I'd never heard of this guy before this year. Maybe that's on me - I assume he was a DNC guy for a while and I should have noticed. But holy shit he is REALLY BAD at this job. This is your front bench?
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I'd never heard of this guy before this year. Maybe that's on me - I assume he was a DNC guy for a while and I should have noticed. But holy shit he is REALLY BAD at this job. This is your front bench?
Hate to agree with Trump about anything but man the White House is kind of a shit hole. I'm sure this room felt extravagant in like 1842 but it sucks now
But also we have a biological tendency towards eye contact, and focus would be necessary for that. So maybe somewhere deep down our brain always knows what focus is supposed to be and leans towards it when given the option
I do wonder if there's some deep seeded genetic wiring that tells the brain that fidelity is better than infidelity and what that means exactly. It would have been necessary for hunting and whatnot
Does ANYONE even read that site? This feels like a long con money laundering scheme. She was planted in the NYT so she could get fired and eventually deliver a 9 figure cleaned deposit to some nefarious Mossad operation
Always wondered about this. If your brain has never known what "focus" looks like, it has no way of knowing it's any better or worse than what it's always been processing. So these babies are actually just reacting to shit suddenly looking WAY DIFFERENT than what they've ever known
I like to think "when is it safe" would give you like Gremlins rules. It's fine before midnight, after that WATCH OUT
I worked at a Johnny Rockets in high school and I knew the first half second of every song that came on that we had to dance to so I could run to the walk-in to restock like lemons or whatever
Welp, I just traded for JJ McCarthy in my dynasty league. Guess we're on this ride together now, @drewmagary.bsky.social
WHO. IS. THIS. FOR.
Is...is that supposed to be Jeremy Renner?
Has Jeremy Lin had a 15 year NBA career because that is way wilder than anything that happened that one winter
Basically an entire generation has lived and died thinking that the bugs name is just spelled "Beatle" and don't realize that the band name is a really bad pun. Never forget.
[extreme nerdlinger voice]: Oh no, my mitochondria!
The Fargo spin kind of feels like what they were trying to do with the weirdness in Resurrection but properly calibrated this time around
Been genuinely confused by the overall negative response this show has gotten on here. It whips ass. Alien through the eyes of the Fargo guy? Sign me ALL the way up
The alternative where his grandson asks Papa Snoop how a straight couple had a baby during Lightyear and he has the projection pause the movie so he can explain penatrive sexual intercourse in full graphic detail because THAT is what he come here for.
There's a new Kill Tony special on Netflix shot at Madison Square Garden and all I can think about is how that must have been the absolute shittiest crowd of people ever assembled at MSG and what a striking accomplishment that is.
I know they exist but I wonder what kind of weirdo would actually be COMFORTED by seeing this on the streets of their hometown. Like, unless North Korea is air dropping into your neighborhood Red Dawn-style this should objectively TERRIFY you if you're just out walking your dog.
Like I know their Gaza coverage was Not Good forever and they were as complicit as anyone in the But Her Emails saga, but I still trusted what they published and measured other news outlets up to them.
Maybe I'm just a rube, but I seem to remember thinking the NYT was still basically the paragon of journalism just one calendar year ago. Feels really shocking how far they have fallen so quickly.
Oh I wasn't DOUBTING her, it's just usually in these things there's at least one paragraph with a "As a devout Christian..." lean and there's literally not one word outside of the headline
This is a particularly baffling example because outside of the headline there is no mention of her "proud conservative" values. It's just a screed about how Medicaid is good charity because it helps her personally so it shouldn't be cut. Which is definitionally NOT a proud conservative value.
I'd watch Antoine Fuqua direct the phone book. Fellini he ain't but the man knows how to make a thoroughly enjoyable film. Perhaps our greatest airplane movie director.
"This is a particularly stupid hat."
This is literally showing a foreign dignitary your Jersey Shore boardwalk hat kiosk. You have a crystal chandelier in your dumb shit trucker hat closet? Sometimes I can't even deal with the level of stupid this country has gotten...
Have never and will never understand why anyone likes Queens of the Stoneage except that it's a really good band name.
Any politician that doesn't run EXPLICITLY on Day 1 arrests and tribunals for everyone involved in this is not getting my vote. Full stop.
"Moist heat" Don't care for that...
One of the weirder things about Trump is that he doesn't own any ties that are normal human length. Part of it is his pants are very high waisted to fit over his gunt but you'd think a guy who has all his clothes bespoke could find a tie that is something close to the right length.
It's very funny that these companies could easily just not allow this type of content at all, especially during early rollouts, but they obviously know any path to actual profitability for this tech hinges on horny people whackin it
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The party of Teddy Roosevelt all voluntarily going on national TV to say they're too scared to get on a city bus because of ethnic youths is very,very, VERY funny.
It's bad enough just to see them driving around but it should be illegal to force other people to have to see them just sitting stationary like the ugliest lawn decoration in the world every time they walk their dog down the street
My neighbor bought a cybertruck and it doesn't fit in his garage so he has to park it on the street and I can not express to you how fucking infuriating it is to have to see one of those things parked in front of your fucking house every day
The system is designed so that you (the frog) boils so slowly you don't revolt and storm the castle as your actual standard of living is degregated to a point you previously thought unacceptable. You need to set your trigger level for "burn it down" lower.
Andrew goddam Cuomo pulling the "My opponent is rich and out of touch!" card against a 33 year old first generation immigrant career public servant is FUCKING HILARIOUS.
This whole album whips so much ass.
Any political persuasions the NYT Class has ever had were always secondary to their desire to live cosmopolitan lives ensconced in the same wealth the right has always championed. 10 years in, they're just accepting this is the going rate for that now and they're more than willing to pay it.
I think I might now why she said it!
La Sorted's. Can't really go wrong but I'm partial to the Father in Law on garlic focaccia
My favorite part of this theory is that the entire universe is built around this ideal stasis and we're over here shouting out of the forest like "HEY YOU GUYS WANNA HANG OUT OR SOMETHING?"
Man, Amy fucking Klobuchar trying to come late to this party is extra special funny. GTFO. At the same time, THAT'S the first establishment Democrat to finally say ANYTHING?
"Huh huh...and we should have it open at 4:20. Huh huh..." - RICHEST MAN IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
The Google reviews are an absolute descent into madness maps.app.goo.gl/T1muFmeutWLc...
I like the idea of doing El Scorcho at karaoke but only singing the Matt Sharp stuff
I don't know that no politician thinks more than 1-2 years in the future but the extent to which the GOP absolutely bent over and spread it for a guy who was always going to burn them to the fucking ground the moment it saved him one single dollar is FASCINATING.
You know how you can't get your insurance company to pay for basic medical treatment? Well Dave Navarro had a policy that gave him $25k a month cash because he had "long COVID" and didn't feel like touring.
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I know it's trite to bring it up at this point, but what exactly is it these establishment democrats actually want to do if given power? I feel like even back to Carter there was at least SOME semblance of a better path but these people just want to be Mitt Romney if it gets them a paycheck.
You know how "broken windows policing" is famous for its efficacy? As a self-described Really Smart Guy, we should definitely apply that same model to the military and their shaving habits.
I imagine Trump always assumed he'd be able to find some Michael Cohen-level peon to take the fall for all the Epstein stuff but it bacame clear no one was going down for "global child sex slavery conspiracy" for like a couple million bucks.
Have to think Trump just assumed he'd be able to cherry pick what was actually released to hurt enemies and spare allies (and himself) but it turned out to be such a ratfuck that there was never going to be any way to contain the fallout.
Is the implication that if Kamala had been president for the last 6 months that every single American man, woman, and child would be dead of a fentanyl overdose right now? Because I'm going to give that at least ONE Pinnochio as an exaggeration at best.
I love the idea of firing Elmo for cause like he's a guy who is going to have to go home and figure out what to do with his free time and how he's going to pay his cell phone bill.
What kind of cuck sings the low parts?
Hate it when my fandom gets Balkanized. Just the worst.
BUT WE LIKE BIG CAR GO VROOM VROOM!
Anytime these people talk about "soil" my skin fucking crawls.
I think a lot about Warren Zevon being asked to write a title song for some movie called Werevolves of London and turning in 3 minutes of him basically just saying "Werewolves of London" over and over again but it's an absolute fucking all-time banger.
I am certain the thesis here is that if liberals fuck conservatives they will realize how awesome they are and become conservative, but there is NO CHANCE a conservative would ever be won over to liberalism by good dick.
I will also not watch this, but I have to imagine one of their key points is that fucking conservatives will win liberals over to their side while I am certain they do not believe for one second that them fucking liberals would EVER change their mind about how much they hate them.
It is a FEATURE not a BUG of taxing the rich that if they refuse to pay then they can fuck off and leave. Good riddance. More housing and resources for everyone who wants to live in and contribute to an actual egalitarian society. I'm not sure who this is supposed to scare?
It is a FEATURE not a BUG of taxing the rich that if they refuse to pay then they can fuck off and leave. Good riddance. More housing and resources for everyone who wants to live in and contribute to an actual egalitarian society. I'm not sure who this is supposed to scare?
The crazy thing is the only people who like the idea of electing 80 years into high offices are 70 year olds who think they still have a chance. We don't HAVE to keep doing it!
It's going to be very funny to see how this line plays when boomers finally die out. I'm not sure "communist" has the same BOO value these people think it does with people under the age of 60
This certainly isn't an argument AGAINST building more affordable housing by any means, but isn't this assuming that anyone who moves to a "red" state will simply become conservative? Couldn't this also be a mechanism by which more liberal younger populations shift historically red areas?
When they lose they'll just spin it that what they MEANT was they're still going to have plenty lucrative consulting careers in the private sector and that surely the party will come running back to them when "the kids" fuck it all up.
He is obviously not writing these letters himself, but are the people who ARE intentionally doing the random capitalization thing? Is it to try and trick people into thinking he IS writing them? Is he sort of dictating them and they're interpreting his tone to know where to put them?
Trump is really laying bare what outlets like the NYT's mission has always been on behalf of their very rich owners: To silo conservative politics into the stuff cocktail party liberals can safely act upset over and the stuff that actually helps their bottom line.
I know I'm in something of a bubble here on this website but I have not heard one peep anywhere about this "story" outside of people rightfully calling it out as a cheap hatchet job. There has been no earnest debate inspired by this bullshit. Even the scumbag right seems to have shrugged it off.
Not one example of the kinds of things these guys felt pressured not to write that they now are liberated to publish. Just entirely couched in "anti-censorism" without a care in the world for what they are ACTUALLY trying to put into the world as if "Alt-right" is primarily a fashion choice.
Narrator: People are absolutely that stupid.
Free inches, baby!
Do you have a ballpark on how many Kelsey Grammer pics actually exist on the internet? Do you think you can keep this going until you die?
If you work for a media outlet and your bosses make you violate your journalistic ethics or violate them themselves and you choose to stay in that job for whatever reason, you are no longer a journalist. You have chosen money over your preferred career. You are a copywriter or, worse, a propagandist
He's not some entry level intern. He's one of the most prominent journalists in the country. He can have any job he wants, or just write books or go on the lecture circuit. Frankly none of that should even matter if a journalist has even a shred of ethics. But in his case, yeah he'd be just fine.
Hey I know it's a cushy and prestigious gig, but you know you can fucking resign in protest, right? I'm pretty sure you're doing alright and can find another job that doesn't make you eat shit in public like this.
They also very much want to kill the baby in the crib because if he is elected and able to implement any of his more progressive initiatives they will be forced to cover the concrete good they do for ACTUAL working people and it will be much harder to bash them just for being "expensive"
The NYT freakout over Zohran is what happens when the haute bourgeoisie making mid 6 figures and up realize that they are in fact not the progressive liberals they think they are when they talk politics at dinner parties. "When I said tax the rich I didn't think that meant ME!"
The disdain the new generations have for the decades long advancements in lapel-mic technology is offensive. A century of endeavor spent trying to make good mics as invisible as possible and now we clip them to metro cards and strap feather dusters to our face instead.
They'll start by denaturalizing citizens for vague "security" reasons, then they'll start imposing more rights forfeitures on convicted felons, then they'll make up new felonies to convict native citizens of, then they'll be done with the whole pretense and strip anyone of their citizenship.
"Opponent of affirmative action" is such a perfectly polite NYT-ism for "abject racist"
Assuming a member of Congress involved in writing laws relating to an industry, in constant contact with lobbyists to that industry, wouldn't also be privy to any inside information about upcoming major events that would impact that industry Any exec doing this would already be under investigation
I know their name is "Ronald" but I have a hard time thinking of them as gendered.
I don't know how any principled journalist could not resign from CBS News in protest over this first thing the morning. Sure this is a "it would have cost us more to fight it" amount of money, but paying even one cent in capitulation to this extortion is a violation of all journalistic ethics.
"My lunch sandwich" Did he use those exact words? I don't know if I am ever going to be able to eat a sandwich again without thinking "this is my lunch sandwich" or "this is my dinner sandwich"
But in my phone game the wheat grows back every 5 minutes!
if you’ve ever wondered why “escaping small scale subsistence farming” has been humanity’s primary group project for the majority of our known existence, it’s because small scale subsistence farming sucks real bad
I'd expect them to start with stripping convicted felons of more rights incrementally until being convicted of a felony essentially gives them carte blanche to do whatever they want to you. Then they can just make up new felonies to convict you of.
If they can denaturalize and revoke birthright citizenship, then in practice there is no way for anyone to become an American citizen with FULL protection under the Constitution. Doesn't seem like a far throw from there to being able to strip ANYONE of citizenship for any reason.
Proposed new character for The Bear: New waiter who every once in a while just asks one of the main characters if they like caught the game last night or literally anything that isn't multiple suicidal people all trying to talk each other out of suicide all the time. I call him "Lenny."
It happens maybe once a year and it sucks! But it's all your own fault when it happens and you just write it off as a bad day.
To be clear I don't really hate either part very much at all so I'm not using that as an excuse. Anyonewho has had a dog for any amount of time has completely gotten over the grossness of it or they shouldn't keep having a dog.
I understand not wanting to carry it very far. To be honest I almost hate that part as much as the picking up part and have even trained my dog to only go near a garbage can. But in NYC where you are never more than 20 feet from a garbage can it is pure lunacy.
It's not a spoiler but I'm more than halfway through season 4 and I JUST realized that they call each other Bear because their last name is Berzatto and I had to pause the TV for a couple minutes and stare at the floor.
I know I’ve said this several dozen times, but right wing lunatics frankensteined together unrelated Bible verses to create “the antichrist” and a description of what he would look like, and then the guy fucking showed up and they love him.
Wait did they ever catch that guy?
I cast my first presedntial vote for Ralph Nader in 2000. I've spent a lot of time being embarrassed about that, but the fact is he came to my college and I saw him speak and he genuinely INSPIRED me. I saw a path to a better system and I'm not going to be embarrassed about that anymore.
Lo the loudest of L's at the idea that being the Secretary TRANSPORTATION to Joe fucking Biden would be a natural springboard to the Whitehouse. I'm sure the spreadsheets he drew up were really impressive though.