Sunday Morning Mistake on the Lake Links

by | Oct 27, 2024 | Daily Links | 152 comments

It’s now a yearly tradition- I go to Cleveland to watch the Ravens, courtesy of Nephilium. This year, he’s off on a boat or something, so I’m solo. And in Cleveland. No river fires yet today, but it will be fun to see the game nonetheless.

What has already happened is birthdays, including a guy who had everything sewn up tightly; a piece of shit president who ushered in Progressivism; a guy who was a real comic; a guy with a crewcut you could set your watch by; a brilliant comic actor who has recently started saying a few intelligent things; a guy more honest than Trump or Biden; the greatest name in racing- or maybe anywhere; one of the fantasy women of my youth; and a very clever and funny writer who started huge, then suddenly ran out of gas.

And before I run out of here to get downtown, here’s some Links to chew on.

Kim is a fucking moron.

Could this be peak cringe?

Propaganda or real? No way to know.

They really only have one mode: scold.

Look, the best part of Trick or Treat is the slutty-costumed teenage girls.

The horror, the horror.

Understanding irony takes at least an 85 IQ.

I feel a bit guilty about how amused neurotics make me. But only a bit guilty.

This is a song that The Nice used to cover. Emerson actually stays pretty faithful to their version.

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Old Man With Candy

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152 Comments

  1. Ted S.

    one of the fantasy women of my youth;

    Happy birthday Marie Dressler!

    • SDF-7

      Happy birthday, Erin Gray!

      Oh wait… that’s my youth, sorry….

      • Rat on a train

        bidi bidi bidi

  2. SDF-7

    including a guy who had everything sewn up tightly

    Does the Snoopy dance of getting one right…. good start to the day.

    a piece of shit president who ushered in Progressivism;

    Ha! Make that 2! Most places that one wouldn’t be so easy — but we’ve harped on how he opened the door here too much for us to fall for the later ones.

    a guy who was a real comic;

    Um….. okay, no chance of a streak here! 😉 Enjoy the game, OMWC — morning all. I get to watch F1 later while making the trick or treat bags (Wally World at least had a decent selection… and prices didn’t seem worse than last year… but when every trip to the grocery store even for one bag seems to be a hundred bucks… it all starts to blur.

    On to the links!

    • Chafed

      Singer had 26 children! I guess Musk has his work cut out for him.

  3. ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

    My first wife loved Lichtenstein. I never saw the appeal, too much like Warhole.

  4. Pat

    he’s off on a boat or something

    Actual footage

    • Ted S.

      I would have guessed this.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Excellent. Only good thing that dude did.

      • Pat

        Only good thing that dude did.

        Not quite

    • Nephilium

      Actual Image:

      • Nephilium

        R.J.:

        I was expecting this.

      • R.J.

        That is quite a good sketch too.

  5. Ted S.

    Could this be peak cringe?

    The New Yorker (yeah, I know) had an opinion piece writer suggest the way for TEAM BLUE to win back young men was to bring in mandatory national service as a way for these young men to get their masculinity on.

    • SDF-7

      I seriously doubt peak cringe or peak derp actually have limits… we’re just always zooming up the asymptote towards infinity.

      But I didn’t mean to go off on a tangent and derail the conversation.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        What, do you think you are a funicular?

    • Suthenboy

      Here we are again, late European aristocracy, a bunch of incompetents that have zero knowledge of anything going on outside of the palace walls.

    • DrOtto

      TLDR – I don’t get it, we keep scolding you and telling you how worthless you are and you still won’t do as we say?!

    • creech

      Incels might dig the nonmilitary kind. An old acquaintance who served in JFK ‘s Peace Corps said everyone got laid in almost nightly fuckathons.

  6. Pat

    a guy more honest than Trump or Biden

    Happy birthday the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory?

    • Pat

      a very clever and funny writer who started huge, then suddenly ran out of gas.

      Happy birthday Brent Butt?

  7. SDF-7

    Kim is a fucking moron.

    I expected this to be about Nork troops in Ukraine again…

    Reads first paragraph… okay, not the best idea…

    Reads second paragraph… huh — turning into a dealer or something?

    Hits the first word of the third paragraph… HOLY SHIT WHAT A MORON! I wouldn’t fucking chew gum in Singapore… they’re known over the top cray cray. Might as well dress like a streetwalker in Mecca while you’re at it…. I can sense where this is going… and yes, Kim is a fucking moron.

    • rhywun

      I wouldn’t set foot in that totalitarian shithole. I might have considered it some years ago – I did spend a week in China once – but I’m not that adventurous anymore.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Haven’t been back since 2016, although I applied for a posting there last year. It’s fine. You can chew gum if you don’t spit it on the sidewalk, etc.

        It’s a city-state. Things don’t necessarily scale in either direction and they’ve found a pretty good niche for themselves. Is it perfect, nope, but a helluvalot better than most other countries in the region.

      • rhywun

        I’m sure it’s nice in other ways but I’m just standing on principle.

        And FWIW, I have no intention to visit any other country in the region either….

    • Nephilium

      Kim is a fucking moron.

      Don’t be a Kim.

      Unless you can play for the WNBA.

    • Evan from Evansville

      I’m with LCDR: I lived in Singapore from 2014-’16. Ya can’t buy gum there, and certainly don’t spit it/litter, but you can have and use it. Liquor is insanely expensive; the airport’s duty free is remarkably popular. It’s also ‘the best’ airport in the world.
      There’s a lot wrong with SG. Having, smuggling, using, or selling even weed is remarkably dumb. In the profoundly & negatively transform-your- -entire- existence sorta way. Remarkably politically authoritarian, with SG coworkers telling me about local corruption.

      Interesting place with great food, and the best vacation planning-spots in the world. It was cheaper to celebrate New Years by flying to Vietnam/etc, enjoy it all there, then return after the day/weekend. Round trip flights could be $40-60, and Southeast Asia is cheap as fuck. Having no seasons, with 12hr day/night each and every day, it was remarkable how much it fucked with my/our internal clocks. Can’t get a feel for when anything happened within the year.

      “Oooh, when WAS that [Insert event here]?! Uhhhhh. What was the weather like?”
      “… Uh.. hot and humid as fuck. See also: All days. I’m of no help.”

  8. SDF-7

    Propaganda or real? No way to know.

    Yeah — given “the first casualty of war is the truth” and iirc, back in the day all the hype about the Patriot missile intercept rate was complete bullshit (as we found out much much later) — I very much take all such stories with a Dead Sea sized grain of salt. I wouldn’t weep if true… but I’ll let time eke out the truth in infinitesimal drops.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Yeah this is undoubtedly being played up for propaganda purposes. I do think the Isrealis are eating Iran and Hezbollah’s collective lunch and pantsing them at gym class.

      Be nice to not be funding it though.

  9. Pat

    Walz, AOC to play Madden on Twitch in an appeal to young men

    She’s about a decade too long in the tooth to be launching a career as a titty streamer at this point.

    • SDF-7

      If there was ever a time I didn’t want Rule 34 of the Internet to apply, this seems like a good one.

      But someone… somewhere….

  10. SDF-7

    Look, the best part of Trick or Treat is the slutty-costumed teenage girls.

    We tend to get middle schoolers at most, and no slutty costumed ones. I assume they’re going to parties instead of roaming the neighborhoods. I put my foot down and told my son he’s just too damned old for it this year — he’s at that uncomfortable band where he’s too old for that, but really too young to go to parties… so he’s probably going to take over porch candy bowl duties. We’ll see how it works out.

    Weird segue to “Harris supporters are more open to no age limits” at the end of that article, though… what kind of weird polling was that, and what was the sample size? I seriously doubt most MAGA folks gave it much thought…. If we have to make it political, personally I’d say it isn’t any level of government’s business — purely private interactions, after all. If folks disapprove — don’t give the older kids candy (okay, and then stand guard against eggs/TP and whatnot….). Whatever… I’m rambling now. Back to the other links.

    • Pat

      In my day it was a mostly self-correcting problem, as you’d get mercilessly made fun of if you were caught by your buds trick or treating once you hit middle school. My childhood best friend was about 10 months older than me, and a beanpole. He had to retire early, since he started getting “Aren’t you a little old to be trick or treating?” from people when he was probably only 8 or 9.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        We went out, as freshmen, pumpkin smashing. I really didn’t like it, found it stupid and destructive in an unconstructive way.

      • Pat

        Cool kids never have the time for Pumpkin Smashing

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        I only ended up being cool by default. In other words, giving so few fucks by the end of HS that people seemed to like me.

      • Pat

        That was a reference.

      • Nephilium

        Meh. Anyone who can manage a “Trick or Treat” and a “Thank you.” get candy from me. I get more annoyed by the number of people who need to be prompted for either. Shoving a bag at me (or my door) will be met with a, “What do you say?”

    • cavalier973

      Let your son dress up in a costume and flip in a chair by the candy bowl, as if he is a mannequin, and jump up and scare the kids when they reach for the candy.

      “Only! Take! One!”

      • cavalier973

        *flop not “flip”

  11. SDF-7

    They really only have one mode: scold.

    The Democratic Party has seen the future — and it is an HR pump forever stomping on Humanity’s face. (Seriously — the HR scolds have taken over corporate America and academia… so they logically think they can apply it everywhere and that they should (CS Lewis quote applies here)).

    • rhywun

      It is hilarious that the Wookiee and her husband had to be dragged onto the stage at the last minute. You know they think they’re above all this.

      • Sean

        They’re burning whatever little relevance and clout they had left.

        Fuck em.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Sean’s right. Seeing Big Mike out there demanding that black men have to vote for Harry/Balls is weak tea.

        Bint, there is a reason black men are leaving the party, and it is shit like this.

  12. SDF-7

    The horror, the horror.

    Quick! We have to throw SOME shit at hit! Find me something, cub reporter!

    • Ted S.

      And this is only coming out because of Musk making his political views known.

  13. SDF-7

    I feel a bit guilty about how amused neurotics make me. But only a bit guilty.

    Well, you did help set this place up so we’d have a place to go! 😉

  14. Pat

    I feel a bit guilty about how amused neurotics make me.

    To be fair, if Trump survives another couple assassination attempts and somehow pulls PA out of his ass, every metro with a population over 250k will be on fire for a week or two. And if he loses, a thousand more unarmed insurrectionists might descend on D.C. to get shot in the face by cops again.

    • SDF-7

      In all seriousness — I doubt if he loses his supporters will do much publicly. I think they learned from 2020 and are wary of Fed traps (well, okay… the stupid ones like the Whitmer gang doubtless haven’t). I wouldn’t want to bank on what’s going to simmer under the surface unless somehow it is ridiculously clear.

      Again (because I know many folks here have said it over the past 4 years) — the only way we’re going to survive as a country is to get clear election integrity back, otherwise nigh-unto-50-percent of the country is going to view the other side as illegitimate perpetually… and that’s a recipe for civil war if there ever was one.

      Obviously, we don’t have it this time… here’s hoping after whatever madness we have in the next few months we can actually get progress on that front.

      • Pat

        Don’t worry, if all else fails, the aptly-named Patriot Front will show up to collect their overtime foment violence.

      • R C Dean

        Unfortunately, SDF, nigh unto 50% of the country regards election security as voter suppression. I think the days when both sides would accept a loss in an election are past.

      • rhywun

        50% of the country regards election security as voter suppression

        One wonders if there is any way to deprogram that half of the country from the titanic piles of lies they have been fed their whole lives.

      • Fourscore

        Several trillion dollars is a lot of money, worth fighting/lying/stealing. The party in charge has a lot of friends to pay off.

  15. juris imprudent

    Imagine there will be much whimpering in the dog pound today.

  16. Gender Traitor

    Michelle Obama urges support for Harris in Michigan rally: “This is somebody who understands you”

    Color me skeptical about that, but the bigger problem is that when she starts to talk, we don’t understand HER. 😕

    • Gender Traitor

      Ladies and gentlemen, in the role of Kamala Harris, Miss Meryl Streep.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      When she starts to talk I want to punch her in the face for sounding like a drunken wine mom scolding her little Caden.

  17. Rat on a train

    If you come to my house in costume, you get candy from the bowl regardless of age. Adults get a Ghirardelli square while they last. I need to get some dog treats.

    • SDF-7

      Get a lot of Krypto cosplay where you are?

    • R.J.

      Adults here get a refill on their wine glass. If there is no rain, an adult beverage section is set up in the road for post-trick or treat relaxing.

  18. Ted S.

    I feel a bit guilty about how amused neurotics make me. But only a bit guilty.

    From the article:

    The 2024 race has been deeply polarizing, with GOP lawsuits over voting procedures already mounting in battleground states and the Republican ticket repeatedly hedging their remarks about the 2020 race and their willingness to accept the current one’s outcome.

    The Democrats aren’t doing anything to polarize people, are they?

    • dbleagle

      Complaining about the Dem party?! That makes a Republican, hence a Trump supporter, therefore an insurrectionist!

      Off to the ditch with you!

  19. The Gunslinger

    I got Dick Trickle.

    • SDF-7

      You should probably see your doctor about that.

      • The Gunslinger

        Not a big fan of doctors tbh.

  20. Pat

    Black Brits are not ‘traumatised’ by the Chris Kaba case

    The acquittal of Martyn Blake, the British police officer who shot and killed 24-year-old Chris Kaba in 2022, has fostered something truly ugly among supposed anti-racist activists.
    _
    This week, a jury at the Old Bailey in London concluded that Blake acted in self-defence. Kaba, attempting to evade capture, had driven his vehicle towards the officers surrounding him.
    _
    Rather than encouraging reflection or helping Kaba’s family come to terms with their tragic loss, some activists have used this case to further their claims of institutional racism within the police and justice system. They accuse not only the police, but also the jury – composed of ordinary citizens – of being complicit in racism.
    _
    These claims lack any substantive evidence. As I predicted in 2022 shortly after Kaba was killed, if ‘the officer is not eventually convicted, then those who have already made up their minds might take this as evidence that justice has not been served’. This is exactly what has happened. When the case concluded this week, author and activist Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu wrote on X that Blake was ‘cloaked in the authority of an institutionally racist Met Police’. According to her, he had been ‘acquitted of killing an unarmed black civilian by an equally racist justice system’. Of course, using your vehicle as a weapon cannot exactly be classed as ‘unarmed’.
    _
    A similarly fact-free narrative has been pushed by the Runnymede Trust, an ‘anti-racism’ charity that has received government funding in the past. In a now-deleted thread on X, it declared: ‘The legal system doesn’t deliver real justice for families bereaved by racist state violence. Since 1990, there have been 1,904 deaths in or following police custody or contact. In that time, only one officer has been found guilty for manslaughter, and none for murder.’
    _
    This sweeping statement conveniently overlooks the fact that less than 10 per cent of those deaths involved black or ethnic-minority individuals, a lower proportion than we see in the general population. It is troubling to see how far some organisations, especially those that are ostensibly committed to fighting racism, will go to stoke division and racial tension.

    Welcome to the party, pal.

    • Rat on a train

      Where was a social worker when you needed one?

    • rhywun

      They learned how to stir up racist hate from us.

      Enjoy, Britain.

    • R C Dean

      “Since 1990, there have been 1,904 deaths in or following police custody or contact.”

      I wonder how much lifting that “or following” is doing. Regardless, that’s around 79 a year on average in a country of 65 – 70MM. A little over 1 in a million per year doesn’t exactly shock the conscience.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      The import of American racial politics into the UK is one of this century’s most bizarre happenings. The grifting is understandable (scumbags gonna scumbag). The fact that it found any purchase is baffling.

  21. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh
    yo whats goody yo

  22. Suthenboy

    Government regulation of religious/cultural holiday celebrations? Laws or using force of law to allow/disallow who can take part?

    I have a serious problem with this.

    • Rat on a train

      Next up, regulation of white elephant exchanges to ensure equitable allocation.

  23. LCDR_Fish

    Cleese may have had some sensible things to say in the past but he’s pretty deep in the TDS these days. Rowan Atkinson is the big free-speech voice there still.

    • R.J.

      Bless him. May he always be so.

    • Suthenboy

      What the hell happened to Cleese? I did not see that coming.

      • Beau Knott

        Read his autobiography. He’s not a particularly pleasant person.

  24. Tonio

    Haldeman sported a flat-top haircut, not a crew cut. The crew cut is simply cutting the hair to uniform length, something anyone with a set of clippers can pull off. The flat-top, otoh, is a work of art. It is now difficult to find a barber who can do a good one.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      More difficult for me is finding hair on the top to make flat.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Not that I have any hair in the requisite section, but my barber cuts a mean flat-top, with or with out fenders.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    “She has a problem with men for the same reason Hillary Clinton did: because misogyny exists, as do outdated ideas about who should hold the presidency,” Democratic strategist Christy Setzer told The Hill earlier this month. “Meanwhile, Trump has doubled down on this ‘strongman’ machismo and dictator’s act, playing ‘It’s a Man’s World’ at his rallies.”

    Yes, yes, of course. That must be it. Men are incapable of judging a woman as an individual, by her record. It’s just that He Man Woman Haters Club gene.

    Also- notorious racist steals song from black icon.

    • R C Dean

      You mean, that song with the lyrics:

      This is a man’s world
      But it wouldn’t be nothing
      Nothing without a woman or a girl

      Yeah, totes misogynist.

    • Suthenboy

      Screeching harridan foams at the mouth about how awful men are accusing them of hating women for no reason whatsoever. News at 11.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Hey, I have an idea, how about running a female candidate that didn’t get there through some form of Affirmative Action! A woman who has shown that she has the chops to deliver on the national stage, who has shown this by climbing the political ladder of relating to people and learning to actually handle responsibility and power.

      No? We can’t do that? We gotta ram an idiot up to the front row?

      Now, see where that has gotten you? No where.

      • R C Dean

        “Now, see where that has gotten you?”

        Very close to, and quite possibly over the line, to winning the Presidency?

  26. Tonio

    “Understanding irony takes at least an 85 IQ.”

    I think we may have found the Old Man’s next girlfriend.

    • Old Man With Candy

      At least give me a chance to scare away the current one.

    • Nephilium

      I’ve often wondered about the constitutionality (I know… I know…) of such laws. I get not wanting signs, campaigners, people pushing voting guides, and other assorted unsavory people in the polling areas. But I have quite a few shirts that may be interpreted as being “political messaging” that are in the standard rotation (such as “F*ck the Polis”). Somehow I’ve never been asked to remove or change my shirt on election day.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        That shirt might get you some lusty smiles in Colorado.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        There was a case that came before SCOTUS 10 or so years ago about that same thing. I can’t remember the whole thing, but it boiled down to the Obama admin arguing that it was totes OK to wear a pro-abortion shirt to the polls while totes wrong to wear a pro-2nd Amendment shirt.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    “F*ck the Polis”

    You want to watch what part of town you wear that one in.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Instead of simply complying, the woman reportedly unleashed a tirade of insults and obscenities at the workers.

    Show some respeck. plebe.

    • Nephilium

      I’ve found stating, “I’m giving you exactly the amount of respect I feel you deserve.” goes well…

  29. The Late P Brooks

    I watched Spartacus last night. All three hours of it. It was weird. They kept talking about slaves and slavery, but there was only like one black person in the entire movie. Didn’t they have history books in Hollywood?

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Although Obama has been a reluctant campaigner over the years, she showed no hesitation on Saturday as her speech stretched from the political to the personal. Obama said she fears for the country and struggles to understand why the presidential race remains close.

    “I lay awake at night wondering, ‘What in the world is going on?'” she said.

    People have put the glasses on.

  31. DrOtto

    Emerson, Lake & Powell played at MSG? – NAZIS!!!

  32. The Late P Brooks

    After the rally, Harris went to Trak Houz Bar & Grill with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, where they drank a locally brewed beer.

    “I want to have whatever she’s having,” Harris said.

    The politicians chatted and took photos with people at the bar. When they approached a table of young women, one of them burst into tears.

    Knows nothing about beer.

    That crowd was a typical random Saturday night gang of unvetted, unscreened yokels who just happened to wander in to watch the game.

    • SDF-7

      Did she receive her Cool Ranch Communion while she was there?

      • Chafed

        Lol. That’s the closest she will go to a church.

  33. Q Continuum

    “If we don’t get this election right, your wife, your daughter, your mother, we as women will become collateral damage to your rage”

    You mean my daughter might have a slightly more difficult time murdering my grandchild? NB: Unless she’d been raped, her even considering such an action means I failed as a father anyway.

    Big Mike’s popularity has always been mystifying to me; that someone so dour and manifestly unappealing carries any political clout whatsoever is amazing.

    • rhywun

      They really are running on absolutely nothing other than abortion, aren’t they?

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Abortion hitler.

      • DEG

        I’ve seen some pro-Kamala ads talk about “making the economy work for the middle class”. Except for one which I saw on a TV while I was in PA some months ago, they all fall flat. The one I’m thinking of was so well done James Carville had to have been involved in making it.

        Otherwise, yeah, it’s all abortion and “ORANGEMANBAD”.

        Last night at the bar, I saw an anti-Austin Theriault. I noted two things: a) abortion is why you should vote against Theriault, and b) WTF are Maine ads running on the TV in this part of southern NH?

      • rhywun

        “making the economy work for the middle class”

        I think I saw that one, and laughed. Like most of their ads, it is the exact opposite of what their platform does.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      She is a Powerful Black Woman!

      (no word on Condi yet…)

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Who knew that marrying well seems to be something that feminists value?

      • Gender Traitor

        HRC?

      • MikeS

        Hitler?

  34. DEG

    “She has a problem with men for the same reason Hillary Clinton did: because misogyny exists, as do outdated ideas about who should hold the presidency,” Democratic strategist Christy Setzer told The Hill earlier this month.

    That’s a special kind of stupid.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Harris appeared with Beyoncé on Friday in Houston, and she campaigned with former President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen on Thursday in Atlanta.

    It’s a level of celebrity clout that surpasses anything that Trump, the Republican nominee, has been able to marshal this year. But there’s no guarantee that will help Harris in the close race for the White House. In 2016, Hillary Clinton lost to Trump despite firing up her crowds with musical performances and Democratic allies.

    By the power of celebrity endorsement, I command thee!

    “Star power.” What an empty vessel of a campaign.

    • rhywun

      And then the crowd booed when Queen Bey didn’t give them a free performance.

      Take that, Trump!

      • DrOtto

        To be fair, they were touting a performance all the way up to the rally, then didn’t. Can you imagine showing up for a free concert and then just getting harangued for an hour and a half instead? That’s what church is for.

      • rhywun

        they were touting a performance

        Yeah, that’s what I heard. Can you imagine if Literally Hitler did that?

        The incompetence is breathtaking.

      • Fourscore

        So, like coming home on payday after stopping by a bar with the boys, for just one drink?

  36. DEG

    The couple doesn’t have family near their home in Portland, Oregon, so they like to skip town for the November holiday. But they say they’re staying put this time to avoid getting caught in an airport or a popular destination “and suddenly facing riots or looting, etc., because the people in the area aren’t happy with the election outcome.”

    Portland, Oregon? It might be safer to skip town.

  37. Common Tater

    “Cardiologist Stephen Matthews drugged and raped women after luring them to his Denver home in a four-year reign of terror between 2019 and the start of last year.

    Eleven victims came forward to testify against him but prosecutors fear there were dozens more as one branded him ‘one of the most prolific serial rapists in the history of the state of Colorado’.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14007655/Stephen-Matthews-sentenced-drugging-raping-women-colorado.html

    So you are saying his heart was in it?

  38. Common Tater

    “Podcaster and journalist Megyn Kelly stunned the audience during her appearance on Bill Maher’s Real Time show on Friday night as she laid out the facts about children changing their sex.

    Audible gasps could be heard coming from the usually liberal audience members, with many seemingly recoiling in disgust.

    ‘What we’re doing to our children with this trans insanity. We are chopping off the healthy body parts of young children,’ Kelly began, while the audience took in its collective breath.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14006717/Megyn-Kelly-leaves-audience-stunned-describes-horror-transgender-surgeries-Bill-Maher.html

    Because his audience lives in a cave?

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Kinda.

      It is like a blanket fort, but made up of unread piles of the NYT Sunday section.

    • Suthenboy

      They were shocked by the horrors she described or by the fact that she had the stones to say it out loud? My guess is the latter.

    • rhywun

      his audience lives in a cave?

      Deliberately so.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Fact checkers

    Musk, whom Trump has vowed to give a role in his administration if he wins next month, spent nearly two hours taking questions from town hall participants. While most were laudatory and covered a variety of topics, one was particularly pointed: A man wanted to know what Musk would say to concerns from voters that Trump’s election could lead to democracy backsliding in the U.S. considering his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

    While calling it a fair question, Musk also said that the Jan. 6 attack by Trump’s supporters has been called “some sort of violent insurrection, which is simply not the case” — a response that drew applause from the crowd. More than 100 law enforcement personnel were injured in the attack, some beaten with their own weapons, when a mob of Trump supporters who believed his lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him stormed the Capitol to stop the certification of votes.

    ——-

    Musk also claimed that people “who say Trump is a threat to democracy are themselves a threat to democracy,” a comment that was also cheered by the crowd of several hundred people packed tightly into the ballroom. Many more watched the event on X, the social media platform Musk purchased two years ago.

    Trump, he said, “did actually tell people to not be violent.” While Trump did tell the crowd on Jan. 6 to protest “peacefully and patriotically,” he also encouraged them to “fight like hell” to stop Democrat Joe Biden from becoming the president.

    They steer clear of that business about threat to democracy, though. They should probably note the various attempts to remove Trump from the ballot and the baseless predictions of the coming ruthless dictatorship.

    • Suthenboy

      100 police officers injured. Beaten with their own weapons? Amazing. I saw a lot of footage of their Reichstag fire. The video footage of all of that must be on the videos they refuse to release.

    • rhywun

      “his lies”

      OK, then.

      • Suthenboy

        Of course they are lies. All this business of Dems cheating their asses off in elections for years, for them constantly pushing rule changes to facilitate that cheating, their efforts to swamp the polls with illegals…all lies. That’s why confidence in our elections is so high.

    • cavalier973

      Mark Scolforo is the author

  40. The Late P Brooks

    News you can use

    Vice President Harris has a 2-to-1 advantage among voters aged 18 to 29 over former President Trump, but that advantage shrinks to only a 9-point lead in battleground states, according to the last Harvard Institute of Politics survey before Election Day.

    Harris’s 28-point lead over Trump is 3 points lower than in the September poll, but support for Harris is still almost double that of President Biden, according to Harvard’s polling from earlier in the year.

    “Young Americans’ attitudes, concerns, and candidate preferences come through loud and clear in our latest Harvard Youth Poll,” said Setti Warren, the institute’s director. “As we approach the final sprint to Election Day, we see that young people across the country are continuing to pay attention and are increasingly prepared to make their voices heard.”

    Trump hasn’t got a prayer.

    • Suthenboy

      On the eve of the election polls show Clinton has a 97% chance of winning. We have it in the bag! It’s a sure thing! Also, polls are totally accurate and NOT propaganda!

      There is only one poll that counts…or at least there used to be.

    • rhywun

      I was stupid in my youth, too.

      • Fourscore

        Helluva a way to go through life. Ask me for directions.

        “Here’s what you should do…”

        Anything that follows can be ignored or disregarded.

    • cavalier973

      Trump hasn’t got a prayer…amongst those two-thousand-and-two 18-to-29 year olds who participated in the poll.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    And now a word from the lump

    Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) said former President Trump’s impact on the state was “astonishing” in a Saturday interview with the New York Times.

    “Anybody spends time driving around, and you can see the intensity. It’s astonishing,” Fetterman said of the wave of support the Republican nominee has experienced.

    He referenced Trump superstores throughout the state that sell t-shirts, bumper stickers, hats, and other paraphernalia as staples of the leader’s widespread impact.

    “It was almost like Taylor Swift kind of swag. It’s like of everything. It wasn’t just a sign,” Fetterman recounted. “It’s the kinds of thing that has taken on its own life on that. And it’s like something very special exists there. And that doesn’t mean that I admire it.”

    Astroturf. Pennsylvania is in the bag for Kamala.

    • Suthenboy

      That’s not real, right?

    • MikeS

      Best reply:

      Matt Couch
      @RealMattCouch
      14h
      Make sure you crank your volume when you watch this at Cracker Barrel…. It’s awesome….. sigh…

      • Chafed

        Lol

  42. The Late P Brooks

    Over the past few months, Fetterman has notably admired the GOP’s ability to gain voters’ attention in the Keystone State, arguing that avid Trump supporters like Elon Musk can “appeal to a demographic” in a way Democrats cannot.

    So what you’re saying is Kamala is inauthentic?

    That can’t be right. She belongs to a black ladies’ sorority.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    The newest Democrat ad to win over young white male voters:

    “I won the last election, so it’s my decision.”

    Democrats’ political theory, plain and pure. “That’s what we’d do.”

    • cavalier973

      They also would watch

    • MikeS

      Kamala’s a clown, Kamala’s a clown…

      lol

    • UnCivilServant

      There wasn’t even a question.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Ship him back to Africa

    President Joe Biden called out Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, now a Republican megadonor and Trump campaign surrogate, for hypocrisy on immigration on Saturday, saying Musk launched his long career in the U.S. as an “illegal worker” before becoming the world’s wealthiest man.

    The president made these remarks at a campaign event to support Democrats that took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.

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    Musk had arrived in the U.S. with the stated intention of attending grad school at Stanford in the mid-90s. He did not enroll in the program to which he said he was accepted and instead began to build a venture-backed startup called Zip2 with his brother.

    The Washington Post wrote that investors in Musk’s first company worried about their ”‘founder being deported’ and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.”

    Confiscate all his wealth and deport the goddam interloper with nothing but the shirt on his back.

    • Suthenboy

      This from the party of illegal aliens?
      Truly, this is the worst campaign in history run by the most out of touch morons to ever hold power.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Hey. Kamala told CNN that lots of things have been done, but there are more things left undone and that the undone things are things worth thinking about.

        That’s fucking solid border security right there.