Mild-mannered educator and political wife, or deadly covert op?
Jill Biden strode to the hook-hung pig carcass, barefoot in her compression shorts and sports bra. She was trailed by Mike McDiarmid, the worthless head of her husband’s Secret Service detail, and by her assistant.
“Rawr,” she yelled as she launched at the carcass, and in the brief moment she was airborne formed her left hand into a rigid blade. She extended her left arm to force her hand to penetrate the soft tissue of the swine’s throat, then encircled the ribbed trachea with her fingers. Next she formed her hand into a fist and grasped the trachea. Gravity caught up with her and she flexed her bicep, pulling against the trachea as she fell.
Her feet touched down on the gym matting, her fist full of porcine viscera. She stuck the landing, albeit wobbily. Her wrinkled little belly with its navel ring continued to jiggle for a brief moment. She looked at her fist and saw about an inch of raggedly terminated trachea protruding from each end.
She threw the trachea at McDiarmid. “You can jerk off with that, if it’s not too big for you. We always wondered why Hunter loved to go to the butcher and always brought a trachea home ‘for Chessie.’”
Jill detects the threat on the NH stage and moves toward it.
“What the fuck, Mike? Seriously? You idiots can’t even notice and react to a microphone-grabbing vegan, so I have to risk breaking cover and do your job for you?”
McDiarmid looked at her with a mixture of fear and envy, just as she expected. She was older than McDiarmid by a good decade and still kicking butt. She knew that McDiarmid had struggled to meet his last Secret Service physical, and had requested that Joey sign a waiver request form for him. That wouldn’t happen again.
“And it’s like you’ve never heard of diversionary tactics. Oh wait, you have, because I teach that at Rosaryville, and I remember you in my class. Never assume the first threat is the real threat; always be prepared for followups.”
She pivoted on one leg and kicked the carcass. McDiarmid heard the uniquely wet sound of ribs breaking, followed by the uniquely dry sound of old lady joints pushed to their limits.
“And this was the second time. That Berniebot in New Hampshire made it on stage with a clear path to my husband.”
Jill intercepts the threat on the NH stage. Isn’t the US Secret Service supposed to be there for things like this?
She extended her hand towards her assistant who had the wad of disinfectant wipes ready and placed them in her outstretched, now open palm. Jill wiped her hands.
“Your detail has one job, one job, and that’s to keep my Joey safe.”
“Yes, Mrs. Biden,” said McDiarmid, sheepishly.
Threat contained.
Mrs. Biden, always “Missus Biden,” never “Miz Biden.” The last Secret Service man who had made that mistake had his eye put out out by the solitaire setting of her engagement ring.
“The next time that happens it will be you on that hook, and you won’t be dead yet. Play the Praetorian Guard at your own risk.” She dropped the wipes and walked off creakily.
“I need a hot tub and a ton of Advil.”
LOL. Nice, Tonio.
Now why do you have to make me like someone with a Ed. D.?
“Missus Biden! You mean DOCTOR Biden, right?!?”
How do you guys manage to get such good surveillance of these presidential campaigns?
Also, if Jill is elected, she’ll be our second (third? ) female president is everything but name.
Hmmm. Mrs Willson and Nancy Regan?
Not a good track record.
I was thinking Wilson for sure. wasn’t sure about Reagan, or if there are perhaps others.
Elanor Roosevelt?
Eleanor Roosevelt
Nancy Reagan
Barack Obama
Edith Wilson
Damn, Hero. You that one in the 10 ring.
Maybe Jill should be the candidate. That would set some tongues to wagging.
and mouths nibbling.
Her wrinkled little belly with its navel ring continued to jiggle for a brief moment.
Perfection.
Nice job, Tonio!
Ahem, _Dr_ Biden.
You could put your eye out that way.
Jill Biden has Jennifer Aniston’s nipples?
Yes but not the good ones from 1994.
Well done Tonio. I’m looking forward to the crossover with The Hat and The Hair Extended Universe.
This is gonna be more lit than the Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island.
This is how I like to imagine things happening behind the scenes.
OT: They still don’t get it
Trump was elected exactly because he’s an asshole to the right people. Civility is something that can be achieved between people playing a game (sportsmanship) or between people trying to achieve the same purpose (collegiality). Civility toward people who wish to harm you is called getting walked all over. The lack of civility has nothing to do with informality or meme culture. It has everything to do with a growing cultural divide between traditionalists and revolutionaries.
“The art of compromise” is halfway between 2 bad ideas.
AKA — bipartisanship.
I love the imagery. Great job Tonio. I really would have liked to see Jill pull off a leg sweep on the stage after the stiff arm.
Sweep the leg!
I want to see a Jill Biden training montage with some inspirational music.
Involving the obligatory downing of two raw eggs, especially given the context of all this.
A large enough contribution to CPRM’s Patreon account may get your wish granted.
Well shucks, I’m broke; “al verde” as the Italians say. Perhaps I’ll start crowdfunding for my donation to CPRM.
Umm… a double set of transaction fees would not be the most efficient way to do it.
Perhaps encourage people to directly contribute to CPRM in your name?
UCS is correct – everybody give CPRM money and tell him it’s from me.
You may be the One True Glibertarian.
You’re completely removing your own ability to take a’ service fee’.
what’s a little grift between friends?
I hope Tonio or SugarFree will tackle this story: https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/03/12/who-knew-she-had-so-many-brothers-ilhan-omar-gets-hitched-again-and-omg-lol-the-responses-are-comedy-gold/
Classy broad.
Stand by your woman, Timmy Mynette
*sensible chuckle*
I’m not entirely sure what’s going on with that woman. This could be a legal play to invoke spousal privelege, perhaps? Did the trail go cold on questioning her first (?) hus-bro? Too many plot twists and deceptions, like an M. Night Shyamalamam movie, except these ones are not easily predictable.
She basically was cheating on her husband with this guy. The guy owned a consulting company, and she directed substantial funds from her reelection campaign to this company for ‘consulting services’.
At this point her flaunting of the rules is so brazen that she’s about one year away from a fuckup that even the Minnesota press can’t pretend away.
They were both cheating on their spouses. Twue wove!
That one is funny.
So, is his divorce final, or has she managed to commit bigamy again?
And, BTW, she absolutely unquestionably committed tax fraud, even if the immigration fraud hasn’t been conclusively proven. Yet.
OT: Looks like hockey is joining basketball and tennis.
This is because sports were being pressured to let trans players play. That is why Trump wanted the coronavirus to make it to the US, so that he could oppress trans folk even more.
2020 Olympics to Feature Trans-species and Speciesqueer Athletes for First Time
The 2020 Olympics will herald a new dawn in tolerance and equality in sports, with events being open to all Earth Peoples, including People of Fur, People of Scales, and People of Feathers. Ngarikutuke, a Namibian cis-female who previously identified as a cheetah, is very excited to be entering the women’s 100m and 200m sprint events, with an unofficial 100m time reported of under six seconds. Such a performance at the Olympic event would break the previous Women’s 100m record, set by Person of Color Florence Griffith Joyner in 1988. Ngarikutuke is quoted as saying “yeeooowwl,” and making a series of high-pitched squeaking sounds when asked about her training for the event. However, her appearance is not without controversy, as she has previously been disqualified for pouncing on, and mauling other competitors, and some athletes hoping to compete in this year’s Olympiad have voiced their concerns. Tgunugne, a Person of Hooves who previously identified as a springbox antelope, abruptly fled upon seeing her fellow competitor arrive at the training facility this morning.
I knew it.
Everyone’s such a pussy.
Russians are devastated that Ovechkin won’t get another 50-goal season.
That’s a nice silver-lining.
There’s rumblings about MLB as well.
MLB has started late before. It will be like a strike season.
I had already canceled my MLB At Bat subscription. *sigh*
Harvey Weinstein Sent Desperate Emails to Mike Bloomberg, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos
okay, but did they write back?
According to the article, no responses were included in the documents released by the court.
“Sorry dude, you’re too toxic now.”
Sorry to hear about your upcoming suicide. Say “hi” to Epstein for me.
Wow, missed this on first skimming:
So, why did the court unseal them other than prurient interest? They don’t seem relevent to the case.
Judges can do whatever the fuck they want. I think you forgot that part of the constition. It’s hard to see. it’s the part that the Judges wrote in themselves.
“tense”
Maybe not the word i would have used.
Did he right to Hillary Clinton? she owed him a favor or two?
He didn’t want to not kill himself like their buddy Jeff.
Those emails committed suicide and could not be recovered. Besides, she barely knew him.
Caption that:
“No Hillary, even i have standards.”
This must have been right after she heard rumors about him having a vagina.
“I can’t wait to bite off your potato head.”
Don’t panic?! Fuck that.
Hello? Earth calling Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. It is time to cancel your political rallies for the foreseeable future. Especially you, Mr. Trump.
After playing golf this past Saturday and Sunday and going to political rallies and fundraisers, have you considered that might not exactly sit well with a worried nation? You are the President of the United States — You should act like it.
And about wearing that red Keep America Great hat on your visit to the Center for Disease Control, rethink that. This is not a PR crisis, it’s a health crisis. It’s simply not a campaign event.
As for the general optics of large public rallies with thousands of people crammed into stadiums and standing cheek to jowl behind the candidates — regardless of party, it’s not good. I know political candidates love that visual of the cheering throng all lined up with their signs and colorful tee shirts, inches from each other, but really… Think about it. Meetings large and small — gatherings like South by Southwest and large trade shows — all have been canceled. People are scared to travel or go to church or to the mall. It seems tone deaf for candidates to continue to invite people into situations that could prove physically dangerous, even fatal.
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What is it that Trump doesn’t understand? He apparently is planning to attend the Republican Jewish Congress in Las Vegas on Friday to speak at a political rally. Instead of working on the coronavirus crisis?
CNN reports that Rush Limbaugh has accused Democrats of wanting Trump to stop holding rallies “not because of public safety, not because of public health” but to hurt the president. And this guy was given the Medal of Freedom.
Democrats should take the lead in canceling big rallies and structuring different events that show their concern for the issues confronting the country. Putting together more controlled discussions with smaller groups, people who are not sick, who are not jammed together, would be smart.
This is now a matter of leadership and common sense.
Get in the lab, Cartoon Villain! Find us a cure. We’ll be here, hiding under our beds, slinging insults and baseless accusations at you on teh Twatterz.
Hello? Earth calling Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. It is time to cancel your political rallies for the foreseeable future. Especially you, Mr. Trump.
They really don’t want him campaigning, when Biden can’t
They just can’t even find their masks any more.
They obviously aren’t thinking this through. No Trump rallies means fewer dead deplorables, and we all know that’s not what they want.
He has canceled his rallies so this article is a moot point.
CNN reports that Rush Limbaugh has accused Democrats of wanting Trump to stop holding rallies “not because of public safety, not because of public health” but to hurt the president. And this guy was given the Medal of Freedom.
It’s like you think it means something.
“As for the general optics of large public rallies with thousands of people crammed into stadiums and standing cheek to jowl behind the candidates — regardless of party, it’s not good.”
That really hasn’t been happening for the Dems, so they have that covered. Also, it’s awfully convenient that Biden will now be whisked away from public view for fear of assembling the excited masses.
Democrats should take the lead in canceling big rallies
Because their leading candidate is a doddering simpleton who gets worse every time he’s allowed to speak in public?
Because their version of a “big rally” is a dozen spinsters from the knitting club.
If they cancel the “town hall” events and live audiences for the debates there will still be calls for the audience participation to go virtual. It will be difficult to ignore those calls and maintain credibility.
People are scared to travel or go to church or to the mall.
Yes, they’re called hysterics.
Instead of working on the coronavirus crisis?
Isn’t that what the CDC is for?
The CDC is basically an empty hull of an agency with the barest of groups dedicated to studying gun control and diabetes.
Biden is holding a press conference slamming the Europe flight ban and releasing a plant to overcome the coronavirus and Trump is welcome to adopt all of it – “the coronavirus won’t discriminate based-on race, national origin” – “we can’t shut ourselves off from the world” – “gutting federal agencies” – “public health professionals should be the ones communicating with the American public”
They are going to try real hard to make this another despicable, racist action by Trump, hoping that people don’t notice that all of those identified as infected recently traveled abroad or came into contact with others traveling abroad.
This particular turn by the Dems is despicable.
You cannot hope to control the spread if you are constantly introducing new carriers.
Social distancing and control should be a state and local issue.
Indeed it is.
Usually their perfidy towards the people they represent isn’t this potentially deadly. And they are really serious about wanting more people from the worst affected areas to land here.
As always seems to be the case, things are reversed in DC. Instead of granting the President emergency temporary authority to take actions such as closing borders, they are trying to rescind authority that was granted permanently.
You assume they actually want to control the spread, Scruffy. They want to see the health system overwhelmed. And the highest mortality group is also the one most likely to vote for Trump.
Pandemic will be seen as a government failure. Every CDC position that was cancelled will be claimed to have been vital to preventing the spread of the virus, and developing effective screenings and treatments for it.
How do you figure?
I was analyzing that in my head. Obviously the elderly are most at risk. Not sure they are a solid block for either party. The poorer, urban elderly are more dependent on government so probably more Democrats. They are going to get hit the hardest.
Their demise won’t stop them from voting Dem is some precincts.
I’m thinking suicide may be my best option for avoiding the CV.
All the Boomers who wouldn’t vote for Trump are already running in the Democratic primary.
Joe and Bernie are actually too old to be Boomers. Sanders was born before the U.S. entered WWII.
Correct. They are from the Silent Generation. So’s my mom and a couple of her sisters.
Jesus…
What is the Greco-Roman word for “rule by the undead” Necrocracy?
IME, that cohort is exceedingly long-lived.
Well, the ones who are still alive, anyway.
A little example of vox-pop contempt.
“the coronavirus won’t discriminate based-on race, national origin” – “we can’t shut ourselves off from the world”
This is the point where you throw your hands up and say “We can’t talk, because you refuse to see the world except where every action Trump takes is racist AND only serves racist ends”. Seriously you can be against the ban, but to say that Trump instituted it because he thinks it only affects Europeans is levels below brain dead.
How is horticulture going to overcome coronavirus?
Behold with wonders of bioengineering!
Ermagerd!! Evul GMOz!! ::hides under bed::
So, a Gender Traitor and a Science Traitor?
IFHS!!
Herbal medicine. Only option with supply lines cut.
You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
*snort*
“we can’t shut ourselves off from the world”
This is like the accusation of isolationism against anyone who believes we shouldn’t be sticking our dicks into every foreign conflict. That’s not what isolationism is and this action is not shutting us off from the world.
Trump seems to have recovered from his brief malaise yesterday.
Thanks so bloody much for opening up China, Tricky Dick!
So we are now preparing for Weinstein’s Clintoncide?
Curious to hear your thoughts about his sentence? IMO he’s a scumbag, and likely a perv I would have shot had he pulled that crap with anyone close to me, but the sentence seemed long given the actual convictions.
Oh, Weinstein got the shaft, no doubt.
Judge: “OMG I must Do Something so that I don’t look like I’m his ally.”
However, he was close to the Clintons. I bet he has dirt. He’s going to “suicide,” all right.
Agreed – he’ll make a gross corpse.
most corpses are.
He’s pretty much a gross corpse already.
Well if he “Suicides” like epstein, then he’ll actually end up living it up on some nice remote island in the Caribbean
Who the heck smuggles marijuana FROM NYC to the Caribbean?
Woman busted smuggling 10 lbs of marijuana from New York to Caribbean
‘Wrong Way’ Corrigan?
I thought it was Wrong Way Feldman.
“gutting federal agencies”
I wish.
Update on that “trial by combat” guy.
Not long before “psych eval called for guy who tried to register as Libertarian”.
Oooh, I can see my friend*’s ex trying something nutty like that.
(*Friend who was friend-zoned, then got a boyfriend she’s thrilled over, but now friend-zoner is moping.)
As usual, everyone is learning the wrong lessons from this pandemic.
https://media.giphy.com/media/Tt9jctxaVjRny/giphy.gif
Well, I’ll be safely ensconced in my tropical redoubt once washing machines and refrigerators are luxury items for the upper middle class again.
Look HM, You’re either with us or against us. You just want the coronaterrorists to win!
I’ve made no secret that I’m on team Coronavirus.
Allawu Hanbah!
How to grave rob?
Is there any reason to believe they wont?
They didnt learn the last 100 pandemics. We still have people rooting for communism.
Nope. Pandemics like this hit us all right in our cognitive biases.
The only way to correct for such systematic bias in our thinking it to reduce the amount of control people have over others.
Can you elaborate a little?
Well, the greater the amount of liberty in a society, the less likely it is that someone else’s irrational thinking will impact your life. The corollary of this is that you alone are responsible for the consequences of your systematic bias when making decisions. An ethos of freedom encourages individuals to improve their heuristic thinking.
You have to quit doing this.
I have been thinking quite a lot lately (dont say it) about how economy affects culture and I had an article length bit on it but you keep saying things that tie into it and now it is getting more book length.
Well, we need more running series.
So just doing my job.
But doesn’t the book argue that some of this irrational shit is hardwired? Or did I misread the summary?
It is. That’s why before we act, we should use the tools we have developed to overcome it, like statistical inference from empirical data, the scientific method, etc..
Ah, gotcha. Stupid lizard brain.
It is. That’s why before we act, we should use the tools we have developed to overcome it, like statistical inference from empirical data, the scientific method, etc..
Is this just the academic way of saying “don’t stick it in crazy”?
I recommend you read the book I linked as that is Griskevicius’s (one of many evo psych libertarians) argument as well.
I put that on my list. I will try to get the audiobook at the library.
Thanks!
Ordered, if it turns out to suck I’m holding you in $7.59 worth of contempt.
It is irrational to not account for risk.
Also ordered, but it was $15.99. I got the fancy one, I guess.
I believe we all account for risk every time we click on one of your links.
*Still remembers actual Bigfoot porn.
I got the fancy one, I guess.
I always buy the used ones, I’ve overcome my book hoarding/series completionist disorder and once I’m done I either give ’em away or burn them, so I don’t care if they are dog-eared, have torn covers, coffe stains etc…
The #1 lesson is that we must increase our production of toilet paper. Mr. President, we must not allow a toilet paper gap!
Coronavirus will bankrupt more people than it kills — and that’s the real global emergency
FTA:
Feature, not bug.
The economic toll of the virus on China is exceedingly severe. They’re in far worse shape.
While the US will not escape unscathed, it will have more to do with the collapse of the fracking business than the virus.
Can you expand on this?
The Saudis are collapsing the oil market. Word is they have set a floor somewhere around $15/barrel. That’s more than low enough to put most of the frackers into bankruptcy.
I thought the last time the Saudi’s tried this they lost.
I doubt that is going to work.
The oil companies just shut the valve on the top of the well and walk away. Most leases are for 3 years. They can shut off their expenses today and turn the well back on tomorrow when the price goes back up.
But they can’t service their debts. And fracking debt is almost exclusively of the high-yield junk bond type, somewhere north of $130B of it out there.
Exxon and Shell aren’t going to go bankrupt, but Chesapeake Energy most definitely is.
That’s what happened in the Bakken the last time oil dipped. And every year the operations get leaner and leaner. I’m not saying they can keep producing at $15, but hte magic number is lower than it was just a few years ago.
And when they reopen they will be owned by Exxon and Shell instead of Chesapeake.
“Exxon and Shell aren’t going to go bankrupt, but Chesapeake Energy most definitely is.”
Won’t the big guys just gobble up the little guys’ bankrupt operations in that case?
A lot of oil producers are heavily leveraged and could go bankrupt.
But the well, and the oil, is still there. Somebody else will buy it out of bankruptcy and will pump the oil. And , be less exposed to price drops.
So, not gonna work.
It’s the other petro economies that will take real damage.
You know, Russia, Iran, Venezuela. Those guys. So, thanks, Saudis!
And Russia is definitely in the Saudi’s sites at this time.
Says the “development specialist” who says that it “is time the economists took over from the doctors” and demand mOrE sTiMuLuS.
er… “economic development specialist”
DOOM!
The end is nigh.
Repent all ye sinners!!!!11!1111!!!
You can all laugh, but for a 68 year old woman to act as a defensive linebacker for her doddering husband, the dick has to be good.
Ponder that on the Tree of Woe.
Not gonna lie… That’s a pretty good 68.
*ponders*
Whoa…
Dude…
L O fucking L
*pushes lunch away*
Not cool, dude.
Not. Cool.
He did it for the lulz.
That’s when he remembers what it’s for and how to use it.
“Jill, um, sorry, Dr. Jill, I want you touch the, you know, you know, the thing.”
Why did i stop?
*applause *
Are you pondering what I’m pondering? Does Gropey Joe like his wife 1.shaved 2. waxed 3.trimmed 4. full on bush
Since he wears aviators, I think he’s a bush pilot.
I’m thinking heart-shaped.
Given the hair sniffing, I’m in total agreement.
“You can jerk off with that, if it’s not too big for you.”
LOL
When will the Dems call off the convention this year? It’s in July so would you think they still have a few months to waffle before making a decision?
Hmm. Yeah. And all the state conventions will have to be sooner than that.
Maybe Trump really will cancel the election due to CV
Could be a blessing for them, as it will prevent a replay of the Chicago riots.
“The U.S. Soccer Federation apologized Wednesday night after it contended in court documents that women on its national team had lesser responsibilities and physical abilities than their male counterparts, an assertion that drew widespread criticism and sparked a player protest.”
https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/us-soccer-apologizes-women
Never apologize, especially for the truth.
Further:
“American players wore their warmup jerseys inside out for the national anthems and team photo before a 3-1 win over Japan in an Olympic prep match. Players hid the USSF crest on the jerseys but allowed the four stars — one for each World Cup title — to be visible.”
Fuck all of you, and not in the fun way (except for you Alex). Go home and cry. There are about 100 players without a feminist shoulder chip chomping at the bit to replace your sorry asses.
They should just have a game every year between them and the mens soccer team. If they win they get the Mens salaries, and the men get theirs.
Pink-haired brave and truthy lesbian front and center of everything all the time, even that other girl’s wedding. That was funny.
Since she is a lady and only has sex with ladies, it makes her more authentic.
“Since she is a lady”
No, not really.
after it contended in court documents that women on its national team had lesser responsibilities and physical abilities than their male counterparts
baaaaahahahahahaha….do we need to schedule another game between the women’s national team and a random local U16 team to illustrate this again?
Never happened.
Name 7 times it never happened.
I got nothing, well done leon.
It did happen. The dispute is whether or not the women’s team was just scrimmaging and let them win or they legitimately could not beat a teenage boy’s team.
https://www.truthorfiction.com/was-the-u-s-womens-national-team-defeated-by-teenaged-boys-in-a-2017-soccer-match/
If we want to play the game of “can a woman’s sports team be as good as the sports soccer” team, reality has to take over from agenda at some point.
No one in their right mind actually believes that a woman’s professional sports team could beat a men’s professional sports team. If anyone actually believed that then there wouldn’t be a “men’s soccer” and a “women’s soccer”. There would just be “soccer”
Doesn’t seem to be much dispute, it was always described as a scrimmage until the sexists (who are probably racist Trump supporters as well) out there wanted to make a thing out of it.
So it’s not that they can’t beat teenage boys at soccer, but that they don’t put any effort into practice games?
So? As I said below, do you think the US men’s Olympic basketball team would lose even a scrimmage to an AAU team, or Team Canada men’s hockey to a junior hockey team? Hell fuck no.
That is the dispute. One side wants to act as if a scrimmage just means “let’s have fun guys”, while the other side says that a scrimmage is “just like the world cup”. In reality, a scrimmage meant to prepare the USWNT to play against Russia is practice, but it’s not just lackadaisical.
Anyone who honestly believes that the USWNT could beat the USMNT or even the U-17 team is pushing agenda rather than reality. All you have to do is watch the games.
it was always described as a scrimmage
I’ve never played a sport where “scrimmage” meant “let the other team win”. It usually meant no game planning, do more experimental strategy, and don’t do anything risky that could get yourself injured.
Maybe it was a charitable exhibition and they let the boys win. However, that’s not what a scrimmage is.
Even in the “fact check” article that labels this as “needs more context” admits that the scrimmage was to help prepare the USWNT to play against Russia.
Anyone who played sports from the high school level up knows that scrimmage doesn’t mean “hey, guys, just go have fun”. Coaches watch scrimmages and especially on the professional level you don’t get to just take it easy during a scrimmage. If you want another cap you never half ass it when you’re playing.
I don’t think ‘letting them win’ is the relevant point. As you said it’s just not as serious, could the woman have won? I have no idea, probably not. As I say below why not just report it accurately, If ‘They got beat in a scrimmage’ can make the point just as well as ‘They got beat in a game’ why change it to game?
Save a syllable?
You are splitting hairs to ridiculous proportions. So when the USWNT plays against Russia in a friendly, would it be inaccurate to report that as a “game”, since that is an exact comparison to what happened here?
At some point being realistic should outweigh conforming with the NYT editorial page
Of course it was a scrimmage, when would they have ever met in a real match?
But it was a training scrimmage…for both sides. The fact that it was reasonable training for the womens team is damning enough, regardless of score line.
Anyone who watches the women’s game knows that they are a damn good boys HS squad. They would have thumped my HS team (which even as a senior, I only started a handful of games, so I couldn’t hang with them).
And that is who they were scrimmaging against, a damn good collection of HS age boys. They weren’t some random HS team, they were developmental players for MLS.
It would be like the women’s basketball olympic team scrimmaging against a good AAU team. They would also get thumped (ignoring the weird different ball size issues).
Why would the women’s team not take a scrimmage seriously while the U16 team played it as if their lives depended on it? In other words, given that the game is meaningless, why wouldn’t both teams care or not care equally? And if it was an opportunity for the women’s team to warm up and “train” the youth team, why keep score?
Of course, it’s a canard anyway. It doesn’t matter whether they were beaten by a youth team or whether they’re the finest players on Earth. They get paid what they get paid because that’s what the market bears. If there was more interest, ticket sales would be stronger, and then they’d have actual leverage to demand higher pay. Like in every single men’s sport.
The WNBA All-Stars would get absolutely destroyed by a top boys AAU team or a basketball factory high school team like Oak Hill – they would be at an enormous size disadvantage and get dominated around the basket.
“(ignoring the weird different ball size issues)”
Not going there.
Of course it was a scrimmage, there is no league or tournament that contains both Women’s National Teams and Boys U16 teams. In what way does that refute the claim that they lost? Why is this contraversial?
Why is this contraversial?
It’s not, except in reality detached feminist circles and to our resident reflexive contrarian.
That article gave me brain cancer.
At least it’s not Kung Flu
Slant Sicks.
Flu Manchu
The best part about that was the rationalizations : “well, AKSHULLY, it was just a scrimmage and not a serious game”.
OK. Let’s see the US Olympic men’s basketball team play a scrimmage against a really good AAU team, something like Team Loaded. Who do you think would win? Have the Yankees play an exhibition against the best high school team in the US, or Team Canada men’s hockey play the Ottawa 67s of the junior hockey OHL.
Funny how the exact same thing happened to the Australia women’s soccer team, only they not only lost, they were routed 6-0 by a bunch of teenaged boys.
Dammit, wait a minute, I was wrong.
It was actually 7-0.
Snopes rates your original claim as mostly false.
Honestly, society is getting more retarded if we’re pretending now as if women’s sports teams are as good as men’s sports teams. And the only people who believe that do not actually watch sports. You watch a WNBA game and then an NBA game and there’s no way you could make this argument in all seriousness.
If it’s truly a ‘but Akshully’ issue why did the sexist and racist Trump supporters change the words ‘informal practice’ and ‘scrimmage’ to ‘game’ when they brought it up. Maybe, because they know that losing a game is worse than losing a scrimmage? Spin isn’t just for leftists, apparently.
I’m not a sportsball person, what’s the difference between a game played in practice, a game played in ‘scrimmage’, and a game game?
A game playe in practice has no real structure/time/officiating/coaching. A scrimmage is an informal game, but usually with officiating and coaching (think pre-season game) and a game game counts in the standings.
In soccer, a scrimmage is called a “friendly”, which just makes soccer sound gayer than it needs to sound
Generally, a scrimmage is played like a game. Sometimes with modified rules (in American football, kickoffs may not occur as they are a high risk situation), or with less formal officiating (coaches of one/both teams as refs for example). Players will not often “sell out” to make a play, and generally take fewer risks on the field.
None of this means that a vastly superior team wouldn’t wipe the floor with its inferior opponent.
I’m all for the USWNT settling their lawsuit by playing the U-17 team. If they win the game they get what they’re demanding, but if they lose they need to stop with their bullshit that will financially damage the only soccer that the world cares about.
I’m all for the USWNT settling their lawsuit by playing the U-17 team. If they win the game they get what they’re demanding, but if they lose they need to stop with their bullshit that will financially damage the only soccer that the world cares about.
An organized scrimmage is usually called a game. You are really reaching here. See every college football team’s ‘spring game’. This is typical leftist dishonesty arguing some technical and utterly irrelevant point to claim “Trump Supporters” are being dishonest. And while sometimes you have valid points about right leaning arguments usng dishonest tactics this is not one of those times.
And the typical “spring game” is less of a game than the scrimmage vs the boys was. I doubt whole sections of the game were removed like special teams usually is in spring games.
all scrimmages are games, not all games are scrimmages.
Me: “I have five fingers on each hand.”
Snopes: Mostly False. It is actually 4 fingers and 1 thumb.
Me: Fuck you snopes.
It’s semantics. When you go to the park and play some pickup basketball, do you say you’re playing a game or playing a scrimmage?
Call it whatever you want – a top men’s team is not going to lose a scrimmage to high school boys. If someone truly wants to put this to the test, then have the men’s team play the women’s team in a real game.
This story is illuminating as well:
When you go to the park and play some pickup basketball, do you say you’re playing a game or playing a scrimmage?
Pick up games are games. If ‘White Men Can’t Jump’ taught me anything (other than what a quince is) it’s that there is usually money on the line. Scrimmages are more like when you and the guys are just shooting hoops in the driveway, sometimes you ‘Take it to the hole’ other time you do a sky hook from behind the second crack out past the Weber grill that represents the three point line.
Settle it for good and all: merge the leagues. If they’re as interesting to watch then they’ll be able to compete with male players for contracts.
I can’t think of a faster way to destroy American men’s soccer than by mandating “equal pay”. Congratulations, the left – you’re destroying both women’s and men’s sports.
Guess who has two thumbs and is working from home starting next week?
Blessed be the freaking-outing, for it shall enable me to have cheap good coffee.
Is this a new job or an old job that you wanted to work from home and finally let you?
No, it’s my actual job, which means I will have to go in when something needs to be fixed in the physical world. There was apparently a cluster of WuFlu cases in a bedroom community that houses a lot of our employees, so pants are being shat.
And of course, I have to attend all my meetings, just remotely now. Now, to ensure that when I remove the tape from my laptop camera that there is sufficient adhesive residue to make it so I don’t have to wear clothes to the meetings.
Just put on a bib with a tie printed on it.
The company I work for is shifting to an “If you can work from home, work from home” policy for the foreseeable future. I was supposed to be off Monday – Wednesday next week. But with everything getting cancelled, and me flying back on Friday, I may just save the PTO and work from home for the week.
The only way to correct for such systematic bias in our thinking it to reduce the amount of control people have over others.
That’s completely wrong. See my Atlantic link in AM lynx. Pernicious, toxic individualism is what’s destroying us. Only by embracing communitarianism can you be saved.
Now, to ensure that when I remove the tape from my laptop camera that there is sufficient adhesive residue to make it so I don’t have to wear clothes to the meetings.
Put a buttery thumbprint on the lens.
These euphemisms…
Oh hey, TGA’S back! Where’d you go, dude?
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/03/12/coronavirus-pennsylvania-announces-13th-presumed-positive-coronavirus-case-in-montgomery-county-brings-state-total-to-22/
Seems rather excessive.
Not really. If you’re going to shut it down, it’s far better to do it sooner rather than later.
It gets me out of putting on pants and driving into the city for two weeks, so I’m not that mad about it.
Heh. Lucky you.