People think dinosaurs went extinct https://t.co/i0hRlQ5xEd
— zeddy (@Zeddary) September 5, 2021
Trigger warning: TFG…
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People think dinosaurs went extinct https://t.co/i0hRlQ5xEd
— zeddy (@Zeddary) September 5, 2021
Trigger warning: TFG…
It's real! That's how this colossal prick, who spent 9/11 bragging on how he now had the tallest building in NYC, is spending the 20th anniversary.
Charging folks $50 to hear him blather about Georgia mail-in ballots while two boxers with a combined age of 102 try to not die.
— zeddy (@Zeddary) September 8, 2021
At least the bird is honest in its pursuit.
This post is in: COVID-19 Coronavirus, Grifters Gonna Grift, Open Threads, Republican Venality
if you want to get rich, pick an obscure drug with relatively mundane adverse effects to improper use or overdose, set up pill farm hotlines for 2022, and start seeding social media with posts that big pharma & the media don’t want you to take this promising covid cure https://t.co/XSVrSwdIU6
— kilgore trout, horse paste suppository (@KT_So_It_Goes) September 3, 2021
If they were only killing themselves, and not spreading the plague…
dig into the genesis of hydroxycloroquine and ivermectin and you’ll find all the same people who built all the pyramid schemes before them to get ben shapiro to shill for energy pills and dana loesch to pretend she eats gelatinized beets
— kilgore trout, horse paste suppository (@KT_So_It_Goes) September 3, 2021
we watched them try to move into the new age with the fixation on obscure retail stocks and crypto; they know how to gin up artificial demand, collect a cut, and punch out with a check before the rubes catch on. this time the rubes are dying as a result. oh well.
— kilgore trout, horse paste suppository (@KT_So_It_Goes) September 3, 2021
I want to be the masculine ideal. Magic pills make it so! pic.twitter.com/6j0wcZZX5S
— DoomerVonDoomington (@DoomerVon) September 3, 2021
now here’s a guy who sold his way to the top on magic vitamins https://t.co/9GUOr5skdp
— kilgore trout, horse paste suppository (@KT_So_It_Goes) September 3, 2021
Friday Evening Open Thread: Every Grifter Finds Their MarkPost + Comments (85)
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I'm sorry….the bowling alley flasher makes high-six figures as an energy consultant? https://t.co/yomDgAKPYq
— zeddy (@Zeddary) August 19, 2021
After Rep. Lauren Boebert became a politician, her husband went from working as a well site supervisor to making $1 million as an energy company consultant. In February, Boebert introduced a bill to loosen drilling rules without disclosing her conflict. https://t.co/RnH5FhOcZY
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) August 19, 2021
I’d gotten the impression Boebert’s campaign was a rob-Peter-pay-Paul attempt at free publicity for her little salmonella shack, but maybe she’d already signed the papers selling her… integrity… to Big Oil:
When Lauren Boebert, the gun-toting Republican firebrand, was running for Congress last year, she traced her income to Shooters Grill, a restaurant she and her husband own in Rifle, Colo.
She suggested her husband also did some consulting, listing “Boebert Consulting — spouse” on her candidate form, but identified his income source as “N/A.”
Only now, with Boebert not just in Congress but on the House Natural Resources Committee, has she revealed that her husband made $478,000 last year working as a consultant for an energy firm. He made $460,000 the year before, she disclosed in a filing Tuesday with the House of Representatives. Her husband, Jayson Boebert, earned that income as a consultant for Terra Energy Productions, according to the filing.
Boebert has been a staunch advocate for the energy industry during her first six months in office, introducing a bill in February seeking to bar the president from issuing moratoriums on oil and gas leasing and permitting on some federal land…
Boebert Consulting was formed in 2012 but is classified as delinquent, according to the secretary of state’s office, meaning it hasn’t filed the necessary reports or kept a registered agent on file. No business by the name of Terra Energy Productions is registered in Colorado, according to a database maintained by the secretary of state’s office. Terra Energy Partners is an oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Houston. The company did not respond to several messages from The Washington Post.
Rocky Mountain asked Colorado’s Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to approve without a hearing its application for 17 new gas wells just outside Rifle in Garfield County, Colo., according to a letter to the commission. The application, originally filed in May, has faced blowback from Colorado’s chapter of the Sierra Club, among others.
Boebert’s belated disclosure of her husband’s income came on the same day the Federal Election Commission inquired about her use of campaign funds for personal expenses. A letter from a senior campaign finance analyst at the FEC asked Boebert’s campaign treasurer for additional information about four Venmo payments made in May and June of this year totaling more than $6,000. Filings describe each payment as a “personal expense of Lauren Boebert billed to campaign account in error.” The filings say the “expense has been reimbursed.”…
“It’s not collusion if she actually believes the oil industry, not the voters, are her real constituents…”
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If you keep acting dumb your brain will get stuck like that. https://t.co/j8LbsQpSLL
— Jason Kander (@JasonKander) August 4, 2021
"I am going to pretend that I never went to school anywhere and don't know anything, because I'm still losing to an oily weasel like Mandel and I'm running out of ideas." https://t.co/xtnZqE0bij
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 3, 2021
You can tell just how much Vance wants to be a churched up version of Trump, but that’s exactly where he fails. They don’t care if he’s a little more polished form of cruelty. Trump fans want the vulgarity and the cruelty too. The total package.
— d kyle trowbridge (@kyletrow) July 31, 2021
a thing that i find endlessly funny about jd vance’s senate campaign is that he’s throwing away years of normie goodwill he has benefitted from (and many years to come) in order to place last in a primary to become the junior senator from ohio
— NATION-STATE INSURGENCY MACHINE (@golikehellmachi) August 1, 2021
My read is that Vance is a wholly owned subsidiary of Peter Thiel, UnLtd, and when Thiel (for the lulz) said Dance, puppet , JD said Like this, master?
I’m not getting the impression Vance wants to be a politician — just a gadfly “pundit” with an easy platform. Maybe that’s the cynic in me…
like, by *any objective measure*, he could be far more influential and effective in getting his political preferences to become popular as a mega blockbuster author and commenter than he will be able to as a has-been, also-ran loser
for reasons that suck, he had normie, institutional legitimacy that he could’ve used to be influential in any way he wanted to be influential, *except* in getting people to vote for him
in his best possible scenario, he would win and become a junior senator in a mcconnell-held senate, and mcconnell’s senate was *defined* by it’s ability to get almost nothing done, from a legislative standpoint…
like, i don’t think he’s getting any big column offers from the atlantic or a newspaper now, and whenever he writes another book, he’ll probably have to publish it through some wingnut welfare outlet rather than a legitimate one
seems unlikely that netflix is going to pay to adapt another book of his into a movie, he’s burned all of these inroads that were bestowed upon him because he had the courage to call his family a bunch of junkie losers
i’m sure he and thiel saw this race (and the senate seat) as a stepping stone to the presidency or some other higher administrative office, but, like, that only works if you win, and he’s gone all-in on a cartoon campaign that eliminates most of his other options if he doesn’t…
and the absolute funniest part is that he kneeled to MAGA and confessed all of his sins as a heretic, and, magnanimous as he is, trump will probably still decline to endorse him and/or endorse mandel anyway.
Regnery dollars spend just like those from Simon & Shuster, and Regnery doesn’t ask its authors to rein back on their social-media bigotry during publicity tours.
i mean, vance himself says that he lost money and clients over becoming a hardcore MAGA choad, which is one of the few things he’s said that i actually believe, and he’s still decided that torching all institutional cred for a race he’s going to lose is a good move for him https://t.co/IDhNH9jJfD
— NATION-STATE INSURGENCY MACHINE (@golikehellmachi) August 1, 2021
I think Thiel and some other very scary billionaires are more than willing to provide extremely generous wingnut welfare to the folks who they want to own
— Stephen Judkins (@stephenjudkins) August 1, 2021
might make him rich, but it’s never going to make him powerful in the way that he wants
— NATION-STATE INSURGENCY MACHINE (@golikehellmachi) August 1, 2021
heh, i’m sure he doesn’t, but i think it’s hilarious (and not at all surprising) that thiel couldn’t see it, either
— NATION-STATE INSURGENCY MACHINE (@golikehellmachi) August 1, 2021
*Is* Thiel just doing this for the lulz? Because he can’t think of a better way to throw away his money? Or does he have some theory-of-mind that he hopes to prove, maybe that even today’s grifter-poisoned GOP isn’t “worthy” of such Masters of the Universe as Peter Thiel?… Because the puppet performance is deep in Uncanny Valley territory already…
Tucker Carlson says, with a straight face, that JD Vance is one of the very few people who've decided to "run for office because they believe something and have something to say."
Vance immediately begins the interview by asking for money from Tucker's viewers. pic.twitter.com/6KRBM643Bx
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) July 30, 2021
So he’ll support primary challenges to Lindsay Graham, Tim Scott, & Susan Collins? https://t.co/AGI4EnB1pI
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) July 30, 2021
JD Vance releases strong condemnation of Anita Sarkeesian's Feminist Frequency youtube channel, continues to poll at 0.8% https://t.co/F8A6X7jKD1
— Teaching Gramsci to Kindergarteners (@MenshevikM) July 31, 2021
Well, okay, maybe (Thiel’s) money can’t buy Vance votes, but it can buy him followers! Which is WINNING, of a sort, right?…
lol, even jd vance's influencer game is a joke https://t.co/Euqt6vivBm
— NATION-STATE INSURGENCY MACHINE (@golikehellmachi) August 5, 2021
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Five years ago today…
Khizr Khan: "My son was an actual hero who gave his life for his men. He epitomizes America. Don't vote for the racist, incompetent buffoon!"
America: "Your name is funny, screw you. Racist Incompetent Buffoon 2016!"— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) July 28, 2021
There’s something to be said for targeting your scams at people who have completely suppressed their intellectual immune systems. https://t.co/oM8wCtgW1m
— pillsy (@DucksForDuckGod) July 26, 2021
The arc of the Bell Curve is shallow…
Andrew Sullivan's hero says it's cool to refuse to hire people if they're named Lamont or Laticia because they're probably low-IQ losers. pic.twitter.com/fS97J3lYmo
— Recovering Adrenochrome Fiend (@bwreed) July 26, 2021
it never fails to astonish me how far out of his way charles murray goes to explain that yes, actually, he is a racist, despite the protestations of interlectural dork web nerds. https://t.co/8mLDyC5rZm
— NATION-STATE INSURGENCY MACHINE (@golikehellmachi) July 27, 2021
Late Night Clown Car: They Are As They Proclaim ThemselvesPost + Comments (31)
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Not to be overly "woke," but this sucker is headed for Julius Streichertown. https://t.co/AYL6wbj9G9
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) July 26, 2021
the fact this isn't true aside, does it maybe tell you something that the ADL has so many conservatives to criticize?
— Aaron Schwartzbaum (@aaron_schwa) July 26, 2021
You know who else wrote one book before going into politics and then started ranting about the Jews?
— Eric Bravo (@boardgamebravo) July 26, 2021
Vance is no longer running for office; his full-time job is performative outrage against the people Peter Thiel dislikes. (Which, I’m sure some misfortunate Ohio residents would warn me, doesn’t mean he won’t end up in office… )
JD Vance: As we say in Appuhlatchia, president Biden is "hooting down the holler"
Peter Thiel, choking on his blood: Brilliant, JD, brilliant
— Teaching Gramsci to Kindergarteners (@MenshevikM) July 22, 2021
So, JD is one step away from "Why don't *we* have Hero Mothers of the State, too?" https://t.co/iDE8h4w2Xc
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 24, 2021
Can’t wait to see how these ideas are considered somehow more respectable than when Black families in the 90s were shamed for “having kids just for more welfare checks” pic.twitter.com/rmiNwYTtHA
— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) July 24, 2021
I have a daughter and that's driven me further left, because I'd like her to have a good future. https://t.co/osnAdyHJNy
— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) July 24, 2021
Wrong again, algorithms. And after all the time we’ve spent together ??
Unless Vance is just paying to promote this shit, which… pic.twitter.com/K5HFmQgZpa
— Peter Wolf (@peterawolf) July 9, 2021
I regret to inform you that JD Vance is who you thought he was https://t.co/NewEvpSkAk
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 21, 2021
Late Night Open Thread: JD Vance Works Hard for Peter Thiel’s MoneyPost + Comments (63)
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Dear god lol pic.twitter.com/xoI8OLvoFj
— Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) July 15, 2021
That $ART tag made me suspicious, so I checked the associated website — sure enough, “We use a social token called $ART to enable our community’s decentralized and autonomous governance”.
What’s a social token? — why, it’s the Next Massive Crypto Trend! :
Cryptocurrency isn’t going anywhere soon with the next biggest craze after NFTs being social tokens.
So what are social tokens? These are a type of cryptocurrency that is based around a brand, community, or influencer. Basically, it’s a way for internet groups or celebrities to further monetize themselves beyond the typical means…
Either @MoreWoke is planning to scam a bunch of ‘artistic’ innocents, or he’s about to get scammed by less gullible Kree8tivs who know more about the long history of ‘we’re gonna run away and build our own utopia!’ failures. Quite possibly both!
One of the Instagram accounts who make fun of white gentrifiers has a response pic.twitter.com/4lrG6FzItI
— Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) July 15, 2021
soon every dril bit will be made earnestlyhttps://t.co/WxVZfI6258
— Jeffrey B (fka Mismatched Dual Land Playset) (@lowclasshifi) July 15, 2021
Disrupting the cult space
— Brenden "Boss Brendy" Gallagher (@brendengallager) July 15, 2021
Friday Evening Open Thread: The Eternal Fantasy of An Elite HavenPost + Comments (163)