueGuitarist

    December 16, 2022 at 9:45 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    Stormy Daniels said that was the worst 90 seconds of her life

     

    eta https://www.thedailybeast.com/stormy-daniels-says-alleged-sex-with-trump-was-the-worst-90-seconds-of-my-life

  49. 49.

    Jeffro

    December 16, 2022 at 10:01 pm

    @WaterGirl: I hear you – my 7th grade English teacher, Mrs. Boyle, whew!  She would NOT be happy!

  50. 50.

    Jeffro

    December 16, 2022 at 10:03 pm

    @Qrop Non Sequitur:

    @WaterGirl:

    all this good advice, wow  =P

    It’s ok to wake up each day and think, “Dang…I’m STILL not Kevin McCarthy!”  I mean, you can add on to that, but it’s a great baseline and it never, EVER fails.

  51. 51.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 16, 2022 at 10:04 pm

    What did I miss?

    Nothing worth knowing. 😁

    Back to camping and cooking videos for me.

  52. 52.

    Dan B

    December 16, 2022 at 10:04 pm

    There was an insurrectionist in Tennessee who got the names of the FBI agents in Knoxville who were bringing the charges.  He hatched a plot with a friend to kill all 37 of them.  Got caught.  Buh bye…

  53. 53.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2022 at 10:10 pm

    @Dan B: Un-fucking-believable.  At least a third of the country is unhinged.

  54. 54.

    HumboldtBlue

    December 16, 2022 at 10:17 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Have you ever watched Wargeh? He’s fascinating, bushcraft, building and cooking in the bush.

  55. 55.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    December 16, 2022 at 10:24 pm

    @Alison Rose: I saw it on my Instagram feed. One more strong argument for not doing with puppies or kittens anything you don’t want the grown dog or cat to do.

    I made this mistake with a kitten.  Started putting him on the back of my neck because my lap was full of a grown cat.  soon enough Nick was grown and my neck said OUCH.

  56. 56.

    rikyrah

    December 16, 2022 at 10:30 pm

     

    The azzes who sued to mess up the Biden Student Loan Forgiveness Plan😠😠😠

    https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTRVtbBBN/

  57. 57.

    HinTN

    December 16, 2022 at 10:36 pm

    @WaterGirl: I guess the good news is that bunches of y’all are more hinged that we is down heah.

  58. 58.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2022 at 10:49 pm

    @rikyrah: I didn’t realize there had been a ruling against student debt relief.  That’s discouraging.

  59. 59.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2022 at 10:50 pm

    @HinTN: I wasn’t suggesting that all the unhinged folks are living in a particular place.  No offense intended toward TN in particular!

    There seem to be a whole lot of people who are off their rockers, wherever they happen to live.

  60. 60.

    Sister Golden Bear

    December 16, 2022 at 10:59 pm

    @Alison Rose: So damn prevalent that there’s actually an annual online game Whammegadon. The rules are simple:

    – Gather a pool of friends
    – Game starts Dec. 1
    – If you hear the Wham version of “Last Christmas” you’re out (cover versions don’t count)
    – Game ends Dec. 25 (or sooner if everyone is out)
    – Remaining survivors are declared the winners.

    but it’s surprisingly difficult to win.

  61. 61.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    December 16, 2022 at 11:01 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    @Alison Rose:

    It’s such a good song, one of Wham’s best

  62. 62.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 16, 2022 at 11:05 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: No, but I’ll check it out.

  63. 63.

    rikyrah

    December 16, 2022 at 11:41 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    What gets me is what standing do they have. Because, he never got a Pell Grant, he sued?

     

    And, the other selfish right-wing shrew who got $55k in PPP loans is mad?

    They are right out of right-wing casting

  64. 64.

    WaterGirl

    December 17, 2022 at 7:59 am

    @rikyrah: Someone should sue her because she got a PPP loan and they didn’t.  Maybe a hundred people should sue her because she got the PPP loan.  All separate cases.

  65. 65.

    Miss Bianca

    December 17, 2022 at 9:45 am

    @Alison Rose: I’m pretty sure that’s a Siberian Husky, not a Malamute (the looks and build, plus it’s such a Husky thing to do), but whatever, yon was great!

  66. 66.

    J R in WV

    December 17, 2022 at 10:56 am

    I just wonder how that guy thinks he can teach the dog NOT to tackle him if guy get hurt, say hit by a car, or a fall on the ice, etc.

    All fun and games while guy is in good shape, but if guy gets hurt… oops!

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