@ComfortablySmug
"A man in his underwear, with a hammer, got past security, broke through ballistic glass, and attacked Paul Pelosi, who was also in his underwear and armed with a hammer, just as police arrived to witness it?"
"Wow. I didn't know that. You're telling me now for the first time."
There’s a reason why 2x4 construction was acceptable for framing a house 100 years ago and why 2x6 is required today.
And it’s not just the insulation.
Observe the tree rings from the 120 year old lumber vs the tree rings on the lumber milled last year.
@chanceberryman
@SnowMed34
A Mark, like this individual, will always rationalize the Grift.
It's how they cope with the fact that they got outsmarted by a run-of-the-mill Confidence Trick.
@RAZ0RFIST
"A man in his underwear, with a hammer, got past security, broke through ballistic glass, and attacked Paul Pelosi, who was also in his underwear and armed with a hammer, just as police arrived to witness it?"
"Wow. I didn't know that. You're telling me now for the first time."
The news of Sports Illustrated going tits up last Friday, laying off its entire staff wasn't surprising.
Print journalism is in its death throes.
What's ODD is the layoffs came 5 months after billionaire Manoj Bhargava, 5-Hour Energy founder, purchased SI.
But that's not all.
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Despite the technology we have up here, Honda generator, solar, Elon Musk’s Starlink, propane, etc the most useful tool at our disposal is still a 100-year old cast iron wood stove.
We can cook on it, heat the cabin, dry our clothes and gloves, the fuel is free, and it’s cheerful
I have been informed by the wife that using a “cheese slicer” as a pie server is considered gauche in most social circles.
She then cast aspersions on my hometown and upbringing in general. 😳
Is this the Longhouse?
@Babygravy9
A button is presented in front of you. If you press it, one random Redditer gets teleported into a microwave and gets microwaved for 30 minutes, but you get $5 USD. Are you pressing the button?
@JoshRainerGold
We’re stewards of the planet and the animals we raise and catch.
In the seafood industry we always remind ourselves that the fish we’re handling will be on someone’s dinner plate and ought to be treated properly.
@bog_beef
George Bush signing legislation banning the importation of all foreign semi-automatic rifles in 1989, knowing Conservatives will vote for him anyway.
@Edward_Chang_8
The term you need to be thinking about and which was given to us during the Pandemic is "Essential Workers".
Look at the graph.
Who are the "Essential Workers" and who are not? Once you answer that question, the strategy of economic warfare needed to win becomes easy.
What's funny is the same "High IQ" urban RW accounts who were blowing off the threat of a "National Divorce" two weeks ago are now screeching in high-pitched terror about this obviously well-trained, well-funded, and orchestrated attack by Antifa in Atlanta's "Cop City".
Curious!
@Aristos_Revenge
As a political philosophy, Libertarianism means sitting quietly in the corner, watching some other dude win with the electorate.
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Yes that is a metaphor.
@cimmerian_v
Dude. There's not a single memorable piece of dialog in the whole two hour and forty minute film.
He was right?
Hell man. No one can remember this character's name.
It should be noted that now-fired Deadspin hack Carron J. Phillips, who maliciously libeled a nine-year old KC Chiefs fan a few months back, has locked his Twitter account.
Maybe he should skip breakfast?
If Elon Musk
@elonmusk
wanted to really maximize profit on Twitter and turn this website's finances around, he would have pay-per-view video, with cameras in the face of every insipid Twitter employee catching their reactions when they get fired Friday morning.
@GraduatedBen
@Bananasaur_Rex
No. The enforcement comes from YOU not breaking the law.
You chose to break the law, and rob from your community, to put more money in your pocket.
You are morally no different than a drug dealer.
I do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Pontiac Trans Am Day of Visibility. I call upon all Americans to join us in lifting up the lives and voices of Trans Ams throughout our Nation.
As someone who works part of the year in agriculture, I can assure you that these things called "conveyors" not only exist, but are cheaper, more efficient, and don't bruise the produce.
@Tinkzorg
Confirming what's been said by others here, it stems from Midwest transplants themselves.
Post-WW2 grads going to Ivy League/coastal colleges mocked their blue collar roots.
You ingratiate yourself with Boston Brahmins by bashing the hick town you come from.
Strivers one and all.
If you use guns as a fashion accessory you’re not a responsible gun owner. This isn’t about the second amendment, this is about intimidation and armed supremacy.
Personally, I was prepared to do the typical "Go Woke, Go Broke" shitpoasts that everyone else in Conservative media was content to roll with.
But digging deeper something ODD caught my eye.
Sports Illustrated is Ground Zero in the use of AI to aid (or replace) human reporters.
@Aristos_Revenge
It is also self evident that once again, a large number of Democrats voted for Nikki Haley in an "Operation Chaos" style move.
It's the only reason she is within 20 points.
Nope. In my direct experience, the number of skilled people with interesting backgrounds, fascinating hobbies, and who are fun to talk to is pound-for-pound superior to urban centers.
Urbanite "intellectual" conversation skews heavily towards restaurants or TV shows they watched.
I member berry back in the 1990s when Very Smart People with Ivy League credentials maintained that there would never be wars between countries where there was a McDonalds franchise.
Now we’re to the point where McDonalds franchises are arming respective militias
@bgmasters
Just once it would be nice if a Republican candidate would stand up and fight. Contest the race. Not back down. Subpoena every document and demand a forensic audit of the election system.
Instead they take the easy way. And the way that is most profitable to them sadly.
Imagine bragging about hiring illegals, coming up with excuses why you refuse to pay Americans a fair prevailing wage.
"If I don't hire illegals, I can't afford a new pickup every 18 months"
This guy is no different than a drug dealer.
Always Vet Your Conservative Thought Leaders
In the midst of a scandal about using AI generated editorial content, with fake sports reporters, it very convenient that the mistake of missing a quarterly licensing agreement will result in the firing of most of Sports Illustrated's staff?
How will the editorial hole be filled?
@heavenhill
This is a classic case where saying nothing would have been better than anything at all.
No one asked your opinion Heaven Hill Brand.
Think before you Tweet.
Stop mourning the loss of a convicted rapist and a pedophile who raped five little boys.
I am frankly astonished that Tiffany Smiley has already flushed away nearly $3 million in her vanity campaign to unseat Sen. Patty Murray when she’s going to get blown out by almost 30 percent.
I’m of the opinion that Smiley’s campaign is some elaborate money laundering scheme.
Mark Hamill. Famous for playing a character who defends a Galactic Republic.
Doesn't understand what a Republic is or how its election system works.
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Imagine a country where whoever gets the most votes- wins. No Electoral College. Gore beat W by a half million votes (no Iraq war). Hillary beat tRump by 3 million votes (no Big Lie, major loss of faith in our elections & democracy itself in jeopardy).
#A_GuyCanDreamCantHe
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@SwordMercury
One Caveat. The USS Gerald Ford has X number of F-35C Joint Strike Fighters aboard. These have an "official" range of 1,200 nautical miles.
I believe the USS Eisenhower has a similar component of Lighting IIs as well.
But obviously an air campaign vs Tehran has difficulties.
Ben Shapiro makes $10 to $20 million dollars a year.
DailyWire pulls in $100 million dollars a year, selling subscribers personal information to political campaigns.
Wonder how much scratch the Boy Genius is ponying up?
Everyone in the crowd are randos, average joes, regular Americans.
Not a single Conservative Thought Leader had the wherewithal to hop on a plane and fly out to New Mexico in solidarity.
VIDEO THREAD: Gun owners - many visibly armed - rallied in old Town Albuquerque today to openly defy the New Mexico Governor's Executive Order banning the open and concealed carry of firearms there as a one-month "emergency."
Police did not intervene or enforce the order.
@jordanbpeterson
Jordan Peterson is not handling the fact that his Anonymous followers have learned the need to Vet Their Conservative Thought Leaders.
Jordan Peterson cannot handle the fact that he has failed this test.
And rather than accepting personal responsibility, he is blaming the Anons.
@GreeneMan6
#FakeNews
There was never a "Britney Spears is fat" timeline in the Aughts.
Zoomers are conflating the time when Jessica Simpson got kinda chubby when she was dating Tony Romo of the Dallas Cowboys.
A bit of background first.
Sports Illustrated, first published in 1954, and famous for its titillating swimsuit editions, is not really even a magazine anymore.
It's a brand name & synonymous with sports; some of the most famous photos in athletic history gracing its cover.
@Indian_Bronson
Erick Erickson is a liar.
Erick Erickson is lying about how hard he had it 20 years ago in order to dunk on a retail clerk.
Erick Erickson was a corporate lawyer 20 years ago.
Always Vet Your Conservative Thought Leaders.
Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, bitching and complaining about the idiotic Conservathot Calendar are missing the point.
Our Conservative Thought Leaders are so bereft of ideas, are so powerless, that they can only peddle a swimsuit calendar.
Leeching off the RW base at $25 a pop.
@remnantposting
These are all Californians/out-of-staters who moved to Seattle in the past decade or so.
They are emotionally invested in ignoring the problems they brought with them.
The Best April Fools Day prank goes to Porky Bickar in Sitka, AK, who flew hundreds of old tires to the top of nearby Mount Edgecumbe and lit them on fire fifty years ago in 1974; temporarily causing a panic among residents who thought the dormant volcano would erupt.
Farmers out in my zipcode will still use (or fix up and use) 40 or 50-year old pickups to act as service trucks. Although the term they use is "trap wagons" for rigs which carry tools, fuel, or spare parts.
Speaking of aesthetics.
Despite billions spent on advertising, companies can’t come close to the class exuded by a 44-year old Godfather’s Pizza commercial featuring a Roaring Twenties gangster upselling customers on a “collectible” Coke pitcher for a “buck-ninety-nine”.
Perhaps the threat is overblown. But it would be foolish to make believe there aren't millions of Americans on the Left and the Right who wouldn't happily do great violence on the other.
With a handful of exceptions there is no political will to stop the coming conflagration.
@ScottMGreer
Yep. Labor Day Fire Storm. 2020. Dropped everything to help fight the fire that destroyed Malden and Pine City. Me. Right after I extinguished a State Trooper car that had caught on fire. Ammo going off.
Funny how Scott Greer thinks this is an own?
@JeremyDBoreing
Again.
DailyWire gets $100 million a year so Jeremy Boreing & Ben Shapiro can insult the intelligence and religious beliefs of their conservative audience, sell their online data, & to engage in petty Twitter beefs.
What a deal!
Always Vet Your Conservative Thought Leaders.
@GraduatedBen
It seems the penalties for hiring illegals ranges from $3,000 to $16,000 per offense.
I suggest you consult with your attorney and tax consultant and pay back your debt to society.
Until then you are nothing but a common criminal.
Golly. Isn't it KRAZY that news coverage about the Louisville bank shooter was immediately dropped & memory-holed the moment it was reported the shooter was a Trump-hating, BLM-supporting Democrat who somehow murdered the best buddy of Kentucky's Democrat governor?
Wow KRAZY huh?
SI was a subsidiary of the Time-Life magazine organization, which eventually merged and became Time Warner, etc etc.
In 2018, SI and other Time, Inc media holdings were spun off and sold to "Meredith Corporation" who then sold SI to "Authentic Brands Group" for $110 million.
Last month, Bhargava fired former "TAG" CEO Ross Levinsohn and several other executives in the midst of an "AI scandal".
AI generated news stories with fake authors & headshots were being used to fill editorial copy at Sports Illustrated.
It had "nothing to do with the AI issue".
Qasem Soleimani was personally responsible for the death of my cousin who was killed by a roadside bomb directly supplied by Iran in March of 2011.
Soleimani was responsible for the deaths and maimings of hundreds of US servicemen
For that alone he had to die
Trump made it happen
@GmorkOfNothing
This is on top of American farmers being expected to produce more wheat and consumables due to the Ukraine-Russo War.
Fertilizer, chemical, and diesel prices are unbelievable. Furthermore even getting basic replacement parks is next to impossible.
Tech Bro that peddles a different shell corporation every couple years - leaving staff, customers, and investors in the lurch - is upset that employees don't stick around at bad jobs.
News at 11.
I often see resumes where someone has worked at 6 companies over the last 10 years.
I'm staring at one right now. These job-hoppers usually last a little under 2yrs per company on average.
If someone has a jumpy resume, it's the first thing I notice. It's so blatant to me, yet…