Heretic

posted by majorspark

I consider myself a pretty big consumer of media.  Until this week I never heard of Laura Loomer.  Yet today its in your face.  Had to google her.  Yes I found all the info I needed to make a judgement.  Yes we live in a time where we can find the truth or believe a lie.  But some outlets have a pretty big flashing sign that attracts attention.

It trickled down to this site so I commented.  As for the media.  There is no greater outlet to drive the masses than the media.  You know it, I know it, and those seeking power and influence know it.  The media is a preferred tool of any totalitarian regime.  So to write off as weak that powers seek to influence a media narrative and are successful at large outlets would be ignorant.

Question had you heard or were up to speed with this Loomer before this week?

Yeah, but I'd say that has to do more with me spending a certain amount of time on social media. She's part of the younger era of "influencers" who live on Twitter and whatever, saying whatever because in that world, no publicity is bad publicity because the endgame is always to simply get attention. I'd guess that if you don't spend much time there, you probably would have far less knowledge of her than if you do.

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

Looks like there's a big catfight between two to Trump's acolytes: Marjorie Greene and someone called Laura Loomer (who travels with Trump).  Watching these two fight like scorned lovers is some kind of insight into the inner MAGA circle.  

It actually got me to support Greene, which isn't something that happens. Mainly because Loomer is about as shitty of a person as there is on the political spectrum and started their whole spat by taking things full racist as far as the presidential race goes with some sort of word salad about how, if Harris wins, the White House will smell like curry and a couple other Indian stereotypes. Lol, if people like her have Donny's ear, he is cooked.

posted by Heretic

I'd pick Talk Dirty to Me. Get it on with that anthem!

I always liked the lesser known Fallen Angel

posted by CenterBHSFan

That damn Heretic got me looking up some of these memes

Looks like I succeeded in my job for today!

That damn Heretic got me looking up some of these memes

posted by CenterBHSFan

Wait, what? Is that what Twitter is on about? lol

Hilariously, yes. A number of accounts suddenly started posting rumors that Kamala's earrings were actually this brand of earpiece earrings that were feeding her answers because of a vague similarity in appearance. The sort of thing that makes me think she must have "won" the debate in the view of the public if those dolts are that desperate to muddy the waters.

The great thing is that this is only the second funniest right-wing Twitter thing of the past 48 hours or so. Someone decided to ride this whole "THEY'RE EATING PETS!!!!!" stuff as far as it could go. I've seen AI pics/vids that are just awesome in that "well, that's not gonna stop the 'they're weird' line the Ds have going" way. My current favorite is a pic of Trump in a suit holding a big gun, riding a giant housecat, leading an army of smaller cats. There's also a vid of him holding a cat and running.

We are truly living in a time. What sort of time, I'm not sure...but it has me 50/50 between being afraid and laughing uncontrollably, so that's something!

posted by Ironman92

Not even Unskinny Bop?

I'd pick Talk Dirty to Me. Get it on with that anthem!

posted by BR1986FB

I'm wondering if a lot of his shitty performance has been due to internal guilt. I wasn't a fan of him coming out of college (weak velocity on his throws) but I've never seen a QB's performance drop off a cliff like this at such a young age and good career start.

It's so tough to say because of all the potential factors.

He was suspended for an eternity (especially in athlete years). ie: Decline in handling game-time speed via rustiness.

After being un-suspended, he's had injuries. ie: Potential decline in ability due to the body not working like it did.

He got paid huge in guaranteed money. ie: DGAF, I got mine.

He went from a basic high-level pro athlete (as in before the charges, the only thing I could tell you about Watson was that he was a fun QB to watch in Houston) to a guy who was pretty much hated by the general public. ie: Along with what you said, that could be the sort of thing that weighs on a person's mind.

And probably other stuff I'm just not thinking of right now. I do know that from watching some of their game Sunday, he looked like he did when he played last year. Decision-making wasn't great, didn't go downfield to stretch the field, wasn't even that accurate on shorter stuff and got hurt a bit by drops (at least I saw Njoku drop one). Also probably doesn't help that without Chubb, they can't count on a consistent run game to take the pressure off, but old man Flacco had the same situation there and put up way better numbers.

posted by Automatik

No joke, I've heard Denver because it's the cheapest bus ticket from Texas. No idea how true that is or not. 

With the Haitians in Springfield, I read that it was the combination of affordable housing and the ability to find jobs. With the issue being that too many arrived too quickly. Ohio AG Yost essentially said the issue isn't that migrants are there, it's that so many came that a city went from 50K to 70K in a hurry, which leads to various infrastructure issues. Where the main problem at the heart of things is the apparent lack of a coherent plan to settle people, leading to it basically turning into a situation where cities and towns are on their own.

posted by justincredible

Jets D lookin’ ass. Reddick might have his leverage now. 

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/41207011/jets-saleh-0-1-aaron-rodgers-feels-better-1-0-23

Don't worry, Justin; have it on good authority that it's better to be 0-1 with Aaron Rodgers than 1-0 without him! All is well!

posted by geeblock

I’m pretty sure what trump will say. 

1. If I lose you will have a gang leader from Venezuela for a landlord. 

2. You say good bye to Billy in the morning and he comes home from school with an operation. 

3. They want to kill babies after they are born. 

4. I will make tariffs and china will pay your taxes. 

Gut you can feel free to ignore this post. It’s a joke. 

If anything, if Kamala/her people were smart, they'd broadcast Trump's inane rally ramblings every chance they had with a "do you think this guy is remotely mentally competent enough for the job?" angle.

posted by QuakerOats

I've heard from both the mayor and the city manager of Springfield.  Bottom line, you cannot drop 20,000 illegal aliens into a town of 50,000 and not have massive repercussions, mostly negative.  Why did it occur, who planned it, and will they be held accountable?

Now, carry on with the gaslighting. 

Speaking of gaslighting, you.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/vance-magnifies-false-claims-haitian-immigrants-eating-pets/story?id=113534220

City says they aren't illegal aliens, like you did. And both this and a different article I read had Dave Yost saying the problem was that so many appeared (due to picking Springfield for factors like more affordable housing and job opportunities) at once, which does need to be fixed.

And speaking of gaslighting, J.T. Vance and the agitators posing as right wing media, since the Springfield cops and the city manager both have pushed back against the "ThEy EaTs oUr PeTs" talk, saying no credible accounts of this happening have been reported.

Week One AFC North Eye Test:

Baltimore: Looks like they have in the past few years. Probably a good team, but not quite good enough to beat the best. Guess they didn't have Mark Andrews against KC, so his return should help, but they didn't show anything to make me think they're really any different this year than previously.

Pittsburgh: Won on the road. Against a bad team. In a game where they only could score via Boswell's leg and needed their defense to make sure field goals were enough. In other words, the same as the last few years. Looking forward to 9-8!

Cleveland: Looked bad, Watson looking like the worst trade/deal in league history. Getting Chubb back will help and it's not like they lost to a bad team (although getting dominated at home makes the loss worse than simply losing to Dallas), but I think I've read that Chubb won't be back for a while, so it might be too late by then.

Cincinnati: Looked very bad. Burrow might wind up in that class of "guys who should have been elite, but injuries..." and I doubt Mike Brown's "what, me pay?" attitude towards his support cast is going to help. Losing at home to one of 2023's worst teams is not a good look.

At least, the in-division games will be exciting in a train-wreck sort of way!

So, uh, Shedeur isn't going to be grading highly among pro teams in the "maturity/accountability" categories, it seems.

Wasn't overly paying attention to college football Saturday, but apparently when he got taken out of the game by pops late in their loss to Nebraska (one of the teams they beat last year), he immediately went to the locker room instead of staying on the field. And then threw the OL under the bus after the game. I mean, yeah, he did get sacked six times according to the box score, but you don't usually see quarterbacks essentially blame their bad day on their line. Usually let the announcers do that work while they give bland "we need to execute better as a team" comments.

Also, it never gets old to see Notre Dame lost to a far lesser program. Nice to see their hype train get derailed early in the season, especially since a couple Irish fans I know were a bit too pleased with things after they won on the road at perpetually-overrated A&M. I mean, how did they start in the Top 25 when they haven't shown any on-field ability recently? Michigan getting smacked also was fun, but far more predictable.

Week 1 Pittsburgh MVP: A tie between Chris Boswell for being their entire offense and Kirk Cousins for sucking enough to allow those field goals to be enough.

posted by iclfan2

Fuck Michigan. The most annoying fans. lol also loved Texas from the major apple white days. 

This. Well, maybe except for the end. I did love Applewhite's name; kind of cracked me up. Sort of the white boy version of those Key and Peele football name skits. But in the grand scheme of things, the main thing I like Texas for is how hilariously whiny they are about "Horns Down"  -- pretty sure you could go to the house of the most religious person you know, set their nativity scene on fire and piss on the flames and they'd take that better than Texas deals with an opposing fan base giving them the Horns Down.

posted by jmog

I can’t watch a YouTube video without seeing Kamala or Bernie or Obama all saying the same thing “we are running out of time, even a $5 donation can help win this election” or some BS like that.  

They peppered YouTube hard for Kamala. 

Depending on how often you use YouTube, springing the whatever per month per Premium can be a great idea. No ads, which works for me both because when it comes to some of my movie genres (Italian horror/suspense/slashers in particular), it can be easier to find rips of them there than on the Primes and Tubis of the world AND because now that we live in a world where you need multiple streaming services to get all the major sporting events nowadays, it's always good to have a password or three to trade with friends in order to cut costs!

Seems to be #357062760 on the list of things that don't matter much in the grand scheme of things, but gets the dipshits of the world fired up and offended because they have to be bitching about something to feel fulfilled.

posted by gut

I wonder how much of it is opportunism.  They're all selling books - you were an idiot if you worked in the Trump admin and didn't write a "tell all" for $1M when you left (or were fired).

Like, Tulsi is a really strange one for me.  For some reason, she became a Democrat pariah.  Then she seemed to be angling for a contributor role on Fox News.  Now she seems to be hoping for a role in the Trump admin.  I know a lot of people here liked Tulsi, myself included, but she appears willing to say almost anything to remain relevant.

Trump himself seemed to calculate he couldn't get elected as a Dem, or at least win the primary, and so ran as a Republican.

Oh, I'd wager a lot of it is opportunism. Politics has transformed into a license to print money for anyone remotely savvy. All you have to do is be willing to change your standards and stances on anything at any time in order to follow the $$$. To me, it's weird. If I knew someone who, in their personal life, flip-flopped on stuff like a politician does, they'd get no farther than "casual acquaintance" with me because I wouldn't trust them enough to really want them around. But in this world, being like that gets you all sorts of TV appearances and feature stories.

posted by CenterBHSFan

We are all dead by daylight

Just the lucky ones.