You can’t take Al away, Al made it fun
I watched a couple episodes of the Quantum Leap reboot. Without getting into the obvious problem they ran out of ideas and its a show taking place in the future, so naturally in the future a trans character will be accepted without question—Here’s why the reboot doesn’t work:
The people that like the original like the campiness and the low budget, low quality filming. It wasn’t particularly good even for the early 90’s, but the concept is cool enough to ignore that. Like many science fiction shows depicting the future, it is bound by the technology available at the time, which gives it a certain charm and often why shows like this have a cult following. This is not like Battlestar Galactica, where they made a better show in every way possible to not antagonize the cult. No, they literally took the concept, gave it modern graphics and made Al a woman. Its a reboot where they actually recycle episodes from the original. Everything about it is lazy.
So I binge watched the first season of the original over the weekend.
The big story this morning is a group of migrants at a detention facility in Mexico lit a mattress on fire in protest, and wound up burning the whole place down.
In another sign of semi-autonomous rule, the Gulf Cartel apologizes for kidnapping American medical tourists. I guess that was Carl, he’s new.
Why vote when the winner will be Castro?
Since there was only one candidate running for each of the 470 legislative seats, turnout was watched by observers as a political thermometer.
At least the Soviets pretended to give the choice between two communists.
Honduras no longer recognizes diplomatic ties with Taiwan as the real China. Which is part of a larger trend in Latin America.
“The Sur” and why an EU like currency alliance in South America probably won’t work. My first guess is there isn’t anything resembling the German economy there to prop everyone else up.
A year after El Presidente Dude Bro cracked down on the gangs running his country, he’s trolling the US. Good for him.
I don’t follow Formula 1, but I assume everything about this story is true, including Lewis Hamilton being gay.
The trouble with some of these posthumous track releases, is there is probably a reason they didn’t release it while they were still alive.
Latin America isn’t going to know what happened to them.
Oh boy…
Don’t worry, Al will have a better plan on the next leap.
OMG
Tomorrow the O’Keefe Media Group drops its first story, with citizen journalists following up.
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Wait…*checks date* I guess that means today.
It’ll pop up eventually. ///ThatsWhatSheSaid
I would hope these are drugs falling out of my ass and this was discussed earlier.
This should be the reaction of someone with authority over the IRS.
Well, I was going to run down the whole idea of the sur, but then I read this:
““It’s a terrible idea,” opined the Nobel laureate Paul Krugman”
So it cannot possibly fail.
The Euro is crumbling!
Let’s imitate it!
That was my first reaction, but if Krugnuts thinks it’s a bad idea, then maybe it has a pretty good chance.
Krugabe also thinks MMT is bunk.
He hasnt gone ENTIRELY brain dead.
Or he hasn’t gotten his orders from the DNC to go all in on it. Check out Bob Murphy’s Contra Krugman. Krugnuts is a naked propogandist who will directly contradict his previous positions to make sure he always lock step with the party line. His job is to make whatever the party is selling sound reasonable – neigh scientific-ish!
So you’re saying he’s just horsing around?
El Presidente Dude-Bro has huevos, I’ll give him that.
What are we going to do, sponsor a coup to get him out of office?
Oh, wait . . . .
Watching a video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez go full retard in the House posted this morning, and I couldn’t help but wonder what founders of this country would think if they could see just that. That is what happened to the republic they created.
Which Founder? I’m pretty sure Franklin would be thinking about bangin her.
Thinking? It would already be done.
Jefferson would be thinking “shorty needs more ass on her…”
My husband LOLd.
They were too busy caning one another.
But yes, the 19th amendment was a mistake.
Being a complete embarrassment and mockery of the institution you were voted into is hardly just the fault of female voters. How many supposed men voted for Adam Kinzinger?
See, Tulip. We aren’t all misogynistic sexists jerking it to Q’s links.
Good job taking a joke.
Oh, now I just couldn’t resist.
Michael Malaise may have beaten the skin off his penis just in anticipation of Ass Wednesday, but some of us aren’t like that.
They were caning each other? For a bunch of uptight puritans, they sure were into kink.
The 19th amendment wasn’t a mistake. Democracy in the first place was a mistake.
“Democracy in the first place was a mistake”
^^^THIIIIIIIIIIIIIS
It will always devolve into putting a certain kind of person into power – shameless, narcissistic attention whores, by preference borderline sociopathic, who will do and say anything for attention, and the resulting votes and power. Because that’s who wins elections.
The question is, does that make it worse than the alternatives?
Great weather
Great coffee
Great beaches
It’s all about the hot beaches.
no longer recognizes diplomatic ties with Taiwan
WHO?
The WHO doesn’t recognize Taiwan, either.
I was frankly surprised anyone still did.
Belt ‘n’ Road will take care of any stragglers, I guess.
If the Chinese can build a road to Central America, they deserve to have it.
Ecuador uses the US Dollar. It is where all the Sacagawea coins ended up.
Has the rest of Latin America considered doing the same.
Same in Costa Rica, sort of. Apparently they charge you in Dollars but give you change back in the local currency.
I still have some of those from the last time I had to buy stamps at a post office machine. Finally I know where I can offload them.
Panama uses the dollar.
Belize has their own dollar, but it’s pegged 2:1 to the USD, and everyone takes US money. Sometimes you get mixed change back.
And so, today, Latin America remains fragmented. Only 15 percent of trade stays within the region, compared with 55 percent in Europe and 38 percent in North America.
What, exactly, gets produced in Latin America that other Latin Americans a) want to buy, and b) can afford?
Think how poor latin america is.
Now imagine how poor they would be if the other 85% of trade stayed home.
Trade makes you rich(er).
You don’t know what you’re talking about. You can turn society and the economy on and off like a faucet. As we learned during COVID, you can shut down all trade if you want and there are no negative consequences as long as you remember to speed up the money printer. Logically it follows that a highly efficient money printer makes you richer.
Also, the media desperately trying to make the Nashville shooting about the response times of the cops (who seemed to have handled the situation as well as possible) would be kind of amusing to me normally. Anything to distract from an event harmful to the narrative.
I don’t want to be too much of a cynical ass because they did earn the hero moniker this time, but pretty amazing how fast the body cam footage comes out when they did do the right thing.
👆👆👆
I’m going to take the positive interpretation on that one. “We’re not like those chicken-shits in Uvalde and Parkland, and we want everyone to know it.”
Must suck to be an Uvalde cop about now.
Well, I think we found out right away they were useless.
Why? Are they finally going to get fired or be held criminally liable for their negligence?
Never!
Now? It has sucked to be a Uvalde cop since the shooting there. Because it sucks to be a gutless pussy who would literally rather make sure his hands are nice and clean than save a child’s life.
Since they are still all on the job, as far as I know, apparently neither they nor the residents of Uvalde realize this.
The Sur sounds big.
Uh oh, time to break out the puns.
What’s the under?
NO!
Use a pun, go to prison?
No sur?
Ship, with the slider on the outside corner!
A windfall for the member nations who will be imposing a surcharge on all transactions.
This Scotsman won’t be drunk.
Humza Yousaf has said becoming Scotland’s first Muslim leader sends a strong message “to every single person out there who feels that they don’t belong”, after he was voted in by MSPs.
But the first minister’s attempts to reunited his party after a bitter leadership campaign fell at the first hurdle after his main rival, Kate Forbes, turned down a position in his cabinet, saying she preferred to support him from the backbenches.
Across the chamber, the Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar – who is the first ethnic minority leader of Scottish Labour, briefly laid down party political hostilities to promise Yousaf he would work alongside him to combat bigotry.
“to every single person out there who feels that they don’t belong”
Can’t these people just listen to The Smiths and leave the rest of us alone?
He says as he himself feels as if he doesn’t belong anywhere.
But now they get to be just like the United States and enjoy the constant blathering about race to distract them from actual issues that matter.
I’ll bet if William Wallace were here to see this, a tear would come to his eye.
Not a True Scotsman. If he’s not careful, he’ll get himself kilt.
Thistle just piss off Swiss.
The really gay guy on the Quantum Leap reboot would make a better Al than the woman. At least he’s quirky and has energy. There’s very little charm to the new version.
Yeah, that guy would work better.
“There’s very little charm to the new version.”
I’ll bet you can’t name three or more reboots or remakes that this statement doesn’t apply to. They’re all fucking sterile, corporate, assembly line products.
Evil Dead 2 (technically a remake of Evil Dead)
The Fly
Scarface
Your point still stands as those were all made 30+ years ago!
True Grit wasnt a bad remake. That was, what, 2010?
The Circus wont be in town.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/no-trump-grand-jury-indictment-vote-likely-this-week-sources-say/4189816/
Are they still focus group testing this?
We need a dumber jury.
I love the Dems crying that Trump oversold this when all of corpses media was literally slobbering over the idea of it.
“corpses media”
In my dreams.
And yet you watched the whole first season?
o.O
The original, yes.
I fail at reading comprehension.
🙁
So I binge watched the first season of the original over the weekend.
I see you have a new, focus group tested term.
Extreme MAGA House Republicans’ proposals would rip food assistance away from families.
It would put 1.2 million women, infants, and children in jeopardy.
My budget would put food on the table – in school cafeterias and American homes.
I like “Ultra MAGA” better. And none of this is in the purview of the federal government.
PLATINUM MAGA ULTRAMAX
Don’t forget the +! All the cool kids market with a +.
It’s ArMAGAddon!!
I think I bought some of those in college to carry in my wallet in case a coed was interested in a hero.
MegaMAGA is good. GigaMAGA better. TeraMAGA is a sophisticated way of saying “This is MAGA country!”
Where does UberMAGA fit in?
20 steps past the taxi stand.
VL+RA MAGAMAN!
lol
I’m just amused they still pretend that “MAGA” is a pejorative to anyone other than the left.
It seems to scare enough of the normies too.
Make America Great Again. Terrifying. It’s practically Throw the Jew in the Well.
America was never great.
Well, there was that one time Michelle was proud.
So this is an interesting clip….
Maybe a touch too conspirator for me. Which means I’ll probably believe it in 5 years.
(assuming the world continues to slide into insanity)
https://twitter.com/ronin19217435/status/1640635652503904256
I WANT TO BELIEVE
Whenever I see Dean Stockwell, I think Blue Velvet.
A friend dragged us to see that movie at the theater.
.
.
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Still friends though
I saw it in the theater, in the eighties. Totally fuckin’ awesome.
Some of the girls we hung out with started calling their periods “Frank Booth”
Same here. I went mostly because Isabella Rossellini, and I won’t apologize for that.
I think I was hammered the first time I saw that.
The gas mask thing upset me.
I think of Tony The Tiger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovPXL1WPTMA
I think Gentleman’s Agreement.
“Sing Candy Colored Clown”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gmsrO8xpe-w
The charges against Piquet were brought by four human rights groups, including Brazil’s National LGBT+ Alliance, which wanted Piquet to pay 10 million Brazilian Reals for alleged moral damages.
A Brazilian court ruled on Friday he must pay five million Brazilian Reals ($953,000), with Judge Pedro Matos de Arrudo saying the amount of compensation was given “so that, as a society, we can someday be free from the pernicious acts that are racism and homophobia”.
Of course. Let the healing begin.
So, who gets the money?
Non-profits that are totes not politically affiliated.
A year after El Presidente Dude Bro cracked down on the gangs running his country, he’s trolling the US. Good for him.
That was pretty funny. I’m still not ready to move.
“the charges against Piquet were brought by four human rights groups, including Brazil’s National LGBT+ Alliance, which wanted Piquet to pay 10 million Brazilian Reals for alleged moral damages.
A Brazilian court ruled on Friday he must pay five million Brazilian Reals ($953,000), with Judge Pedro Matos de Arrudo saying the amount of compensation was given “so that, as a society, we can someday be free from the pernicious acts that are racism and homophobia”.
Jesus, a million bucks just got being kinda mean? Gfys.
What a joke too that it wasn’t even the subject of the comments.
Suddenly I have that scene from Bull Durham in my head, with Costner and the ref. Something to the effect of,
“Did you just call me a cocksucker?”
“Do you want me to?”
I assume everything about this story is true,
includingespecially Lewis Hamilton being gay.From this AM. A Rolex I would like to have, but certainly not buy at this estimate.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/luxury/paul-newman-rolex-daytonas-found-desk-could-sell-millions
Even without the actual Newman connection they go well over $10k.
Daytonas on Crown and Caliber are $20-21K right now.
I think I’ll stick with my Monaco.
Yeah, that’s probably a fair value for Paul Newman’s actual Daytona.
Am I missing something? Both links just say “a fire broke out”.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-fire-migrant-facility-dead-eea0b6efafd77f9868ef27ed1cf572b3
“I fear deportation, therefore I shall set this mattress on fire”
I think what really happened was an attempt at diversion so they could escape.
OK. I was wondering if someone was trying to hide something.
Doesn’t matter, everyone is going to blame the US anyway.
And Trump.
Nope.
Interesting. That’s tube and clamp scaffold. It was in pretty broad use up until the 90’s. I still have a lot of it. Never goes bad.
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These are the kinds of guys that would use a fall arrest system just for the amusement factor.
Staged.
Well, there was a film (movie) camera right there, so I don’t think it was “candid”. But I don’t know that it was unrealistic, either, given the times. Every skyscraper built in NY at that time probably had a body count.
I looked it up.
Chrysler – 5
Empire State – 5
Hoover Dam – 100
“Model dies after using health boost drip based on human PLACENTA which she bought from an online pharmacy
A trainee doctor who also worked as a model died after taking an immune stimulating agent based on human placenta, say law enforcement in Russia. A probe is underway into the tragic death of fifth year medical student Anna Kolyada, 22, who self-administered the Japanese drug using a drip. She died in hospital after becoming ill with a fever on her way to the airport to fly to Dubai.
Kolyada – who called herself an online ‘health coach’ – suffered a build-up of fluid in the lungs, septic shock, heart failure and blood poisoning.
She died ten days after being hospitalised, say reports.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11911135/Model-dies-using-health-boost-drip-based-human-PLACENTA.html
Her toes were weird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sogKOi6PTtQ
They’re stiff too.
“Paging Dr. Darwin, Dr. Charles Darwin. Will Dr. Charles Darwin please pick up the white courtesy phone.”
“Lionel Richie: Sex with me no longer lasts ‘all night long’”
https://pagesix.com/2023/03/28/lionel-richie-sex-with-me-no-longer-lasts-all-night-long/
LOL
Outlaw plastic surgery based vanity.
Fuck you and your fucked ideology, agenda, and pronouns.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/03/28/trans-group-on-nashville-shooting-anti-trans-hate-has-consequences/
“Study: ‘Transgender’ Youth at Highest Risk for Violent Radicalization….
Meanwhile, a 2011 study in Sweden found that “female-to-males had higher crime rates than female controls … [and] did not differ from male controls. This indicates … that sex reassignment is coupled to increased crime rate in female-to-males. The same was true regarding violent crime.””
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/03/28/study-transgender-youth-highest-risk-violent-radicalization/
I have no idea whether Hale was on hormones, but testosterone does make people more violent.
Could be the testosterone. Could also be that trans people also tend to adopt hyper stereotypical aspects of the gender they are assuming.
@ResistanceTrans doesn’t seem like much of an organization if their tweets are protected.
It is standard operating procedure on the far left. See protesters who attack members of the media who show up to provide often sympathetic coverage.
Victim blaming.
“If you weren’t so cis-hetero and happy, and I wouldn’t have to kill you. So, really, you brought this on yourself.”
They know nothing about the individual, but then proceed to outline what must surely have motivated said individual and it just happens to be what allows them to regurgitate the talking points they already had.
Also love how activist groups on the left that unironically state that they don’t engage with media.
“If you identify as transgender and/or are undergoing hormone therapy – you should NOT be allowed to legally purchase a firearm”
https://twitter.com/KingsleyCortes/status/1640473723437215746
CWAC
Oh no, we should support this. Fuck them with their own tools.
theyogapantslibertarian
@thtlibertychick
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Curtailing the second amendment?
Kingsley Cortes
@KingsleyCortes
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For the severely mentally ill, yes
Tbf “criminally insane” is a thing.
“Im with her. Im also not opposed to not allowing people to have them while on SSRIs. I guess im a bad conservative.”
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1640773738474905616
This is why we shouldn’t have let women vote…
I do not support that. At all.
Same. How do people not understand where any ban of any sort leads?
Because they’re short sighted idiots who lack the ability to recognize unforeseen consequences and they have no understanding of stats and the true risks involved. Cassandra What’sherface can go play in traffic.
by “unforeseen”, Im assuming you mean “quite easily foreseen”.