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  1. I think her comms people are sabotaging her lol.
  2. Great stuff happening here. Absolutely killing it as a serious country. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tell-us-crazy-lauren-boebert-153446084.html
  3. That was for a stadium and facility, not operations. Also, I suck at internet, this rocket money guy is joking and the gift came from a PE guy.
  4. The founder of Rocket Money comes in hot with $50 million for tree football. Needless to say, this is program-trajectory altering money. Or, you could get not quite one Jimbo. I think I’ve seen around 65 million for Tech’s entire collective and this will be only football and not softball. I also have to think that this will prompt some less splashy but still serious donations from other Stanford alums. I am a bit surprised as on other threads I’ve been skeptical that most billionaires will want to fund college NIL. In any case: the Stanford name, the presence of Andrew Luck, and a weak ACC mean that we may be seeing a juggernaut born.
  5. As I said. She was famously unliked in DC. She churned through staff and several of them went to the media. The complaint of not getting a photo op at the White House is telling. There’s been a historical issue of allowing men to be “tough bosses.” At some point , though, everyone has control over how they act on camera. Same vibes:
  6. Really like Tom Nichols and he is accurate about the arrival of a civil-military crisis (new to America) and why the admin is stoking it. The military remains the sole power source outside of personal political control.
  7. Super surprised that hiring a famous old asshole who lost his fastball and has his sugar mama handle his personal affairs didn’t work out.
  8. THIS TIME if the Republicans fuck everything up, they won’t be able to pin it on us!
  9. She got upset that the question was slightly rephrased from the list shared in advance and her lawyer brain couldn’t let it go. She had to “win” rather than deliver her points. Everyone else managed to deal with this without issue.
  10. The news station has the full segment up. It’s a bog standard political question. All the other candidates manage to get through it. The journo does phrase it slightly differently based on the flow of conversation (expected, as a media coach would tell you) although more than one of them get the same “that you need” clause which sent Porter spiraling. All she had to do was deliver her prepped answer. It’s clear that upset her, and it’s because she had the questions in advance. She at one point directs the reporter to ask them “as written.” She takes the same approach to this reporter that she does to House witnesses, trying to rake her across the coals. It’s just not going to play as well (or at all) in front of a pretty congenial interlocutor. She’s trying to “win” the exchange and that’s just bad media prep or ignoring the prep. Many such cases with smart lawyers who are used to asking the questions.
  11. These are different because they have a defined topic and are presenting well-researched information to go with the yuks. It’s not just riffing on bullshit and asking dumb questions because you don’t prepare. And I even can get a bit bored when Dan and Jordan meander too long without a great Alex sound bite. I do have a WWI history podcast and I can listen to the full story of U-boar warfare ans counter-warfare with rapt attention for hours.
  12. What if your girlfriend is Jody Foster?
  13. The reporter isn’t a troll or idiot, she’s pushing on Katie because of the possibility (not necessarily probability) that two Ds advance to the general. This has happened in statewide races in CA, and the field is crowded for governor. Katie doesn’t want to explore this possibility and then gets super snitty and evasive when pressed even though she walked into it by saying “I don’t intend to let that (two Democrats in the general) happen.” Because in her senate run she threw a tantrum about Schiff helping to elevate an R to the general over her and called the election “rigged,” and now that shes the presumptive top D vote getter in the primary she may need to do something similar to guarantee a D-R general she can win. This is all a perfectly legitimate place to probe. Katie is upset and tells you why— “I wanted to come have a pleasant conversation.” LOL. I WILL fully concede that the reporter sees the flailing and terrible optics and decides to needle and see where it goes. There’s not a journalist on the planet who won’t press when an interviewee for a big race seems to be on the verge of crashing out. It’s really their job, and it’s the candidate’s job to be media trained and poised and not crash out. Because at some point you’re gonna get asked to justify something that you’d rather not talk about. All she has to do is get out a decent answer “Well Julie, what we plan is to make our case and tell the democratic voters of California how a Katie Porter governorship will benefit them, their families, and the entire state. We plan to win on values and policy and I am the candidate who reflects the Democratic electorate. And once they hear our message I’m confident that I’ll be the decisive Democratic vote-getter and move on to put away a GOP opponent easily in a general election.” Instead she comes in hot and bothered with some word salad about being from Orange County, argues over the question wording like a too-smart lawyer, and spills blood in the water. And yes— this is a double standard because Trump can do all this stuff and is Teflon with his voters. He also has a legit talent to be the one who makes reporters feel defensive and flustered and off-center and that works for him.
  14. She was famously unpleasant even by DC standards and she was an only a two term D rep from California and so didn’t have the clout to get away with it. There are plenty of data point here and her sometimes appealingly pugnacious style for the cameras wasn’t an act; conflict follows her around professionally and interpersonally. And that shit will catch up to you in politics. You need to make some allies. Again, unless you’re so juiced that everyone will just tolerate you.
  15. Steering this back to real world impact, Russ Vought has determined that furloughed feds aren’t entitled to back pay, although Congress and nearly everyone else believed they passed a law in 2019 which says exactly that. I FULLY expect the Supreme Court to rule that the move is likely illegal, but unfortunately the people who miss paychecks don’t have standing to sue for them. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/07/white-house-furloughed-workers-00596231
  16. You could tease that out based on St. Paul calling all bodies temples, I’m just laying out what canon law would describe violence against clergy. Although the guy is just a Presbyterian so you can also call the photo “heresy.”
  17. Violence against clergy is sacrilege.
  18. I am violently anti-bevel. It’s peak early PC graphic design, “look what this program can do,” with no “why.” Tech’s bevel was probably the best but even it was inferior to the clean design that a kid can draw from memory on his notebook. Most are awful, especially A&M’s.
  19. Almost all comedy podcasts are unlistenable slop. Lots of other podcasts, too. I only want that much of a deep dive from someone who is an actual expert on something but almost no one is talented or interesting enough to just riff on shit for three hours. Honestly this is part of the issue with Rogan: even if his guest is knowledgeable or interesting, he’s too stupid to guide the conversation in a focused way. (The other part being that he is in fact a malicious disinformation agent).
  20. I think instead of talking about woke/non-woke language the takeaway needs to be that candidates and party proxies need to avoid talking like they did in their grad school seminars whether that was in the sociology, economics, polisci, or whatever department. They ALWAYS fucking do this.
  21. I think it’s fair to say based on early returns that the money is necessary but not sufficient. Not really that surprising of a conclusion.
  22. Cross posting from the uniform thread: this is an excellent decision by Tech. Logos, font, all of it is exactly what it should be.
  23. Best branding decisions Ive seen in decades. Awesome to see an institution back off of a decision they invested in that just wasn’t as good.
  24. I’m exhausted with comedians. I’m tired of the schtick of the brave and unfraid truth-teller, when the consequences for telling jokes that don’t land or behaving poorly is a canceled Netflix series or ostracism. Guess what, if I tell edgy jokes at work or harass people I might get fired or excluded too. I do appreciate the ability to wrap difficult truths in humor but guess what: that’s actually a defense mechanism, you can always hunker down behind “I was joking, I’m a comedian.” There are people who make a pittance and put their livelihoods and sometimes lives on the line to tell difficult unvarnished truths; they are called investigative journalists. Offensive/provocative and dangerous to power are two different things and the Venn overlap isn’t that big. Bill Burr, who can be funny, can get fucked. It takes zero courage to be funny and also non-misogynistic and racist. And I like that he is those things and I’m glad our society has rewarded talent that doesn’t shit on others with lucrative renumeration. But that wasn’t enough, he also needed to be remunerated by a bloody, woman-hating, racist, theocratic nightmare family and then he tells me in Variety why this is cute cultural exchange. Actual truth tellers about Saudi get cut up into little pieces. Oh, it’s actually not that bad, you say? The only rules are “no jokes about the royals or about religion,” and that sounds reasonable. Here, let me translate: “you can joke about anything except the pillars of our rapacious and oppressive system of power.” Vladimir Putin has similar rules to appear on his TV. That’s….not really a concession.
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