“Yes, yes,” the hair said, “Donald looks tough. But how do I look? Is it a good picture of me?”
“I mean, I guess,” the hat said. “It would have been better with me in it.”
“Oh, yeah, there it is. You are so jelly.”
“I’m not jealous,” the hat hissed. “I just think I should have been in the picture. I’m the one that got him elected, after all.”
“Your fucking ego is so huge,” the hair said. “I’ve been Donald’s hair his entire life. I guided him to success. I helped him become a billionaire. The Apprentice was my idea. I made him electable.”
“Read me, dammit. Make. America. Great. Again.”
“Fine. Whatever. I just thought I looked really nice in the mugshot,” the hair said. “But you can’t give me anything, can you? Not even a crumb.”
“I ain’t sayin’ you ain’t pretty,” the hat crooned.
“Don’t give me that shit,” the hair said.
“Look, you look great, OK, but I just think Donald needs to skew younger for the election. Biden is fucking ancient.”
“Younger? I can do younger.”
“And sexy. Really sexy.”
“OK,” the hair said. “I guess I’ll work on that.”
Favorite greentext ever. It’s given me a new appreciation of the form.
Just take it in. Let it wash over you. The smell of rot pocket and CVS brand perfume. Hot flash cooling popsicles. Cats and desperation. Margaret Cho’s orthopedic hat creature. Dylan Mulvany’s undermoob.
MGTOW at a glance
Back row: no clue, no clue, no clue, Pamela Adlon, Julia “It’s Pat!” Sweeney, Rosie O’Donnell, no clue
Front row: 57-Year-Old Taylor Lorenz, a Kathy Griffin RealDoll, Bud Light Brand Ambassador Dylan Mulvaney, and Margaret Cho on Ozempic
McConnellBot is on the fritz again. Maybe gerontocracy isn’t the best idea.
BREAKING NEWS: Sen. Mitch McConnell appearing to have another scary episode in the media gaggle in Covington today. Aides had to step in to help him out and repeat questions. He was eventually lead away. We'll have the full video on @WLWT pic.twitter.com/q9ex5MHxLV
— Hannah Thomas (@HannahPThomas) August 30, 2023
Gun fired at White Sox game was snuck in via woman’s ‘belly fat’
An investigation into a shooting Friday night in which two women were struck by gunfire during the White Sox-Athletics game at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago came to an almost unbelievable conclusion as to how the gun got into the ballpark.
According to a report by Chicago-based ESPN 1000, two sources close to the investigation said the gun was brought into the stadium hidden in the rolls of a woman’s belly fat.
ESPN reporter Peggy Kusinski said one of the women who was grazed by a bullet in the incident “snuck the gun in past metal detectors hiding it in the folds of her belly fat.”
The report said sources claimed the woman, one of the two women wounded when the gun later went off, set off metal detectors three separate times.
Security performed subsequent checks, but did not find the gun.
Yeah – Kentucky, he had a good run — but time to put that turtle out to pasture already.
Thank you for the greentext. Brainbleach of some kind will be needed later… idiot Dylan and Kathy Griffin just makes things worse.
Afternoon, all.
I saw that photo on the interwebs earlier, but I had not noticed the underboob.
Fuck you very much for bringing it to my attention.
I’m not sure, but Mulvaney may be the most fuckable of the bunch, at least in the top half.
God help me.
I’d take an option on the blond with the glasses, assuming she has XX chromos.
That bottle on the table is there… that beats all of them.
Watch one of Dylan’s “I’m a girl” videos and you’ll get over that idea fast.
I’d sooner have my tongue nailed to a wagon wheel.
“The smell of rot pocket ” was pretty good, though.
Taylor is not wearing a mask? I thought she was terrified of covid…
She must be freezing, too.
She’s not swift.
…after investigating this matter, TL is insisting covid precautions were taken. I assume this is only because everyone was calling her out on her mask bullshit.
Maybe they hosted it at The French Laundry. It is well known that COVID cannot enter there.
“undermoob”
😂🤢
Could have been worse, it could have Chuck Schumer on the couch…
Underduesch, more like.
LC seems like a good choice for those lynx!
Security performed subsequent checks, but did not find the gun.
Ewww.
They didn’t want to lift up the flap
You got to get in there at least to your elbow or you’re not really doing your job, security guys.
The way things are going, they’re going to need large animal vets on staff in order to find anything.
Someone who specializes in whales?
They’re not Starfleet Security — they sure as hell didn’t sign up to go where no man has gone before.
TSA would have caught it during the fingerbanging.
What’s Tres Cool?
They could have used a big cartoon magnet.
“Hey look! It sticks! Somethin’s in dere!”
Can we give Pamela Adlon a pass because of King of the Hill?
How about Louie and Say Anything?
Cokey Smurf!
How is Julia Sweeney not cancelled after her only popular character on SNL was mocking androgynous people.
She’s made a few groveling apologies for Pat.
She doesn’t speak for me.
You are killin’ it this afternoon!
*high five*
Married to a Jennifer.
“I’m not a smart man, Jenny” is one of my standard replies to criticism.
Le sigh:
https://youtu.be/1nN_5kkYR6k?si=McItwdVPxgzDGFdp
I married one, too. She is sick of this song.
Although she still likes this one.
I tried to get that number for her cell phone so I’d remember it.
Nice.
What about this one?
Huh. I would have wagered the other way around. Although I’m likely biased by my M. Doughty love. And my love of that Hammond organ sound.
The greentext is probably the least bad here.
So was there some kind of convention for past-their-sell-by-date female “comedians” that we didn’t hear about?
And now that they’re all post-menopausal (except for the cross-dresser, natch), what do they attempt to joke about?
Griffin holds these “luncheon salons” for washed-up unfuckables every few months.
I saw a “News Radio” rerun recently. For some reason I thought she was on that cast. Realized it was a different crazy redhead.
Correct, Vicki Lewis. Interestingly enough, both she and Kathy Griffin guested on Seinfeld. Lewis as George’s very plain, buttoned-down secretary who he ends up sleeping with, and Griffin, in the easiest role of her life, as an obnoxious wannabe-comic.
Ah, I never connected those two roles to the same actress.
….And Just Like That (or whatever the hell it is called) not being as good as Sex in the City probably.
Nothing beats Sex and the City 3, of course.
I think there’s a type, number 6 in the top row is Garrison Keillor.
I just misspelled “typo”. Does this mean the Internet will crash?
Not sure it’s Gary, but it’s definitely got bigger balls.
I like this Trump glamour shot
https://twitter.com/bklynb4by/status/1695035483061883086
Part of me thinks “What’s wrong with people?”… the rest of me is horrified by the realization: “And Rule 34 of the Internet still applies….” (shudder)
There is no rule 34 of Mitch McConnell.
*Throws down gauntlet
There almost certainly is… but there certainly shouldn’t be.
And I’m not daring enough to google “Turtle lemon party”, I will tell you.
Dammit.
https://mashable.com/article/mitch-mcconnell-dildo-dame
NSFW
No fucking way am I clicking on that. The URL is bad enough.
Imagine if pickle Rick was blue instead of green, had Mitch McConnell’s face instead of Rick Sanchez’s, and was safe to stick in your orifices…
I feel fortunate that I’m not drunk enough to click that right now.
The Trump-as-a-woman mugshot is at least the third best looking chick in that photo.
Are you putting Taylor and bad bangs as 1 and 2?
Correct.
Laraine Newman next to P.A.?
I think you are correct. Good eye.
Hey, SF, totally of topic, but do you have any idea what is going on with Arkham House? I think the URL is for sale, and I know they hadn’t put anything new out in a decade.
I haven’t read anything about it. I imagine AH is little more than an IP holding company at this point.
No, transwomen should not have abortions
It is almost as if these people have mental issues and maybe we shouldn’t pander to their delusions or something.
Of course, I’ll disagree with the article slightly — the Cult of Nikki (the Worst Cult) sure seems to be growing these days… all but expressly worshiping Moloch and following the Ole Aztec Methods. So we probably shouldn’t be too surprised… it is a Badge of Virtue to these messed up people.
Fuck off.
But what if they get hit by a bus?
Because women spontaneously get pregnant at random or because Trump forces them to mate with a partner of his choosing at a time of his choosing?
This is not a First endorsed by The Firster’s Guild of the West.
Good for you.
South Park already did this.
Starts to get scary when South Park becomes reality.
We have access to all this modern medical technology and that’s what they want to use it for. Maybe this is why we’ve never seen time travelers. They visited 2023 or beyond and said fuck that shit.
‘It is one thing to end a unique embryonic human life because pregnancy will cause problems too great for a woman to bear…’
That’s a bit of a stolen base, in my opinion. Regardless if you think abortion should be legal or not let’s not pretend that the major reason for abortion in Western societies is because pregnancy will cause problems too great for a woman to bear. It’s because having and raising a child is damn inconvenient when you’re not planning on or want one at the moment, nevermind the long term cost. And it may be so that this person has never met a woman who intentionally got pregnant just to have an abortion but there sure as hell seems to be a growing number of women who not only stopped feeling the least bit of shame or embarrassment over the ordeal but go so far as to celebrate the experience. So it’s no wonder these dudes feel the urge to experience the same to validate their narrative of genuine womanhood.
‘I want to be the first transwoman to have an abortion.’
I think that’s a killin’ offense.
I can’t decide if I’m exaggerating or not. These people are sick and vile beyond belief.
Wait a minute, the chick in the yellow skirt ain’t bad if she’s really a chick. It’s getting hard to tell these days but I don’t see an Adam’s apple.
Why the Singapore Airlines hat?
I think he meant yellow pants / glasses. Or maybe not, who am I to judge?
Yes, the not Asian.
Yeah, got that.
I remember when Margaret Cho (heck, even Kathy too) was funny.
I don’t jump to any conclusions anymore without seeing the goods first.
Alcohol doesn’t make others seem more attractive, study shows
Turns out you can’t blame it on the Goose, you’re just a desperate horndog.
That new study is full of shit. Source: I’ve been there. We’ve all been there.
I have. Sometimes in college, it had the opposite reaction. I’d look around the party after a few drinks and realize that nobody there was even close to being in my league.
Alcohol impairs your judgement, and that’s part of your judgement.
So, hornier and more impulsive.
Million dollar study shows age-old joke is….a joke.
Is the researcher the same guy that did the study showing that women prefer large cocks? It’s gotta be.
Next: ten million dollar study shows that little kids hate cauliflower.
Taylor Lorenz looks good at 57.
I love how Wikipedia has her birth year as a circa, like a historical figure:
The real reason she likes masks so much
FIRSTING…HUH…WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING! UHH HUHHHH
While we argue on the place (or lack thereof) of bicycles in city streets, I think even the pro-cyclists can agree that their place does not include the middle of the lane, riding towards oncoming traffic. Fucker nearly got splattered all over the pavement, and I haven’t got time for that. It’s not like he was passing a parked car, a bus, or delivery vehicle, no he was riding alongside regularly flowing traffic, just daring people to interrupt him with their bumper.
“This is why we need moar bike lanes!”
Nope. Going against traffic (salmoning) is dangerous, a bad idea, and generally illegal. It’s also really common among casual cyclists, because they think it’ll make everything “safer”. Taking the middle of the lane on the other hand, (taking the lane) is a useful maneuver when there’s no safe way to pass the cyclist and/or the road conditions on the side make it more dangerous to ride there.
A cyclist does have the right to the whole lane. And they should, when they cannot keep up with traffic, get of the damn road. Seriously, unless you are on a back road, there are plenty of side streets you can take, or you can get off your bike and walk it. Which should be how bicycles are handled in places like city centers.
But the damn bicycle rights/critical mass idiots have probably made cycling more dangerous.
I generally stick to side streets, streets through the local park system (which have long been used by cyclists), or roads with bike lanes. I probably dislike the critical mass people more than most, as they reflect poorly on all cyclists.
I really despise the “sharrow” trend where they just paint a bicycle and some arrows in a lane and think it makes any difference. About the only thing that I’ve seen that I like a little bit (just a little) is the right turn only lanes that have a sign saying “except bicycles and/or buses”. Even then, I’ll be looking behind me the whole time, waving people through if I’m stopped at the light, and taking the lane for the last 150-200 yards to avoid some car trying to turn in front of me.
Mmmmm.
And pairs well with the lunching ladies and dude.
Sir, my queef is a little too raw for my taste.
That could be one of those “Old Friends’ and Classmates’ Meetup” photos in the The Colorado College alumni magazine.
“We’re still speshul!”
Colorado School Releases Powerful Commercial For Why You Should Homeschool
They are on fire.
“FBI Seizes Jaiden’s Backpack In Predawn Raid”
“Biden Comforts Hurricane Victims By Talking About Time The Urinal Splashed Back At Him A Little’
alright…fess up. Which one of you is writing for the BB?
“Man almost makes it into heaven until St. Pete overhears the man use the word ‘pop’ to refer to soda and down the trapdoor he goes”
That pic captures the Karen.
McConnell looks like he has aged fifty years in the last three.
So does Biden.
“Gerontocracy” indeed.
I need input from the Gliberati.
I’m thinking of purchasing Starfield.
What’s the consensus here among those with an interest?
Lol. Consensus. Here.
Good one.
Three Glibs, four opinions.
Imagine if we were all Jews. It would be algebraic, the number of opinions.
I’ve already preloaded, waiting for the early release later this week.
I have had fun with Bethesda releases from the time I’ve been playing them. But I’m not an oldschool fan, so I don’t have nostalgia baggage to lead to disappointment.
It looks like a game that will focus on my favorite aspect – exploration. I spend a lot of time in these games looking for what’s past the next hill, so I find the game appealing.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh5nH2vVkEU
Elite exploration.
👎
I was pricing out CPUs and GPUs the other day and saw that it’s being bundled with AMD’s gear. So if you’re on an upgrade path, that might save a few bucks. I have no other input.
I’m thinking it’s going to be buggy as hell when it drops, won’t be playable until at least three patches (and potentially a load of mods). I’ll also say that reviews will probably all be glowing (as they are for most Bethesda releases), and will be full of comparisons to BG3. I’m going to wait until reviews drop, see if there is actual RPG elements (looks over at FO4), and wait for either a sale (if the reviews and RPG elements look good), or GOTY edition on sale (if not).
The bugs are my worry too.
Thanks also to Pat and UCS.
No near term upgrades. I’ve got the horsepower to run at mid level settings depending on how threadbound it will be on my Ryzen 7 2700x.
GPU is a 3080.
I’ve been lucky with Bethesda bugs. As long as it’s not a CTD (which I only get when modding), I’m more amused, though the only real one I’ve seen is the “Disappearing face when wearing a dragon priest mask and archmage robes” in Skyrim. Then again, I’m also the guy who didn’t run into CP2077 bugs either, so don’t take my experience as average.
It is an average experience.
Supposedly the ‘least’ buggy of all of Bethesda games ever! Yeah I’ll be playing tomorrow night. It’s was 34 bucks cause I leeched off kids xbox gold account
It’s a Bethesda game, so it will be part genius, part frustration and anger from all the goddamn bugs.
Elite Dangerous is my jam. Explore, trade, bounty hunt, fight wars, etc. A one to one galaxy awaits.
I played a bit. Not bad but couldn’t really get into it.
I get it. I played the original in 1984 and it’s what a young me wished a game could be.
Why I hate gamers…it fits you. It’s libertarian at its core, play what is best for you
Last night I made a Bloody Mary with the tomato juice we made yesterday and damn was it good.
I stayed up all night drinking beer and ate a can of my emergency hurricane beans. I’m OK as is my apartment. All I got hit with was heavy rain and some wind. I emailed my recently finished book to a few people and look forward to the feedback.
Eating a can of hurricane beans can lead to heavy wind, it is known.
The Feds will love it!
I suspect they read it while I was writing it.
If you have electricity count it as a win!
Heavy rain and wind. A new name for diarrhea.
I’d take an option on the blond with the glasses, assuming she has XX chromos.
I wouldn’t give you a 100:1 odds that’s a biological female.
JHTFCOAPS
Those pictures are hideous. All of them.
…JesusHTittyFuckingChristOnAPogoStick?
TOK’s Gym Update: Still not open. Ironically we can’t open our doors because we’re waiting on doors. The wonky building we’re renting has residential doors, and we need commercial doors that open with one touch in case of fire. But the wonky building was framed in such a way that the doors had to be custom made, and we’ve had two weeks of delays from the door guy. I did find a nice 16 camera system from Swann that came in yesterday, and we should have that all hooked up in a day or two. I have been working out in our building 5 days a week, and it’s been great. Mrs. TOK has run a few free classes to get people interested, and there were more than a few fit lasses in spandex. So there’s that.
Ah, the fit lasses. I do miss them.
Sorry to hear about the doors – that sucks. Hopefully you can get going soon!
Hopefully soon. Time really is money in this case. But once we get people signing up we’ll be in good shape.
I didn’t have fit lasses in my home gym, and I’m not willing to do a Mulvaney to make that happen.
Regarding the story about the stomach gun, I wish this quote has come from one of the xers:
“They’s put the gun in them’s marsupial pouch, ’cause them’s identifies as a kangaroo.”
Is that hag photo real? It looks photoshopped to me. They all have the right number of fingers, so it’s not AI.
AI can’t do that even on its worst day.
I’d be in favor of regulations to prevent AI from creating such a picture.
Just imagine the conversation.
You’d be begging for a guest slot on the View instead.
My vagina has a first name, it’s M-O-L-O-C-H…
I don’t see Not Adahn here, hope his date went well last night. Hopefully he was packing and his date wasn’t.
The billionaire who sticks up gets hammered down
Federal prosecutors are investigating Tesla’s use of company funds on a secret project described internally as a house for Chief Executive Elon Musk, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Neither Musk nor a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan, which the Journal said was carrying out the probe, immediately responded to requests for comment. No dollar figures were disclosed, and the newspaper said the house was near Austin, Texas.
The Journal reported in July that Tesla board members had investigated whether company resources were misused on the effort.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has also opened a civil probe, the Journal reported. An SEC spokesperson said the agency does not comment on the existence or nonexistence of a possible investigation.
The probes are in their early stages and may not lead to charges, the Journal said.
Prosecutors were seeking information about personal benefits to Musk, the world’s richest man, as well as how much Tesla spent on the project and what it was for, the Journal reported.
I don’t remember hearing about the feds investigating Kindly Old Grandpa Buffett’s fringe benefits.
Apparently it was a board member who went to the SEC.
“ The Tesla Board actually reported to the SEC who then looped-in the DOJ, after Tesla concluded an internal investigation looking into R&D funds that were used to pay for millions of dollars worth of specialized glass ordered by an LLC that Musk uses. The same LLC also purchased land in the area for the house.”
Musk has a mole on his board. They could have just asked him for reimbursement.
I’m sure good progs joined his board when he was a Good Thinker only to watch in horror as he transitioned.
I remember when Margaret Cho (heck, even Kathy too) was funny.
Margaret Cho was never funny.
True but she was a lot less unfunny back in the day. I may even have chuckled a little bit once at one of her televised sets back then.
X:
I do like how Barry always ignores Big Mike’s pouting.
ALOL at “Big Mike”
Just now figuring it out, huh? Yep, when I heard that you could have knocked me down with a feather.
*facepalm*
Also, the Wookie has a dick. Plain to see in many photos.
I’m not buying it. First you need to explain where the kids come from. I mean, I know where kids come from in general, but if she’s a man, how did they get two kids?
Is there any proof she was pregnant?
Unattractive kids?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12449307/Marching-beat-Sasha-Obama-22-seen-RIPPED-baby-pink-skirt-cream-boob-tube-listens-music-shopping-Trader-Joes.html
I think the kids should be left alone, and yikes, that’s not an attractive look.
I never said she couldn’t be the father 🙂
I lack Gaydar, so I’ll leave this to more discerning individuals to determine the validity of.
At this point, if Obama came out of the closet, he’d be more celebrated. They could call him the first black and first (notice the lower case – these are not things my people celebrate) gay president. He would be a champion of the progressive victimhood stack.
There are rumors about the guy’s sexuality that go back to his under reported-on college days.
Also, that letter to his ex-girlfriend is just the sort of intellectual hackery that defines Obama. The guy sounds like a rambling retard. He is the most manufactured black man on the planet. His entire life he was surrounded by white people who paved his path for him and told him what to think. And if he wasn’t being told, you get nonsense like that letter where he is convinced of his own depth, but which everyone else is just left laughing.
I am produced.
Culturally he’s white.
“Pretentious? Moi?”
Wouldn’t Obama be well over a century late to be the first gay president?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/175-year-history-examining-bachelor-president-james-buchanans-close-friendship-william-rufus-king-180972992/
1. No one knows history anymore so rumors and innuendo of the past wouldn’t matter.
2. The gays try to claim just about everyone in history. You can find websites devoted to theories on Lincoln being gay. They’ll. drop them at a hat to say Obama was the first big gay.
To be fair, finding out your hubby likes sucking cock and smoking crack has got to be hard on a heterosexual relationship.
“ hard on a heterosexual relationship”
That’s how they’ve stayed together for so long.
I think sex is a very small part of the Obama’s relationship and ranks well below the power and social status.
Favorite greentext ever.
I don’t know whether to be impressed or disgusted.
yeah
Sarc!
Nice to see you!
Hey hey hey!
That’s in a ‘What’s Happening’ tone, not Fat Albert.
Either way, I’m glad you are back!
🙂
The fact I misread Tundra’s comment as ‘black’ makes me a bad person, I’m sure.
Bigot!
Hey, you were _glad_ he’s black. I didn’t say that’s wrong.
Howdy
Elderly lesbians, get yer shots.
https://twitter.com/BillieJeanKing/status/1696936170066751567
Employers exist to hand out paychecks
A California federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit accusing X, the social media service formerly called Twitter, of disproportionately laying off older workers when Elon Musk acquired the company last year.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston on Tuesday said the plaintiff in the proposed class action, John Zeman, had provided enough evidence that the mass layoffs had a greater impact on older employees to continue pursing the case.
Zeman, for example, claims X laid off 60% of workers who were 50 or older and nearly three-quarters of those who were over 60, compared with 54% of employees younger than 50.
Illston ruled that the federal law banning workplace age bias allows plaintiffs to bring so-called “disparate impact” claims in a class action, an issue that has divided courts.
The judge dismissed a claim that X intentionally targeted older workers for layoffs, but gave Zeman a month to file an amended lawsuit fleshing out that claim.
Disparate impact.
I spend a lot of time wondering why anybody makes the effort to build a business.
I’m asking myself that a lot lately.
But then I get my kids’ orthodontics bills.
Way to prove the guy right, you tyrannical cuntes.
It was brought to our attention on Wednesday that the federal government is using an interview with The Gateway Pundit against defendant Zachary Rehl.
The ruling regime claims that Rehl spread misinformation when he was interviewed by The Gateway Pundit.
Because of this, the regime contends that he deserves SEVERAL MORE YEARS in prison! …
On Page 142 the regime urges the court to slam Rehl with the maximum penalty for not bowing down to the ruling lords.
In the Biden DOJ statements they were infuriated that Zachary Rehl would have the gall to compare his show trial to the Communist China regime.
And for this he deserves the maximum penalty.
WTF
Where’s the ACLU? I keep seeing ads on tv, trying to get one to join, about how great they are at fighting for liberty and justice and free speech. And I guess the a-holes have given up when it comes to holding J6 participants without trial and in inhumane conditions.
They are at the same cocktail party as thr DOJ.
I’ve seen those ads. They talk about the Constitution and protecting a bunch of “rights” not mentioned in the Constitution.
They’re celebrating the Fabian victory.
The ACLU is hiding from the jsix monster that lives under the bed.
Brandon is such a dishonest asshole.
I’ve said it before, but he’s always been a bullshit artist and an inveterate liar.
He’s just not sharp enough to pull it off anymore.
That’s where the compliant media picks up the slack.
He never was. He had to drop out of a Presidential campaign in the 80s when Johnny Carson mocked him for telling a string of lies.
His lies about the truck driver who was in the accident with his wife are vile testaments to his character. He’s a grade A piece of shit. I guarantee you he abused his kids and feels no shame over it.
A more honest era. What happened?
He’s always been a bullshitter just like Trump. He just happens to be in the right party so he rarely gets called out on it and when he does, it’s just evidence of what a loveable rogue he is.
He’s worse than Trump. Trump is full of shit and bombastic, but he doesn’t have that venal edge to him that Biden does.
Trump is what I would term “hyperbolic” mostly. Things like “This is the very finest hotel in the world”. “This is the largest crowd in history”
For some reason he inspires people to straw man things he says and then call their debunking of the weakest possible version of that straw man a proof that he was lying.
Even the crazy stuff – like “inject them with bleach” is an example of this. They lampoon him with something he never said – and it turns out that he was just repeating something that a team of medical researchers had just told him minutes earlier. But sure – Trump lies.
Like Charlottesville. The entire thing was a setup that involved the local government and national DNC organizations – the point being to provoke a response to attempts to remove confederate statues. Since that wasn’t working after several attempts, they trucked in Antifa and had local officials funnel the people holding an officially sanctioned and permitted counter protest against the far left activists into a kill box lined with Antifa. The national media was on notice to cover this as “Nazis and white nationalists attacking peaceful protesters against racism”. So when NBC showed live footage of Antifa members assaulting little old ladies with american flags, Savannah Guthrie said “look at those Nazi white supremacists attacking that little old lady!”. And when a group of Antifa rioters dressed in black attacked a bunch of middle aged guys in dad pants while holding a big black shield with red lettering, both her and Hota Kotb remarked at how “they are even dressed like Nazis! and look how they are attacking these peaceful protesters unprovoked!”
They then cut to commercial, and during the commercial someone told them that the folks in black were the “peaceful protesters” and the little old ladies and the middle aged dudes who looked like a bunch of random dudes from Walmart were the “nazis”, so they just quietly changed their descriptions of who was doing the attacking, despite having witnessed it with their own eyes and having given the opposite assessment 2 minutes earlier.
So when he says “there were good people on both sides”, referring to the protests for removing confederate statues and against removing confederate statues, they just lied about it and said he praised Nazis.
These are the bulk of the Trump lies.
Meanwhile – Biden said he didn’t know anything about his son’s business dealings while taking bribes funneled through his son’s business dealings.
These are not the same thing at all.
Sure, Biden has always bragged about being the smartest guy in the room. And he has always told apocryphal stories that are mostly made up. But that isn’t in the same ballpark as taking bribes, or telling the FBI to frame someone for a crime and then watching as they lose their home, their life savings and then their freedom and never speaking up about it.
That’s a whole different level of evil. And Obama was the one who made the call, but Biden was there. So was Comey. A whole bunch of people knew that Flynn was framed and never spoke up.
Every one of them has more evil stink on them than anything Trump ever did.
Some other categories for Trumps bullshit:
1) Anchoring negotiations. For example, I’ll get Mexico to pay for the wall. I’m not sure anyone believed that, but as it turns out Mexico did bear some costs of holding the “migrants” in Mexico. There wasn’t much of an addition to the physical wall, but there was enhanced enforcement paid for partially by Mexico. Wapo counted it as a lie.
2) Setting aggressive targets: For example, there will be a vaccine by the end of the year. This was counted as multiple lies in the Wapo database because he said it multiple times. Yet it turned out to be true. Even if the goal hadn’t been met, it would have been on the same level as most political promises like shovel ready jobs.
3) Slight misrepresentations: The economy grew by 3%. Well actually it was 2.8% therefore he lied. Sure, he’s exaggerating, but it’s the same sort of exaggeration that any other politician does.
Excellent points.
Reason has their panties all in a wad over Trump’s tariffs, but I saw those as a classic Trump negotiating tactic. Put up tariffs so you can negotiate them down and get something you want. That was clearly his intention with China, just as it was with NAFTA
Some old world record anniversaries today in track and field. And Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell were in the Senate during all of these.
It was 32 years ago today that Mike Powell broke Bob Beamon’s world record in the long jump. Carl Lewis jumped the 3rd & 5th farthest in history in finishing second to Powell that day. Beamon’s record itself had stood for nearly 23 years. Bob Beamon is younger than Biden & McConnell.
Stefka Kostadinova’s women’s high jump world record (just over 6′ 10″) is 36 years old today. But one year older is Yuriy Syedikh’s world record in the hammer throw. He’s got 8 of the 9 longest throws in history (3 on this date in 1986) and among common events only the discus throw record is older among the men.
Wow. I did not realize that Powell’s record was that long ago. Damn!
For those who weren’t there – Beamon’s record was one of those “has never been threatened, not for an eternity, and it never will be” records. There were NFL films style documentaries about what a freak occurrence that single jump was. And it has been a decade longer that Powell’s jump has been out there? Wow.
Also…. those 80s women’s records are most assuredly steroid induced.
Example article
https://therunnereclectic.com/2014/11/21/enduring-shame-marita-koch-and-the-gdr/
“Consider: nine East German women ran 50.15 or faster for 400m before unification in 1989. In the last 25 years, only two German women (without regard to East or West) have done so, the last one in 1999.”
Yep, the only 20th century women’s record that might be legitimate is Jackie Joyner-Kersee’s heptathlon. And that’s hard to track because the scoring tables are constantly changing. The 400 & 800 are ridiculous outliers, no other recent woman has been within half a second of those mid-80s records.
Where did Fauci get his inspiration from?
I’d venture it was Plotkin (who I think is still alive)
https://twitter.com/Inversionism/status/1696662003211698226
“The question is whether we are to have experiments performed on fully functioning adults, and on children who are potential contributors to society, or who are to perform initial studies in children and adults are human in form but not in social potential.”
Plotkin is considered to be the godfather of modern vaccines.
The McConnell thing is interesting.
And as always, I’m finding the media response the most interesting. Mitch has been on the decline, but he has been active and in the mix for the last two years. Suddenly he seems to be having a serious issue – and the press is covering it. NBC did extensive clips this morning, prompting the wife to spontaneously exclaim “Time to hang it up, Mitch!”.
Now – Biden has been far worse than this on the whole since the 2020 campaign season. Dude was barely functional most of the time, even way back then. And yet? Do I see NBC doing features about Biden’s mental acuity and physical health? Why no…. no I don’t. A republican has 2 incidents and they are all over it. Biden is clearly in need of a nursing home and they not only fail to mention it – they attack anyone who does.
Meanwhile – how do republicans handle such situations? MTG has called for the Turtle to retire. Publicly.
Big difference.
but if she’s a man, how did they get two kids?
On the black market.
Still no idea who the blonde with the glasses is?
Looks like it’s a singer named Sia.
https://headtopics.com/us/taylor-lorenz-calls-dylan-mulvaney-guest-of-honor-at-party-hosted-by-kathy-griffin-one-of-the-mos-43234015
Looks like AI wrote this:
https://totalnews.com/taylor-lorenz-calls-dylan-mulvaney-guest-of-honor-at-party-hosted-by-kathy-griffin-one-of-the-most-beautiful-brave-women-on-the-planet/
That’s looks pretty good for Sia – she has looked far crazier in the past.
Sia before her crazy phase:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxx_MwcfbEs
Can’t be.
That is really impressive group of female comedians who had a brief moment of fame where they were above average. Unfortunately, they have all had careers that were dominated by unfunny. They seem sufficiently mentally ill to have maintained the funny, but for some reason it didn’t work.
“Tucker Carlson has claimed Barack Obama was smoking crack and having sex with men – but the media failed to report it ahead of the 2008 presidential election.
The former Fox News host repeated the accusation of Larry Sinclair who alleged that Obama bought and smoked cocaine before they had sex in 1999.
The allegation, which emerged while then-Senator Obama was gearing up for the presidential election, was roundly condemned as an attempted political hatchet-job.
But Carlson claimed Wednesday that it was ‘really clear’ that Obama had been having a gay affair. He claimed the media didn’t run the story because the Obama campaign team threatened to refuse access to the Democratic candidate.
Carlson, 54, speaking on the popular Adam Carolla Show, said: ‘In 2008, it became really clear that Barack Obama had been having sex with men and smoking crack.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12462821/Tucker-Carlson-Barack-Obama-gay-sex-crack.html
Maybe that Andrew Sullivan cover story in Newsweek was more literal than anyone thought.
“Black Ohio mom, Ta’Kiya Young, 21, ‘shot and killed by cops after stealing alcohol from the supermarket’
A Kroger supermarket employee told officers – who were at the store for an unrelated matter – that multiple people were fleeing with stolen items, Blendon Police Chief John Belford said.
That included mother-of-two Young – who had allegedly taken multiple bottles of alcohol from the Kroger store.
One officer went to the driver’s side of the expectant mother’s car and told her to stop, Belford said, while the other officer moved in front of her four-door sedan.
Young then put the car in gear and accelerated forward and the officer directly in the vehicle’s path fired one shot through the front windshield, the police chief claims.
Her unborn daughter did not survive the shooting. Young was the mother of two sons, ages 6 and 3.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12463089/Ohio-TaKiya-Young-alcohol-supermarket.html
Top-notch parenting.
Almost ded thread. Working with lender and gonna put offer on house. We are going to be land barons soon! My empire of multistage real estate is happening bwahaha
Sweet! Can’t wait to see pics of the orphan mines!