[worry]

You meant all the other stuff I followed it with too, that wasn't me editorializing.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

worry, on 06 June 2022 - 03:28 AM, said:

You meant all the other stuff I followed it with too, that wasn't me editorializing.

Yep, all of it 😁

[Malankazooie]

Got your popcorn and favorite adult beverage ready for Thursday evening? I think I'll go with an old fashioned glass of Buffalo Trace Bourbon, on the rocks. On the real though, I probably won't watch it much and just catch highlights. I think it will be a mistake to give a lot of time to Liz Cheney, because her brand is damaged, but I think it's unavoidable because I believe she is one of the leads on the committee.

I guess they have brought in a producer and are going to make a show if it. Too bad none of it will matter.



Not sure how legit, but there are rumors that Trump might announce running in 2024 after this is done.

[Nicodimas]

worry, on 05 June 2022 - 09:56 PM, said:

I think Whisp means when adjusted for inflation, which is true, gas has definitely been higher. Which isn't to say it doesn't suck for most people, since along with artificially inflated gas prices we have artificially limited incomes. And by artificial I don't just mean manmade, since these are all manmade systems, but additional willful and deliberate thumbs on the scale. Just kinda funny how this one coincides with what seems to be a global war on democratic norms by lowest common denominator populist kleptocrats. Makes one wonder, perhaps, where along the political spectrum our world's esteemed oil cartels typically align.

$5 dollar national average !

(I like your part on limited incomes)

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So it's cheaper during Putins war than it was under trump (inflation adjusted)? Man Biden is screwing up sooooooooo bad

[Malankazooie]

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[Nicodimas]

Back to the comedy of it all

The economy Clearly needs electrolytes

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[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'GOP Candidate Carl Paladino Calls Adolf Hitler "The Kind Of Leader We Need Today"

[...] Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) endorsed Carl Paladino's bid for a Buffalo-area congressional seat.

[...]

"[M]any people don't voice their opinion or just become, see it as utter futility," Hunt said. "How do you rouse the population? How do you get people thinking about the possibility of change here in New York state and what that might mean for our, for everyone here?"

"I was thinking the other day about — somebody had mentioned on the radio Adolf Hitler and how he aroused the crowds," Paladino responded, chuckling a little bit as he said the Nazi dictator's name. "And he would get up there screaming these epithets and these people were just — they were hypnotized by him. That's, I guess, I guess that's the kind of leader we need today. We need somebody inspirational."'

GOP Candidate Carl Paladino Calls Adolf Hitler 'The Kind Of Leader We Need Today'

'Fox News did "something worse" than ignore January 6th hearings

[...]

"The whole thing is insulting," Carlson told viewers. "In fact, it's deranged, and we're not playing along. This is the only hour on an American news channel that will not be carrying their propaganda live. They are lying, and we're not going to help them do it."

Carlson didn't identify any specific lies -- in fact, the hearing hadn't even begun at that point'

Fox News did 'something worse' than ignore January 6th hearings

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Google's AI Isn't Sentient, But It Is Biased and Terrible'

Google's AI Isn't Sentient, But It Is Biased and Terrible (vice.com)

... close enough? (To human sentience at least... or AmerryKKKcan consciousness.)


'A Fox News Host's Strange Backstory Shows How Liberals Lost Comedy

Conservatives now have one of the most popular shows in late night.

[...] Gutfeld made his name as a comedic provocateur, first gaining national attention in 2003 by hiring three dwarfs to loudly eat potato chips in a successful, if appalling, effort to disrupt a publishers' panel discussing buzz creation. The New York Times described him as a "pest" who would "annoy, harass, mock and traumatize" his rivals. At its most charitable, the Times noted that Gutfeld possesses a "bizarro" sense of humor that most people, or at least most Times readers, probably would not understand.

[...] Gutfeld has long demonstrated an obvious knack for garnering attention through what would now be described as trolling. Developing a highly performative, occasionally over-the-top style of comedic presentation, he became the host of the panel talk show Red Eye in 2007. [...] Airing at 3 a.m. Eastern time, the program combined political commentary with occasional comedy sketches, a variety of recurring segments, and a general sense of disjuncture and improvisation. [...] Gutfeld's relentless intensity and insistence on laughing a little too much at every joke evoked a fun house version of Jay Leno[...]

[...] went through weeklong phases in which Gutfeld would disrupt his editor by pummeling him with cat puns and attributing to him a variety of improbable feline interests. Panel discussions would swell to 16 pundits, none of whom had time to do anything more than introduce themselves.

[...] By late 2021, Gutfeld! (2.12 million viewers) was even beating Colbert (1.896 million viewers). [...]

[...] uses editing to build comedic momentum through excessive repetition, evoking the classic comedy theory that humor readily emerges from human agents acting like automated machines. It also makes a right-wing political point: The Democrats, the clips suggest, held a hearing with no purpose. [...] Having completed the Mueller "purview" montage, a graphic advertising "The PurrView," a daytime talk show hosted by cats, appears on screen.

[...] two men sit across from each other in a nondescript office setting, one of them snacking. "What are you eating?" his co-worker asks, to which the other blithely offers, "Macadamia nuts—want some?" This reply sends the first co-worker into a tailspin of feigned indignance—no, he will not have any macadamia nuts because they're from Hawaii, where there's also a Trump International Hotel. [...] Everything from Hallmark Channel movies to bandannas are declared symbols of white supremacy until eventually the first co-worker—now nearly naked after his kilt is revealed to have a troubling connection to Trump's Scottish heritage—turns to the camera and stammers, "Thanks, Trump!"

[...] a vaudevillian performance style in which two comedians rapidly bounce jokes off of each other—think Abbott and Costello's famous "Who's on first?" routine—in the creation of a single bit. The segments cut back and forth between clips of Trump giving one of his trademark rambling bizarro speeches and Gutfeld commenting from the studio in the role of straight man. [...] One such segment begins with Gutfeld talking to the camera, commenting on the then outrageous, now somewhat quaint, controversy about Trump's interest in purchasing Greenland from Denmark:

Gutfeld: He [Trump] now wants to buy Greenland. That is awesome. And it's no surprise, he's a real estate guy, he probably wants to buy it so he can flip it. Add some granite countertops, a subzero fridge, some nice bathroom amenities, done. It leads me to wonder, do you love cranes or trucks?
Trump: I love cranes, I love trucks of all types. Even when I was a little boy at 4 years old, my mother would say, "You love trucks." I do. I've always loved trucks. I still do. Nothing changes. Sometimes, you know, you might become president but nothing changes. I still love trucks.
Gutfeld: Nothing changes. But what about the rain?
Trump: I said, "Don't worry about the rain. Do we have umbrellas? Don't worry about the rain. Umbrellas work very well."
Gutfeld: It's so true! He speaks the truth about the umbrella. And what do we send them, wheat?
Trump: We send them wheat. Wheat. That's not a good deal. And they don't even want our wheat. They do it because they want us to at least feel that we're OK, you know, they do it to make us feel good.

The bit goes on and on in this fashion[...]
Much of the humor comes from the seemingly unintelligible connections and juxtapositions, as the bit takes political speech and twists it into a kind of avant-garde spoken-word performance. [...] To try to follow along is to engage in serious literary interpretation, as Gutfeld molds Trump into a Joycean hero whose stream of consciousness somehow includes loving trucks, admiring the effectiveness of umbrellas, and feeling OK about selling wheat. All of which creates a mountain of incongruity that is fun and funny to the extent that you believe that Trump's popularity on the right and political power resolves, or at least nullifies, all contradictions.

[...] it lays bare the artifice of linguistic convention that underpins all communication. Taking only complete sentences uttered in a single monologue, it seems comically improbable that an adult human, let alone a president, could be edited to sound so unmoored.

[...] Gutfeld's likely intention is to praise Trump's disregard for norms and his zeal for destabilizing hierarchies, linguistic or otherwise. [...] visibly enthused by the damage Trump does to institutions and traditions. For Gutfeld, his double act with Trump emphasizes what reactionaries can gain when they lose the pretense of seriousness. [...]

Gutfeld is making a comedy show that conservatives like and that liberals would rather wave away with "that's not funny," even as right-wing comedy plods along, growing in stature and influence.'

Greg Gutfeld Fox News show: how comedy went from the left to the right. (slate.com)


'Truth Social [...]over a week before the platform went live, the developers set up Trump's account.

But that account was not the first one set up on the platform. A full 24-hours earlier, the developers running Truth Social set up an account with a single letter in its name: @Q.

[...]

Now[...] the platform is overrun with QAnon content, pushed by multiple QAnon influencers who have been given verified profiles on the platform.

[...] now, Trump himself is boosting the QAnon content, resharing dozens of posts containing QAnon imagery, phrases, or memes.

[Spoilered for photo of public executions]

Spoiler

'

Trump Uses His New Social Media Site to Share QAnon Content - VICE


... which one of those is me? (They won't even let me wear my mask while I'm being hanged?...)

[Tiste Simeon]

Azath your post about the right vs left comedy thing reminds me of this video (rather long but really interesting!) Gutfeld! appears on it a lot...

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

In lighter news:

[Gorefest]

Oh dear, sounds like the American evangelicals with their Rapture bullshit actually have a Russian counterpart in oxthodoxy.

[Malankazooie]

RINO is an acronym that stands for something right? Is it Really Ignorant Nasty Opinions? or something like that?

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Videos circulating on social media show a group of Proud Boys and adjacent far-right protestors violently confronted [America's Next Top Fascist Dictator contender] Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) [...] Among the insults and threats being shouted at the representative was "eyepatch McCain," a term popularized by Tucker Carlson, who was mocking his support for Ukrainian aid. Another video shows a man in a "45" hat screaming: "Dan Crenshaw is a traitor! He needs to be hung for treason!" [...] "[...] hitting them with cameras," [...] Crenshaw clapped back to Stein and others on Twitter: "This is what happens when angry little boys like @alexstein99 don't grow up and can't get girlfriends…" Crenshaw wrote.'

Rep. Dan Crenshaw Accosted by Group of Proud Boys, Far-Right Activists (thedailybeast.com)





'Biden does a jig leaving church after falling off bike [...]

[...] "How are you feeling, sir?" a member of the presidential press pool shouted as Biden strolled down the church's entrance steps

In response, Biden wordlessly hopped up and down together with his palms outstretched, then pumped each fists, grinning broadly, as bystanders on the opposite facet of King Charles Avenue cheered.

The stumble-prone commander in chief tumbled to the bottom throughout a morning bike trip, when his sneaker jammed in the toe cage [...] on his $599 Trek FX hybrid bike as he tried to dismount.'



Biden Does A Jig Leaving Church After Falling Off Bike In Delaware - RAJACREATOR

[amphibian]

Dude, you're in some kind of right wing meme hole that's not going to end up well.

[worry]

Edited -- they're gone.

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[Malankazooie]

Aw man, what drama did we miss? Let me guess, some unfunny, bigoted, borderline racist bullshit that is sourced from the broken record repeat that is all the Fox News notables and Uncle Maga's Facebook timeline?

Here's some funny - Trump pledges he'll never ride a bike after Biden's spill.

https://www.youtube....rts/7meRbOqlX4U

The former prez's got more cakes than Duncan Hines. He has difficulty getting that load down a lightly sloped ramp, forget dropping that Kardashian badonk-a-donk on a poor bicycle seat. Them cheeks would swallow that seat up!

[Briar King]

[worry]

Lol this guy rules.

[Malankazooie]

Saw a news headline about Lauren Boebert's shitty gun themed restaurant may have to find a new location because the new landlord is kicking her to the curb.

But that's not why I'm posting. I'm posting because I just realized (I think) that Lauren Boebert's name is similar name to a woman who cut off her husband's penis back in the 1990's or something. Did I get that right? Is that something that happened? and she had a similar name?