Recently I learned that a movie was being made based on one of my favorite novels, I also heard that said movie version was eliminating one of the characters from the book. My initial reaction was “What a bunch of Grade-A bullshit”, but after some reflection I realized only a complete idiot judges a movie one hasn’t seen. I guess I could have justified my initial outrage by claiming that I has heard that some other people weren’t happy with the movie either or that I had read/watched various critical reviews of the film and that they weren’t positive, but In the end I must admit that I was an utter moron for not waiting to see the film before criticizing it. Anyhow work this Glibcrostic and tell us in the comments if you have ever jumped to conclusion about a movie or TV show or novel based on what other people said about it instead of giving it a fair shake.
Everyone but TEDS can google B, If you get stuck you can google G as well, any more googling will be considered cheating and your score will not go into the official standings. Also ‘D’ is plural should be ‘items’
Reminder: The last Sunday of each month is “What Are We Reading” Day so if you want to participate get your reports in to HeyBuddyStopDoingThat@protonmail.com by the second to last Sunday.
I prejudge all movies.
I don’t have the time or money to waste seeing them, so the ranting of other people is my entertainment.
eliminating one of the characters
Every script will only be able to capture so much. I love Catch-22, for example, even though it barely captures half the energy or storylines of the book.
But if the screenplay mis-represents important content, for whatever reason, that’s okay, but the film should at least be re-titled.
Of late, a number of films have gone the route of eliminating the title character, according to the rantings.
Only an idiot pretends that they don’t prejudge movies or any other form of media. Every time you make a decision not to watch something, guess what? You’ve prejudged it and determined it wasn’t worth your time!
It is in fact the entire reason movie critics became a thing in the first place. They are there to help you sort out what’s worth your time and not.
But I’m not some deep thinker like Hype.
Now, let’s get more specific. Let’s say there’s a corporation that produces movies with a certain pattern. One that you find objectionable. It repeats over and over. You know the person making the movie is creatively bankrupt because you have given them a chance with past products. But then some asshole wants to pretend that you have to watch every shitty thing they produce before forming an opinion even when legacy media who used to tell you this wasn’t happening have admitted that yes…it is happening and this is an example of it.
Let’s say you have the director of the movie talking about his deconstruction of the main character. You have them bringing in a writer/actor who has been called upon to “modernize” *cough* other properties. Then you have the opinions of people you trust on this matter telling you that yup…fits the pattern.
What sane person would watch this and give that corporation their money? Especially when said movie is 2.5 hours long for no good reason?
Of course, the scenario Hype outlined above, an adaptation that removes a central character is a perfect example of something that you would be just fine writing off before seeing it. Especially if central character was removed for political purposes which you vehemently disagree with.
Someone’s touchy.
Biden?
Him too.
I’m just enjoying the stupidity he puts on display on a regular basis.
Once again, we’ll find him latch onto some small distinction; he feels he can hide behind.
Big difference between not going to see a movie or reading a book because you don’t think you’ll like it and claiming that a movie or book one has never seen or read sucks.
And Bro’ continues to live rent free in Hype’s head.
🤣🤣🤣
And vice versa.
Using your weekly column for a personal attack on another Glib seems a bit over the top, but whatever.
I need a better class of critic.
“Personal attack” *eye roll emogi* Okay Karen.
You’re right. Not personal at all.
And don’t feign innocence and claim that your entire “Mea Culpa” wasn’t aimed squarely at Bro’s criticism of the Indian Jones movie. Just fucking own up to it. You used your weekly column to call Bro names while claiming the moral high ground. The mea culpa you should offer is how big of a douche move this was.
Haven’t seen the movie so I don’t know if it sucks or not. And yes I was mocking Bro’s retarded take, in my defense (If I may stoop to his level) he started it.
sounds about right
Oops, I misread your last sentence (movie instead of move). No I don’t owe an apology to the asshat that has repeatedly called me a liar and a cunt.
The apology you owe is the Glibertariat for using your column to “win” your stupid pissing match.
Just get a room and use STEVE SMITH therapy to resolve all this tension, y’all.
Trainspotting the film is much better than the novel.
I didn’t see last week’s solutions last week.
Since I don’t see movies any more and haven’t for over 50 years I unjudge movies. Having been married to a schizophrenic for a number of years long ago every thing now is like slo-mo. The way I like it.
I’ll send you two free tickets to the Barbie movie.
Anyone know why the Barbie movie is PG13? My 10 y.o. granddaughter isn’t going to see it. I can’t believe the target audience is teenagers and above.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/barbie-film-forgets-core-audience-favor-trans-agenda-gender-themes-christian-movie-site-warns
Odd given schools insistence on normalizing anything and everything sexual. You’d think MPAA would have G rated it…
Did anyone think it would anything otherwise?
It was pretty obvious from the get-go that it was never going to be a kids’ movie.
https://youtu.be/pBk4NYhWNMM
The trailer shows that a 7-10 year old is unlikely to get what they might be expecting.
Still, there are plenty of sarcastic and observant little girls, so maybe…
La la LA la la….
Just send the cash (popcorn too), oh Barbella, I missed that one, I’ll go!
Boy was I late to the party to poke at Hype.
It’s never too late.
Even on tee-vee?
Dayum, that is hard-core.
I’m reading ” The control of nature” will critique soon,
Tall Cans!
Tall cans!
You’ll soon be reading “The Complete Works of Hank Williams”. Went in the mail again yesterday.
Bowmore
Next generation Glib
A two-year-old’s solution to the trolley problem
“These are climate protesters…”
He has a great future as a Glib.
Is the ethicist on the trolley, or the track?
That Thomas is a real psycho engine…
Relevant
https://c.tenor.com/U6z3DOglmewAAAAC/tenor.gif
Well he’s no diesel
Forgot link https://youtu.be/_lL3cCLk6uE
I’ve already cheated on the acrostic more than the creator has deemed sporting, and I still got stuck, so I’m done with that. I tend not to see movies of my favorite books. My sister went to see a local dinner theater production of our favorite childhood musical and gave the show (and the food) a decidedly mixed review, so I think I’ll save my money, avoid getting stuck in a room with a bunch of sugar-buzzed little girls in princess get-up squealing in ultra high frequencies (with frequency) and just watch the beloved musical on DVD, where it will be just as I remember it.
A contender for my favorite Musical but I’ve not gone and ranked them all.
You just say it’s your favorite because he’s taken control of your mind.
🤣
The only musical I’ve ever watched that I even consider tolerable is Paint Your Wagon.
How about “Suck?”
I haven’t seen it, but a black comedy horror musical featuring Malcolm McDowell, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, and Henry Rollins couldn’t be all bad.
It’s good. Someday I will post it.
I had no idea it existed. Sounds intriguing.
Speaking of Alice — would love to see a stage adaptation of The Last Temptation. Gaiman’s script and Alice’s music… that was a great concept project I still enjoy.
Backstage musicals can be good, because being about the making of a musical, there’s more of a coherent plot built in. See 42nd Street or Singing in the Rain.
And then there’s The Gang’s All Here….
Likewise Kiss Me, Kate?
Meh… I’m partial to some. Phantom of the Opera (have only seen the Albert Hall version, but it was good). Fiddler on the Roof… always loved My Fair Lady.
Yes, a lot of the jocks in middle school thought I was gay. ;P PSB fan and musical theater and bookish… can’t blame them. Hell knows my dating life would have been easier if I were at the time….
I’m generally pleased if I can get two or three of the clues before giving up, which I did this week. I enjoyed the quote.
The scene in C is from Network, right?
I’m assuming the spelling of “butt” is some kind of hint. But it could just be a misspelling.
He played a brewer with butts of ale, but they focused on bung jokes?
That’s a bum joke!
I took the opportunity to be cheeky.
We should put all this punning behind us.
I read DaVinci Code and found it entertaining though shallow and somewhat silly.
I judged the movie when I learned they’d cast Tom Hanks as the professor. Didn’t bother to watch.
The first one was fun, the subsequent not so much.
I don’t get the Hanks or Sandler hate around here. There are far worse actors and actresses than those two.
THIS. Sandler is fine for what he was, and sometimes he was great. Hanks is…uh…a very bankable actor. He’s good at his job. I don’t get the hate. Him and Tom Cruise have made more money for Hollywood than probably any other actors.
None the three seem like they’re much drama to work with or off camera, and have a focus on making the movie.
I like Hanks in certain roles. Great in comedies (I’m one of those oddballs who considers Joe vs Volcano to be one of my all time favorite movies.)
But there was a time when Hanks was being overdone a bit, like he was the only actor around. I couldn’t see him as the DaVinci Code Langdon character.
Joe vs Volcano
My dear, that is beyond being an oddball.
I dislike Sandler not for his acting, but for the character(s ?) he plays and the movies he is in.
Agree on Hanks. And that’s saying something given Forrest Gump which I still refuse to watch.
Speaking only for myself, I absolutely loathe Tom Hanks for exactly the reason you describe: he’s a perfectly middling actor. There’s nothing wrong with being a perfectly middling actor, and he’s done flicks I’ve enjoyed, but the bugs-under-the-skin irritation comes from the entire Hollywood system riding his nuts and handing him industry awards, accolades, and roles that should have gone to his far more talented peers. Now the artist can’t predict how he’ll be received by the critics, of course, so even as annoying as that is, you could overlook it if he wasn’t such a smarmy fucking douchebag who bought his own hype and fancies himself some Hollywood elder statesman and culture maker. In that regard, it’s fitting that he has such a chummy personal and professional relationship with Spielberg, who is to directing as Hanks is to acting.
Adam Sandler, on the other hand, I don’t mind. He’s a fart joke comic and doesn’t seem to have any pretention to anything loftier.
You put it far better than I did.
Agreed on both points. Sandler clearly does not take himself seriously.
Hanks was just fine in Road to Perdition
Apollo. Fucking. 13. Everyone in that flick did just fine, thank you.
And as far as Sandler not thinking he is more than low brow comedy — dammit, I still have to sit down and actually watch Uncut Gems.
I forgot about Uncut Gems. Even though it’s not a comedy, it still feels like Sandler’s playing this wildly exaggerated comic stereotype of his character. I think he just can’t turn it off.
Spanglish?
I don’t hate Tom Hanks but he drives me a little crazy. He did Bachelor Party, which I loved, then ran from comedies. That’s fine, if a little disappointing.
He moved on to dramas and always plays the good guy. It’s reached the point, to piggyback off Pat’s comment, that he seems to believe that’s part of who he is. As though he has some gravitas from the roles he has played. He is actually a pretty decent actor. I’d love to see him play a bad guy or at least a nuanced character. Simply because he is cast in a role, I know he will be a good guy, with good motives, doing the right thing at the right time. There’s no reason to watch the movie.
I’d love to see him play a bad guy
Like being a hired killer in Road to Perdition?
They could always cast him in a remake of One Hour Photo….
It’s been a while, but as I remember it, it seems like they softened that by making him a caring father at the same time, but somehow without really making the character seem conflicted in the way it should have been. Which I think is precisely because Tom Hanks hasn’t got the depth to pull off that kind of a character with that kind of conflicted motivation. Contrast that with Gandolfini in The Sopranos, for example.
Hello, y’all. Youngest nephew is bounding around the house and I’ll go and keep up for a sec.
Any chat tonight? Tomorrow is apparently my inaugural day of being in medical prison. I am not ‘allowed’ to have internet of any kind. If I’m lucky I get one phone call a day.
This is unsettling.
Sugar, call me. See forum within the next half-hour or so?
We only do Sunday Zooms if Monday’s a holiday.
OOTL, but I wish you a swift recovery and release from medical prison. I know you’ve been down that road before.
Thanks, man. It will be fun to see what hijinks I know I’ll get into.
I am legit proud of hip surgery #2, done in Korea. After I learned to walk again, I gained the ability to unhook myself from all of my tubes and escape out the front door. Would have a smoke and no one cared. Went to the 7-11 and bought whatever I wanted, in gown, and walked my way back in, attached my tubes, had my fun, and no one was the wiser.
Unfortunately, I am exceptional at being secretly naughty. I still cultivate my talent.
Put your phone number in the forum?
You seem to have real misgivings about this admittance. Maybe you’re right.
Refreshed; qv. Will be looking for ya, 812.
“I must admit that I was an utter moron for not waiting to see the film before criticizing it.”
The Barbie movie comes out next week. Is that one one you are talking about?
“The Thicket” and the part they cut was the hog, also they gender swapped the villain, which doesn’t bother me but they chose Juliette Lewis for the part and she’s sometimes horrible, still Ill wait and see before casting aspersions. Oh and the midget from GOT is in it.
Watched Everything Everywhere All at Once. Fun once, but not seeing Oscar level work.
Does it have the minimum required number of Historically Underrepresented Demographics?
Bingo.
Literally, now.
I think you have to compare it to what else came out that year and what is coming out in general over the last decade.
The film was a masterpiece…by comparison. A fun popcorn movie with heart in the before times.
I’ve fallen asleep in the first 20 minutes every time I’ve tried watching it. Someday… took me forever to stop being lulled to sleep by the proto-humans in 2001, after all. Would always start the flick… and wake up with Bowman in the damned hotel room.
And that’s certainly one where the book is realms better, imho.
Send help
Help as in, a thermometer that goes higher?
JK.
Seriously though, you should consider going to Artesian Cellars and getting one of their delicious wine slushies. Perfect on a Pahrump summer day.
Lol, I may at that. I’ve already loitered around Albertsons and Walmart for a couple of hours soaking up some AC I don’t have to pay for while doing some grocery shopping that otherwise would have taken half an hour.
*tap tap tap*
“5% humidity”
I honestly can’t imagine that combination – I have never experienced it.
On the rare occasions it goes over 100 degrees here, it still comes with the usual 70, 80, 90% humidity.
Yeah. I just go wade into the nearest lake or pool.
Yikes. It’s 90 here and no one wants to be outside.
Speaking of hot temps, why didn’t you people tell me how awesome ventilated car seats were?
OMG. Cool air blowing across your ass and back? Yes!
That’s something I’ve never heard of…. of course, I’m of the generation and grew up in the geographical area that you were very, very careful about getting in and touching the vinyl car seats — because they’d be hotter than the fires of hell and take forever to cool down. (My ’80 Monte was really good at soaking up the Georgia heat…) Kids today…
any automotive HVAC questions are welcome
adding/removing the BTU right at the source takes a lot less energy than treating the entire cabin
weird facts: Americans use face on highest blower more than the rest of the world; Europeans tend to use a blend, what GM called bi-level
Whoa. I left Indian Wells today which was a 116. Find some shade and some water.
I knew Hollywood would fuck up Vince Flynn’s books. And they did.
What are you, some kind of psychic?
Yes. The best kind.
I didn’t even know they made a Mitch Rapp movie?
My assumption is, yes, they’ll fuck it up (have fucked it up?)
Ah, past tense.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/american_assassin_2017
It’s no Gymkata.
American Assassin
Generic blah.
Evan!, ya crazy diamond.
Posted my digits on forum but don’t see them now. Will try again in a different folder.
You seem to have misgivings about this place. There’s always later if you want to go.
I’m not a doctor or lawyer, but you don’t seem a threat to yourself or anyone.
Everyone but TEDS can google B,
I’m living rent-free in Hyp’s head.
If you want to see another good Googie Withers movie, hunt down a copy of Miranda or It Always Rains on Sunday.
Miranda and the sequel (mad about men?…..don’t recall) are great!
Send help
“If you can’t send help send two more women.”
Official score here is 101. No wonder it feels hot out there.
JFC – okay, okay, as soon as you identify where THE NORTH ATLANTIC reaches within 1000 miles of your shoreline.
Well, sea levels are rising on account o’ the climate crisis, so…
Look man, NATO is a defensive organization. The security dilemma is just a figment of your imagination.
The other day I read these types literally referring to it as “The Allies”.
The world is taking sides – the actual name of the thing is no longer relevant.
All over the civil war that we instigated in that fucking laundromat.
OFFS!
I’m starting to wonder how many normal people felt this way building up to 1914. Primal scream in my head time.
At least the warmongers in 1914 could plausibly claim not to realize the destruction they were about to unleash, theirs being the first mechanized war between industrial societies on a global scale. Nobody in 2023 can pretend not to know that they’re risking a literal extinction level event for political vanity.
If only the politicians were actually in charge.
Somewhat. But there’s a strong argument that the Civil War and to a lesser extent the Franco-Prussian war clearly showed the industrialization of war was ongoing and trench warfare was looming due to the strong advantages that gave the defensive at the time. They should most certainly have had some inkling of what total war would turn into, especially at the global scale their patchwork alliance system was roping everyone into.
But no… “The Russians won’t back the Serbs! They’ll just have to back down!”
“Oh noes… the poor Belgians (more to the point… our government illegally promised France we’d protect their coasts so they could move their navy into the Med)! Ah well, the war will be over in a couple of months!”
The troops should have shot whoever told them to start back up after the Christmas Armistice and told their governments to sack up and stop bleeding the country dry. Such a fucking waste.
Ah well, the war will be over in a couple of months!
We’ll be greeted like liberators!
They really want their country reshaped into a democracy!
On that note (from a sidebar in Animal’s article I pulled up just now).
You know, dipshit — things should be up for debate. And maybe you should try listening because other might have valid points. Ugh. (Not you, JI — talking to Sullivan if it wasn’t clear).
Would you be surprised to learn that Sullivan is a Hillary acolyte?
No… no I would not.
Hell doesn’t frighten him, but the sound of velcro ripping…
I’m starting to think this guy isn’t serious.
He’s starting to figure out that he fucked up.
Trusting the U.S.? Yup.
Ngo way!
He should add another y to the end of his name to show he means business.
(It’s been fun watching all right-thinking people who couldn’t have found Ukraine on a labeled map 2 years ago start policing the ever-changing spellings of Zelensky(y,y,y,y) and K
iyiv)Well, screwed up my Kiev/Kyiv tags. Whatever, you get the point.
Yet they still spell tsar wrong.
Indeed, it’s Caesar.
Serious was hardly his pre-political orientation.
I rode my bike home from work the day Phoenix set a record at 122 F. That was a warm ride.
hh100.org
AD on Phoenix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oEnNXyEPlQ
I mostly don’t bother with movies made from books I have read, as I either didn’t like the book, or I did and they will not follow my internal vision of the book. But, if I do like a movie, and it was made from a book, then I will check out the book.
Animal knocks out a timely one.
It’s a great question, really. Every one of these tragedies are followed by (previously absent) families seeking “justice” (money).
I know first hand that dealing with mentally ill addicts is no fun, but how the fuck does this become society’s problem?
Sharing (other people’s money) is caring
It’s a tough question.
My brother is working himself towards homelessness. He needs some kind of halfway house were he can have some level of supervision while being able to rebuild a life.
It became society’s problem when society promised to cure all the ills of society and people said “works for me”.
That’s about right.
You just keep chucking money at us, and we’ll keep working on the problem!
I think one of the problems is that many of these people have burned all the bridges to family. Our gov’t has allowed so much of this to go on for so long without consequences (See; Biden, Hunter et al) that when the shit hits the fan so many of them have stolen money, drugs, time and every other resource from the familys who did care, who are now just sad and destroyed.
TL/DR what rhywun said.
Semi-pro bad influence? Are we like the EFL, with multiple pro levels and then semi-pro below that?
Online done: estimated time — 12 minutes.
Estimated use of web / imdb search — lots (clue B, F, G and J — clue D bugged me because it said item not items gorram it…)
Thanks for the Sunday puzzle, Hype.
Goddamn it… guess I should have read the note (not sure if it was there when I started). Oh well — fuck it, you can’t tell me to stop doing that! 😉 I don’t need to be in Official Scores, I know I suck.
I always go straight to the online version so miss any “help” that Hype provides.
Clue D was one of 3 I got before quitting. The plural threw me but I’m used to the that by now.
I did Google H because it was on the tip of my tongue.
F was the only one I got
F was the only thing I ever got.
I had zero chance of ever getting F beyond somehow figuring out the quote and attribution with the other clues. Never heard of the band, not that into punk.
This is neat-o.
I thought they just got Lou Ferrigno to lift it.
Odd use for an air bunker.
Yes, yes it is. That’s cool, although they’re a little too casual about being in the danger zone there.
I agree
Lol
How cool. I had no idea that’s how it’s done.
I know zero about a CDL. They don’t say “xer” was driving under the influence, so mere possession?
https://www.outkick.com/police-departments-bud-light-facebook-post-goes-viral-transphobic-garbage/
But, naturally, that’s not the question anyone is asking.
No alcohol in the cab of a CDL truck, period.
But meth and crack already consumed by the ladies at the truck stop…?
Safely contained for transport, just not across state lines.
That’s the Mann Act
That’s sexist now. It is the TransGender Unicornn Act.
Where’s Gord when you need him?
I assume they’re very strict with CDL but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don’t even understand the outrage over the picture.
People are stupid
I can sort of understand (not agree with — but see it coming and recognize that some folks may have said opinions) being upset with the people mocking the driver for drinking Bud Light.
But not getting upset at the police department for the picture. They didn’t give a shit about the brand, they didn’t pick it. It was a simple “Don’t drink and drive. Especially not big rigs, dumbasses.” Which certainly for big rigs is to me… pretty non-controversial. (Yes, I don’t give a crap if he drank while parked in an off ramp at 2AM and slept it off… solely going with the assumption that he was drinking while on the job… don’t want anyone operating heavy machinery doing that, personally [hey buddy…]).
Why ask a question when you can just jump into the culture.
What’s truly astonishing to me is both the rapidity with which people can flip their entire political, moral and ethical principles these days, and just how little it takes to inspire them to do so. A couple of months ago these very same activist retards clutching their pearls and defending Bud Light here would have been making snickering remarks about redneck peasants with no teeth who drink Bud Light. Now merely posting pictures of some beer cans confiscated from a trucker with questionable taste is homophobia and transphobia because Bud Light put out one ad with a tranny. I’m starting to think maybe AB InBev are actual fucking geniuses here if the entire whinging class is that cheap a date.
Former piracy site Crunchyroll cashes in on anime’s global appeal
https://archive.fo/WVgwV
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2023/07/15/digital/anime-crunchyroll-sony/
My primary source for anime. Originally anyone who wanted to watch currently running anime outside Japan had few if any legal options. It made for some really interesting fan made translations and all kinds of flame wars among various “groups” on the “scene”.
Very few holdouts hate Crunchyroll with a passion as they feel they sold out. But it is really hysterical to see what was originally a fan sub piracy site be purchased by Sony.
For like $80 year you get no commercials and same day release and professional (although sometimes I question that) translation. Too much, wait a week and watch commercials and do it for free.
They really have made it much less worthwhile to pirate. Although for those in the know it’s still easy to do.
It’s not bad – although weird to see completed shows migrate back and forth between CR and hidive. At least the CR app is pretty functional.
For a while the CR app on Android TV sucked.
Now it’s been mostly good. It cracks me up when it goes down and I wind up downloading what I’ve already paid for…
A) Are those the actual specific cans of beer removed from the driver’s cooler? I do not see the grinning gargoyle on them.
B) What are the odds he is a local trucker and he was taking those beers home?
C) Why was he pulled over to begin with?
D) Righteous dudgeon is a powerful intoxicant.
About right
https://twitter.com/IRHotTakes/status/1680578123144806401
“Disgusting homophobic, transphobic garbage. Your office should be ashamed of itself. Look at all the hate and bullying you generated with this unnecessary and discriminatory post.”
Easy, Fido. Down, boy.
What did you do today?
I saved thousands of transfolk from extermination by tweeting at the police over a picture of Bud Light!
So stunning. So brave.
They’d be so much more tolerable if they weren’t so goddamn histrionic.
Not possible. They have been tricked into believing that this is the NEXT BIG HUMAN RIGHTS FIGHT when in fact it’s just a sad combination of grift and power play from folks who know damn well that what most of these people need is therapy, and that only because social media drove them to it.
Yeah, that’s a pedo
https://twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/1680638260786126850
Noooooooooooooooo!!!
https://rumble.com/v30bwsy-two-tons-of-cocaine-burned-in-sicily.html
Get off your asses Sicilian mafia and do something about this.
Is that the White House version of “I’m turning this car around! I mean it!”?
Well, at least it’s metric tons.
Cochise is bad M’kay?
Auto fill is a sad censoring joke
Well, if you were a Mexican army conscript back then, you might agree with that auto correct.
Take the money and (don’t) run
Biden had four people on his payroll during that time: Campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodríguez, principal deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks, spokesperson Kevin Munoz, and general counsel Maury Riggan. His campaign spent less than $1,500 on travel, accommodations and airfare. On rent, he spent nothing. He has not opened a campaign headquarters yet and much of his staff has been working out of the Democratic National Committee’s building.
It’s a vastly different approach than his old boss, former President Barack Obama, took in 2011 when he was running for reelection and spent more than $11 million in the second quarter of that year. And it has sparked concern among Democrats over what they see as the slow pace of the campaign.
Maybe he’s going to keep raising money and socking it away until he drops out to spend more time with the family. He’s going to need some walking around money after he retires.
“What part of I won just sitting in my basement last time was unclear to you dog faced pony soldiers? We did what we needed to to get Trump running against me again — that will get all the machine politics in line and the Never Trump people. I could put the contents of my Depends on camera until Election Night… it wouldn’t matter! We need the money for Hunter’s matcha tea… oh… marching powder? Well, whatever… he needs it!”
He doesn’t need to campaign. China already bought the election for him.
I don’t believe a word of that.
Outspending Republicans 3 or more to 1 is what Democrats do.
oh it’s bullshit. There’s no separate Biden campaign because the DNC is doing it all.
Is it OK to dislike everyone here? Naturally another country’s can’t apply to an American there, right?
https://www.fox26houston.com/news/houston-woman-detained-in-dubai
Country’s laws…
“Screaming in Dubai” is a great album title.
Cover should be a variation of Edvard Munch‘s work.
Yes. With Siouxsie hair.
Put a turban on it?
Quanell X is on the case. Im sure he’ll sort shit out.
The stupidity of that statement simply staggers me.
lol was just gonna quote that, with a quizzical face.
I must be getting old because you could not pay me enough to visit a hellhole like that.
The world has gone nuts. I enjoyed a tour of China in 2001 — no fucking way today.
True. Though I will say as a college student trying to leave Athens, having the authorities take my passport to “examine” because I was alone and headed back to the UK for school (on a US passport) was very worrisome. They suspected I was drug smuggling, I think, and there was nothing I could offer for proof since I was there as part of a tour my parents had paid for. I had no receipts for what I’d been doing in the country, and no stamp for entry, since I’d come by ferry from Italy. All I could do was point to the dumb tour-company satchel as my “receipt.” For all I know they actually called the company to verify, but I stood in the airport, alone, as some security people took it in some back room. Fortunately, they came back and said everything was fine, so I was free to leave. But it was still terrifying for that quarter-hour? Half-hour? I don’t know, it felt like forever though.
I’d be a happier parent with my daughter visiting Greece over the UAE.
oh yes. on that tour we stopped in Istanbul. Me, thinking the garden of the palace was a good place to roam around, found myself trapped in a group of young men, who were probably calling me a whore in Turkish and other very unsavory things. The only reason nothing more happened was the (male) tour guide found me and gave them all a good talking to. I didn’t leave his side the rest of our time in the city. And that was Turkey in ’92, when they were far less Islamized than today.
I was cutting corners, off the beaten path, to get to the Eiffel Tower one winter evening in 1986 and within seconds I was held up at gunpoint slash propositioned for sex.
Paris is no joke. I never got the appeal to so many Americans who settle there – it’s a fucking shithole.
In Istanbul I went to see Natural Born Killers with my girlfriend in a theater the size of a small classroom where the seating was a bunch of folding chairs. We definitely got some strange looks.
Technically speaking you should have gotten a passport stamp when the ferry docked.
Ferries, like trains, just looked at it. I think I only ever got a stamp in an airport.
I got stamped walking off the train into East Berlin but yeah, they didn’t fuck around.
Did they at least give you an authentic “Papieren, Bitte”?
Probably. And Westerners, being the source of much of their wealth, got the polite treatment.
Ihre Papieren, bitte.
the American social media influencer who works as a truck driver can’t leave the UAE.
Don’t come crying to me if you stick your head in the lion’s mouth and he bites it off.
Why Dubai? Wouldn’t it be cheaper and safer to vacation in Alabama?
Florida Man is a safer bet!
Not enough gold to dig in Alabama is my guess.
“I vacationed in an Islamic Theocracy and all I got was this stupid jumpsuit…”
It isn’t like Dubai hides what it is… and “An increasing number of Houston women vacation in Dubai” — an increasing number of women play the lottery and hope to strike gold (digging) in Dubai it sounds more like. Roll the dice, take your chances ladies.
well done
That really is what it sounds like.
Possibly it’s a zoomer thing. I have a couple of younger acquaintances in their mid 20s from an old gaming community I used to frequent who constantly talk about how based and awesome Dubai is. “They have free healthcare! Everybody is rich, even the busboys! You can have more than one wife if you want!” When I point out to them that they’ll also send you to jail for 10 years for visiting Pornhub, or smoking weed, or criticizing the monarch, or taking the piss out of Mohammad, and that the foreign laborers who constitute most of the jobs at the sub-executive level get no legal protections and typically live in grinding poverty such that they can’t afford to go back home and have become a permanent underclass, they tell me that’s only if you’re some poor foreigner (as if their 4 digit net worth was the kind of blinding western wealth for which the emirs roll out the red carpet).
I’ve seen the slick ad campaigns for those places and wondered who’s falling for it. I mean, nobody wants to live there but hey maybe they want to park a few billions there? I wonder if any of those lily-pad Gulf resorts are actually populated with living people.
lol I didn’t think of that angle
It isn’t like Dubai hides what it is… and “An increasing number of Houston women vacation in Dubai” — an increasing number of women play the lottery and hope to strike gold (digging) in Dubai it sounds more like. Roll the dice, take your chances ladies.
This may come as quite a surprise to a certain class of bold and sassy American woman, but White Slavery is a real thing, and Dubai is exactly the kind of place where you can learn more about it than you ever wanted to know.
What?! I thought rich Arab men were known for their tender lovin and the respect with which they treat their women.
Every last one of ’em, a feminist supporting beta to the bone. With money!
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnvaHW6zNLY
Goats. They tenderly love and respect their goats.
For many arab men women are merely a commodity to breed.
Reservation Dogs is back!
This actually looks kind of interesting.
Not sure I want to schlepp an hour and a half into Manhattan but there’s always the livestream. I am open to both sides of the debate.
PS. there is no way that guy on the right practiced law for 40+ years. I’ve been accused of posting old selfies at work (until I just removed it entirely) but come on.
PPS. I love the fact that for an extra eight bucks, there’s a reception afterwards with food & drink at some dude’s apartment.
I’ve come to be a “High walls, narrow gates, harsh punishments” proponant regarding policy, along with actually enforcing it all.
Pretty much where I am, but I’m willing to hear the arguments on the other side – again.
Although I read them for 15 years at Reason and never came away fully convinced, so who knows.
Here’s hoping their debates haven’t gone the apparent way of high school debate, with the scoring based on some weird sort of woke system. 🙄
Nah, from what I’ve heard of many of these in the past, they’re the real deal.
No speaking in tongues or stuttering or shit like that.
Of course, it could be that the points don’t matter.
So, what am I supposed to do with the millions of whose line points I accumulated?
Maybe you can use them on the Dark Web to buy Tide Pods?
In the absence of the tens of thousands of market distortions that create a concentric series of perverse incentives, I’d be in favor of the resolution. In the world as it is actually constituted, it’s social, economic and political suicide. Unlimited immigration is untenable once you’ve regulated away all of the social and market mechanisms that would create a limiting principle. The likelihood is that you would see at least 100 million new immigrants under such a system within a decade or so, many of vastly different social, religious, ethnic, racial and economic backgrounds, many of whom have longstanding tribal grievances, all vying for limited resources in an environment where regulation makes it nearly impossible to build sufficient housing, roads, and sanitation, nor adequate electrical generating capacity, communications capacity, and other basic logistical services to accommodate them, to say nothing of providing sufficient police, teachers, school administrators, emergency services, welfare case workers, form-processing bureaucrats, and myriad other government services to which they would be fully entitled. Even in an unfettered free market it would cause misery-inducing supply shocks and shortages in the short run, they’d just get worked out faster during a huge boom to accommodate all of the new economic activity, followed by the huge bust when the ramped up production hits equilibrium with the new population size. You some underpants gnomes to make it work even in utopian laissez-faire libertarian conditions, let alone the decaying fascism we have now.
Exactly. I lean strongly toward ideas that reflect an understanding of human nature. Fanciful pie-in-the-sky crap doesn’t appeal to me at all.
I’m not so certain an open immigration scheme couldn’t ever work in reality. It just might, in the right place with the right government. But not under present policy conditions in this particular country, let alone in countries with a more homogeneous ethnic and cultural composition borne out of thousands of years of conflict and tradition. It would have to be a proposition nation like the United States, but with a very minimalist state.
Lorenzo Warby characterises this as the Anywheres versus the Somewheres. Open immigration is an Anywhere idea. The Anywheres are people with no particular attachment to where they live.
When autocorrect attacks?
I wish I could blame autocorrect. This would just be yet another of my classic dropped-words-when-I’m-thinking-faster-than-I-type errors. It was supposed to say “You *need* some underpants gnomes to make it work…”
I Agree
whaddup doh’
Hey from Fairfield, CA….finally a decent AirBNB that wasnt a former “rest home” like the previous.
TALL CALI CANS!
Good grief… how is it that they didn’t put you up in a steady room for the duration?!
Its a weird company move they made shortly before i signed on. Its not that bad, really. Working 12+ hour days, my colleagues all pretty much hit their room and you dont see them till morning.
We do all get our own bathroom.
AirBNB as a travel policy is crazy.
You all need to be afraid, very afraid. If Trump wins he is going to implement Agenda 47 and then the dark night of fascism will truly fall on America.
Salon is so deep in the fever swamp with this one they are practically sinking in the quicksand with malarial mosquitos sucking them dry. And damn, not only did that website get really fucking delusional over the past decade, but it is almost unreadable with pop ups and ads that you have to go into Reader mode to actually be able to read it.
https://www.salon.com/2023/07/14/be-very-afraid-agenda-47-is-no-joke/
A taste…
“The bad news is that it could work. Like QAnon, this collection of fantasies will take on a life of its own and is intended to: you can design your own state fair, state by state, with the Gadsden flags and AR-15 firing ranges. You can fantasize about which particular homeless street you would hose down first, the day after the inauguration.
[…]The imaginary cities are about more than just Jetson fantasies – they will be read, quite openly, as white only; and on Federal land they will be designed to abrogate the rights of homeless people – they’re a sop to the fantasies of the seasteaders and the preppers.”
Trump has very little chance of winning in 24, but my Lord, if he does the temper tantrum is going to be absolutely dialed up to 11. It would make 2016 look like a stoics convention.
Meanwhile, this was Salon 10 years ago, on Agenda 21:
Say what you want about Beck, but at least the Agenda 21 thing had the benefit of being based on real, actual, published documents produced by the UN. And I’ve never heard even the most deranged prepper or survivalist whip themselves into that much of a histrionic panic over… anything, actually.
the fascist and other authoritarian policies Trump put in place during his first regime but now made even more extreme and cruel.
Sometimes when I read this sort of drivel I rewrite it in my head to just be “bad bad bad Trump bad even worse! evil bad! Super duper bad!” Since that’s the only content they’re actually delivering.
Yeah, the US has been fascist since Roosevelt. Trump didm’t change anything.
On the aggregate, I’m not seeing the problem with A47
Wow, that is impressively unhinged, even for Salon.
“Tucker Carlson, a neofascist and fake right-wing populist”
Yep…and I’m done…
Now, contemplate it as an exercise in projection. Not just unhinged but a little frightening.
Well shit.
https://youtu.be/ZfaNQf5LG2M
Fuck cancer.
Huh, I was wondering why his content has been far between lately. Hopefully he beats it.
Morning, all. Barely awake…got up at 0245 to catch a flight. Boarding in a few…
You’ve got my sypmathies and complete understanding on the early flights.
Wishing you some good calm thoughts,.
Thanks! I’m always calm. As soon as I hit that seat I’ll be dreaming.
Hey Glibs! Happy Monday. ☕
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nCqa6nVNtH8
🎶🎶
Good tune to add to the Glib’s soundtrack, plus an appearance by STEVE SMITH…
Morning.
Good morning, Sean, U, db (+bon voyage & pleasant dreams en route), hayek, and Stinky!
Busy work day today, but there’s an “incentive” in my pay at the end of it. Well…when I get my pay at the end of the week.
You get what’s leftover in the snacks budget?
That’s not much when we’re only charging 50 cents per item and it’s all I can do to keep the average cost per serving somewhere in that ballpark. 😒
Who sets the prices?
I’m not sure. It’s been at 50 cents as long as I’ve been aware of it, long before I took over stocking the snacks and drinks. I inherited the job when the gal who did it before moved to NC and thus became permanently “WFH.” When it gets to the point where I just can’t keep the cost close to that, I’ll check with senior management just to make sure they’re OK with me bumping it up to 75 cents. (I don’t want to mess with increments of less than a quarter.) The “snack fund” has its own checking account with debit card, so it just has to support itself.
Mornin’, GT. I hope that “incentive” is worth the BS.
Oh, yes – it’s a pretty healthy chunk, well into three figures (to the left of the decimal point.) Or at least it’s healthy until the taxes come out. 🙄
I tell you, get some swordfish steaks.
I might do just that. To celebrate getting my incentive! 😋⚔🐟🥩
…and good morning, ‘patzie! 🙂
Mornin’, Sean. Hope you were able to build the ark in time. Some nasty shit down there.
https://nypost.com/2023/07/16/at-least-4-dead-4-missing-after-pennsylvania-flash-flooding/
Other side of the county, but scary stuff!
Hype had his Jeb Bush squeaky voice “Don’t Talk About My Family damn it!” moment above. What a bitch.
And a lying cunt.
Mornin’, reprobates!
Morning All
Body hurts, but still moving…
Gave away a ram with wonderful horns to a family of “vegetarians”.
He struggled with us until we got him in animal crate. I was very lucky, he rammed my leg, missed the knee.
lets see what fresh horrors the day brings.
“Sheep are Vegetables, right?”
“I mean, isn’t that where cauliflower comes from?”
Good morning, ‘bodru! Hope your pain subsides ASAP. 😖
Sounds as if the ram recipients were making some kind of “ram rescue.” We’ll see how long that lasts when he lives up to his name. 🐏
“Once there was a silly old ram…”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4-bD0ZG5_2w
I heard Frank Sinatra sing that every morning as I was getting ready to trundle off to grade school in Mpls. Not my favorite song, even today.
Mornin’, Some of those old rams have an odor that can be strong, unpleasant and long lasting. Mean as hell, as well you know.
It ain’t all “Mairzey Doats”